Yup, I ended up frankensteining a nas from various craigslist parts (i actually found a low-power business-class server motherboard that has worked out well for the purpose). Had to get a SAS HBA card and a couple SFF-8087 cables to do the job right, and I grabbed an old gaming case from the 2010’s to hold it all, but it was relatively seamless. I had one of the drives go out already, but luckily I had it in a raid configuration with parity so it was just a matter of swapping out the drives and rebuilding.

It’s been fun and rewarding, for sure! I’m glad I didn’t sell them like these other dweebs told me to lol

if you continue to try { thisBullshit(); } you are going to catch (theseHands)

This is the most beautiful thing I’ve read all year

Guess ill be trying my hand at building my own pfsense router

Reminds me of this scene in the big short:

Rabbi Scene

"…Are we the baddies? "

✋ I am male and I envy boobs

Yup, I was only pointing out that i was having trouble doing the same thing in my docker compose (using the webui_port env variable did not avoid port collisions at deployment)

I haven’t tried this particular compose outline though. It could also be the pirate_network they’re initiating or the depends_on variables they’re using, I just haven’t played around with it yet.

Question: how are you deploying your arr apps? do you do that in a separate compose file?

AFAIK the thing that complicates this is trying to run it behind gluetun

docker makes it really easy to specify a unique port on deployment, but when you’re using a network bridge (as in the case of gluetun) the networking settings are controlled there instead, so you can’t use the normal port declarations. It’s apparently not impossible to do it with gluetun but it seems it’s not as straightforward.

lmao. I’m starting to really wonder what the WEBGUI_PORT variable does if not exactly what you’re changing in the GUI… someone else mentioned they got multiple instances to deploy from the same compose file by placing the gluetun service at the end of the file. I wonder if the order in which the containers are deployed is the thing that makes this work. i’ll test more when I have the time

I might need to try this… I wonder if it makes a difference that the gluetun service is listed last. I noticed that trying to start the containers in the wrong order results in port collision errors, maybe this is why it works for you?

This worked!!

Shame that it’s a little bit of a runaround, but not only did this work, it also persists after restarts and updates.

I’ll be editing my post and offering it as a solution to the other places I have seen this question asked, thank you a ton!

I’m looking at hotio now.

their documentation isn’t as comprehensive as linuxserver.io, i’ll probably have to just try it out and see if it works. looks like they also have one that has wireguard bundled but it’s really unclear how that works

Can I ask what your compose file looks like? Or how you deployed?

yea, i just tried a couple things to no avail:

publish a new port in gluetun, e.g. - 8082:8082 then set webui port in the new instance:

- environment:
  - WEBUI_PORT: 8082

error on deployment

Then I tried spinning up the new container separately, declaring the pots eg:

- ports:
  - 8082:8082

and then manually switching the network to gluetun and turning off the port declaration, and it still ends up on the default port. Bummer.

nah, it seems like it’s a known problem, no worries. There’s an unresolved issue open on the gluetun github about it. I just figured someone would have had a workaround at this point since I see people recommend separate client instances to keep things organized all the time.

I think the people who do that just don’t use a VPN, but I have strong feelings against exposing my IP

edit: that’s interesting. I’ve tried a few variations, but maybe I didn’t try that one

I think you basically need a private tracker for lidarr. The arr suite is mostly targeted toward collecting media of a particular quality and will sit on its hands if what it finds doesn’t meet that standard

Music is also not well represented in the public indexers, so it’s not surprising it doesn’t always find what you’re looking for

My wife started giving me her electrolyte mix and feeding me sardines everyday and I can’t tell you how much better I feel

It has magnesium in it, but I think it’s the particular form of potassium in it that’s hitting my deficiency. It tastes like potatoes and it’s… I guess it’s not bad. Like drinking starch water.

Shout-out to my wife who i’d probably whither away and die without.

I had a mild obsession with Deluze just out of college, and to this day I do not really know for sure that I understand his work as he intended it.

TIL things still get hot in space under direct sunlight. I always assumed space would be cold even in sunlight but apparently not.

anyway, I would think you could still be in a sunlit orbit as long as you had a reflective shield for shading. You’ll probably still need power to maintain temps and monitor status, so solar energy would still be helpful.