My Lenovo Thinkpad T510, a 2009 model with 1st gen i5 is still fast enough for daily use (with 8 GiB RAM and SSD). If it were not for the keyboard... Fine hairs from our cat had accumulated under the caps. Removing them for deep cleaning appeared risky.

I decided to promote my 2nd Thinkpad, a T460, to main PC, and use the T510 as a spare. That involved making backups, and replacing Ubuntu LTS with #Debian 13.

I've now cleaned and reassembled the keyboard. It's like new!
#sustainability #repair

https://gyptazy.com/blog/debian-13-trixie-final-lxc-container-image-for-proxmox8-proxmox-9/

... be accessible from the internet, I can install them on the same hardware. And I think I might isolate each webserver on its own little #Debian installation plus run a separate #SQL server in a VM.

My home desktop - 1 March 2000 - a Pentium 233 MMX.
The OS was Debian Linux - you can see a printed Tux near the keyboard.
No broadband connection, just a 56k modem.
Iomega Zip drive - so I could download stuff at Uni and bring it back home.
One year later, this became my first 24/7 server.

#IT #SysAdmin #Linux #Debian #Throwback #Memories #Vintage #OldPhotos #OldTimes #OldNerd #OldMe #VintageSetup

Alt...

A late 1990s - early 2000s computer setup on a white desk, featuring a large beige Sony CRT monitor, a beige tower PC with front-facing floppy disk and CD-ROM drives, an external 56k modem, a beige keyboard, and various scattered items such as CDs, cables, and glasses. Behind the monitor is a large black Sony speaker, and a motorcycle poster hangs on the wall. The photo’s timestamp reads “1.3.2000.”

I've got the script now grabbing stills via #FFmpeg from the #Frigate #RTSP re-stream. All of that is working quite well but it's slow (takes about four minutes to process 16 cameras) and occasionally will fail to open the RTSP stream. There's no pattern to the failures. I tried both on the #Debian terminal container and from my Windows desktop, and it's equally slow and prone to occasionally not getting an image.

I guess I'll try switching it to the direct camera RTSP streams? 🤷‍♂️

Kann man mit dem neuen #debian inzwischen #sway vernünftig nutzen?
Überlege von meiner aktuellen Distribution zu #Debian zurückzukommen
@stefan
Wird vor allem einem #wayland entsprechend ordentlich unterstützt

Hello Debian 13 🤩
And check this, Konqueror is the default browser in the Task Manager, how cool is that 😍

#KDE #Debian #BeFree

Alt...

Screenshot from a Debian desktop running KDE with one window open - the KDE Welcome experience

Also this is the first time I've done anything in #python in probably a decade? I'm pretty sure this is the first time I've used Python 3.

Is it really this easy? It's almost like writing English.

Hmm I also need to make sure the packages I'm using are all the right things for the job. I know #LLM hallucinations end up with malicious packages.

Anyway that's enough for tonight. I spent most of the night making #PyCharm and #SSH work on a #windows box (I know, I know 🙄... Switch to #Debian)

... look earlier second-by-second until it finds an image or hits a timeout.

I'm also thinking of having the code SSH into the #frigate server to find the latest saved continuously recorded clip and then use #FFMPEG to grab the still image that way and bypass Frigate's API. Since the Frigate container and the #Debian container are on the same #ProxMox hardware, transferring a 10 sec video clip to grab a still won't be bad. Actually maybe ffmpeg can grab the still w/o downloading the whole...

@roland Same setup here, same experience. I did 6 upgrades from Debian 12 to 13 and upgrade PVE and PBS to the newest versions. The only problem I had was my desktop machine that had apt pinning and a lot of extra repos. I could have tried fixing that, but opted for a clean install 😎

#debian #proxmox #homelab

Next time i want to test #linux_predator , use some one the #predator_os ?

Nice video on the Website
https://predator-os.ir/

#debian #security #privacy

Its already biting me that i installed debian 13 instead of debian 12 in my docker vm.

#Docker #Debian #Linux #Debian12 #Debian13

Looks like theres no #neofetch packages in #debian 13...

Okay back to figuring out a better way to take periodic snapshots from 16 IP cam feeds and send them to a remote SFTP server...

I've got #ProxMox and #Frigate running at the site. I've tried using #HomeAssistant which I can get to work with one camera but not all 16 to automatically take timed snapshots and upload them to a remote server.

Frigate is hella locked down with the way I installed it. No Rsync or similar available.

I have been playing with #Debian to see if I can do it that way...

I made surprisingly good progress this evening with some #vibeCoding using #Gemini until I ran out of free queries. Then I switched to #ChatGPT which I suspect must be tuned to know when it's ingesting code written by Gemini because its answers were markedly improved versus starting from scratch.

I've got a #Debian container on #ProxMox now successfully retrieving low resolution snapshots from Frigate and uploading them via SSH plus doing housekeeping.

I need to get it pulling from the...

... high resolution #Frigate feeds. And I need to verify that it's resizing to the resolution I want to push up to the remote server

And then I need to write a little cron job to automate it.

And maybe setup #Debian to auto update itself?

Still #vibeCoding with no real idea of why I'm having this issue with #Frigate. I'm trying to grab a recent snapshot from this API: https://docs.frigate.video/integrations/api/get-snapshot-from-recording-camera-name-recordings-frame-time-snapshot-format-get

I can successfully get the snapshot when I do it from a browser but it's very hit-or-miss from a command line (#Debian in a separate container from Frigate on #ProxMox).

When I query for the most recent recording, it gives me a recording from one hour ago most of the time. Sometimes I can force it to see a recording in the last five minutes

Wish I could figure out what program on this new #Debian #Linux #Trixie install keeps creating an empty ~/Documents directory that I don't use or want.

https://quentin.demouliere.eu/adminsys/2025/08/18/adminproxmox.html

🎯 L'objectif est de réduire drastiquement l'exposition de l'interface web d'administration d'un hyperviseur Proxmox.

💡 Plusieurs approches étaient envisageables (filtrage protocolaire simple, port knocking, vpn, redirection de port over SSH).

🔎 Au final, je présente une approche simple, efficace et pragmatique reposant sur la redirection de port SSH du fait du service OpenSSH déjà en fonction.

👍 Bonne découverte et bonne lecture.

#proxmox #ssh #cybersécurité #adminsys #debian