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1. Looking to reduce my dependence to iCloud that works well with the Apple ecosystem

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Why it fits: AI / cloud / DevOps + homelab / self-hosting; asks for experience or help; enough detail for a substantive reply (score 92)
Subreddit: r/selfhosted
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Snippet: I’m writing this here because I haven’t found many discussions from people with the same use case. I’m fully invested in the Apple ecosystem (iPhone, iPad, MacBook, Apple TV, AirPods… pretty much everything), but I’m getting tired of paying €10/month for iCloud storage when I’d much rather own my storage and host it myself. I’ve been looking into getting a NAS (most likely a Synology, although I’m open to other optio…

2. Looking to share a funeral recording in a respectful manner

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Subreddit: r/selfhosted
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Snippet: Hi everyone, Recently, my brother passed away. Although invitations for the service were extended to everyone we could think of, due to holidays and his age when he passed there are a lot of people that knew him well but were unable to attend. The service was recorded. Because it shows a few very vulnerable and painful moments of him and the people close to him (he passed at the age of 24) we would prefer to not just…

3. Need some advice on upgrading my homelab

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Why it fits: AI / cloud / DevOps + homelab / self-hosting; asks for experience or help; enough detail for a substantive reply (score 87)
Subreddit: r/homelab
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Snippet: Hello! I work in IT and got into homelabs about 3–4 months ago. I started with an old PC that I picked up for almost nothing: Gigabyte GA-Z97X-UD3H-BK Intel i7-4790 32GB RAM Yeah... it's ancient xd, but it was a great machine to learn on and test some stuff. At first I was only hosting a vanilla Minecraft server on Windows (Sadly) because I didn't know anything about Proxmox, Docker, self-hosting, etc. Then I discove…

4. How to install TrueNAS VM on a Proxmox PC?

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Why it fits: AI / cloud / DevOps + homelab / self-hosting; asks for experience or help; enough detail for a substantive reply (score 85)
Subreddit: r/homelab
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Snippet: Hi all, I just got a spare PC that I want to turn into a NAS, Plex, and Immich server with maybe more down the line. I'm mostly a Windows user with some hackintoshing experience and using Ubuntu's GUI back in the 9.04-12.10 days. Specs: Intel i7-8700 Asus Prime Z370-A 16GB DDR4-3200 128GB SATA SSD 2TB SATA HDD EVGA 750 G2 For now, I'm just setting it up as a proof of concept to make sure it all works as…

5. Hetzner Cloud vs Turkish VPS for a production mobile backend?

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Why it fits: AI / cloud / DevOps + homelab / self-hosting; asks for experience or help; enough detail for a substantive reply (score 82)
Subreddit: r/devops
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Snippet: Hi everyone, I'm building a mobile application primarily for users in Turkey. My stack: - NestJS - PostgreSQL - Redis - Docker - Coolify The app is still in development and I'm planning the production infrastructure. I'm considering two options: Hetzner Cloud (Germany) A VPS/Dedicated server located in Turkey The backend is a standard REST API (no gaming or real-time voice/video). Most requests are authentication, CR…

6. I built a 24/7 system that trains, backtests, and paper-trades models across multiple families. Here are the actual results so far, including the bad ones.

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Why it fits: AI / cloud / DevOps + trading / quant / CTI; asks for experience or help; enough detail for a substantive reply (score 80)
Subreddit: r/algotrading
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Snippet: I’ve been building this solo for the past couple of months. I’m sharing it here because this sub is good at tearing apart backtest-only claims, and I’d rather find out where I’m fooling myself now. The system continuously tests three types of strategies: Classical ML models TimesFM with a trainable head LLM-written, rule-based strategies They compete across SPY and BTC on six timeframes. Every model has to pass the s…

