It’s fine if you use the AIO or do some specific things on baremetal like Postgres and Redis. I’ve used in virtually every format over the last dozen years, and you eventually learn what works.

Bitching about nextcloud seems to be some people’s hobby around here.

Any idea if it will render Mermaid diagrams correctly?

Yah, I bet the DNC apparatchiks are fully behind this. This should totally not interfere with their complicity agenda.

They don’t obfuscate the filesystem, it’s right there in clear folder trees under each username in the chosen data folder with all the filenames you see in the UI, you can do whatever you want with it.

I hear this bullshit constantly and I go back to check just to make sure I’m not fooling myself and there it is. Where do people get this from, do you not know how to navigate a filesystem?

Owncloud is an enshittified mess. There are very good reasons that Nextcloud hardforked and ran. Stay far away.

Which POE units have you been using and what’s your experience with them been like?

Maybe they slashed your tires, Laura.

I’d have to look at Frigate again, but I’ve used BI for a few years now for myself and neighbors that I’ve installed livestock monitoring cameras for. The phone app is quite good, it does very reliable recognition via Deepstack, it’s compatible with so many cameras it isn’t funny, and the automations are very extensive. Setting up schedules is pretty intuitive.

The geofencing is terrible, but that’s about my biggest complaint with it, besides having to install it on a Windows VM. I did have it working in Wine years ago, but it wasn’t very stable.

requires UniFi Protect to enable the setting.

Always some sort of cloud based dicking around with Ubiquiti stuff. I’m so over them.

Make sure any cameras you get are ONVIF compatible. That’ll give you the widest usability.

And while it’s great to be self-hosted, I’ve never found anything as good as BlueIris for camera software, even if it does cost $50/yr. I run it in a Dockurr/windows container, there’s a few projects out there that make Dockur easier to set up.

Maybe the US will be mature enough to join the civilized world in a century or two.

Maybe they finally got around to having a Handsmaid Tale viewing party.

Ah, who are we kidding, they’d both be Aunties.

Well, she wasn’t going to be able to throw the election if she made herself popular.

Ah, Megyn, glad it’s not some guy spouting “old enough to bleed, old enough to breed” like my drunk uncle at Thanksgiving…

I have to start to learn how to automatically create notes. I’m starting to forget how my systems work together, too. Fortunately when I research something I do it the same way every time so I come up with the same result, then go to implement it and find all the scripts etc that I forgot about that do that job.

I hate the “Microsoft Recall” idea, but damn, I need something like that with an AI to keep it indexed and searchable as it relates to my activities. All self-hosted, of course.

I don’t see this phenomenon. Maybe people suggest those things to use because frankly, they’re a very fundamental part of the self-hosting landscape, and you’re see it as “you must use these”. Use whatever the hell you want and pay the price for doing it the hard way, by all means. But saying people are gatekeeping isn’t the way I see this community.

Oh, gee, are the 2026 candidates free to decry the “betrayal”? After they’re elected next year, and have 6 years to go to their next election, they’ll be the ones submarining the votes so the current crop of traitors don’t have a take a fresh betrayal into an election year either. See how that works? That’s how complete complicity plays in the Democrat party.

It’s not squandering when it’s done deliberately.

If you do a zfs list from the Proxmox server command line, you’ll now see a dataset named something like rpool/vm100-data-disk1 and that the second virtual disk in your VM. Now you operate on the virtualdisk however you like, format it with EXT4 or something (don’t use ZFS). It’s still a ZFS volume and Proxmox will be able to snapshot it, replicate it etc, or you could do it manually on the host. But as far as the VM is concerned, it’s a raw disk that you do normal disk stuff with.