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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex has paywalled my server!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  announced

  What announcement? There’s been a new Personal Plus plan around for several months already - introduced without much fanfare, and simply brings the user count from 3 to 6 for a fixed small fee. Presumably this is due to feedback from personal users wanting to contribute something other than nothing.

  Where do you see the free Personal plan has changed at all?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex has paywalled my server!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  custom domain

  From what I gather, this refers to the email address you sign up with.

  If you use something like a non-gmail email address when signing up, it starts you off on the business plan with a trial (which you can instantly change to free). (Note: they’re gonna change this auto-detection thing with shared domains soon due to a security hole.)

  I believe you can still use a custom domain (instead of the randomised *.ts.net provided one) with DNS lookups in your tailnet, on the personal (free) plan.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I wrote a python script to backup my home directory⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Multiple backups may be kept.

  Nice work, but if I may suggest - it lacks hardlink support, so’s quite wasteful in terms of disk space - the number of ‘tags’ (snapshots) will be extremely limited.

  At least two robust solutions that use rsync+hardlinks already exist: rsnapshot.org and dirvish.org (both written in perl). There’s definitely room for backup tools that produce plain copies, instead of packed chunk data like restic and Duplicacy, and a python or even bash-based tool might be nice, so keep at it.

  However, I liken backup software to encryption - extreme care must be taken when rolling and using your own. Whatever tool you use, test test test the backups. :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Restricted Tailscale docker instance⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s no point doing anything fancy like that - wireguard over Tailscale is pretty pointless, as Tailscale is literally wireguard with NAT traversal and authentication bolted on. Unless you enable subnetting, it can’t get more secure than that.

  And even if you do enable subnetting (which you might wanna do if you need access to absolutely everything), you can use Tailscale ACLs to keep tighter control - say, from specific (tagged) devices.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tools to migrate from Plex to Jellyfin?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Won’t take that long before the enshittification is complete.