Reconstuction and Planning

My home servers need some attention and this is my thought process.

The plex box

I’ve noticed that my plex server has been running low on ram after deciding to deploy radarr and sonarr to help organize things. Between a small handful of docker apps, plex, and a 4GB transcoding ramdisk; things feel a little tight. I had to add some extra swap space to avoid crashing and wind up using almost 4GB of the 5ish GB it has total; I added a 4GB swap on top of the 1gig or so the ubuntu installer added or maybe I did. idk.

Nginx proxying to docker inside nat

A few scripts I put together to do some things on proxmox

A few weeks ago I bought a new phone, the Moto G6. It runs Android 9 and has a 8 core snapdragon cpu, 3gb of ram, 32gb of internal storage. All for like $80 on sale from TracFone.

I’ve got most of my apps installed, could be some I’m missing though. Far better than my old LG phone. :)

It seems to have some sort of oled display and depending on the app, black is really black. It’s kinda amazing.

Putting this here for future reference from future me if he thinks to look here. Heeey! It’sa me, your past. :)

Copied the contents of one disk formatted with XFS to another bigger disk with XFS using Rsync.

rsync -arvluht -pog -P /media/Source/ /media/Destination/

Breakdown of the switches;

• -a for archive
• -r for recursive
• -v for verbose
• -l for links
• -u for update
• -h for human-readable
• -t for preserving times
• -p for preserving permissions
• -o to preserve ownership
• -g to preserve group
• -P to show progress

Yesterday I decided to try something different on my lab server. I just got tired of the limits of ESXI with it’s free license. Was gonna put it on another flash drive but after trying and experiencing the excruciatingly slow install of the Citrix Xenserver onto a flash drive only to be left with no webui to manage it, I ended up putting proxmox on the 1.2TB 4 disk RAID-10 array. Felt faster that way and more reliable.

with VirtualBox. :)

Givin up on windows for now

Using redshift to automatically change the monitor’s temperature color

Tech update:

Some time ago, I purchased a bluetooth audio transceiver that mostly went unused till I had the idea to use it for my phone and run ear buds off it since the headphone jack on my phone became iffy, the left audio channel would cut in and out if the plug moved ever so slightly. The device was sold by Anker on Amazon for I dunno, 28 bucks. A tiny thing, fits in the mini right pocket of my jeans. Battery lasts about 8 hours fully charged. Lets out a loud beep beep beep when something is playing from the phone. It’s loud and startling. I kinda wish I knew how to hack firmware but I don’t think the computer even knows it’s connected. Doesn’t show up in any sort of device list. I mean, why would it but still.