7. I gave every LLM agent in my cluster its own GitHub App identity, and open-sourced the token broker

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Why it fits: AI / cloud / DevOps + homelab / self-hosting; asks for experience or help; enough detail for a substantive reply (score 80)
Subreddit: r/kubernetes
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Snippet: I run a fleet of LLM agents against my GitHub repos: CI failure diagnosis, code review, merge gating, and an operator interaction bot. For a while they all posted as one bot account holding one broad PAT. Aside from the obvious security gap, this came back to bite me in a couple of different ways. First was attribution. Every comment on a PR came from the same identity, so "what process said this?" was an archaeology…

8. What is Tailscale mullvad actually doing

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Subreddit: r/selfhosted
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Snippet: Sorry I’m still new to this world but I’ve gotten quite a lot working. Currently have a proxmoxVE running an lxc with jellyfin, seerr, radarr, etc. in one docker. Im also running other lxc’s like gitea, minecraft. Security is becoming a concern especially with qbit. I’m wondering what is some well practiced ways to protect myself. I see mullvad looks appealing on Tailscale, the beta feature. But is it going to affect…

9. Your strategy does not have an edge. It has an edge in one regime, and your backtest hid it by averaging.

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Subreddit: r/algotrading
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Snippet: Your expectancy is an average across market regimes. If your backtest window was heavy on one regime, your edge is mostly that regime showing up a lot. Split it and you often find one regime carrying the whole average while another loses. That makes your live results a bet on the future regime mix, not on your strategy. Pretty self explanatory already. Keep reading if you want to see the idea developed. What does it …

10. Jellyfin having Fatal Errors after Ugreen NAS update

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Why it fits: AI / cloud / DevOps + homelab / self-hosting; asks for experience or help; enough detail for a substantive reply (score 77)
Subreddit: r/jellyfin
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Snippet: Hello! I'm very new to all this so bear with me 😵 I recently completed my initial setup of my Ugreen NAS and was able to load my movies and shows no problem. Yesterday I had no issue watching the media on multiple platforms while testing things however after the Ugreen update today none of the media is working. I'm not exactly sure where the issue is occurring, from other fact finding it looks like a transcoding iss…

11. Is it too late regain some coherence in the ML research space in our life time? [D]

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Why it fits: AI / cloud / DevOps + homelab / self-hosting; asks for experience or help; enough detail for a substantive reply (score 77)
Subreddit: r/MachineLearning
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Snippet: Was just looking at the list of preprints on Arxiv cs.LG https://arxiv.org/list/cs.LG/recent?skip=0&show=500 Everyday 100 - 400 new machine learning papers gets uploaded on this server. Looking at this unending list of preprints is as if you stepped into a crowded room, like the stock trading floor on wall st. in the 1980s. Everyone is shouting over each other. Nobody is talking to each other. Everyone's trying to pr…

12. What happens when the Management Cluster of a Hosted Control Plane architecture is dead

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Why it fits: AI / cloud / DevOps + homelab / self-hosting; asks for experience or help; enough detail for a substantive reply (score 77)
Subreddit: r/kubernetes
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Snippet: Dario here: I've been active on this sub mostly talking about Kubernetes internals and promoting the open-source projects I maintain about multi-tenancy: Project Capsule and Kamaji. Every time I've given a talk on hosted control planes ( docs if you prefer written text), someone asks the same question: if all your tenant control planes are pods in one management cluster, haven't you just built a single point of failu…

13. 2nd Year Computer Engineering Student Looking for a Cloud Engineering Roadmap

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Why it fits: AI / cloud / DevOps + homelab / self-hosting; asks for experience or help; enough detail for a substantive reply (score 76)
Subreddit: r/cloud
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Snippet: I'm a 2nd-year Computer Engineering student from India, and I want to build my career in Cloud Engineering. My long-term goal is to become a Full Stack Developer with strong Cloud/DevOps skills. So far, I have: Learning DSA in C++ Started Full Stack Web Development Planning to learn Linux, Git, Docker, AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, and Python My questions are: 1.Is this roadmap good for getting Cloud internships? 2.In …

