Mikelius

The light flickering on stars and planets has to do with the Earth's atmosphere. In a dark sky look straight up and the stars directly above you will blink much less, and as you look at stars closer and closer to the horizon, they start to blink more and more. The worse your overall seeing conditions are for the night, the more intense the blinking can get.

I'd say anyone wanting to go this deep into a home monitoring setup will likely go with what works best for them instead of reading and following the entirety of this guide... I'm one of those people...

Wrote my own log parsing software to put into a database, display and alert through grafana, which is alerting through a homemade webhook that sends a notification to ntfy based on severity... And I also use uptime Kuma like mentioned, but my notifications channel is ntfy. No cloudflare for my internal services, only wireguard to connect home and use everything. And definitely no telegram.

Plenty of other stuff setup, but my security alerts and monitoring rely heavily on the syslog/grafana server which helps me monitor everything.

Not an opinion, I have an actual situation with my eyes where they twitch uncontrollably when presented with bright lights for a long period of time. I have tried minimum screen brightness, lowered contrast/colors, auto brightness based on the environment, various software solutions to removing blue light 24/7 from the screen - none of it worked. Went permanently dark theme on everything, magically eyes haven't twitched in years.

Light theme vs dark theme is not just a preference, it's an actual accessibility need for some of us.

I can make large and complicated games, but my 3d art skills are absolute trash. I envy you for having both skills and being able to get this far in one year. Either you're young with time on your hands, or you're a genius. Or both...

Good job btw!

I converted my gaming machine into a server as well. I actually took the graphics card out as I couldn't find a major use for it, but kept the 12 core Ryzen and upped it to 128gb memory. It now self host way too many things, including a few game servers my friends and I play... But even with all this, CPU carries along nicely and not even at half memory consumption (yet).

But as others have asked, what's your goal? Don't overkill it if you're only hosting one service or something. If you're doing a lot like I do, then up the RAM. And seriously consider whether the GPU is even useful or needed if you're not using a desktop environment.

For a hardware response, my go to camera company is Amcrest, in case you're looking for someone reliable and trustworthy (cameras don't require dedicated apps or internet and work perfectly with a regular PoE to an unmanaged PoE switch)

Cyberpunk worked out of the box for me, but senua 2 absolutely refuses to start no matter what kind of voodoo I try ("fatal error"). I seem to always be on the opposite spectrum of protondb mint users I swear.

I've had this issue many times as well. I've found changing the MTU would help since it seems some filter specific ranges. Doesn't always work but I've had more success than failure doing so

As a Gentoo user, I can confirm I started from sticks and rocks. I'm now in the space age though because of the customizability and performance boosts, so image is a little dated.

Glad I looked at this thread. The fact they're cheap and have what sound like reliable PoE hats... Tempted to replace a few old Pis lol. Maybe. But can at least say no future devices will be Pis at this point.

Note: only using them for simple things. Wireguard VPN (no I don't have a fast internet so I don't need more than the 1gb connection speed), pi hole, and a touch panel I installed that connects to home assistant on the wall.

I was super excited for this game until I heard about the free cam... Really hoping it's something that can be turned off. A core piece of the original horror was hearing something coming but not being able to see it.

This thread has provided genius ideas I somehow never thought of, and I'm totally stealing them for my sites lol.