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Advice about upgrading hardware in c/homelab@lemmy.ml
[–] [S] 1 point 2 months ago

Thank you for the advice! I hadn't thought about this in a prod vs. dev scenario, so this is really appreciated. I will keep things simple on one device.

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    Advice about upgrading hardware (lemmy.world)
    submitted 2 months ago* by to c/homelab@lemmy.ml
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    Hello! I'm upgrading my home server and am looking for some advice on how to use all of my available hardware.

    My server runs off of an old 6600k with DDR4 RAM. I have a new motherboard and a 14600k on order with plans to reuse the RAM since the speed and amount (32GB) is sufficient for now.

    This server started as a Plex server with an Arr stack. I've added some small YouTube utilities (MeTube and Pinchflat) as well as Home Assistant. This is all running in OMV with mergerfs and SnapRAID for storage.

    Here are a two plans that I need help deciding between. I'm worried about cramping my expansion possibilities or making things convoluted for no gains:

    1. All-in-one Server: Everything moves over to the new 14600k server, including Plex, my NAS, and other self-hosted utilities. I've got a NAS case that will support 10 3.5" drives as well as a SATA controller card to expand my available 6 Gbps ports to 12.

    2. Media Server and NAS Server: The 14600k machine runs Plex and all other self-hosted tools. The 6600k runs OMV to manage NAS storage on a separate machine.

    Long story short: I have all of the required hardware to make two machines. Does that make things easier for me in the long run, or am I just over complicating things?

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    [–] 4 points 10 months ago

    I had an account day 1 when Spotify launched in my country. It was such a big deal to me, a person who spent their teens and 20s hoarding music. One service and it was most of the music I wanted. I could sideload my own music and shuffle it all together.

    I miss that little app store on the desktop client. You could join shared radio stations and vote on the next track while people wrote to each other in a chat.

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    [–] 16 points 11 months ago* (2 children)

    Start out simple and stick with a basic BitTorrent client. Figure out where you want to download from and get a torrent client configured. I use an ISP that frowns upon piracy so here's a quick overview:

    1. Look for public torrent sites. I'm out of this game so I don't have any suggestions.
    2. Research private torrent trackers. I don't think I can provide any help with this, but there are other corners of Lemmy who can.
    3. Find a VPN. Everyone has thoughts on this and Proton VPN is the one I'm currently using.
    4. Pick a torrent client. I'd recommend qBittorrent myself.
    5. Configure your VPN to include your BT traffic.

    If/when you want to try Lidarr, you'll be much better off knowing the basics of BitTorrent because *arr software is confusing in its own regard. Lidarr is just a tool to organize your music library folders and also automatically queue downloads. It is not a requirement to enjoy downloading music.

    Usenet and soulseek are other alternatives.

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    [–] 5 points 11 months ago (6 children)

    You'll have to be more specific. :) I think it works well for organizing a music library unless there are issues with this feature that I'm unaware of. Using it to queue downloads was painful for me, so I resort to less automated ways to acquire music files.

    Simply put, the *arr software concept works well for downloading movies and TV shows (Radarr and Sonarr). Music just seems to be a little more difficult and I have lots of issues with Lidarr finding music out on Usenet and trackers. I hope that's user error on my part.

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    YSK: Bandcamp is waiving its fees today and all money is passed to the artist (until 12 a.m. PST) (daily.bandcamp.com)
     

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/33818262

    Today is Bandcamp Friday

    From now until 12 a.m. PST, Bandcamp will pass 100% of revenue directly to artists. From its website:

    Bandcamp Fridays began in March of 2020 at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic when the shuttering of venues led to a loss of vital tour revenue for artists. Since then, Bandcamp Fridays—on which we waive our revenue share and pass the funds directly to artists & labels—has resulted in millions of fans paying over $120 million directly to labels and musicians they love. In addition to helping artists pay the rent, or fund album recordings and tours, Bandcamp Fridays have also become a beacon for artists and record labels looking to raise awareness for causes or raise money for charities.

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    Today is Bandcamp Friday: All revenue goes directly to artists (until 12 a.m. PST) (daily.bandcamp.com)
     

    From now until 12 a.m. PST, Bandcamp will pass 100% of revenue directly to artists. From its website:

    Bandcamp Fridays began in March of 2020 at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic when the shuttering of venues led to a loss of vital tour revenue for artists. Since then, Bandcamp Fridays—on which we waive our revenue share and pass the funds directly to artists & labels—has resulted in millions of fans paying over $120 million directly to labels and musicians they love. In addition to helping artists pay the rent, or fund album recordings and tours, Bandcamp Fridays have also become a beacon for artists and record labels looking to raise awareness for causes or raise money for charities.

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    Proxmox vs. Debian: Running media server on older hardware (lemmy.world)
    submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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    I'm still running a 6th-generation Intel CPU (i5-6600k) on my media server, with 64GB of RAM and a Quadro P1000 for the rare 1080p transcoding needs. Windows 10 is still my OS from when it was a gaming PC and I want to switch to Linux. I'm a casual user on my personal machine, as well as with OpenWRT on my network hardware.

    Here are the few features I need:

    • MergerFS with a RAID option for drive redundancy. I use multiple 12TB drives right now and have my media types separated between each. I'd like to have one pool that I can be flexible with space between each share.
    • Docker for *arr/media downloaders/RSS feed reader/various FOSS tools and gizmos.
    • I'd like to start working with Home Assistant. Installing with WSL hasn't worked for me, so switching to Linux seems like the best option for this.

    Guides like Perfect Media Server say that Proxmox is better than a traditional distro like Debian/Ubuntu, but I'm concerned about performance on my 6600k. Will LXCs and/or a VM for Docker push my CPU to its limits? Or should I do standard Debian or even OpenMediaVault?

    I'm comfortable learning Proxmox and its intricacies, especially if I can move my Windows 10 install into a VM as a failsafe while building a storage pool with new drives.

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