hamsda

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[–] hamsda@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Rocket League has been running smoothly for me, even before they stopped supporting the linux client and before switching to epic.

I'm running Fedora 42 Workstation and have now tested Rocket League on Fedora Workstation 41 and 42 with GNOME 47 and 48 on Wayland. Both ran buttery smooth on 2560x1440@144Hz. I did not try X11, haven't used it in years.

I start Rocket league via steam with the proton-experimental and the input parameters as follows. You can leave out Mangohud, of course. gamemode may also be unnecessary.

MANGOHUD=1 gamemoderun %command%

The only problem I had with Rocket League at one point (sometime last month) was Rocket League refusing to start. I did not reinstall, just tried switching from proton-9 to proton-experimental and my problems were solved. I probably should uninstall the game and delete leftover files like the wine prefix, then reinstall and test again.

If Rocket League is the only game affected, you might see something in the proton log. If you start your game with the following launch parameters, steam writes a proton log file into your home folder.

PROTON_LOG=1 %command%
[–] hamsda@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

Using something arch-based but not arch while also using the AUR feels like opening the door to problems. The AUR is specifically made with arch linux in mind and often package versions don't align between arch and arch-based distros.

Also, I lost trust in Manjaro. They accidently let their SSL cert expire multiple times and told their users to revert system time to have a temporary fix. They also shipped an unstable asahi-kernel to their users without talking to the asahi devs beforehand, as well as accidentally DDoS-ing the AUR with a bug in a pamac version (as far as I know that happened twice). It just feels like their management board has / had some problems.

These may have all been issues of the past, but with the massive amount of distributions out there, I'd probably walk a lot of different roads before ever touching Manjaro again.

[–] hamsda@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Started testing Linux OS around 2003. Never really commited, until late 2020, where I removed Windows and switch to Arch Linux full-time.

Now, after 4 years of Arch, I switched to Fedora Workstation. I kinda miss the Arch repos and the AUR, but Fedora is doing a lot of work that I would have had to do myself on Arch.

Well, you gotta sacrifice something to gain something. Equivalent exchange and stuff.

[–] hamsda@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Seeing this CD reminded me of Knoppix. I tested that in school when I was 16 or 17.

Your picture really makes me feel old. Kernel 2.0? KDE 1.0? GIMP 1? Feels so far away, it must have been a different life.

[–] hamsda@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Just a misunderstanding, then. I did not intend to talk down on a hosting provider I don't even know. Instead, I prioritize hetzner because I'm familiar with them and they're based in europe.

[–] hamsda@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I didn't intend to be elitist about anything and I actually fail to see the elitism by saying "that hoster is not about providing cheap storage"? Maybe there's something in the english language I do not pickup on?

[–] hamsda@lemm.ee 0 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Yeah, hetzner's more about having your own servers than providing cheap storage.

[–] hamsda@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

you can run the open source control plane called Headscale instead of relying on Tailscale’s (the company) free service tier

Ah, that sounds more interesting. I still have time until I buy everything, there's still going to be a lot of research, especially with all the ideas and feedback people have given me in this thread.

I'll definitely try it, thanks!

[–] hamsda@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

Not sure if it checks all the boxes perfectly, but if not it is probably as close as youll find ready-made

That's a good point. To have cohesion and good integration, some sacrifices have to be made. This seems better than having 20 independent services working with (and sometimes probably against) each other.

[–] hamsda@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

Thanks for the heads-up! Those sound like acceptable problems, as long as they're temporary and my data is safe.

[–] hamsda@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago (7 children)

Google is evil but I know that GDrive has pretty low prices on data storage [...] Don’t forget to encrypt everything when uploading to these services!

That is what I am hoping for :) My free Google account grants me 15GB of online storage and my free Microsoft account provides me with another 5GB. The 15 GB should be enough for encrypted photo backups, while 5GB definitely is enough for encrypted calendar, contact and probably some document backups. I just need to find a way to automate backups to these.

based in the USA, priced at 3$/TB/month

If I am going to pay money for something and with how the world currently is, I'm going to use some EU based service. My only VPS resides at hetzner, if the need arises I will probably just add a storage volume to my VPS or upgrade it to the next tier.

[–] hamsda@lemm.ee 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The filter criteria on geizhals are so far superior to amazon (at least for computer and tv stuff), it's not even funny anymore.

Plus, you can filter for "item is physically present in shop", so you can just look up what you want and then go there and get it yourself, no need for same-day-delivery.

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by hamsda@lemm.ee to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
 

Hello everybody,

my plan is to switch from Android to GrapheneOS. In this process, I want to get rid of my reliance on my google account as much as possible.

To this end, I'd like to selfhost some "critical" data, e.g.

  • contacts
  • calendar
  • online drive for files (e.g. google drive alternative)
  • some basic note-taking app (like google keep)

and so on.

I do some selfhosting already, though it is not that kind of "cannot lose this" data. So I'd like to share my thoughts and ask for your opinions and experience for the process.

More details for what I want

contacts

  • have to be syncable to the phone
  • if possible, some webinterface to edit / browse

calendar

  • has to be syncable to the phone
  • webinterface + sync to desktop / phone
  • if possible, send invite-links to events to others

drive

  • files of my choosing must be offline-available
  • ever other file should not use storage on the phone
  • if possible, able to share links to download files
  • if possible, able to share links to view with online editor (see below)

document editor

  • think google sheets / google docs
  • if possible, able to share links to view documents online

smartphone photos

  • auto-backup camera folder

There may be some things I'm not thinking about right now, but this seems to pretty much be it.

If possible, all of this should be accessible only via vpn.

What I already have

I have a pfSense physical appliance that's already managing my home network, got an OpenVPN already setup, dynamic DNS working properly for the lack of a static IP, etc.

I own 2 mini-PCs (some Intel NUC, some passive-cooled zotac with an intel with 4c/8t). One of them (zotac) is currently running as my Proxmox Virtual Environment Hypervisor, managing 3 VMs.

I also have a second PC which misses some critical parts, so it is not currently in working condition. I think there's an AM4 mainboard and 16 or 32GB of DDR4 RAM in there. I could make a NAS or a new hypervisor out of this, but the case (Fractal Design Define 7) is quite big and a full PC is probably worse for energy-efficiency than my 2 mini-PCs and is going to be more expensive.

Not much in terms of storage sadly

  • 1x 6TB external USB HDD (used for backups)
  • 1x 2TB external USB HDD (used for data)

What I plan to do

The kind of data I'm going to be hosting myself now is very import, so it cannot be lost or corrupted.

But the feature list doesn't seem to be overly complicated. This seems like something nextcloud could do.

This means, I will probably need to buy

  • 2x 4 TB HDD for storage for data RAID
  • 2x 8-10 TB HDD for backups
  • 2x external RAID case

Then I could connect the data RAID to the already running zotac pc and spin up new VMs for nextcloud and whatever else I might need and start serving my data from home.

The Intel NUC will be used as a Proxmox Backup Server, connected to the backup RAID. Keeping some daily, weekly and monthly backups.

On the phone-side, I'd have the vpn always active. Whenever active, sync of contacts, calendar entries, photos etc. should be possible.

Questions

Is there anything I missed? Did any of you already try something like that? Does anybody here see a potential problem with any of the above?

Can anyone recommend a RAID-1 external enclosure without a fan and some quiet and energy-efficient HDDs?

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