Cool! Note that the nameservers for your domain don’t have to be from your registrar. I use Hetzner for DNS despite having my domains elsewhere. And I use a similar thing as you, a cronjob that compares my public IP to the DNS records and adjusts them via Hetzner API when necessary.

Sounds good! Are you on SSD or HDD?

If you want to go all in, get some plug that measures the energy! Also let’s you directly see the effects of turning stuff on/off. My last server went up 3W when I started using the second network interface! Let drives go to sleep, play with C-States, etc

Blergh, how did you pinpoint it?

Yeah that would be a bit convoluted :D

The point of the opnsense is that I can tinker with it without risking our home wifi. It needs to stay up for my wife, for our mqtt devices/home assistant etc.

I don’t introduce points of failure to our home network which is the critical part. If something in the opnsense misbehaves, it only impacts my lab stuff. The FritzBox + Pihole combination has proven pretty stable over years, even though I’m considering getting a second Pihole device for high availability.

Ouchy!

I’ve had pihole years before the opnsense, but also opnsense is not the main router but just sits in front of my homelab. The wifi etc is a FritzBox, which also acts as WAN for opnsense.

That way, everything still in the house still works if my homelab/opnsense is down. Pihole is on a pi in the FritzBox LAN.

So I have my vms behind an opnsense with DHCP, the opnsense also creates local DNS records like vm1.opnsense. The pihole has conditional forwarding for .opnsense to the firewall, so I can resolve the domain everywhere in LAN.

I had CNAME records in the pihole for my actual domain (e.g. lemmy.nocturnal.garden) pointing to vm1.opnsense so I take a shortcut from inside the LAN, avoiding going “outside” via the public IP.

Mint/resolved resolves the .opnsense domains when I directly look them up, but for a reason I didn’t fully understand, it does not work with a CNAME entry pointing to that. So I have up on the CNAME approach and created A records for each service, directly pointing to the VM’s IP.

Bookwyrm is exactly that and while it’s still in “beta”, I’ve been running, using and enjoying it for years now. I get almost all of my recommendations from there!

Because each Fediverse software has it’s own things and they aren’t necessarily compatible. Off the top of my head, pixelfed allows more images per post and has stories. You can’t do that on Mastodon, even with a special client.

No. They are cached on the hosts, thats enough for me.

Well, at least it hasn’t been autoclosed I guess 😅

Same! I didn’t even notice how much I despise them until I read that.

This shouldn’t be the case. While books appear to be present on each library (=instance), reviews etc federate between them! They refer to each other.

Same, been looking for something like that

Not much into gaming, but very cool to see. Good luck with that and welcome!

A new post showed up though

Wasn’t able to fetch them in mastodon either (tried https://demo.wanderer.to/trail/view/@demo/d8516829e6f4a6d ).

You can try ofc, but OCR isn’t perfect. Sometimes mistakes an 8 for a 6 or the like. Just keep that in mind, depending on what’s your goal.