Thank you for the correction!

Every once in a while security researchers would discover sophisticated exploits that would allow malwares to take over your computer via multimedia files, but those are actually rarely exploited in the wild by run off the mill malwares.

Unless you’re an important person being targeted by hackers and three letter agencies, your biggest source of threat is running infected programs from untrusted sources, e.g. cracks downloaded from random torrents or warez sites, shady sites serving ads that trick you to run some executables, etc.

Iirc they already validate licence online long before going subscription only.

For comparison, I run a thinkstation p300 with i7-4790 (TDP 84W) 24/7 and the power usage looks like this:

Even when idling this old processor still guzzles 45W. Certainly not as nice as GP’s that only use 10W during idle.

Power scaling for these old CPU is not great though. Mine is slightly newer and on idle it still uses 50% of the TDP.

Xeon E5-2670, with 115W TDP, which means 2x115=230W for the processor alone. with 8 ram modules @ ~3W each, it’ll going to guzzle ~250W when under some loads, while screaming like a jet engine. Assuming $0.12/kwh, that’s $262.8 per year for electricity alone.

Would be great if you have an isolated server room to contain the noise and cheap electricity, but more modern workstation should use at least 1/4 of electricity or even less.

Google Reader was the best. Not sure why Google killed it, but it was really good at both content discovery and keeping up with sites you’re interested in. I tried several alternatives but nothing came close, so I gave up and hung out more on forums / link aggregators like slashdot, hacker news, reddit and now lemmy for content discovery. I’m also interested to hear what others use.

Sunshine: https://github.com/LizardByte/Sunshine

Moonlight: https://moonlight-stream.org/

It’s mostly used for gaming, but it’s more like a souped up vnc with hardware acceleration support and low latency. I mostly use it to access my desktop remotely instead of for gaming. You can tune it between low latency or high quality depending on your use case.

If you have a smart tv or chromecast ultra, you can install moonlight directly in your tv. If you’re still using a computer for the tv, at the very least using moonlight won’t make your client computer’s fan spins like crazy. You can even replace it with a low power computer like a raspberry pi.

Not if it’s what you want, but I had success with moonlight+sunshine. Latency is unnoticeable and picture quality is great as long as the connection between the client and server is good

Never thought that home assistant os would actually use docker under the hood. I thought it’s running home assistant directly with supervisor method.

Could be cdn issue. Try updating your router setting to use cloudflare dns or google dns. Some people fixed similar issue by using those dns servers.

Is this the tutorial you followed? https://www.home-assistant.io/installation/generic-x86-64

On which step did you encounter the error? The step where the home assistant os already written to the target disk and you’re told to restart the system with usb stick unplugged?

http error 500 when downloading the container image might be a temporary error on github docker repo side. Try restarting the device and see if the error persist.

From the posted log, it appears to try to download ghcr.io/home-assistant/generic-x86-64-homeassistant:2024.4.4 docker image and failed due to http 500 server error .

Can you post how you were trying to install home assistant? E.g are you using docker compose?

Why not using ghcr.io/home-assistant/home-assistant:2024.4.4?

Benefits of Tor over I2P: C, not Java (ewww)

Benefits of I2P over Tor: Java, not C (ewww)

Yes, but autossh will automatically try to reestablish connection when its down, which is perfect for servers behind cgnat that you can’t physically access. Basically setup and forget kind of app.

If this server is running Linux, you can use autossh to forward some ports in another server. In this example, they only use it to forward ssh port, but it can be used to forward any port you want: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2022/ssh-and-http-raspberry-pi-behind-cg-nat

By “remotely accessible”, do you mean remotely accessible to everyone or just you? If it’s just you, then you don’t need to setup a reverse proxy. You can use your router as a vpn gateway (assuming you have a static ip address) or you can use tailscale or zerotier.

If you want to make your services remotely accessible to everyone without using a vpn, then you’ll need to expose them to the world somehow. How to do that depends on whether you have a static ip address, or behind a CGNAT. If you have a static ip, you can route port 80 and 443 to your load balancer (e.g. nginx proxy manager), which works best if you have your own domain name so you can map each service to their own subdomain in the load balancer. If you’re behind a GCNAT, you’re going to need an external server/vps to route traffics to its port 80 and 443 into your home network, essentially granting you a static ip address.

My favorite is streaming apps geoblocking contents and blocking access from all known vpn networks, then wondering why piracy on the rise again.