14. What are your homelab nicknames?

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Subreddit: r/homelab
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Snippet: I wanted to know if I’m the only one who gives distinct names to my nodes or machines and the services running in them. For context, my main server is called Legion, a secondary connector laptop is called Citadel, to which an external monitor used for showing dashboards, kanban and other things is called Beacon. My main PC is called Nexus. But the nodes running services have namings based on mythology. The two laptop…

15. Best pathway to an airline career in Australia while working full-time?

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Why it fits: AI / cloud / DevOps + homelab / self-hosting; asks for experience or help; enough detail for a substantive reply (score 75)
Subreddit: r/flying
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Snippet: Hi everyone, I'm 35 and live in Sydney. Becoming an airline pilot has been a long-term goal of mine, and I'm finally in a position where I want to seriously commit to it. The challenge is that I work full-time and can't afford to stop working, so I'm looking at training part-time over the next 3 years before making the jump into flying full-time. My end goal is to fly for an airline such as QantasLink, Virgin Austral…

16. Is DSA Really Required for Entry-Level Cloud Computing Jobs?

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Subreddit: r/cloud
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Snippet: Hi everyone, I'm currently preparing for an entry-level job in Cloud Computing and I'm a bit confused about how much importance I should give to Data Structures and Algorithms (DSA). My goal is to get a role such as: Cloud Support Engineer Associate Cloud Engineer Cloud Operations Engineer Infrastructure Engineer Junior DevOps Engineer I've been focusing on: Linux Networking AWS Bash scripting Python Docker Terraform…

17. Forgot my sudo password, reset it from a privileged container

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Subreddit: r/selfhosted
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Snippet: I self-host some services on a small DockerSwarm Cluster (2 nodes, not exposed to the internet), it includes applications like: immich, nexcloud, gitea, grafana, among other services. Today I wanted to update the OS, but I ran into an unexpeced problem: although I still had SSH access using my public/private keys, I had forgotten my sudo password 😵 I could tried to connect a keyboard and a monitor to the server, an …

18. Does anyone have knowledge of Eero router and AdGuardHome playing nice for DHCP?

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Subreddit: r/selfhosted
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Snippet: Long story short, repurpossed an old intel nuc [nuc5cpyh] for reference for a work environment running two registers with a backend database, and a few others backend databases for things like timeclock and payroll software. Everything works fine. Did all the steps to free port 53 from unbuntu server 26.04 when running via docker, adguardhome plays nicely. All of the static rules applied, etc. My only issue [currentl…

19. Is there any way to make a "Battlemage" (heavy armor wand user) to benefit from parrying?

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Why it fits: AI / cloud / DevOps + homelab / self-hosting; asks for experience or help; enough detail for a substantive reply (score 72)
Subreddit: r/Enshrouded
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Snippet: So, my wife and I love playing together- I'm usually the tank and she's usually the healer. But- when we started playing Enshrouded- she liked the sword & shield gameplay. Now my wife is tanking and she's cocky about it... especially with parrying builds. (I friggin' love it) I'm trying to compensate as a healer/magic user that can provide some healing and crowd control with chain lighting. However, I still like usin…

20. Do I just have to live connected to Tailscale now?

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Subreddit: r/selfhosted
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Snippet: I've got stuff I want to access all the time (like files on SeaDrive and photos on Immich). I don't really like the idea of just being connected to Tailscale all the time, because I really love using adguard's http filtering on my devices (which needs a VPN of its own) and it seems like it adds some overhead for the 95% of the work that I want to do that doesn't actually need to be on my home network. mTLS seemed lik…

21. Simple LMS recommendations?

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Subreddit: r/selfhosted
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Snippet: Hey all, I run a large-ish community centered around flight simulation (mostly using DCS for those in the community) We do a lot of work around training, with some members developing fantastic training material from standalone lessons to complete multi-lesson courses with practical and theory components etc I am looking for recommendations for a service, LMS most likely, to collect all of this into in an organized wa…

