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    You might just live on the edge of their range or something! Here in the SE US they are abundant

    I can head out to a nature trail, look off into the woods on one side, and spot 2-4 of these beauties suspended in webs from the same spot.

    Only ever had one in my yard, unfortunately she chose to build a web right above the porch door and gave us quite a fright

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    Thank you, and good suggestion! I installed grafana once last time and failed to get anything useful as I didn't invest enough time. Notifications sound great so I may look into the same combo you mentioned and see if I can wrangle it this time. Did you follow any particular guide when you started out with that? Otherwise I'll just dive into the google

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    Thanks! My last setup was quite similar to you, just with ESXi - definitely wanted to cut out as many problem points as possible this time.

    Personal finance has come up twice now, I hadn't thought of it but will go check out the services now, I bet I could find a use as well.

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    Thanks! Too much spare time on the weekend, haha

    Good point, mine might be the same. I was linking things up from memory since it's been >1year since I last had the server interface up, and I can't remember how the modem was represented now that you mention it - I'll have to fix that up

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    Thanks for the ideas! I hadn't thought about budget apps but that could be a good one.

    Not sure if I have use cases for n8n or not, but I'll go learn about it and find out!

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    Thanks for the hint, it's a good point. I need to check that my TV app store has it, I could see that being the catch.

    That being said, I have been learning that my TV's software is complete garbage and I may just go back to Android casting for TV control in general...

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    I enjoy making diagrams, and I spent as much time on this as I did because my internet has been out for 2 days and counting and it was an offline tool I already had. Nevertheless, thanks for the link to a new tool to look at

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    Fast data is priority 1, and learning how to host and administrate is priority 2, so I wouldn't consider it - but it's a fair question!

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  • Hi all, new to Lemmy but this seems to be the best community for this that is decently active. Apologies if not! I got into home servers in my first house a couple years ago, but our stay in that house was unexpectedly brief and everything got put back into boxes. It's time to setup at the new place, and I have many improvements in mind from the first implementation - so while I wait for server parts to arrive, I decided to update the diagram for planning. In no order, here's a list of lessons I learned from V1: - The blade form factor doesn't work for me. I enjoyed getting one and learning about them, but my use cases are small (&quiet) enough that a tower and a small network rack works better. - In the quest for automatic home lighting, I shouldn't have gone all-in on smart bulbs rather than switches. There get to be too many in the house, and when a couple start inevitably failing, expensive bulbs and misplaced warranty info are a gigantic pain. So now the bulbs are just for special things like ceiling fans and floor lamps. - I need to put more attention on storage. That's what gets used the most, by multiple users, so I will use TrueNAS Scale as my host instead of ESXi. I was not enough of a power user for that to be important to me. The rest of it is mostly for play and doesn't need to be perfect. - My media streaming needs are very simple, so I think I may like Jellyfin better than Plex. - I need to be 'a little' more lax about security. I don't think my server is realistically likely to be heavily attacked, and when I tried to go all out on best practices, more often than not I just broke things and upset my family users. My server will not have an outside access except via VPN, and my IOT devices will not speak unless spoken to - I think that will be enough. In particular, I tried so hard last time to have a tagged management VLAN in UniFi and always just broke connectivity between something that required a hard reset. I'm planning to skip that this time but if someone has a pointer to a good setup guide, I could try that again. Thanks for reading/looking, all comments or suggestions are welcome! I also still need to find more applications I can selfhost so I will be keeping an eye on the community for ideas.

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    Guess I'm a foster mom now.

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    Hello birders! I don't have a cool bird pic for you today, but I'm wondering if anyone has some recommendations for good birding festivals you know about? My wife and I are relatively new birders and have greatly enjoyed a couple festivals that we tried out, so I'd love to add the list of ones we should try to make it to. Would love to hear any mildly related stories as well!

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