That, is a pretty good deal. Better start picking up some MD1200s!

Yes.

Anti-DDOS, eh?

You lost me there. There is no self-hosted anti-ddos solution that is going to be effective… Because any decent DDOS attack, can easily completely overwhelm your WAN connection. (And potentially even your ISP’s upstream(s) )#

Not a clue.

Maybe they like the pretty dashboard pihole has.

I use vlans to work with it.

unbound as a DNS filter and resolver

Its… worked as a recursive resolver, with filtering/blacklist features for years now?

high uptime, doesn’t many anything.

SSDs are rated by how much data can be written to them, as flash as finite write-endurance.

nextcloud.

For public projects, I use github build pipelines.

For private, I use ansible.

I don’t think you are helping the case here!

You are just adding another reason as to why I shouldn’t be hosting lemmy from my personal infrastructure.

The root issue here, when your local police department knocks down your door with guns drawn in the US, after you were anonymously reported to the feds-

They aren’t asking questions. If your children don’t get a flashbang to the face during the surprise entry into your home, and your dog doesn’t get shot, you are doing good.

Here in the US, you goto jail first. You get somebody putting fingers up your ass looking for drugs first. You have to post your own bail.

THEN, when you finally get a court date months later, THEN, you can make your case as to why there was CASM content, hosted at your IP.

It is NOT WORTH THE RISK!

Authentik has been fantastic.

Extremely flexible, and customizable. You can tailor the entire workflow.

Also, supports radius, ldap, and a few others. They keep adding new features every month.

Note, apparently, lemmy will get pretty pissy if pictrs isn’t working… and the “primary” lemmy GUI will straight-up stop working.

Although, https://old.lemmyonline.com/ will still work.

And- I am with you. My pictrs storage, has ended up taking up quite a bit of room.

Yup.

I sent a step further, and commented out the pictrs related configuration from the lemmy.hjson too.

Yup.

So far, mostly everything appears to work still. But, trying to upload an image, just throws an error.

SyntaxError: Unexpected token ‘R’, “Request er”… is not valid JSON

I don’t see a way to actually “gracefully” disable it, but, this works.

Edit- don’t just stop pictrs.

Lemmy gets very pissy… and b reaks.

Yup. Nope.

Pictrs is just completely disabled now. Rather be safe, then sorry.

Can confirm, lol

Cloudflare recently added that in the last year or so. Very nice features. In the past, I ended up using amazon SES to replicate that functionality.

Cheaper or not, isn’t a huge factor.

My really expensive sol-ark 12k cannot start my 110v air-compressor.

The issue is, the rated L.R.A. ie, locked rotor amps, how much current it takes to get it started.

My A/C motor, for example, uses around 20 amps @ 240v when running, ie ~5,000w. However, its L.R.A, is 112.0 amps @ 220v, ie- (24,640 watts). Which is more than the peak load my 12k inverter can handle. So- if you tried to start it on the inverter, well, it doesn’t work.

https://static.xtremeownage.com/blog/2023/off-grid-ac/

The same principle applies to anything with a motor.

You have to evaluate the L.R.A. Remember, if you have say, a 5,000watt RMS inverter, which can handle a 10k peak- its not going to be able to start something that has a 14,000 startup draw.

Not a huge deal, you can always transfer it.