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  • Seconded on Cockpit project w File Sharing.

    Probably not best practice, but it’s possible to install it on the PVE host itself since its ZFS manager and Identity manager plugins and other features fills some gaps in what Proxmox doesn’t do (or would have to drop to CLI to do).

    Also recommend RClone in a systemd can take care of various file movements, syncs and backup tasks you may need against the host, vdumps or SMB file shares.




  • Down-under, we have some other mechanisms to try to preserve democracy:

    Mandatory voting and preferential voting. This provides opportunities for third parties and independents who engage with voters.

    Ethics Committees, used at state levels but pushes for a Federal Ethics Committee. “They allow Parliament to scrutinise the Executive more effectively, making it more responsible to the people”

    Caps on political donations is another measure, supported by progressives but not yet by the conservatives.


  • Makes sense. It’s a shame when these should be fundamental principals and accountability of the person’s elected.

    The concern for me is there would be those that act without conscience or care, the ‘wreckers’ that don’t have any current policy or engage in rational debate, they’re in plain sight already today and not being held to account?


  • I think a problem with blind voting is, who do the citizens know who represented them and acted in their interest, and therefore who they should support and vote for? Backroom deals and corruption would run rife. Greater transparency is better than less.

    A conscience vote, where the party leaders do not enforce a particular party line, instead accept the will of the representative member (notionally on behalf of their constituents) should be more commonplace. This is essentially the same as getting an independent. Best bet is to break up the 2-party system.






  • Doesn’t meet your power requirements (only up to 850VA) but i recommend Cyberpower Bric meets the rest. I have mine connected to my Proxmox host, usb passthrough to VM running HassOS with the NUT add-on. Neat little LCD and silent unless humming on battery. Can choose if you want an audible alarm enabled or put it on mute.

    APC is still very well regarded UPS brand for small business, and your specs seems like they should be achievable across many leading brands. Have you looked into latest models for your spec?

    Maybe share a list of candidates you’re considering and can get opinions on those?


  • Agree. Best to have that dedicated hardware, and a degree in network engineering first! Hah :)

    tech waffle...

    You might achieve network isolation without dedicated managed switches by: using prosumer routers or OpenWRT, with a Hypervisor like Proxmox, which support VLAN tagging. But this wouldn’t save your home connection from a DDoS. To help with that, running public services behind CloudFlare seems to be one of the better choices, even our Lemmy hosts are using.

    If you’re starting out, best keep internet facing home services private through a VPN, maybe ZeroTier or TailScale. Don’t advertise them publically at all.


  • Agree with the VPS in this case. For sure you can create public-facing services in a home server or home lab, but to do so you need:

    1. Domain name hosting.
    2. an Internet Service Provider who will allow you expose port 80/443 web services and on a Static IP (most do not, or paid extra on business plans). OR use a Cloud proxy like CloudFlare which your home IP can be updated through a DynDNS service and served on private ports.
    3. Setup NAT/Port Forwarding on your modem to route incoming requests to internal services. First to a firewall or threat gateway like PFSense, a web proxy like Traefik/NGinX, and security harden and maintain your modem, router, network and served applications.

    If you’re new to these things, Id start with something more mature for personal or family home use first. Like NextCloud, HomeAssistant or Jellyfin media server. Lots of YouTubers have covered how these can be set up as a reference.

    Lemmy is still alpha, full of bugs and security vulnerabilities and needs regular hotfixes and babysitting. Permitting Joe Public into your home services is ripe for disaster unless you have the time and expertise.




  • Difficult to read the graph, but looks like you have less than 4GB ram. Depending what sort of OS and services are running (from above suggestions), this is likely the biggest issue.

    You haven’t mentioned which services you’re running, but 4GB might be enough perhaps for a basic OS with NAS file share services. But anything heavier, like running Container services will eat that up. You’d want at least 8GB.

    Note also that you may not have a dedicated graphics card? If you have integrated graphics, some ram is taken from System and shared with the GPU. If you’re just running command line, you might eke out a little more RAM for system by reducing the VRAM allocation in your BIOS. See: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared_graphics_memory