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- Comment on Jeff Bezos said the quiet part out loud — hopes that you'll give up your PC to rent one from the cloud 4 days ago:
There are ways to install Linux on many Macs. asahilinux.org for example.
- Comment on 7 reasons I chose Btrfs over ZFS for my home NAS 5 days ago:
I agree that ZFS is a solid choice for that, but so it btrfs, which has basically all of the important features of ZFS, but is significantly easier to use and built into the Kernel.
- Comment on 7 reasons I chose Btrfs over ZFS for my home NAS 6 days ago:
Leaving RAM cache to be managed by the kernel has some benefits, especially on low end devices, which is what the article talks about.
- Comment on 7 reasons I chose Btrfs over ZFS for my home NAS 6 days ago:
Yeah, the typical uninformed FUD with anecdotes of btrfs failing them 15 years ago when they did something that was explicitly marked as experimental 🤦
For every person that complains about btrfs, there are 10 that have been using it since many years with absolutely no issues what so ever.
- Submitted 6 days ago to selfhosting@slrpnk.net | 12 comments
- Comment on Need advice for buying first hardware 1 week ago:
The Intel Core i7 2600K will be fast enough for most regular things, but it is quite power hungry, so not so great on your power bill. Also the Intel Quicksync in it is old and thus not very helpful for hardware transcoding videos in Jellyfin, meaning you would need to do it on the CPU, which is much slower.
24GB RAM is definitely sufficient for most things and the SSD storage as well, although you might want to add some redundancy to that at some point.
The Geforce is pretty useless for server tasks and the NVenc chip in it is also pretty old, so I would just remove it, or maybe ask the seller to remove it and sell separately.
- Comment on PS5 ROM Keys Leaked: Sony’s Unpatchable Security Nightmare (2026) | The CyberSec Guru 2 weeks ago:
They have been selling the same SoCs (slightly defective ones) in various forms for crypto-mining etc. and as a result Linux kernel support is supposedly quite good already.
- Comment on PS5 ROM Keys Leaked: Sony’s Unpatchable Security Nightmare (2026) | The CyberSec Guru 2 weeks ago:
That is already possible, but the hacks to get it actually to run are quite annoying and limited to a few older versions AFAIK.
Hopefully with this you can just boot Linux normally on a PS5 in the nearish future. Would definitely make for a nice Steam Machine.
- Comment on MicroVM selfhosted 3 weeks ago:
Why would that be better than your current solution?
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
No trolling of Wallonia please.
- Comment on Guarding My Git Forge Against AI Scrapers 5 weeks ago:
This is depressing. Profoundly depressing. i look at the statistics board for my reverse-proxy and i never see less than 96.7% of requests classified as bots at any given moment. The web is filled with crap, bots that pretend to be real people to flood you. All of that because i want to have my little corner of the internet where i put my silly little code for other people to see.
From the conclusion, and I feel exactly the same looking at my server logs.
- Comment on It turns out Saudi Arabia will own 93.4 percent of EA if the buyout goes through, which is effectively all of it 1 month ago:
Because there exists only one place in the world and that is called US of A? 🙄
Saudi Arabia is still the biggest oil exporter in the world (as of 2024). If you drive an internal combustion car anywhere, chances are high that you paid the Sheiks at least some money for doing so.
- Comment on It turns out Saudi Arabia will own 93.4 percent of EA if the buyout goes through, which is effectively all of it 1 month ago:
I have bad news for you if you drive a non-electric car 😏
- Comment on Self-hosting a Matrix server for 5 years 1 month ago:
Yeah, that is a pretty realistic assessment, and the author should definitely try out Snikket (XMPP).
- Comment on Conntrack question 1 month ago:
You could enable Suricata on OPNsense, which will allow you to subscribe to some known attacker lists and so one. But the problem these days are mostly AI scrapers that usually don’t show up on these lists as they are not attackers per se, but just cause a lot of database load by probing every part of your web-applications.
- Comment on Vermintide 2 is currently free on Steam 1 month ago:
You can apparently play it fine on Linux these days: www.protondb.com/app/552500
(Obviously there is no kernel level anti-cheat there).
- Submitted 2 months ago to selfhosting@slrpnk.net | 4 comments
- Comment on PC Master Race 2 months ago:
We are talking about price relative to performace, not performance in general.
But the cost of the hardware is anyways not so relevant when the price difference of the software easily makes up the difference.
- Comment on PC Master Race 2 months ago:
You still easily can with second hand components.
- Comment on PC Master Race 2 months ago:
That period repeats every 3-5 years approximatly towards the end of a generation but before the new generation is announced.
- Comment on Reducing power consumption of a desktop PC 2 months ago:
You mean like today when sites don’t work without using Chromium or if you dare to have some tracking protection active?
- Submitted 2 months ago to selfhosting@slrpnk.net | 10 comments
- Comment on Kew woman fined £150 for pouring coffee down drain in Richmond 2 months ago:
Most street drains these days are for stormwater only and are not connected to the sewerage system or a proper wastewater treatment plant, thus pouring liquids into them is not much different from just pouring them into nature somewhere.
- Comment on Cry Havoc for this open world cyberpunk dog-fighter inspired by G-Police 2 months ago:
Let’s hope there will be a VR version.
- Submitted 3 months ago to selfhosting@slrpnk.net | 1 comment
- Comment on Selfhosting Sunday! What's up? 3 months ago:
Played around a bit with hosting Flohmarkt and Manyfold. Promising fediverse projects, but still a bit early days.
Also looked a bit into running Piefed on via Podman, but didn’t progress much with it. Looks easy enough though in general.
- Comment on when hell freezes 3 months ago:
Looks like Windows Subsystem for Linux 😅
- Comment on flohmarkt a federated alternative to ebay and facebook marketplace 3 months ago:
I guess I could share my Podman service files sometimes.
The main annoyance I had when setting it up was that you have to set an ENV variable for the timezone, otherwise the map for the location choser during the initial instance setup doesn’t show up thus making it impossible to proceed.
I guess this is probably an unintended bug and I should make an issue on their Codeberg about that sometimes.
- Comment on flohmarkt a federated alternative to ebay and facebook marketplace 3 months ago:
It is pretty early in development, but so far quite nice. I set up a test instance a few weeks ago and are quite happy with it so far.
- Submitted 3 months ago to selfhosting@slrpnk.net | 1 comment