#footiMac

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

@chris.mstdn.chrisalemany.ca.ap.brid.gy

1 week ago

A graph showing metrics of how long it took worker processes to process traffic. It is 24hrs. Before around noon there was normal, light activity. Around noon there was a period with no activity while the server was done, then a large spike and more activity than normal for a couple hours before settling down again.

Just looking at the sidekiq stats to see how things cleared out. All in all, Not bad for a 2008 iMac.

#footiMac #Mastodon #Debian #Trixie #MastoAdmin #selfhost

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

@chris.mstdn.chrisalemany.ca.ap.brid.gy

1 week ago

success! Upgraded #footiMac to Debian 13/Trixie and brought Mastodon along for the ride.

Had a few hiccups...
1) I upgraded elasticsearch and ended up having to clear out its cache files as it didn't want to 'upgrade' them itself.

2) postgresql 15 and 16 are still running in the background and […]

Chris Alemany

@socialbc.ca

1 week ago

The specific error is:

LoadError: libicudata.so.72: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory - /home/mastodon/live/vendor/bundle/ruby/3.4.0/gems/charlock_holmes-0.7.9/lib/charlock_holmes/charlock_holmes.so (LoadError)

#selfhost #footiMac #mastoadmin

Chris Alemany

@socialbc.ca

1 week ago

My #selfhost #footiMac is falling victim to the issue flagged in recent releases of mastodon now that I have updated it to Debian 13/trixie.

"IThe charlock_holmes gem may fail to build on some systems with recent versions of gcc.
If you run into this issue, try […]

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

@chris.mstdn.chrisalemany.ca.ap.brid.gy

2 weeks ago

Back up. running v4.5.7
#Mastodon #Fediverse #Upgrade #selfhost #footiMac

Chris Alemany

@socialbc.ca

2 weeks ago

Just a heads up, @chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca is offline while updating to 4.5.7

#selfhost #footiMac

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

@chris.mstdn.chrisalemany.ca.ap.brid.gy

3 weeks ago

Showing a config screen software the USB Modem E Media Server Network Place (Samba) Share FTP Share Network Printer Server USB Modem Switch to USB mode to use a 3G/4G USB wireless dongle, iPhone or Android phone as a USB modem. Basic Config Enable USB Mode OFF Special Requirement from ISP Extend the TTL value O Yes ONo Spoof LAN TTL value O Yes ONo Apply

One of the coolest features of this little guy... USB modem support! If I could get a cheap data-only plan (in Canada?! AHAHHAHAHAH) then I could use it as a little failsafe WAN connection! #footiMac #selfhost #homelab #networking

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

@chris.mstdn.chrisalemany.ca.ap.brid.gy

3 weeks ago

A speediest result from the router shows 916 down and 906 up

testing out the connection speed. Looks good max for my Telus Fibre connection.

I toyed with the idea of getting one with a 2.5Gb class WAN port as I believe Telus is offering >1Gb connections now... but I resisted. This was only $80 and is far more […]

[Original post on mstdn.chrisalemany.ca]

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

@chris.mstdn.chrisalemany.ca.ap.brid.gy

3 weeks ago

verdict: I should have got this router 2 years ago.... as the apple nerds (me) say: the DNS loopback/hairpin "just worked"!

so much fun to be had with this little beasty! tons of config options.

success!
#footiMac #selfhost #homelab #networking

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

@chris.mstdn.chrisalemany.ca.ap.brid.gy

3 weeks ago

A picture of the network router decided it's box. Both are white. The router is quite small maybe 6 inches wide and 4 inches deep.

A picture inside of the wiring closet shows a number of shelves all trailing various bits of ethernet cable. On the second top shelf is a 24% switch that is full and I'm very top is the telus router.

alrighty folks! time to install the new network box!

Will see if I can fully replace the Telus router (white roundish tower thing on the top shelf) with the asus router.

there will definitely be interruptions in internet to this mstdn account, as well […]

[Original post on mstdn.chrisalemany.ca]

Chris Alemany

@socialbc.ca

3 weeks ago

A small ASUS ebg15 network hub sits atop my knees. In the background is curling

Tonight’s fun has arrived. Have curling to watch and other chores to do before but it’s a good day :)
#asus #networking #homelab #selfhost #footiMac

Chris Alemany

@socialbc.ca

3 weeks ago

My new router is arriving today.
Anxious for it to arrive so I can take DNS off #footiMac or at least not need to hack local devices to be able to use @chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca reliably at home.

Chris Alemany

@socialbc.ca

1 month ago

Just bought one of these small Asus Ethernet routers to stand in for our Telus router (which will either will disappear, or go into Bridge mode). This should solve my NAT problems permanently.

