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libretech

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  • Recommend a printer with open-source support.

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  • It's not released yet, but I've been keeping my eye on the Open Printer project by Open Tools. You can sign up to get email updates on their Crowd Supply page.

    Edit: Sorry, just seeing the no Wifi/Bluetooth, so this might not be the best fit (but it does aim to be fully open source, so maybe in the spirit of what you're looking for?)

  • Flatpak Library Issue for Heroic on Linux Mint?

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  • Checked the logs and it didn't have any insight into the error that I could make out, so the hunt continues!

  • Flatpak Library Issue for Heroic on Linux Mint?

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  • Thank you! I actually don't even need to install with the offline installers to launch the game; if I just navigate to where it was installed by Heroic and manually click the executable it will launch properly. I just wanted to get it working through the launcher to hopefully be able to run multiplayer (and maybe have a slightly easier time with mods?) And honestly, it's just been driving me nuts not to be able to get around this sandboxing in some way. But appreciate your help!

  • Flatpak Library Issue for Heroic on Linux Mint?

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  • Thank you! I gave it a shot and it still crashed (though it showed a different crash screen, so I think that's progress? Also if I left the Paradox crash reporter open for long enough it started to play the soundtrack, which was nice).

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    libretech @reddthat.com

    Flatpak Library Issue for Heroic on Linux Mint?

  • Proxmox Backup Server: Bare Metal vs. Privileged LXC vs. VM?

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  • Thank you! Just to make sure I am following correctly, for your LXC running PBS, it sounds like you used a privileged container on Proxmox itself, right (vs. an LXC on TrueNAS)?

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    libretech @reddthat.com

    Proxmox Backup Server: Bare Metal vs. Privileged LXC vs. VM?

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    Help Selecting DIY NAS Hardware?

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  • Thanks for this! I guess that settles my case deliberation at least. But man, getting all the things you mentioned for $170 on eBay is crazy good!!! I must just really need to dig in there a bit deeper (it's gonna be too easy to go broke with home networking as a hobby otherwise lol). I guess so long as I am memtesting my RAM and burning in drives right after getting them I should be okay. I think I also am overindexing on trying to get my power draw as low as possible instead of really doing the math out and seeing how long I'd need to be running something 24/7 before the power savings ends up outweighing the price differential. But thanks again!

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    Help Selecting DIY NAS Hardware?

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  • Thank you! The case rec is super helpful actually, I was considering the Fractal Design Define R5 (though I wasn't sure how to feel about potentially spending the same amount on my motherboard as my case, but people seem to swear by it), so it's great to have confirmation they're actually worth it. I had given PC Part Picker a shot, but it seems like it doesn't quite catch the ECC memory support for some of the AMD systems (maybe because they're unofficial?) I will give it another shot though, and thanks again!

  • Router Hardware: How Much Paranoia is Too Much?

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  • Thanks for this! It's a good impetus for me to think a little more holistically about my network security versus overfocusing on the router. I'll have to do some more reading on overall networking best practices.

  • Router Hardware: How Much Paranoia is Too Much?

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  • No I think we're aligned! I am not trying to say the "build literally everything" from scratch is a viable alternative. You could go all the way down the rabbit hole of building a compiler, your own programming language, a smelter to refine the metals you need to try to cobble together your own hardware. But of course that is not realistic, which was what I was trying to get at in my comment. Basically, given that it is not feasible to do everything by yourself, at some point it seems you have to decide to trust something to be a functional human and not devolve into solipsism. So the question I am asking is, what are your own evaluations of what is trustworthy? Do you trust coreboot more than AMI? Protectli versus Qotom? It seems to me that we have to make these sorts of evaluations, versus believing that because there is some risk to everything that those risks are all equal. Apologies if I am not being clear though.

  • Router Hardware: How Much Paranoia is Too Much?

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  • Thanks for sharing! Did you end up staying with the stock firmware?

  • Router Hardware: How Much Paranoia is Too Much?

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  • Thanks for this! Agree that coreboot is definitely the requirement that, if dropped, would open up the most other options. So far it sounds like folks are mostly willing to have some faith in stock firmware, which is great as a sanity check for me. Appreciate your response!

  • Router Hardware: How Much Paranoia is Too Much?

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  • Sorry, imprecise wording on my part, I meant build as in build/code from scratch, not build from source!

  • Router Hardware: How Much Paranoia is Too Much?

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  • Thanks so much! I'd seen Hunsn mentioned in a few places as well, so glad to hear that it's working well (and thanks especially for the memory ballooning tip, I'll try to remember that when I inevitably run into issues later).

  • Router Hardware: How Much Paranoia is Too Much?

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  • Thanks so much for sharing this! I think reading through it helps refocus the question I guess I should have asked, which is "Which vendors do people trust more in practice, recognizing that at some point recursive paranoia has to end unless one has the time and skill to try to build literally everything on their own?" And as a question of probabilities, it feels a bit more manageable to try to make a call and move on. I'm sort of thinking of this thread as a way for me to calibrate my current probability estimates with people who know more than I do and have likely thought about this question more than I have. But the reminder that there isn't really going to be any certainty regardless of what I decide is well-taken.

  • Router Hardware: How Much Paranoia is Too Much?

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  • (But if you don't mind my asking, what machine did you end up with from CN? How did you approach firmware?)

  • Router Hardware: How Much Paranoia is Too Much?

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  • Yes, I'm US-based, and you make a great point that it's not as though US brands are inherently trustworthy either. That's why I'm leaning towards an open source (or as open source as possible) firmware, with the understanding that we're stuck with some proprietary blobs at the moment. I suppose I am thinking about it more from a harm reduction lens versus trying to find a bullet-proof solution.

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    libretech @reddthat.com

    Router Hardware: How Much Paranoia is Too Much?

  • Help with Home Server Architecture and Hardware Selection?

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  • Thanks for sharing! Will probably try to go this route once I get the NAS squared away and turn back to localLLMs. Out of curiosity, are you using the q4_k_m quantization type?

  • Help with Home Server Architecture and Hardware Selection?

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  • This is exactly the sort of tradeoff I was wondering about, thank you so much for mentioning this. I think ultimately I would probably align with you in prioritizing answer quality over context length (but it sure would be nice to have both!!) I think my plan for now based on some of the other comments is to go ahead with the NAS build and keep my eyes peeled for any GPU deals in the meantime (though honestly I am not holding my breath). Once I've proved to myself I can something stable without burning the house down, I'll on something more powerful for the localLLM. Thanks again for sharing!

  • Help with Home Server Architecture and Hardware Selection?

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  • Wow, that sounds amazing! I think that GPU alone would probably exceed my budget for the whole build lol. Thanks for sharing!

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
    libretech @reddthat.com

    Help with Home Server Architecture and Hardware Selection?