I have a Shelly plug that is programmed internally to turn itself on if off for 20 seconds. Home assistant turns the plug off for 10 seconds if curl ip.me fails for 15 minutes.

My modem is plugged into that.

I’ve never had a router or firewall crash if I wasn’t fucking with it and did something stupid ill-advised, so I don’t try that kind of stuff unless I’m home.

Make sure you don’t have a full disk somewhere

To piggyback on the permissions hissy fit-

My aar stack, openmediavault, and transmission stack have different usernames mapped to the same uid and it is a pain in the ass. I “fixed it” by making a NAS group that catches them all, but by “fixed it” I really mean “got it working”

So be aware of what uid will own a file and maybe change it to a uid in the 1100+ range to make NFS easier in the future.

If you’re in the omada ecosystem, a one-off unifi device is going to frustrate you. They’re trying to wrangle you into buying shit like this: https://store.ui.com/us/en/products/up-floodlight

Which part is slow? I run a software controller in a proxmox VM and it is plenty quick. My router is an opnsense vm and has 8 ryzen 7700x threads assigned to it, so no problems there 😁

I keep my Linux ISOs on mergerfs over NFS via open media vault. All of them are easily replaced so I don’t bother backing them up.

Nextcloud, paperless, and photos get their whole image backed up on proxmox local, and a remote PBS. I’m the only user so the sizes are quite manageable.

The Hairpin Route of Oak St!

I have a $5/mo vps running caddy over wireguard to get better routing when I’m on mobile.

Otherwise, my traffic goes to my home ISPs hub 600 miles away and back. The VPS is less than 100 miles away and it performs much better.

Have you considered the 395 Max instead of a traditional discrete gpu?

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/02/review-asus-rog-flow-z13-tablet-takes-the-asterisk-off-integrated-gpus/

What a mad lad idea

I know you’re looking for non-intel solutions but here is my setup-

Mobo r8169 is the management interface for proxmox.

X710 4 port: 3 ports passed as a a single vmbr for LAN:
- 1 fiber optic to detached building
- 1 DAC to core switch
- 1 DAC to workstation
1 port passed as vmbr for WAN

That config was sorta inherited by trying to pass other non-intel nics as pcie and failing. I needed an sfp for the fiber run so I got that 4 port Intel card. It works well enough that I haven’t bothered to reconfigure it to pass the Intel as pcie.

My brother in networking- you can store your files in the L1 cache of your CPU and nextcloud is still going to be slow

Have you heard the good message of our lord and Savior Nextcloud Talk?

Your UPS doesn’t show power consumption?

Oh you do and I have.

I’m running it virtualized in proxmox, mostly for the challenge. And boy was it a challenge. Runs great now though!

Photoprism recommends you download a $5 app. It works ok enough, but they are clearly trying to monetize.

I say home server when I’m talking to normies.
When I’m talking to geeks I say forbidden router
https://www.level1techs.com/video/level1-presents-forbidden-router

Yeah, it does a good enough job of handling the metadata which is why I mentioned it. To find books you need a private tracker.

No, it’s a hot mess. I only get 6 books a month and she is one and done so it’s manageable to do it manually