Anyone have thoughts? Experience with them, or the brand? I’ve used standalone routers in the past… […]

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

@chris.mstdn.chrisalemany.ca.ap.brid.gy

1 month ago

Still can't connect to this account from home everywhere.

I'm pretty sure this is a client-side DNS problem. I can get to my account using Google Chrome on my laptop (which is how I am sending this).

But I can't connect using Safari, or using @ivory on Desktop or iPad/iPhone.

I've cleared DNS […]

Chris Alemany

@socialbc.ca

1 month ago

I'm pretty sure this is a client-side DNS problem. I can get to my account using Google Chrome on my laptop. But I can't connect using Safari, or using @ivory
I've cleared DNS caches in MacOSX, I've deleted all website data from the domain in Safari, I’ve cleared cookies, restarted a million […]

Chris Alemany

@socialbc.ca

1 month ago

Ever since our power outage and ISP IP address changed, I haven’t been able convince devices on my home network to connect to my mstdn.chrisalemany.ca #selfhost #footiMac even though I am giving them the local IP for the DNS address (which is the same as the mstdn server).

Driving me a little […]

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

@chris.mstdn.chrisalemany.ca.ap.brid.gy

1 month ago

Still not working from my laptop due to stupid caching (particularly Safari) but can confirm mstdn.chrisalemany.ca is alive! yay.
#selfhost #footiMac

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

@chris.mstdn.chrisalemany.ca.ap.brid.gy

1 month ago

updated to 4.5.6!
#mastodon #upgrade #selfhost #footiMac

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

@chris.mstdn.chrisalemany.ca.ap.brid.gy

2 months ago

Now running v4.5.4!
#Mastodon #Fediverse #selfhost #footiMac #update

Chris Alemany

@socialbc.ca

2 months ago

Updating #footiMac for @chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca to 4.5.4. It'll be awhile before it's back online.
#selfhost #mastodon #update

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

@chris.mstdn.chrisalemany.ca.ap.brid.gy

3 months ago

upgrade complete! #selfhost #footiMac #Debian #mastodon #fediverse #upgrade

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

@chris.mstdn.chrisalemany.ca.ap.brid.gy

3 months ago

updating to Mastodon v4.5.3!
#selfhost #footiMac #Debian #mastodon #fediverse #upgrade

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

@chris.mstdn.chrisalemany.ca.ap.brid.gy

3 months ago

I lost my customizations on my #selfhost #footiMac when I updated to 4.5... :(
FTLOG #Mastodon needs to stop putting these common customizations in code! Just make them an administrative option! (yes there is a looooonng standing issue on github for it, yes I've said my 2c)
Today I'll be raising […]

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

@chris.mstdn.chrisalemany.ca.ap.brid.gy

4 months ago

Aha! Back up and on v4.5.0

#Mastodon #selfhost #footiMac

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

@chris.mstdn.chrisalemany.ca.ap.brid.gy

4 months ago

TIme to start the process of updating to Mastodon v4.5! Now that I've lightened the load on little #footiMac this should be a much quicker process than the past few updates!

Happy Updating!

#MastoAdmin #selfhost

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

@chris.mstdn.chrisalemany.ca.ap.brid.gy

4 months ago

A screenshot of a terminal window showing the result of docker ps which shows 3 docker containers running on three different external ports.

bam! Docker Mission Accomplished!
🫡
All webcam streams have been redirected from a single nginx process on #footiMac (which is also, of course, running this very mastodon #selfhost!) to their own docker containers on another iMac using Docker CLI/Colima […]

[Original post on mstdn.chrisalemany.ca]

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

@chris.mstdn.chrisalemany.ca.ap.brid.gy

4 months ago

AHA! #docker #nginx #mac Success!

After much logging and inspecting and reconfiguring you know what worked? (It's what always works!). Turning it off and on…

It's just a matter of turning the *right* thing off and on.

In this case, it was a matter of rebooting the webcam itself, which I […]

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

@chris.mstdn.chrisalemany.ca.ap.brid.gy

4 months ago

on second thought... i'm going to skip the rc releases and just wait for the official release next week.

#footiMac is just too overburdened to make it worth the time!

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

@chris.mstdn.chrisalemany.ca.ap.brid.gy

4 months ago

Still haven't figured out why I can't convince the nginx-rtmp docker container to relay my web stream. Annoying.

Anyway... in the meantime I've taken some other measures to try to take a load off #FootiMac so that my instance is more responsive (it's very laggy these days) and so I can test out […]

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

@chris.mstdn.chrisalemany.ca.ap.brid.gy

4 months ago

I have still been unsuccessful getting a docker container to run on my iMac (macOS 12) for nginx-rtmp work. :(

Going to give it another go this week. Not really knowing how to troubleshoot it fully is part of the challenge.

It also only exposes the port using 0.0.0.0:1935—>1935/tcp but refuses […]