alt Hacker NewsWhat I run on my $10 USD OpenStick homelab
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Do you really needs graphs to know what's going on in your machine? I run a far more powerful home server on a what was once a gaming PC and just use top if I want to check the CPU load...
Fusion is quite interesting. I forked miniflux into https://github.com/rcarmo/picoflux because I wanted something lighter, but I like Fusion's screenshots better than the mini/picoflux web UI, so I will be looking at that ASAP.
Sorry if my question sound naive but would it make sense to connect the dongle to internet over wifi instead of 4G?
Reading the doc I had the impression that the wifi chip only serves as a hotspot, but what if I want to connect the dongle to my home wifi and use it as a home server, does it make any sense?
Anyone know where you can buy the hardware of this OpenStick like they did in the post?
Does anyone know of a 4G/5G LTE stick that has a decent Linux installation/user experience?
And how do you find decently priced simcards that work in larger regions?
My N=1 experience is bad, so far.
Cool!
I guess you backup the configs to GitHub (or w/e) incase it stops working so you don’t have to start from scratch?
On my $10 USD OpenStick I run an automatic ATM machine.
> I’m running my own fork, which can handle large blocklists in an efficient manner, but you probably shouldn’t run binaries provided by random strangers
Give us the source code then lad
Really cool setup! This is the first time I’m hearing about ZeroClaw. I’ve been thinking adding something like this in my own homelab. How has it been for you?
When I click the link it says $20 not $10
The NSA being able to see what you can do, is not an acceptable trade off.
Another decent “the device was not originally intended for this” discount you can find for HomeLab devices is ChromeBox.
It's really cool and I do have a Pi in "homeprod" since the Debian 9 days (!): my trusty unbound DNS resolver.
For anyone who wants a way more beefy homelab but still at a bargain price, I think it's hard to beat used Xeon workstations. Buy one with a 4-cores Xeon and then replace it with a 20-cores / 40 threads.
It'll run a ZFS tank and shitloads of VMs without any issue: it's made for that.
I didn't pay it $10, more like $200.
I only turn my Xeon server on when I need it (hence the 24/7 Pi running unbound: that one is up all the time and consumes nothing).
it's the right direction. my home lab started with my own mail server, git, file sync and few other things years ago served by a 2gb ram arm sbc.
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I've had a lot of fun with this little gadget and it's pretty cool to see how much you can host on a cheap gadget if you pick the right software! Given how expensive RAM is these days, I figured, this might be a good option for other people to get started with self-hosting as well!
Happy to answer any question and take suggestions as to what other software would be a good addition!