I selfhost navidrome for the music streaming (+symfonium app for mobile). Multi user and multi library support.

For music tagging itself ive used beets, picard, and kid3 (kde). Currently I am liking picard the most. It took a little bit of learning but less than beets

When you say your talk talk hub is bottlenecky, what does that mean? Are speeds slower that your service contract? Are those speedtests over wifi or LAN? Also which hub do you have? I ask because this site does have good things to say about the newer talk talk hub.

For your questions though:

The modem with authenticates with the ISP and then has ethernet ports to plug into. Some modems have built in wifi which will let you get away with just one device assuming your dwelling is within the wifi coverage. If a modem doesnt have built in wifi then you’d need a router for wireless access.

A separate modem + router will generally have better features on the router, but typically cost more money and may be overkill depending on what you need

I noticed in that article i linked it said that some talk talk hubs have a pass through mode. So if the issue is just the wifi access then you could get away with just getting a router (keeping your current hub).

Does someone have the tldr?

/s

Expired domains first can be bought by registrars and then they might sell or auction it off. For instance godaddy will scoop up a lot of domains and auction them off even if it was registered somewhere else first. And unfortunately a surname.tld probably will invite domain squatters to try to get it and then charge much more for it

You can look into something like dropcatch which they will try to get the domain for you before another registrar gets it. Look into their backorder service and just check the timing to make sure they still can try to get it.

Regularly check the whois info (via icann lookup) to see which registrar currently has it which can help you determine if it has gone to an auction.

Who needs access to these private repos? There’s always raw git (has a web server if needed). That’s what I’ve been doing since moving to codeberg for my public projects and eventually i might set up a private forgejo server.

Sourcehut also offers public, private, and unlisted repos

There are a few options

• cloudflare pages if you’re not against cloudflare.
• sourcehut pages
• codeberg pages - though they list it at in maintenance mode atm so i wouldn’t put anything critical on there

I personally would just avoid netflify (something about them sending a bill for a DDoS that wasn’t mitigated gave me a bad taste).

Ofc nothing making you need to move right now, but id explore options so you have a gameplan

Giscus / utteranc.es use github discussions/ issues to do comments so that might be an option

For one of my projects i setup remark42 which does allow anonymous comments. You can also set it up to allow logging in to a few different platforms. 7 months and no issues.

Isso is another one i had looked at which can do comments without an acct

Ha! Well i agree this would’ve been better early on but I’m glad to see them dig into the details beyond the marketing language.

There are cuda packages for arch. I can confirm they work.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GPGPU

Edit- to add i haven’t found arch’s limit, it feels like i am bound only by my own limit in my time, ability, and willingness to tinker with my setup. arch itself is widely supported, it has many official packages through pacman, and then additional through the “arch user repository” (AUR) so chances are most of the things you want or need have a package that can be installed with an AUR helper (like yay/paru which install from both pacman and AUR). In other distros you get more of a one-size fits all and you lose some of that ability to change things whereas arch you’re giving a minimal setup and left to build the system to your liking. It does take more time and expertise than other distros but it does give you more control. For me the trade off was an easy decision, but it’s not something i blanket recommend to everyone.

Tflops is a generic measurement, not actual utilization, and not specific to a given type of workload. Not all workloads saturate gpu utilization equally and ai models will depend on cuda/tensor. the gen/count of your cores will be better optimized for AI workloads and better able to utilize those tflops for your task. and yes, amd uses rocm which i didn’t feel i needed to specify since its a given (and years behind cuda capabilities). The point is that these things are not equal and there are major differences here alone.

I mentioned memory type since the cards you listed use different versions ( hbm vs gddr) so you can’t just compare the capacity alone and expect equal performance.