22. Need a DevOps Roadmap for a Complete Beginner (2026)

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Subreddit: r/devops
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Snippet: Hi everyone, I'm a complete beginner and I want to learn DevOps from scratch in 2026. My goal is to become job-ready as a DevOps Engineer, not just collect certificates. I'm willing to spend around 4–6 hours a day learning. I have basic knowledge of: Linux (very basic) Networking (basic) Python (basics) Git (beginner) I need guidance on: What should I learn first? Which tools should I focus on? (Linux, Git, Docker, K…

23. Broken plug on Bose A20

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Subreddit: r/flying
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Snippet: Hey everyone this is a bit of a stretch but I accidentally bent one of the plugs on my Bose A20’s and I can’t decide if I should send them into a service centre or try and buy a whole new assembly. The headset is no longer under warranty. Shipping alone to the service centre there and back would be nearly $200 and if it’s unable to be fixed and they have to buy the whole assembly anyway, then that’s $200 down the dra…

24. Can someone tell my why a lvl 2 Stormfang would be better than a lvl 4 Spinesnap?

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Subreddit: r/valheim
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Snippet: I can only upgrade Stormfang to 2 without black forge upgrades that don't exist yet. The damage is close, and they're basically the same on their other stats (draw stamina etc). Stormfang (lvl 2): 86 Pierce 10 Lightning 5 Spirit Spinesnap (lvl 4): 84 Pierce 20 Spirit To my way of thinking, that means Spinesnap is better for anything that's weak to spirit damage. What am I missing? Is Stormfang's chain lightning that …

25. The super junky 4 node bc250 cluster is complete!

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Subreddit: r/homelab
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Snippet: After a few weeks of work, my cheap distributed inference cluster is finally complete. Summary for anyone who saw my previous post here and wondered if it's worth it. The setup 4x ASRock BC250 ex-mining boards (AMD Cyan Skillfish: 6x Zen 2, RDNA2 GPU,16GB GDDR6 @ 448GB/s each) in a 3D-printed rack, ~€1000 total including used SSDs, a used 1000W PSU and a $20 switch. Each board is a full computer, so this is a real 4-…

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1. Looking to reduce my dependence to iCloud that works well with the Apple ecosystem

2. Looking to share a funeral recording in a respectful manner

3. Need some advice on upgrading my homelab

4. How to install TrueNAS VM on a Proxmox PC?

5. Hetzner Cloud vs Turkish VPS for a production mobile backend?

6. I built a 24/7 system that trains, backtests, and paper-trades models across multiple families. Here are the actual results so far, including the bad ones.

7. I gave every LLM agent in my cluster its own GitHub App identity, and open-sourced the token broker

8. What is Tailscale mullvad actually doing

9. Your strategy does not have an edge. It has an edge in one regime, and your backtest hid it by averaging.

10. Jellyfin having Fatal Errors after Ugreen NAS update

11. Is it too late regain some coherence in the ML research space in our life time? [D]

12. What happens when the Management Cluster of a Hosted Control Plane architecture is dead

13. 2nd Year Computer Engineering Student Looking for a Cloud Engineering Roadmap

14. What are your homelab nicknames?

15. Best pathway to an airline career in Australia while working full-time?

16. Is DSA Really Required for Entry-Level Cloud Computing Jobs?

17. Forgot my sudo password, reset it from a privileged container

18. Does anyone have knowledge of Eero router and AdGuardHome playing nice for DHCP?

19. Is there any way to make a "Battlemage" (heavy armor wand user) to benefit from parrying?

20. Do I just have to live connected to Tailscale now?

21. Simple LMS recommendations?

22. Need a DevOps Roadmap for a Complete Beginner (2026)

23. Broken plug on Bose A20

24. Can someone tell my why a lvl 2 Stormfang would be better than a lvl 4 Spinesnap?

25. The super junky 4 node bc250 cluster is complete!

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