A software developer and Linux nerd, living in Germany. I’m usually a chill dude but my online persona doesn’t always reflect my true personality. Take what I say with a grain of salt, I usually try to be nice and give good advice, though.

I’m into Free Software, selfhosting, microcontrollers and electronics, freedom, privacy and the usual stuff. And a few select other random things as well.

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  • hendrik@palaver.p3x.detoHomelab•Open Source cameras for home surveillance?English
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    1 month ago

    I heard some people confine cameras to a seperate virtual network which can’t talk to the internet.

    I don’t have any specific camera or manufacturer to recommend. But Frigate is a nice peace of software. Maybe their community or the Home Assistant users have some advise.

    If you like coding and soldering, you can buy an ESP32-S3 camera and do the entire firmware yourself. I don’t think they’re as good as off-the-shelf cameras, though. And I think most of them come with a cheaper OV2620 camera, which is more close to potato camera quality. So if you go that route, spend a few $$ extra to get one of the better camera sensors.

  • hendrik@palaver.p3x.detoHomelab•Can I make good use of an old GPU?English
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    9 months ago

    I think that GPU should be supported by CUDA 9.0 and it has some Vulkan 1.2? You’d need to install an old version (<=9.0) of the CUDA framework and find some software which is fine with that. But I had the same GPU in my old Thinkpad and it’s just not very fast. I sometimes used it for some Portal2 or a few extra FPS on SuperTuxKart. But other than that it wasn’t a gamechanger even compared to the iGPU. If it’s too complicated, just do the calculations on the CPU, I don’t think there will be a big difference. You could do video encoding on it (for old codecs), but the iGPU can do that as well…