And again for your specific use case of this large MoE model you’d need to solve the gpu-to-gpu communication issue (ensuring both connections + sufficient speed without getting bottlenecked)

I think you’re going to need to do actual analysis of the specific set up youre proposing. Good luck

The table you’re referencing leaves out CUDA/ tensor cores (count+gen) which is a big part of the gpus, and also not factoring in type of memory. From the comments it looks like you want to use a large MoE model. You aren’t going to be able to just stack raw power and expect to be able to run this without major deterioration of performance if it runs at all.

Don’t forget your MoE model needs all-to-all communication for expert routing

• Custom DNS servers specified on the device to circumvent the pihole
• dns over https or tls
• hotspot from approved device
• alternative YouTube front ends

These are just off the top of my head. Best case scenario the blocking does work and the teen never tries to bypass it. They’ll still just move onto “wasting” time on something else. This is treating the symptom and not the root cause.

Pihole can set up “groups” for different blocklists. You specify client by IP or MAC address so it doesnt matter what the dhcp server is, so long as there’s a static IP or static MAC address. My pihole server doesn’t have dhcp set up and I’m able to do this fine

Though from personal experience this just becomes a game of cat and mouse, and if you have a motivated teenager then they will find a way to circumvent this. For example android can rotate MAC addresses, and IP addresses are trivial to spoof as well.

Haven’t used all of those but my recommendation would be to just start trying them. Start small, get a feel for it and expand usage or try a different backup solution. You should be able to do automatic backups for any of them either directly or setting up your own timer/cron jobs (which is how i do it with rsync).

I submitted a response but if i may give some feedback, the second portion brings up:

I am willing to pay a substantial amount for hardware required for self-hosting.

This seemed out of place because there were no other value related questions (iirc). Such as:

• I believe self hosting saves me money in the short term
• i believe self hosting saves me money in the long run

I’m sure you could also think of more. But i think it’s pretty important because between cloud service providers and any non-free apps you want to use, it can be quite costly compared to the cost of some hardware and time it takes to set things up.

The rest of my responses don’t change but if you’re wanting to understand the impact of money in all of this, i think some more questions are needed

Best of luck!

I use vscodium and it is available on AUR (vscodium / vscodium-bin). Supposedly there are some plugins not available for it, but i don’t use a ton of plugins and the ones I used in vscode were available in vscodium when i switched.

Why Not Use…?

I am aware that there are many other git “forge” platforms available. Gitea, Codeberg, and Forgejo all come to mind. Those platforms are great as well. If you prefer those options instead of SourceHut that’s fine! Switching to any of those would still be a massive improvement over GitHub.

Unfortunately, I find the need to have an account in order to contribute to projects a deal breaker. It causes too much friction for no real gain. Email based workflows will always reign supreme. It’s the OG of code contributions.

Ive been using codeberg(a public forgejo) and it felt more familiar coming from github/gitlab. Sourcehut wasn’t bad, but it did feel quite a bit different and i admittedly didn’t get too far past that. I do like the idea of contributing without an account though. i know that it’s a git feature to create a patch file but having a forge support it is neat.

Semi related, I do look forward to federation of forgejo which i think helps the “needing an account” somewhat. I think it’s less unreasonable to expect someone to have an account on -any federated forge- than to have an account at the specific forge my project is on.

Good article though. It did help make sourcehut make more sense than the first time i looked at it

You’re not connected to wifi or vpn from the looks of it. jellyfin is hosted on your local network. You need to be connected to that network for any device you want to access it. The most direct way is to connect via wifi. If you want access from outside your house you’ll need to look into opening a remote connection via something like cloudflare tunnel

Interesting that it sounds like it is immediately overwriting the whole primary drive rather than trying to exfiltrate any data (or anything else) first

Logseq to some extent, but it’s set up to be a journal/ meeting notes where you tag pages, add documents, etc. it would be up to how you’ve tagged things. Does have a graph view of your pages and whiteboard feature.

Personally it wasn’t exactly what i wanted out of a PKM but it is really powerful. It’s intended to handle taking notes efficiently from meetings and then somewhat self organizing the notes as long as you tag stuff.