Not sure if it belongs here, but recently had some fun setting up my own WoW Wrath of the Lich King based server with bots on it. Played around with it a bit and it works surprisingly well. Some friends also wanted to join for some nostalgia 😄

Other than that dusted off HOTAS to get some time flying around in X4 to test the new patch they released which brought some big changes to the flight model.

Well besides the excellent options already mentioned by others, there is also Finamp, a Jellyfin music player.

Others have also mentioned Symfonium which can play audio from a Jellyfin server as well, not only from a subsonic one like Navidrome.

Hmm theoretically, you could spin up a second Immich and mount the folders in there as external libraries with write permissions 🤔

This is just an idea which came to mind reading your post. But I would assume that messes with the metadata stored in your primary Immich instance or rather its DB. So probably not the best idea in hindsight. Also even easier approach to achieve this would be using a simple imager viewer tool directly on the filesystem 😅

Sorry didn’t find the time until now to reply. Also in the process of migrating everything to my Kubernetes cluster, so this is not as up to date in regards to image versions as it should be.

This is my current setup, with only qBittorrent and SABnzbd going through the Gluetun VPN container. Everything else just uses my regular home internet:

---
[Unit]
Description=Flaresolverr Container

[Container]
ContainerName=flaresolverr
HostName=flaresolverr
EnvironmentFile=global.env
Image=ghcr.io/flaresolverr/flaresolverr:v3.4.6
AutoUpdate=registry
PublishPort=8091:8191
Network=arr-stack.network

[Service]
Restart=always

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target
---
[Unit]
Description=qBittorrent Container
Wants=gluetun.service
After=gluetun.service

[Container]
ContainerName=qbittorrent
HostName=qbittorrent
EnvironmentFile=global.env
Environment=WEBUI_PORT=8080
Image=lscr.io/linuxserver/qbittorrent:5.1.4
AutoUpdate=registry
UserNS=keep-id:uid=1000,gid=1000
Network=container:gluetun

Volume=%h/container_volumes/qbittorrent/conf:/config:Z,U
Volume=%h/Downloads/completed:/downloads:z,U
Volume=%h/Downloads/incomplete:/incomplete:z,U
Volume=%h/Downloads/torrents:/torrents:z,U

Memory=1.5g

[Service]
Restart=always

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target
---
[Unit]
Description=Recyclarr TRaSH Guide Sync Container
Wants=radarr.service sonarr.service
After=radarr.service sonarr.service

[Container]
ContainerName=recyclarr
HostName=recyclarr
EnvironmentFile=global.env
Image=ghcr.io/recyclarr/recyclarr:8
AutoUpdate=registry
UserNS=keep-id:uid=1000,gid=1000
Network=arr-stack.network

Secret=sonarr_api_key,type=env,target=SONARR_API_KEY
Secret=radarr_api_key,type=env,target=RADARR_API_KEY

Volume=%h/container_volumes/recyclarr/conf:/config:Z,U

[Service]
Restart=always

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target
---
[Unit]
Description=SABnzbd Container
Wants=gluetun.service
After=gluetun.service

[Container]
ContainerName=sabnzbd
HostName=sabnzbd
Image=lscr.io/linuxserver/sabnzbd:4.5.5
AutoUpdate=registry
UserNS=keep-id:uid=1000,gid=1000
Network=container:gluetun
EnvironmentFile=global.env

Volume=%h/container_volumes/sabnzbd/conf:/config:Z,U
Volume=%h/Downloads/sabnzbd/completed:/downloads:z,U
Volume=%h/Downloads/sabnzbd/incomplete:/incomplete-downloads:z,U

Memory=1.5g

[Service]
Restart=always

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target
---
[Unit]
Description=Sonarr Container
After=gluetun.service prowlarr.service
Wants=gluetun.service prowlarr.service

[Container]
ContainerName=sonarr
HostName=sonarr
EnvironmentFile=global.env
Image=lscr.io/linuxserver/sonarr:4.0.17
AutoUpdate=registry
UserNS=keep-id:uid=1000,gid=1000
PublishPort=8089:8989
Network=arr-stack.network

