Practical Homelab

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  • Xpenology NVR – DVA3219 + GTX 1060 Works

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    I continued with my Xpenology Experiments when I remember that there was an NVR that’s using an older version of Nvidia GPU: DVA3219. It’s officially paired with GTX 1050Ti which is the same generation of the GPU I have in hand. I checked if any of the bootloaders have support with DVA3219 platform, arpl-i18n does…

  • Xpenology NVR Experiments

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    This all started when I was looking if there’s a new way to “trick” DSM’s Surveillance Station to increase camera limit. I stumbled a post to just use an DVA1622 (NVR-specific NAS) and I’ll automatically get 8 licenses without resorting to use an old Surveillance Station apk. When I checked Xpenology forum, I saw there’s…

  • Installing an on-line UPS and a homelab clean-up

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    This is the current state of my homelab. Whenever I go at my server room and attempt to arrange things, I get paralyzed how. Primary blocking reason is how I should handle supplying power. Currently I have 2 separate line-interactive UPS. One for critical internet-related devices, the other for optional servers. My original plan was…

  • Getting own ASN and IP

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    I’ve been curious on getting my own ASN and IP address. The process is to register and buy in your region’s internet registry. In my case, it’s APNIC. APNIC is more strict than other registries in terms of registration and fees. At the very minimum, I need 500 AUD registration fee and 1180 annual fee…

  • mergerfs and SnapRAID

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    Another setup to try. I have a bunch of various size disk that I do not know what’s the best setup for. mergerfs combines different disk with different filesystem and show it as a single mount. Files are still flat. Disks can still be mounted individually. SnapRAID can be used to setup a parity drive…

  • GlusterFS – Distributed Volumes With Different Size Hard Drives

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    I have multiple, different size hard drives. It’s hard to plan how to utilize it with data safety in mind. Usually, hard drives need to be the same specification to use as RAID. I’ve been seeing GlusterFS and I was curious if it fits my use-case. My understanding is it’s a distributed file system that…

  • Attempted to make XFX RX 460 work on a macOS KVM

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    For the past couple of days (when I’m procrastinating), I’ve been attempting to make an XFX RX 460 to to work as a GPU Passthrough on a macOS KVM. Ready-made macOS VM Flashing a different bios Where to get bios rom files https://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/ How to know which BIOS are compatible Run GPU-Z. Take note of…

  • Philippine-based VPS

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    When I learned the term about multihoming, I revisited my interest again to have a VPS to setup as a VPN for my network. I wanted it to be hosted in the Philippines because of latency. Major hosting providers uses Singapore or Hong Kong to cater the PH market. But the latency is just too…

  • Audiobookshelf

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    Wow. This app mindblowingingly easy to install and use. This is for managing and consuming audiobooks. I actually gave up trying to manage my own audiobooks and subscribed to Audible instead. The issue is I only have phases on when I listen to audiobooks. It only recently started when I started driving everyday again to…

  • FreshRSS

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    Bigla kong na-miss yung Google Reader. I used to subscribe to blogs. Madami pa ring blogs ngayon but it’s hard to keep track unless may aggregator. I started looking for self-hosted solution na may similar user experience with Google Reader. Yung naka-open na yung articles but scroll to read lang. FreshRSS fits the bill. I’ve…