Self-Hosted 102: NixOS is a bit Flakey
01:03:03
Proprietary Controller Woes
- Chris had a smart light bar with a proprietary controller die.
- He had to search eBay for a replacement and rename devices in Home Assistant.
Renaming Dying Devices
- Rename dying smart home devices with a prefix like "old_" before replacing them.
- This helps avoid conflicts and reconfiguration in Home Assistant.
Home Assistant Entity Management
- Use the Integrations page in Home Assistant to manage entities.
- Create a spreadsheet-like editor for bulk renaming and formatting.
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Introduction
00:00 • 3min
How to Integrate Devices and Entities in a Home Assistant
02:46 • 2min
How to Rename Entities in Home Assistant
04:37 • 4min
How to Be a Successful Developer Advocate
08:51 • 2min
The Future of Tail Scales
10:37 • 2min
How to Use Fresh RSS to Update Your Blog
12:53 • 2min
How to Deploy a Fresh RSS Image on Your Linux Server
15:06 • 2min
How to Use Docker Compose to Capture and Archive Content
17:05 • 3min
The Power of Linno Now Akama
20:18 • 2min
How to Use DUF Duff to Find Out Your File System Usage
21:55 • 2min
Nix OS Configuration: A Breakthrough for Developers
24:07 • 3min
How to Use VS Code to Edit Your Nix Config
26:48 • 4min
How to Use Nix OS to Manage Your Linux Environment
30:27 • 5min
The Barrier to Learning to Speak Flakinese
35:01 • 3min
How to Use Tail Scale to Share Resources
38:11 • 2min
How to Restart an Apple TV App
40:14 • 4min
The Importance of Using a Non Perfect Solution
43:59 • 2min
How to Setup a Self-Hosted Email Server
46:25 • 2min
How to Find the Right Storage Server for Your Business
48:32 • 3min
The Importance of Sensors in the NICU
51:52 • 2min
The Importance of Containers Over VMs
54:02 • 2min
How to Backup Your Home Lab
55:40 • 2min
Unified Cloud Key Generation 2
58:04 • 3min
How to Take Snapshots Before Major Software Upgrades
01:00:35 • 2min
Alex shares a suite of self-hosted apps that replace Reddit. Chris is struggling with Jellyfin, and we discuss where NixOS is killing it and where we think it falls down.
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Links:
- ⚡ Alby: Your Boost companion for the web — Create an Alby Account to get a lightning wallet for payments wherever you go.
- ⚡ Self-Hosted on the Podcastindex.org — Send a Boost into the show via the web. First, top-up Alby, then head over to our entry on the Podcast Index.
- wallabag — wallabag is a web application allowing you to save web pages for later reading. Click, save and read it when you want. It extracts content so that you won't be distracted by pop-ups and cie.
- wallabag/docker: Official docker-composer for wallabag.
- FreshRSS, a free, self-hostable feeds aggregator — FreshRSS is a self-hosted RSS and Atom feed aggregator.
- linuxserver/freshrss - Docker Image | Docker Hub
- Selfhosted show wiki: The official Wiki of the selfhosted.show Podcast. — This repository contains the backend for the Self-Hosted podcast wiki.
- dust: A more intuitive version of du in rust — du + rust = dust. Like du but more intuitive.
- duf: Disk Usage/Free Utility - a better 'df' alternative — Disk Usage/Free Utility (Linux, BSD, macOS & Windows)
- dua-cli: View disk space usage and delete unwanted data, fast. — dua (-> Disk Usage Analyzer) is a tool to conveniently learn about the usage of disk space of a given directory. It's parallel by default and will max out your SSD, providing relevant information as fast as possible. Optionally delete superfluous data, and do so more quickly than rm.
- Nixhub.io | A Nix Packages Registry — Search over 400,000 granular versions of nix packages
- The NixOS Foundation's Call to Action: S3 Costs Require Community Support — TL;DR - Kicking off an effort to secure long-term funding for our S3 costs and exploring alternatives. This comes after multiple years where Logicblox has been graciously sponsoring the S3 costs for Nix! An enormous thank you to them.
- Alex's configuration.nix
- Postmoogle · GitLab — An Email to Matrix bridge. 1 room = 1 mailbox.
- The Everything App — Imagine an app where you can do everything.
- Self-hosting - any tech docs — This article will help you to self-host Any-Sync on your own infrastructure for personal use and configure Anytype clients to work with your nodes.
- Outline – Team knowledge base & wiki — Lost in a mess of Docs? Never quite sure who has access? Colleagues requesting the same information repeatedly in chat? It’s time to get your team’s knowledge organized.
- Taiga — For cross-functional agile teams to work effectively
- planka: The realtime kanban board for workgroups built with React and Redux. — Elegant open source project tracking