Selfhosted

After a lot of trial and error, I managed to get rsgain working with Lidarr on my raspberry pi. I might actually be fully satisfied with my music piracy/streaming setup now (until I find the next silly addition :3 ).

I built a dashboard themed around my dog. It uses the Home Assistant API to get various stats from the house. I'm pleased with it!

[AIT] Well, let's see.....nothing really new on the server. Still waiting for something interesting besides *.arr. I did provision a new tower with the following specs:

• CPU: Ryzen 5 5600X
• GPU: ASUS ROG RX 580
• RAM: Came with 32 GB Corsair Vengeance RGB DDR4 / dropped another 96 GB in it.
• SSD: WD Black NVMe M.2 iirc it’s about a 1tb
• Asus motherboard
• Working on acquiring a GeForce RTX 5090 32GB GDDR7 mounted on a OCuLink external dock (tentative - may change)

This, obviously, will be an local AI machine

[AIT] I know this isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, but I’m excited about Deepseek V4 flash. It’s (for me) the perfect size and architecture to self-host an LLM.

My box (and brain) are chugging through a queue:

• Figure out why my swap is going crazy, and how to ban processes from it [Done].

• Figure out why Code OSS is unhappy [Partially Done].

• Make an ik_llama.cpp iMatrix for Deepseek V4 [Done].

• Figure out why quantization isn’t working [Done].

• Make a test IQ2_KL/MXFP4_R8 quant to see how it does squeezed onto my box [in progress].

• Test. Tune. Inevitably troubleshoot the dozen other things that go wrong. Figure out how much spare RAM that leaves me.

• Make a higher quality IQ3_KT quantization. This will take all night on my CPU.

• KLD test both of them vs the full precision, to quantify quantization loss. Likely an overnight task, too.

• Try merging the new model release with the base model, 50/50, for a less “deep fried” model. imatrix, quant, test.

The goal is to host it on a single RTX 3090, Ryzen 7000 with 128GB RAM, for anyone curious. Though I may try smaller models too, like Laguna S1.

Over the last few weeks I've been making the horrifying leap from PHP5 to PHP8. I knew it was going to be a lot of work to upgrade all my various scripts and web pages but I'm nearing the end, just have some random CLI scripts still failing that I have to work through.

I've been making a big push this year to get all my servers caught up to supported operating system levels. Debian will truly run forever even when it really shouldn't. I was happy to finally get my mail servers modernized last month. The old code I had relied on for managing spam scanning and such had been abandoned but I finally discovered rspamd which replaced everything plus does so much more. The first couple weeks saw an awful lot of server emails being marked as spam while I trained the new system, seems to be settling in nicely now though, and I created some new spam-trap mailboxes and sprinkled the addresses around several web pages. Nice to see their activity picking up again.

Slowly uploading my media collection from a slowly dying TrūNAS box up to B2… slowly 😬

Mealie, recipe manager and Social to Mealie. Scrapes recipes from instagram reels, tiktok, youtube shorts.

Bar Assistant, bar and cocktail management. You can add your ingredients and it shows what can you make, you can share a menu to your friends, its cool

We're on the first Sunday of the month, mdadm raid array be scrubbing... With Debian 13 came a crazy complex systemd scheduling for that, I liked the awkward cron job better. It's now using some kind of random delay before start, and cut in chunks of 6 hours or so over multiple days Edit: typos

Building a new server, pinping up the specs to run more serious llm in parallel with all my services.

Waiting for the CPU (an amd Ryzen 9 5950X) that delayed in delivery, and building wooden crate/case to hold everything together with proper ventilation .

I scored an old HP Microserver Gen10 from work with 4 4tb wd reds. Spent the weekend putting in an extra SSD for the OS and testing the drives. So far so good. Now I just need to figure out what I'm going to do woth it....

Setup an XMPP server for family and friends to use. While I really like it, I can't seem to get Jitsi to play nice for group calls with the Openfire server. Atleast 1 on 1 calls seem to work fine with Dino and Conversations anyway.

What's up? Not Grafana. I did docker compose pull on the stack (without version pinning) then recreated the containers, and now it's fucked. Or maybe it's not because the logs are fine but it only serves the web app but 404s on any connection to the Grafana backend.

Now I need to do some investigation into any recent changes to try to work out what's going wrong.

I thought I'd take a shortcut and use AI to help me setup an arch thing I'm working on. Jokes on me, took two days and in the end the thing was so fucked its irrecoverable. What a waste of a weekend.

I installed cameras in my condo recently, and I need to buy and install a larger HDD for capture storage. I ordered a 6TB WD Purple off Amazon, only to have it arrive used (it was absolutely not marked used or refurbished.) So I returned it, naturally. I think that the safest bet is just to order it directly from one of their vendors.

Also, I need to tinker with my postgres install on my Unraid server a bit. Right now a couple other services I host on Unraid use it, but moving forward I need it available to other devices on the LAN.

Discovered you can self host Joplin and I can't wait to set it up in the next days.

Also I tried some alternatives to ActualBudget, because I didn't need to many functionalities. Long story short, I went back to it cause none offers a neat interface and multiple accounts at the same time.