Thanks! BentoPDF is fantastic, I never knew something like this existed.
I have a todo list where I keep track of services I might be interested in one day, I read your post a few hours ago and added Bento to my list, thinking I might get around to it in a few days/weeks/months. Then out of nowhere 15 minutes ago I randomly needed to crop and split a PDF and realized I didn’t have anything to do it. I fired Bento up and was done in under a minute.
In my opinion, Proxmox is worth it for two reasons:
Easy high-availability setup and control
Proxmox Backup Server
Those two are what drove me to switch from KVM, and I don’t regret it at all. PBS truly is a fantastic piece of software.
Every couple of days. I don’t auto-update, but I’ve streamlined the process to the point that I can just open a single web page and see the number of pending updates for every system on my network, docker containers included, each one with a button. Clicking the button applies the update and reboots if necessary. So it takes about 15 seconds of effort to update everything, which is why I don’t mind doing it so often.
1/3 of the population thinks this is acceptable behavior for a leader. And another 1/3 can’t make up their mind either way. This is why we’re doomed as a country.
if you’re actually using the waste heat from a PC does that mean its basically 100% energy efficient?
It is exactly as efficient as an electric heater, yes, but an electric heater is one of the least efficient ways to heat a home.
Got a friend or family member willing to let you drop a miniPC at their place?
You could also go the offline route - buy two identical external drive setups, plug one into your machine and make regular backups to it, drop the other one in a drawer in your office at work. Then once a month or so swap them to keep the off-site one fresh.
Also there’s really nothing wrong with cloud storage as long as you encrypt before uploading so they never have access to your data.
Personally I do both. The off-site offline drive is for full backups of everything because space is cheap, while cloud storage is use for more of a “delta” style backup, just the stuff the changes frequently, because of the price. If the worst were to happen, I’d use the offsite drive to get the bulk infrastructure back up and running, and then the latest cloud copy for any recently added/modified files.
As long as there’s a simple way to determine which containers use outdated images, I’m good
Yeah you can either have it update the containers itself, or just print out their names. With a custom plugin you can make it output the names of any containers that have available updates in whatever format you like. This discussion on the github page goes through some example scripts you can use to serve the list of containers with available updates over a REST API to be pulled into any other system you like (eg: Homepage dashboard).
I use node_exporter (for machines/VMs) and cAdvisor (for Docker containers) + VictoriaMetrics + AlertManager/Grafana for resource usage tracking, visualization, and alerts.
For updates, I use a combination of dockcheck.sh and OliveTin with some custom wrappers to dynamically build a page with a button for every stack that includes a container with an update. Clicking the button applies the update and cycles the container. Once the container is updated, its button disappears from the page. So just loading the page will tell you how many and which containers have available updates and you can update them whenever you like from anywhere, including your phone/tablet, with one button click. I also have apt updates for VMs and hosts integrated onto this page, so I can update the host machines as well in the same way.
Looks like I’m never going to Florida again
The MAGAts are for it because they believe a Trump dictatorship means anybody they like gets to do whatever they want, and anybody they dislike gets thrown in jail without a trial. One by one they’ll learn that it’s not who they like/dislike that matters, it’s who Trump likes/dislikes, and he doesn’t like anybody but other autocrats and billionaires (and pedophiles, apparently).
I mean, it shouldn’t be, but apparently it is
Ugh, not this voice control BS again. It’s like the people who pop up every once in a while asking why there isn’t a “natural English” programming language. It’s because human language is imprecise and full of nuance. To describe something to the precision needed for a computer to take action and actually do the thing you want it to do, you have to be so ridiculously verbose in your description that it would take 10-100x longer than just clicking a button with your mouse or typing a command on the keyboard.
Have none of these people ever sat behind someone operating a computer and tried to instruct them to do something even moderately complex? About 5 minutes in I’m usually tearing my hear out screaming “JUST LET ME SIT IN THE CHAIR AND DO IT MYSELF!”
OPNSense is a great option for turning x86 hardware into a router. That said, I would not recommend combining your router with other functionality. The router should be a dedicated system that only does one thing. Leave your NAS and web services on another machine.
Depends on what you’re buying. Wiredzone and Provantage are solid for enterprise/workstation gear, and for anything storage or camera related B&H is my go-to.