Try Matrix bridges or Beeper

Wind-proof router, here you go

• 8 Hosts (6 physical/local, 2 VPS/remote)
• 72 Docker containers
  • Pi-hole (3 of them, 2 local, 1 on a VPS)
  • Orbital-sync (keeps the pi-holes synced up)
  • Searxng (search engine)
  • Kutt (URL shortener)
  • LenPaste (Pastebin-like)
  • Ladder (paywall bypass)
  • Squoosh (Image converter, runs fully in browser but I like hosting it anyway)
  • Paperless-ng (Document management)
  • CryptPad (Secure E2EE office colaboration)
  • Immich (Google Photos replacement)
  • Audiobookplayer (Audiobook player)
  • Calibre (Ebook management)
  • NextCloud (Don’t honestly use this one much these days)
  • VaultWarden (Password/2FA/PassKey management)
  • Memos (Like Google Keep)
  • typehere (A simple scratchpad that stores in browser memory)
  • librechat (Kind of like chatgpt except self-hosted and able to use your own models/api keys)
  • Stable Diffusion (AI image generator)
  • JellyFin (Video streaming)
  • Matrix (E2EE Secure Chat provider)
  • IRC (oldschool chat service)
  • FireFlyIII (finance management)
  • ActualBudget (another finance thing)
  • TimeTagger (Time tracking/invoicing)
  • Firefox Sync (Use my own server to handle syncing between browsers)
  • LibreSpeed (A few instances, to speed testing my connection to the servers)
  • Probably others I can’t think of right now

Most of these I use at least regularly, quite a few I use constantly.

I can’t imagine living without Searxng, VaultWarden, Immich, JellyFin, and CryptPad.

I also wouldn’t want to go back to using the free ad-supported services out there for things like memos, kutt, and lenpaste.

Also librechat I think is underappreciated. Even just using it for GPT with an api key is infinitely better for your privacy than using the free chatgpt service that collects/owns all your data.

But it’s also great for using gpt4 to generate an image prompt, sending it through a prompt refiner, and then sending it to Stable Diffusion to generate an image, all via a single self-hosted interface.

cops be cops after all!

Umm the politically correct phrase is ACAB

I used Google Domains for many years.

I think mostly because it came as a package with my Google Workspace account.

But the whole "selling their domain accounts to Squarespace and not even bothering to notify us kind of turned me off to them.

I am now happily using Cloudflare instead.

Frankly I don’t miss it.
The rates seem a tiny bit cheaper and the API/etc is far more advanced.

I suspect I will be much happier with Cloudflare in the long run

In addition to all the other points made here:

If you intend to run Windows on it the RAM issue will be even more important as Windows is a fair bit more resource-intensive just to get the base OS running.

It’s worth taking the time to learn enough Linux to use it for these types of projects, it will pay dividends in efficiency and flexibility.

It still says

This project is not associated with Tailscale Inc.

on their GitHub

I’ve tried quite a few services and eventually I mostly settled on running my own WireGuard VPN.

But honestly these days I just use tailscale.

The convenience is really unmatched, and my only qualm was that you had to let them hold the keys in exchange for the convenience of a cloud service to manage everything.

But now with Tailnet Lock you can designate devices as signing nodes which effectively means those devices now hold your keys and tailscale really has no disadvantage over setting up your own WireGuard server manually.

While also being loads easier and more feature-rich.

If anything the user-friendliness probably ultimately makes it more secure than for inexperienced users to try to set up something similar manually.

Their free plan is also quite comfortable with 3 users and 100 devices and virtually all of the features available in the premium/enterprise plans.

Honestly I was very wary of them at first but I’ve really grown to appreciate tailscale to the point I probably sound like a shill

So I am wondering if it’s possible to have a Netflix like GUI but powered by piracy?

It’s called Plex.

Check out Sonarr and Radarr to automate downloading.

Then there’s tools like Ombi that work with those and Plex to allow your users to make requests that can download automatically

So… Success?

> “Did you see my Facebook post?!” > > “O.M.G. YES! Did you see mine?!”

Meanwhile both have liked and commented on each other’s posts.

> It’s possible Lemmy users could directly @ Mastodon users

Let’s see…

@rootiest@fosstodon.org

It’s a bit of a catch-22 because while Lemmy and the Sync for Lemmy userbase is small the dev needs to ask for more to keep the lights on.

If there was a larger pool of users who might potentially subscribe then the dev wouldn’t have to charge as much.

But from a user perspective it might seem like a smaller/newer platform like Lemmy doesn’t justify a higher cost.

For me personally I am happy to pay it because I used and loved Sync for years on Reddit and having had the experience with creating a Reddit app the dev has been able to provide a more complete/polished interface for Lemmy than possibly any other app available right now.

While I’m all for using an ad-blocker, I don’t think you have to worry too much about Google Ads containing malware, particularly if you don’t click through.

AFAIK Google has pretty strict restrictions around the type and format of ads they will push and ad campaigns have to get approval before being activated.

So while I do strongly feel that everyone should be using an ad-blocker, I don’t think malicious ads are of particular concern coming from Google’s ad platform, on an android device.

Wow Crocs and Socks in the rain sounds like a new kind of hell

There are a lot of arr’s

• Radarr
• Sonarr
• Lidarr
• Bazarr
• Readarr

I’m probably missing some

You have to install their launcher afaik.

They periodically give away games in the store there.
Right now it looks like Elder Scrolls Online.
But they occasionally give away halfway-decent games like in the past I’ve seen The Witcher 3, Civ 6, Death Stranding, StarWars Battlefront II, etc.

What’s to stop the people ddosing them to turn their sights on smaller instances?

I don’t think they are doing it out of some deep-seated hate for Lenny.

I imagine they are script kiddies looking for attention and bringing down your instance with one or two users probably isn’t on their radar or worth their time. I seriously doubt little “single-user” or even slightly larger instances will ever be targeted

X@mysupercoollemmyinstance.net

Also if I can just flip the question a bit, one movie I didn’t expect to love as much as I did (though it got deservedly good tomato ratings) was:

• Prey (2022)

I expected another in a long line of good action movies. Not the best, probably even just mediocre relative to the rest of the collection.

But I’ve found myself rewatching that one more than any other Alien/Predator movie, it’s a truly great film.

One of if not the best Alien/Predator films ever made imo.