Soooo stoked.

Now I can setup an RMA for the USB C on the other one being janked up.

🙏🏼 love this place. Also have to give it up for the boring, yet effective, and efficient workhorse of the vape world; the Mighty.

Hope you all have a dank weekend :-)

To prep for my bike trip, and have some new shit to post about here along the way, I let VAS get me a little today. It'll give me another thing to make videos/pics of too.

• XVape Mambo
• XVape Starry v4
• Flowerpot Tomcat Head to go w/ the DeWalt battery controller
• Mighty with DC barrel plug (It looks like I might have bought their last one)

Pretty excited to try the Mambo! It looks like a neat little entry level vape.

The Tomcat head seems interesting/weight saving if just using herb but wanting to change up bowl style while traveling.

Mighty will let me send my USB C + Mighty in for service, then I'll have two when it's fixed mwahaha.

Then finally the Starry v4 cause the v3 was pretty dope imo, and I was already ordering the Mambo from XVape so fuck it.

https://old.beyondcombustion.net/c/vaporents exists as of yesterday. (expect it to be intermittent for now)

I get a 400 error when signing in, the primary instance is rejecting the "old" one's hostname. That'll get sorted out though.

Was messing with the docker earlier, took it down for a sec then got busy and forgot about it for a bit.

My bad.

Anywhoo.... Lemmy 0.18.3 seems to be nearing release. Just updated the server to lemmy-ui: 0.18.3-rc.5 and lemmy: 0.18.3-rc.4

I'm going to migrate this instance to a couple new/individual VMs over the next week or so (hopefully) so it can scale better/improve uptime. This one that lemmy is running on currently pisses me off because docker has the zfs overlay enabled. It's harshing my mellow making me think disk space is lower than it actually is.

I also want to get the redarc VM accessible (the reddit archives) finally. I need to go over to the colo to unfuck the iDrac on the current before going on vacation. I was going to take more drives to the current server.... but fuck that. I'll take another R720xd over w/48TB and add it to the rack w/the R730xd. Needs done anyways, no time like the present i guess.

Gitea is back online. The VM's virtual disk filled up QUICK because I was pulling in some larger projects which were just stupid to mirror. Got those removed, expanding the drive and offloading the DB/Storage for gitea to two additional VMs/containers dedicated to SQL and file storage which should help avoid issues down the road.

Additionally over the last couple days I was also configuring Prometheus, OpenObserve, and Garfana. Really needed to get better eyes on logs and what's going on in different parts of the server to make sure that nothing crazy happens or gets hosted/posted on the box that could cause me issues. Went through and made individual email addresses for each service so it's way easier to quickly identify what server is having an issue when alerts are sent out via email.

Finally, I was just finishing up with Authentik and configuring it as an LDAP provider so it can integrate with the webmin consoles and locally on each VM. Since i got Webmin setup on each VM and managed by a central console and LDAP is the only way Authentik can interact with it, it makes sense to finally cross that bridge. LDAP should work easier with Discourse too, then it can be opened up for posting fun.

Hopefully I can get more of this buttoned up and additional admins setup prior to my vacation next month. Otherwise, it'll be hard to take a vacation lol

Stay medicated, fellow ents! - PHJ

Updated Server to 0.18.3-rc3 for Lemmy/Lemmy-Ui

Had open registration on, noticed some "businesses" setting up accounts that I'd prefer not be on the server.

As a result email verification for new accounts has been enabled again for this lemmy server.