That’s an… interesting name.

My thoughts exactly. Node-RED is long overdue for a UI/UX overhaul, but it’s been around forever and is very well established with a lot of plugins.

I started using it for IoT ingestion, but now I use it for all sorts of things (mostly related to home automation).

That said, im also running n8n now due to the hype, and it is nice… but I dont see any differences that would make me move to it for most of what im automating.

I’ve considered using v6 as I host a lot of services from my homelab and it would be great if each had its own address. The question I have is, is v6 prevalent enough that all the clients out there are ready to go and I can just switch my lab servers to v6 and swap my A records with AAAA records, or will I still need to serve up v4 (and therefore, may as well just stick with the topology, reverse proxies, etc. I’ve already got.)

If you do make a switch to Proxmox, then Proxmox Backup Server is where it’s at for backups. Its de-duplication feature is incredible. I backup all my Proxmox VMs/LXCs with it, as well as my non-Proxmox hosts (laptop, etc.), with proxmox-backup-client.

Personally, I’m using a few of those tiny Beelink PCs (a couple Mini S12 and an EQ12) with the N100 processor, as well as a couple larger rackmount PCs I built for situations where I needed to add an HBA or some other PCI-Ex device. I do recommend something like a Beelink before building, though - they run Proxmox fine, they’re inexpensive, efficient, quiet, and each one can run a handful of VMs.

Hummingbirds. I put a feeder out and I’ve been staring at that thing for days waiting to see a hummingbird.

That’s just Big Cute propaganda. The puppy-kitten industrial complex has brainwashed us all. Have you even considered that tarantulas and anglerfish might be the true standard of cuteness?

Nettle tea is delicious.

Counterfeit

It’s spelled correctly right there in the title.

I tried Grocy for a while, but eventually stopped. Data entry was a huge pain.

Using the iOS companion app to scan grocery items into the app resulted in data issues that prevented me updating the item in the web app later. The only recourse was to add the items by hand in the web app, but then go in to each one separately with the mobile app to register the barcode. This also resulted in losing the additional metadata about the products that the mobile app would automatically configure if you onboarded the items through the mobile app, as it was able to look up additional data online and prerefill a lot of stuff.

At the end of the day, it was too much of a hassle. I do like the idea, and may come back to Grocy again, but for now I have to pass.

Yeah it’s Traefik for me as well! Heavy docker user, of course - it’s nice just tossing some labels into my Portainer stacks and letting Traefik figure it out. If I wasn’t so invested with containers I’d be using nginx.