Some I haven’t yet found in this thread:

• rootless podman
• container port mapping to localhost (e.g. 127.0.0.1:8080:8080)
• systemd services with many of its sandboxing features (PrivateTmp, …)

I do the same, but with Wireguard instead of OpenVPN. The performance is much better in my experience and it sucks less battery life.

Trying to actually restore is the best way to ensure the backup works. But it’s annoying so I never do it.

I usually trust restic to do it’s job. Validating that files are there and are readable can be done with restic mount, and you’ve mentioned restic check.

The best way to ensure your data is safe is to do a second backup with another tool. And keep your keys safe and accessible. A remote backup has no use of the keys burned down.

I use Findroid for its great UI but also its ability to download and watch offline. It’s a better experience and I was surprised Jellyfin Android didn’t support it.

I wonder how much money Plex still makes through their lifetime purchases. Is it that they were struggling and then made bad business decisions with the aim on increasing revenue (ad supported video on demand)? Or was it the other way around?

In the 80s new systems usually came with new OSs, which required porting software it. Thus a lifetime license was practically limited.

I wouldn’t be as opposed to a subscription model if it was cheaper and they focused on their actual core product, not all the other fluff around. 5€/m is a bit much given they don’t pay for my bandwidth. And if they didn’t store my media info, history etc…

To me there’s a major difference depending on the cost of the provided service. I don’t know what features crowdsec provides, but if it’s mostly providing lists and all the blocking etc happens locally, I don’t see how they lose much money on this free service. Gathering the lists is something they’d have to do anyway to service their paying customers.

If Cloudflare stopped making Cloudflare Tunnels free to use, I’d be more understanding since bandwidth costs them relevant amounts of money.

If the person would answer almost instantly, 24/7, without being annoyed: Yes. Checking important information is easier once you know, what exactly to type.

Ladybird is new and some people seem to think it’ll be useable for normal desktop usage in the coming years. Servo is 12 years old and markets itself as an embedded browser and thus it’s understood that it won’t catch up to Firefox and Chromium.

I have no idea why people think Ladybird would be the saviour independent browser when there’s Mozilla with Firefox failing at exaty that. How would Ladybird even finance itself? Ads? Then you’ve got the Mozilla Firefox situation again.

Matrix won’t necessarily download all state/messages automatically, but if your client requests a non-available message your matrix server will query other matrix servers for it (backfilling).

E.g. if you scroll up to older messages, it might take a a few seconds but your client should eventually show them.

Matrix server use a back-off for servers sending messages, so if your server is offline for many hours, it might take a day for your servers to get messages pushed to by other servers again.

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.

Mindfactory is selling Factory Recertified Seagate Exos and Ironwolf Pro.

They were also reportedly one of the shops (unknowingly) selling used HDDs with SMART values reset as new.

https://www.mindfactory.de/Produkte/Seagate_Factory_Recertified/

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.

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.

Notable mention of Mozilla being a Platinum sponsor.

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.

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.

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

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.

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).

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).