I don’t work in IT at all. My self hosting journey started when I got sick of feeling powerless in the face of big tech companies who are increasingly ripping off customers or violating their right to privacy. There’s also the general mistrust that comes from my data being repeatedly breached or leaked because share holder profits are more important than investing in basic security.

Yeah I would suggest buying another NIC. They’re cheap, its good security, and it opens up another port upstream for other uses.

I use the pcie coral and it works fine with plenty of processing to spare although I believe mine coast e closer to $50. I have 6 amcrest PoE cameras. You should just buy a PoE switch and directly connect all cameras to it. Then link that directly to your frigate box and lock down access. Any amcrest camera should work well with frigate. I believe they all support rtsp protocol.

When I say local I mean automated PVE backups the same as it would be through PBS. If that makes any difference.

I have a remote pbs but the backups aren’t current because there was a connection error. I have Proxmox backups locally to a USB thumbdrive. That’s what I was going to restore from.

So I use Fusion360 for the technical building of components; framing, drywall, cabinets.

I export this to 3dsmax and flesh it out for archviz. Rendering with V-ray.

Unfortunately there aren’t any good options for pirating either of these softwares.

3dsmax and vray also have very steep learning curves.

There are also better alternatives than Fusion360 which include BIM features, but they’re insanely expensive unless you own a profitable architecture firm.

This is the way. Frigate just had a major update and the UI is now amazing.

🕵️

I had a few episodes saved offline in my apple podcast app but it appears you are correct. Surely there’s an archive somewhere?

Are they roughly 55GB compressed?

In most cases it’s just too annoying of a process to get on the list. But I understand why the invidious team prefers to vet instances rather then have something like a beacon system that auto populates all consenting instances.

Some other good instances:

• https://iv.nowhere.moe
• https://yt.dupindustries.com
• https://invidious.reallyaweso.me
• https://inv.tux.pizza

Already has…

Appreciate the thorough reply. Mind sharing which service you used to download your Spotify tracks?

I feel you but I’ve already got curated playlists of over 3,000 songs me and friends have spent a few years putting together. I actually don’t mind the idea of pulling each artists whole disco as lidarr does. My current roadblock is the lack of good resources/tools that automate the process.

I operate an invidious instance. Google has really cracked down the past two weeks on YouTube front ends. Its extremely frustrating.

Invidious devs are finalizing a workaround so hopefully things will be working again in the next week or two.

Is there a way to automate downloads? As mentioned in my original post I’m hoping to essentially mirror a few Spotify playlists and have my server automatically download either all of the songs on the playlist or all of the songs by the artists appearing on the playlists.

Damn. You’re correct. My brain saw instance and ignored the rest.

Looking in the NewPipe settings I found a place to enter instances and there is one already configured. I guess I was proxied the whole time without realizing. Thanks for the clarification btw.

I often wish all services could provide an opt out “I’m aware no 2fa is risky but I really don’t give a damn about this account so fuck off with the constant email verifications”. Or if companies insist on forcing 2fa, at least support hardware keys. Don’t even get me started about banks…