lucullus

Mhh, you are probably right. I’m really hesitant to invest more time into troubleshooting tailscale. My own tailscale connections at home are stable, and for troubleshooting at my family member I always have to drive and setup my notebook there.

Maybe I could try to setup wireguard directly in the fritzbox router at my family member. That might need less maintenance as running tailscale in a docker container, as it would remove the wireguard connection out of the NAS itself.

Opening a port directly gives me kind of an ick, because I don’t want to fiddle too much with the family members network. If something happens with it, I will be the one troubleshooting it, and I don’t need more work currently.

So Tailscale connection instability is not common? I don’t like debugging this, since the NAS is remote and I don’t have much time going to the family member again and again for this. It definitely is something on the remote site, since the tailscale connections at my home are stable.

I will definitely have a look at Kopia. I was in search of a good open source backup solution, since borg also has its flaws. I will check it out, when I setup the remote NAS again (as I also want to put bigger disks in it)

For proxmox on a VPS beware: Some hosters are using a kind of virtualization, that is more like a container instead of a VM. This means, that if you need kernel access (like changing active modules) you will fail. Proxmox probably won’t run on such a VPS.

Also: A VPS is already virtualized. Running nested VMs (some VMs on your Proxmos VM/VPS) will hurt the performance. Better stick to containers on a VPS.

So, ever heard of the botnets based on thousands of private IoT devices, which executed severe DDOS attacks on many sites on the web?

While we are all making compromises and secure our systems to different degrees, saying that a compromised system is not a disaster is way out there.

Wdym wasting their time? They will search your home and confiscate all electronics, including the hardware running your TOR exit node and your phone, and your PC, and your notebook, and your gaming consoles, and of course any of such devices belonging to all other members of your household. And even if they cannot found anything that you have done wrong, you won’t get your stuff back for a long time (think half a year to multiple years).

Seems more like they would be wasting your time. And your money.

I support this change. Hardware can also be relevant apart from thr typical servers/mini PCs. Recently I asked about possibilities for a self hosted video/audio doorbell and was met with really helpful answers. While this question could also have fitted into communities for smart homes, I still think it is a good fit here. Self hosting already is a rather broad term. We should not limit ourselves too much in its definition.

One problem can be, that the better fit community does not have enough active users, thus being unlikely to give a good answer. I think we should have a look at that before refering the user to that community.

Eh, I’m pretty sure it is. Haven’t had Kodi running for a while, but I used it on a Raspberry Pi with an USB HDD with my content long before I had Jellyfin. Though it cannot stream the content over network, just display it on the machines video output (which is what media PCs do)