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Chewy

@ Chewy7324 @discuss.tchncs.de

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  • Email provider for home server alerts

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  • Given it seems to be a single guy doing his thing I don't expect them to get bought out.

    It's a great service and incredibly cheap. With advanced pricing I'm only paying ~0,40€ per month. My domain + purelymail is less than I'd pay for other providers email only.

    Edit: If Amazon increases their prices they'll have to pass it on, but those should be pretty consistent. If you use your own domain (or an alias service) switching email providers is simple anyway.

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    Are there cheap refurbished HDD resellers in Europe, like ServerPartDeals?

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  • Good mail server for selfhosting

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  • A project ending as abandonware is always a possibility. One reason projects get abandoned is losing funding, which can be secured by using dual licensing and selling some features to businesses.

    They use AGPL so even if they broke their promise and restricted features, it could still be developed further (even if no new features got added). NGINX also uses a dual license.

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  • Well I do like new Reddit. It has a dark mode and works well with different screen/window sizes. Sadly it's slow and equires JS to load the content (makes it slow).

    Imo Lemmy web is most of the good parts of old Reddit and some of good parts of new Reddit. Though it's not the best UI. My favorite UI for Reddit is Redlib [1]. It's fast, works well on desktop and mobile, and looks great imo.

    [1] https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib

  • Don (Novaspirit Tech) passed away

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  • It's sad to hear about his passing. His videos about the Pi3 were great for me at the time. It's been about 8 years and looking at the thumbnails of his videos brings back memories.

  • PSA: LetsEncrypt ending expiration notification emails

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  • Notable mention of Mozilla being a Platinum sponsor.

  • Proxmox Storage Recommendation Needed

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  • For no particular reason, except for btrfs taking up less RAM. I don't know their specs, but the lack of RAM was my reason for deciding against btrfs for my large non-mirrored HDD.

  • Proxmox Storage Recommendation Needed

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  • I personally really like btrfs for my large media HDD because it makes copying large files an instantaneous operation.

    Also, it's useful to have 6 hourly snapshots in case *arr upgrades something or anything else happens (btrbk).

    It's not necessary almost any time, but the times I needed it a CoW FS with snapshots came in handy.

    Edit: Also, btrfs does check summing, so it's possible to detect bit rot.

  • FUTO just made a 14hrs long video introduction to Selfhosting! (plus a written version) 💾

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  • Because YouTube pays Louis Rossmann, compared to selfhosting video which costs tremendous amounts of money through bandwidth.

  • Deploying Containers on NixOS

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  • Podman provides stronger isolation than nixos-containers because the latter only supports rootful containers. Losing access to nixos modules is a disadvantage, altough most services I'd use podman containers for don't have any modules anyway.

    E.g. I've used nixos container as a stop gap to use a major beta, because I didn't manage to adapt the nixos package accordingly.

  • Let's Encrypt is 10 years old today !

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  • I remember taking my first selfhosting/Linux steps a year or so after the launch of Let's Encrypt with a Pi 3. At the time, most tutorials didn't set up https at all, and if they did, they were self signed certificates (resulting in browser warnings).

    Self-signed certificates are annoying and creating them was a series of copy pasting long, weird commands, usually using long exspiration dates (manual renewing sucks).

    Not long after, guides started recommending certbot. Nowadays reverse proxys like caddy set up TLS automatically.

    At least that's how I remember it, given my complete lack of knowledge about Linux at the time.

  • how can i self host my music?

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  • Yes, the restriction to a single VPN client is annoying.

    Blocking ad/telemetry domains can be done by adding Adguards DNS servers in the OS settings. Sadly blocking apps Internet permissions completely is not possible (except on OS like LineageOS, CalyxOS or GrapheneOS).

  • how can i self host my music?

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  • Symphonium is a great Android music player which connects to a Subsonic or Jellyfin server (or any other protocol like SMB).

    Navidrome is a music server which implements the Subsonic protocol. This means apps like Symphonium can connect to it.

    Any old PC is enough, even a Raspberry Pi is fast enough for a music server.

    1. Install Navidrome on the server/pc
    2. Configure Navidrome (open ports, add your music library/folder)
    3. Connect a subsonic-compatible music app to to the server (I.e. type in IP or domain as well as the port).

    Anything more like SSL (https) and a domain is optional for getting it working, and only a benefit if used outside of your home network. Using Tailscale makes a domain/SSL unnecessary and also no longer needs messing around with networking (e.g. no opening ports on the router).

  • 2024 Self-Host User Survey Results

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  • The survey was originally sent out on reddit /r/selfhosted, so I expect most respondents are from there.

  • Media Center Question - Jellyfin/Steam/YT

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  • No, I haven't connected a Pi to a 4k TV.

  • Media Center Question - Jellyfin/Steam/YT

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  • FreeTube does not have controller support, and for AndroidTV I'd recommend SmartTube.

    Kodi/LibreELEC is able to do all of it, but IMO it's not a good experience for browsing YouTube and I don't know how well the third party Steam Link integrations work.

    This is why I'd also recommend LineageOS Android TV, which supports Pi's thanks to konstakang. But I'm not sure why it'd work better than a FireTV stick, since both run AndroidTV.

    Edit: I've had an issue where the Pi 5 wouldn't boot AndroidTV, until I tried to turn it on again after a few weeks. So I'd recommend sticking with the FireTV + SmartTube + Jellyfin + Steam Link (unless you've got a Pi 5 lying around anyway).

    Edit 2: The Pi 5 + Android TV had issues with HDMI-CEC of the TV, so I had to buy a remote with a USB adapter. This sends the wrong signals (e.g. keyboard enter, not what Android TV expects), which is fixable with some app remapper. Maybe it'll work better for you, but the FireTV is likely the easier solution.

  • Why self host a password manager?

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  • Yes.

  • Why self host a password manager?

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  • Because they use the official apps/web-vault, they don't need to implement most of the vault/encryption features, so at least the actual data should be fine.

    Security audits are expensive, so I don't expect it to happen, unless some sponsor pays for it.

    They have processes for CVEs and it seems like there wasn't any major security issues (altough I wouldn't host a public instance for unknown users).

  • Why self host a password manager?

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  • Vaultwarden is one of the few services I'd actually trust to be secure, so I wouldn't worry if you update timely to new versions.