what internship are you doing?
When you spur of the moment decide to turn your gaming pc into a proxmox machine and then miss gaming so you end up down a rabbit hole of iommu groups to pass your Gpu through to a steam os VM to wrestle with Linux virtual display drivers so you can use sunshine to cast your games to your laptop
It eventually worked but you can quickly end up in a niche hell hole with little to no coherent documentation.
Trash guides is a gateway drug
Is it worth it after that’s all said and done?
I’d love to power gaming in my house from a central server, but I keep imagining that it would be spotty and frustrating as hell.
Game streaming is good, but not perfect. It’s useable, but you do get the occasional stutter, dropped frames, connection issues, etc. Not to mention increased input lag.
If you must have your PC in a different room, you’d be better off buying an optical hdmi cord. That’s what I do for gaming on my TV after playing a few games through various game streaming apps and getting fed up with it.
I’ve seen this idea a few times now. How do you get your controllers to connect? Say I want to keep my PC in the basement and have a TV on the second floor. How do I connect the controllers?
I’m not sure how the person you responded to did it, but LTT has a whole video series on doing just that from what I remember.
I run a USB to Ethernet adapter from my PC to living room TV along with a optical HDMI cable, I even have a second HDMI for when I want to run a second portable monitor on the couch arm rest for notes and stuff
Your mileage will vary some hardware has better support than others latency can be an issue on titles that are sensitive to it.
Rocket league is unplayable but survival craft games play really well!
The most straightforward approach to dabbling with it would be to install classicoldsongs Apollo on a windows machine it includes virtual display drivers that just work out the box, pair a moonlight client and see how it works for you!
Years ago, I used Moonlight to cast to an Nvidia Shield. It worked pretty well, although it still required a lot of back and forth to tinker with things on the host PC. Still, it was better than the Steam Link at the time. Recently, I tried using the built-in streaming in Steam to play on a different PC in the house, but it was much the same story: lots of back-and-forth, launchers were annoying, and sometimes it wouldn’t display on the right screen.
Maybe virtual machines would be an improvement.
I’ve got 2 proxmox servers and I’d never have the courage to try that, seems hardcore as fuck
I converted my gaming machine into a server a while back. I like to live dangerously though, no proxmox. Baremetal. If my blog is slow, sorry y’all, I’m gaming. Deal with it.
I am so pleased with so many crazy people in this thread. I’m not alone!!!
Holy shit you just described my setup to a T
You seem to have similar setup
Though for gaming I still use it mostly “directly”
Sunshine only when Im bored on work laptop
The VM still outputs to same display and has keyboard/mouse/etc. passedI’ve been happy with the setup for the last year and half or so
Or you just spin up Games-On-Whales and have the same with almost no work!
I think I have reached stage 4: No hosting, off-site backup is on an external SSD in a locker at work
lol at ‘accidental’ beta testers. I tell my family they’re testing my shit
The thing that I hate about self-hosting is that a lot of apps that could just be a plain offline thing are instead being designed to be super bloated server-docker things. Databases are not reasonably portable data formats.
An sqlite database is a perfectly fine portable data format.
Or, and apparently this is crazy these days - I can just use a file that’s in a format appropriate to what I’m trying to do, compatible with the simpler offline app it was made for, and then just use a more general purpose syncing method whether online or sneakernet if I need to do some kind of data transfer - as opposed to accumulating an ever expanding collection of server stacks that are just redundantly doing the same kind of thing anyway while needlessly adding an insane amount of attack surface.
SQLite allows for more efficient querying of data than doing it by hand, can enforce constraints on the data, and I can query it from my shell.
Of course it’s not going to replace a commonly-used format for a domain. If no such format exists, it’s a perfectly acceptable data format for data that’s tabular in nature. And it can by sync’d/backed up the same as any other file.
Databases are not reasonably portable data formats.
I mean… if you stick to standard SQL…
This is why my self created apps all use Markdown files instead if DBs.
I’m definitely stage 3 but it’s still an enjoyable hobby that isn’t that time-consuming. I think stage 4 is creating your own services and spamming social media in search of users.