HealthCmd=["curl","--fail","http://127.0.0.1:8989/sonarr/ping"]
HealthInterval=30s
HealthRetries=10

SecurityLabelDisable=true
Volume=%h/container_volumes/sonarr/conf:/config:Z,U
Volume=/mnt/eldanas/tv:/tv
Volume=%h/Downloads/completed/sonarr:/downloads:z,U
Volume=%h/Downloads/sabnzbd/completed/tv:/downloads-usenet:z,U

[Service]
Restart=always

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target
---
[Unit]
Description=Prowlarr Container
Wants=gluetun.service flaresolverr.service
After=gluetun.service flaresolverr.service

[Container]
ContainerName=prowlarr
HostName=prowlarr
EnvironmentFile=global.env
Image=lscr.io/linuxserver/prowlarr:2.3.5
AutoUpdate=registry
UserNS=keep-id:uid=1000,gid=1000
PublishPort=8096:9696
Network=arr-stack.network

HealthCmd=["curl","--fail","http://127.0.0.1:9696/prowlarr/ping"]
HealthInterval=30s
HealthRetries=10

Volume=%h/container_volumes/prowlarr/conf:/config:Z,U

[Service]
Restart=always

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target
---
[Unit]
Description=Radarr Container
After=gluetun.service prowlarr.service
Wants=gluetun.service prowlarr.service

[Container]
ContainerName=radarr
HostName=radarr
EnvironmentFile=global.env
Image=lscr.io/linuxserver/radarr:6.1.1
AutoUpdate=registry
UserNS=keep-id:uid=1000,gid=1000
PublishPort=8078:7878
Network=arr-stack.network

HealthCmd=["curl","--fail","http://127.0.0.1:7878/radarr/ping"]
HealthInterval=30s
HealthRetries=10

SecurityLabelDisable=true
Volume=%h/container_volumes/radarr/conf:/config:Z,U
Volume=/mnt/eldanas/movies:/movies
Volume=%h/Downloads/completed/radarr:/downloads:z,U
Volume=%h/Downloads/sabnzbd/completed/movies:/downloads-usenet:z,U

[Service]
Restart=always

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target
---
[Unit]
Description=Gluetun Container

[Container]
ContainerName=gluetun
HostName=gluetun
EnvironmentFile=global.env
EnvironmentFile=gluetun.env
Environment=FIREWALL_INPUT_PORTS=8080
Image=docker.io/qmcgaw/gluetun:v3.41.1
AutoUpdate=registry
PodmanArgs=--privileged
AddCapability=NET_ADMIN
AddDevice=/dev/net/tun:/dev/net/tun
PublishPort=8080:8080
# SABnzbd Port Mapping
PublishPort=8085:8085
# Gluetun Port Mapping
PublishPort=8123:8000
Network=arr-stack.network

Volume=%h/container_volumes/gluetun/conf:/gluetun:Z,U

Secret=proton_wireguard_private_key,type=env,target=WIREGUARD_PRIVATE_KEY

[Service]
Restart=always

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target
---
[Unit]
Description=Seerr Container
After=gluetun.service
Wants=gluetun.service

[Container]
ContainerName=seerr
HostName=seerr
EnvironmentFile=global.env
Image=ghcr.io/seerr-team/seerr:v3.2.0
UserNS=keep-id:uid=1000,gid=1000
AutoUpdate=registry
PublishPort=8055:5055
Network=arr-stack.network

Volume=%h/container_volumes/seerr/conf:/app/config:Z,U

[Service]
Restart=always

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target

The global.env file only contains env variables like TZ or the PUID and PGID which are used in almost all my containers.

You can configure CoreDNS for what you are trying to do, there is usually a ConfigMap containing the CoreDNS config in the kube-system namespace. We did that as a quick hack on one of our clusters at work, but I wouldn’t recommend it tbh. Instead I would do what others already suggested and deploy a Pi-Hole or AdGuard Home, or even a second CoreDNS for this purpose.

