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  • Why self host a password manager?

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  • Fully agreed.

    Accessing Vaultwarden through a VPN gives me peace of mind that it can't be attacked.

    Another great thing about Bitwarden is that it's possible to export locally cached passwords to (encrypted) json/csv. This makes recovery possible even if all backups were gone.

  • Is it a good idea to purchase refurbished HDDs off Amazon ?

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  • Great to hear you found my comment helpful.

    Just make sure you make backups regularly. Especially with used drives, I wouldn't count on them surviving the stress of a rebuild. If a second drive fails in a RAID10, all data might be gone.

    Edit: I'd be thankful if you could report back how the test goes. I need a drive for a backup ;) and I'm considering buying from eBay too.

    I will test them upon receiving and see how it goes from there:)

  • Is it a good idea to purchase refurbished HDDs off Amazon ?

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  • I don't know where exactly you live, but if your in the EU customs/taxes + shipping will make the deal worse, but better than expected.

    E.g. for Germany, this drive would cost 382€ with UPS Saver Duties & Taxes included, instead of 273€ for the drive itself.

    I've found the same drive with a local commercial eBay seller for 420€, including taxes and shipping.

    A new 24TB drive would cost 485€.

    Edit: IMO a better deal would be 22TB drives, which have the same price per TB but are new. But then again, their used/recertified price is also ~10% lower than new.

  • Anyone running ZFS?

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  • Why LVM + BTRFS instead of only using btrfs? Unless you need RAID 5/6, which doesn't work well on btrfs.

  • 2024 Self-Host User Survey

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  • I'm not the creator of the survey, but I've just send them the link to this discussion on Mastodon, so they can take the feedback into account.

  • Network Switch

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  • Thanks for the correction. It's a shame that sysadmins balcklist middle nodes too, since they won't see any TOR traffic originating from your IP address anyway.

  • 2024 Self-Host User Survey

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  • Make sure to not refresh the page, else it seems like all progress is lost.I found out simultaneously that I enabled pull down to refresh the page in Firefox Android.

    Edit: The survey wasn't created by me, I just shared it.

  • Network Switch

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  • There's different types of relay, including exit relays, which are the legally problematic type. Middle, guard, and bridge relays don't face the same issues with law enforcement and IP blocking.

  • NVIDIA Publishes Open-Source Linux Driver Code For GPU Virtualization "vGPU" Support - Phoronix

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  • Agreed. It seems like Nvidia is under pressure by their commercial customers for better, directly integrated open source drivers.

    There is alot of demand for this kind of simplified virtualization infrastructure in the host side.

  • NVIDIA Publishes Open-Source Linux Driver Code For GPU Virtualization "vGPU" Support - Phoronix

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  • It'd be great of this meant SR-IOV for all GPUs, but this seems like it only allows for sharing of a GPU to multiple guests. And even then, with most of the driver being on the GPU this might not help regular consumer GPUs at all (features being disabled in firmware). But I really don't know anything about what this actually means.

  • If I already have a VPN always on on my system, do I need to set up a gluetun container?

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  • Yes, there's many ways to make programs unable to use other network interfaces. E.g. I'm creating a network namespace with a single wg0 interface, which I make services use through systemd NetworkNamespacePath.

    That said, I'd argue gluetun is pretty much foolproof, especially with most people using docker which messes with iptables (edit: although I don't know if this'd be an issue for this use case).

  • AMD’s Linux graphics driver is getting too big for older machines

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  • I believe the advantage is that old drivers still work as they are all in the kernel. With them sharing much code it's not even that big of a disk space issue. Edit: A more dynamic approach would be great though, especially with this size issue popping up.

    In a way it's great that I'm able to replace any part of my system and it just works without me having to make sure the old GPU driver doesn't leave some traces behind–altough while writing this the latter part shouldn't be an issue with Windows auto download and installation of drivers.

  • Vaultwarden has such a steep learning curve

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  • Yeah, I'm not sure whether Bitwarden always had support for exporting the vault on mobile, but it's an awesome feature.

  • How do I make my immich available publicly?

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  • I personally would be hesitant to host Immich publicly until they've done a security audit. The risk of accidentally exposing my photos publicly is too big for me.

    That's why I recommend using Tailscale or Wireguard directly. Personally I'm using Wireguard for me and Tailscale for other people I want to easily access my services.

  • I want to get started with *arr apps - here are all the things I don't understand about (reverse-/)proxies and networking in order to get it set up.

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  • Whether a device is wired or on wifi matters on some routers, because some routers have wifi and wired devices on different subnets by default. It's unlikely, so I wouldn't worry, unless you notice accessing it only works wired.

    @CalicoJack@lemmy.dbzer0.com

  • A new home and license (AGPL) for Synapse and friends

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  • Hopefully this change actually helps Element to make money. It was always a problem how entangled Matrix and Element are, simply because Element finances most of Matrix. This seems to change now with the Matrix Foundation having an employee.

  • A new home and license (AGPL) for Synapse and friends

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  • Conduit is also licensed under Apache 2.0, so it could also be taken closed source at any point in time. The reason this wouldn't impact Conduit as much is that there're other contributors, whilst Synapse and Dendrite are almost exclusively developed by Element.

    The CLA is necessary since Element funds the development of their servers by contracting with companies, governments and institutions which have special needs. Publishing those patches might be against their customers wishes.

    The AGPL ensures no one else can make proprietary changes but Element because of their CLA. This makes it unattractive for companies and volunteers to contribute to Element's servers, which isn't a problem because those contributors didn't exist in the first place.

    As I understand it, the people who feel strongly about this change feel like their trust was betrayed by Element. The others are probably corporation's like reddit who don't want to contribute anyway but are now not able to profit off of Elements work.

    My opinion is split. On the one hand I like the change to AGPL, since it forces forks to continue to be foss. On the other hand, Element continues to be allowed to license the code differently, so it doesn't really change that the code could be closed off at any point in time.

    The most important question is whether this change will benefit Element. Status quo is companies taking without giving back. Now corporations and volunteers won't contribute code because of the CLA and AGPL. This means Element hopes those corporations will contract with Element to get access to differently licensed code for a monetary contribution.

    I think reddit will just develop their own server, but maybe smaller companies (like in the health care sector) will pay Element.

  • Discord file links will expire after a day to fight malware

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  • It's an annoying change for anyone using discord to share files outside of it's closed platform but doesn't affect most people.

    I wonder whether bridges for matrix have to be fixed or if they're already editing messages bridged to matrix to the new url.