I’m worried I don’t know if I’m 2 or 3
I just use flash drives to transfer stuff from my computer to the ipad so i can watch in bed lol, keep my music on an mp3 player
Surprisingly those dual-ended USB-A + USB-C flash drives can be pretty decent, especially for stuff like this.
it’s easier to wait like 5 minutes for files to transfer than to maintain a whole wireless streaming setup. i think of it like walking over to the video rental store lol
It’s a peaceful life.
Only 27 containers? That rookie numbers… You gotta pump those up!
I’m currently sitting at 131 containers across 3 Kubernetes nodes, all bare-metal though, no virtualization.
131 containers seems crazy to me. How many actual services does that translate to? Is it actually closer to 50 services running in parallel on three different nodes for redundancy?
There’s probably also a fair amount of repeated servers that aren’t redundant. Like postgres servers that are single purpose and multiple containers to provide it for an “actual” service.
Nonsense! The old laptop I run proxmox, home assistant, and most of my containers on is mounted to the wall in the garage, not under the stairs.
I’m trying to figure out where to put my server, currently it’s on my desk. I want to avoid the garage because of exhaust/dirt/temperature swings. The understair closet is next to the shower, so humidity could be a concern, and also it’s a small awkward shaped space. I would prefer to set it up in the utility room, but there’s humidity and dust from the dryer and washer. Maybe I’m just being too precious though
Airflow solves humidity. Cut a hole in the door and install a fan
Mine is actually in a toilet cubby in my garage, it’s the only part of the garage that’s heated and it’s mostly separate from the mess I make in the rest of the space. But I do blow it out with compressed air semi-regularly because its still less than ideal.
It was convenient though because it’s on the other side of a wall shared by my entertainment center, so it was easy to cut holes and put in keystone plates on both sides.
With this sort of thing, I’m always left wondering what I’m missing in terms of the hardware. Like, I’ve been collecting bits and bobs of old hardware for years, but it feels like if I want anything more than an absolutely basic raspberry-pi-level server, I need to buy dedicated hardware. For example, I want to put together a nas, especially since I do have a collection of spare, old hard drives, but would want raid for that. Unfortunately, its rare to find a mobo that has more than four sata ports, and all the power supplies I have available to harvest from other systems are either too weak, or are proprietary, meaning I’m halfway to buying a new PC anyway. Is there something I’m missing, or do others just have more disposable income?
My Nextcloud runs on a basic ass raspberry pi and uses a USB hardware RAID. It fulfills all my NAS needs.
For a lot of purposes, an old slow system is great. Craigslist (if you’re in a country that has it, otherwise use your local equivalent) is a great place to find super cheap old equipment to build server infrastructure from. Thrift shops too, I regularly find old UPSs that just need a new lawnmower battery chucked in to work at my local thrift shop, they charge like $10 for em. Usually found near power strips.
Laptops have an integrated UPS!
Tried that for a while. The battery turned into a spicy pillow and nearly broke the keyboard from how much it puffed out.
If you do that, make sure the laptop has a feature to keep the battery from charging to 100% at all times. UPSs with lead acid batteries handle sitting at 100% much better.
Alternatively, you can remove the battery and have the laptop plugged into a charger 24/7. I did that a while ago for my laptop server and it’s been working great. I need to watch to not move the carpet it stands on (on a separate stand) too much since the connection is a little flimsy, but I’ve not had to deal with random shutdowns because of that at all yet.
I’m in stage 2
Me too but now I’m afraid
Same, been there for a decade.
I’m careful about what I want to host because I know I’m the asshole that needs to fix it when it breaks, and password managers that my wife uses are 100% off the self-hosted menu.
Vaultwarden requires Bitwarden to keep on allowing client access. Even if there are FOSS plugins/clients, I still need ot host it between my house and a cloud and it needs to be highly available.
I’ll keep paying for that one.
Same here for pretty much the same reasons
How about a basic ass keepass file that you put on your Nextcloud? I’ve been using that for years and I’m happy with that
Works for me, would NOT work for the wife and kids.
I’ve barely got them convinced to use a low friction password manager. Even the loss of autocomplete on phone would be enough they’d start using browser based secrets.
Fair enough! I gave up moving other people to password managers :(
Stage 4: code your own social network and run it on the ThinkPad under the stairs with a DB server in a wardrobe… Fight scrapers and spammers incessantly.
4th is writing your own self hosted tools
Level 4 would be using some sort of off-grid decentralized networking instead of the internet?
I’m from Iran and I’m up for this!