I liked my Pi 3B+ for tinkering around and run some services like vaultwarden or a VPN node with PiVPN (first OpenVPN, later Wireguard). They are great for stuff like that and don’t use much power. Not sure it makes sense to add them as nodes though as 2GB is stretching it, although Talos OS has a minimal requirement for worker nodes of 1GB, so I might still try 😄

As you can see I plan to use Talos as well, it sounds really promising what I read about it. For a CNI I plan to use Cilium and for distributed storage I might try Longhorn and see how it works. Apart from that I am still on the fence if I should run my nodes bare model or put a virt layer in between with Proxmox.

Not planning to run nodes as LXC at all. Just using them in my current setup for running services like Wireguard or Jellyfin.

At most I would create VMs for nodes, but still on the fence if I should just go bare metal or proxmox with virtualized nodes (VM).

Like the original Zimaboard? How do you like it? Reading online in forums or reddit, the feedback is really mixed.

I was looking at the Zimaboard 2, but the board alone is like 300€+ and then buying DDR5 with current prices…

I assume you are using pi 4 and/or 5? I would have some 3b+ laying around which don’t see any use nowadays. But can’t quite imagine to build a cluster only made up of these, I think they are too underpowered, unless being used as like a small additional worker node.

And buying new Pi 5 with 16GB of memory would set me back at least 200€ a unit, not including power supply or any case.

Oh wow okay, if I’d go down that route I would definitely do multiple VMs on that host. In my opinion, the whole clustering and self healing / HA aspect of Kubernetes is why I want to switch to it. I can do gitops with Podman/Docker as well, in fact I already do that including a renovate pipeline on my sel-hosted Forgejo instance. But having the redundancy of several nodes, if one goes down the service will still work or at least will be re-deployed within a couple of seconds, provided there is distributed storage (longhorn, ceph or even nfs cis) if its a stateful app.

Thanks for the link! I think I saw this project mentioned in some other post as well, but honestly didn’t look further into it then.

Oh wow 30 bucks a unit for 16 GB, that’s just insanely lucky to find a deal like that.

Looking around in my region, there is from time to time the odd deal where you could get for example a HP EliteDesk 800 G4 Mini with 16 gigs for like below 200€ if you’re lucky and with the right timing. But usually they will net you 260€ upwards.

Fair point. If I don’t want to just run a single node cluster, I will need at least 2-3 nodes aka VMs. Looking at like 2-4GB (as a bare minimum imho) memory for each, I would already eat into like half of my current 16GB of available memory. And this mini server is already running a lot of my critical apps, using more than half of the memory.

Well there is wg-easy which comes with a very decent GUI imho

Just tried it on my phone, can’t wait to try it on the computer as soon as I am in front of one!

Instead of touch controls, would using the gyro of the phone be a possibility?

Blorp for me

I run most of my services in containers with Podman Quadlets. One of them is Forgejo on which I have repos for all my quadlet (systemd) files and use renovate to update the image tags. Renovate creates PRs and can also show you release notes for the image it wants you to update to.

I currently check the PRs manually as well as pulling the latest git commits on my server. But this could also be further automated to one’s liking.

I agree, although reading the book there were many moments I thought, how can a schoolteacher know that stuff. And yeah, Andy Weir tried to make it more believable by giving the character a background in academia and a doctor in molecular science. But it still felt strange at certain points in the story, especially in the flashbacks.

Which (learning the language) was also quite unrealistically depicted in the book imho, at least how fast he learned an alien language. But that might just be me.

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I don’t know about Home Assistant, but I am using Glance. I love the aesthetic and that you can configure it with descriptive yaml files.

But I think this is also a question you need to ask yourself: Do you want to “click together” a dashboard aka one with a nice GUI where you can configute everything (e.g. Homarr). Or rather one with config files like Glance and a bit simpler in its feature set.