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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uses for a SBC (When You Already Have an x86 Mini-PC?)⁩ ⁨⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I have an Rpi4 4gb model and run Uptime-Kuma who’s sole purpose is to monitor my server and alert me if it should go down. I also have it acting as a Tailscale exit node.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some self hosted services that you think are essential?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m about 99% sure it does, I don’t use it that way but It does allow DNS zones. For example:

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  It’s a lot more technical then Adguard Home for sure. Both work just fine though, I came from Adguard Home as I use a PXE server to provision some of my devices and Technitium is super easy to configure that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some self hosted services that you think are essential?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I had to create an account as per the usual process for these types of apps, but it was all local. I never had to do one to connect to their servers. I know it generates a unique instance ID which I believe phones home to their servers but I don’t mind personally.

  As for my experience, a lot of it is locked behind their paid plans, so I just keep it limited to what I use which is fine. I do like it as it does better than NocoDB for my needs (the input forms is what I needed) and it does better there. I don’t recall the other reasons for not using NocoDB otherwise, but it’s a long while.

  Their pricing is here: baserow.io/pricing

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  So, that’s mostly what is locked behind. My sleep form I built which feeds the database: Image

  Overall, it does meet my needs so that’s all I ask. :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some self hosted services that you think are essential?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  In no particular order, the most essential ones are those I constantly use throughout my day and also weekly.

  Proxmox holds all of these in different LXC’s and VM’s

  • Home Assistant
  • Pocket-ID - github.com/stonith404/pocket-id (Exclusive Passkey login system as in -no un/pw just your Passkey which - doubles as an OIDC provider)
  • Homepage (By Ben Phelps of gethomepage.dev)
  • Vaultwarden
  • TechnitiumDNS which handles all of my DHCP and Adblocking in a one system, extremely capable software especially useful for SOHO too.
  • Baserow - Airtable alternative. It holds certain items of importance like what MAC address each device in my home network holds and what IP It uses in an intelligent view. I also was using it for a while to log issues with my sleep where I deal with insomnia, so I logged how well I slept, how many times I woke up, how long it took me to fall asleep etc. That was a simple form I created using drag/drop in Baserow and called by a URL.
  • OpenVSCode server - makes editing my Homepage (above) yaml and my docker-compose files a breeze! It’s especially nice when you edit it something and it auto saves almost instantly. Makes some of my services change in real-time!
  • UptimeKuma - Simply one of the best out there for me
  • Gotify - I get alerted to my Tuya based dehumidifer tank being full via Home Assistant, Downtime alerts from UptimeKuma and a variety of other services which I deem higher priority alerts over “fix when you can” ones.

  Aside from that, i do have other services I use every so often like Memos, Joplin Server (holds most of my notes), Pingvin and a few others.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SpacebarChat - a selfhosted, Discord-compatible communication platform⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I test installed it in Proxmox in a Debian 12 LXC for the sever part, it was fairly easy, just run three commands. The client was as well, but failed to do something with the email during registration. It has a while longer to go I think. But I put it in my bookmarks to visit every so often as well. :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does setting/reserving a static IP via router prevent its allocation to other devices in its network?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I use Technitium DNS as both my DHCP and DNS Server on my network. I then have my ISP Router’s DHCP turned off, and point the primary DNS IP To Technitium’s on my network. I have roughly 66-67 network devices at a given time on my network, mostly wireless. (Think wiFi locks, Lights, Outlets etc) then I have my phones and gaming systems an any given thing.

  To manage my IP’s I use an Airtable type of database via BaseRow, also self hosted. Through my router’s records, I copied/pasted every single MAC address I found, into a column in my BaseRow table there, and then added the device name or friendly name to another with an assigned IP I want to use. I have a more organized system of ranges 192.168.1.1-10 is mobile devices, 192.168.1.11-30 is IoT etc…

  By having my network setup in this fashion, I accomplish a few things, all new devices which power on or connect to the router to get their IP assignment fail to get it since it’s turned off there, and they search the network for an available DHCP Server which lands squarely on the TechnitiumDNS server and are assigned it through there. I also have adblocking enabled through the same server so I have a more home wide adblock which works. (You’d be amazed at how much Telemetry a TV Sends out for every single remote keypress!) I have been able to block those with the adblock enabled. With the DNS server, you can also assign DHCP ranges address, it is really an overly complex server and probably overkill for a home network. I’ve only scratched the surface of what it can do.

  If you don’t want to fuss with TechnitiumDNS, there’s AdguardHome, or even PiHole you can use if you want to block Ads (or you can simply disable that function) and those also act as a DHCP Server.

  Or, if you are wanting to spend a few hours configuring it, you could run your own DHCP Server in a VM or dedicated device such as a Raspberry Pi.

  With all of these settings, it’s important to set your DHCP lease offer long enough that if you have to reboot the DHCP Server for kernel update, or it crashes, you won’t have any devices fail as some do regular polling to check for connectivity (My Linux computer does this a lot). I don’t remember if it’s KDE or Arch. Anyway, running the DNS Server also allows you to custom build your own “domain” system if you will. So could assign maybe your self hosted Calendar for example to calendar.local or calendar.internal.

  By setting up a dedicated DHCP Server, using the manual method or one of the different AdBlock systems, you can also turn off DHCP registration for ‘foreign’ devices or those which aren’t in your DHCP table. This offers a small element of extra security for your WiFi, but it’s not 100% secure if someone knows your IP ranges and Subnet Mask. Also, this will make it easier in the future for you if you upgrade your router or replace it as there’s just two settings to change. (DCHP Server off and the optional self hosted DNS).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Selfhosted chat service⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Why not use a different DDNS service? There are plenty out there. :) I think this may solve your issue. I’ve been using freemyip.com’'s for a while and have had no problem in the past issusing LetsEncrypt SSL’s. At the moment, I’m on Cloudflare tunnels so it’s automatic with them, which I know is a huge trust issue for a lot of people, but I don’t mind it for my stuff. But I do like to have my DDNS as a backup service from time to time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do people here think of Nebula?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have been using Tailscale, connected it to my domain, I use Authentik for my OIDC/SSO Sign in and tied it that way for the MFA OIDC Login Tailscale let’s you use. All I needed to do is setup a webfinger for it and once it verified my domain, I was able to give them my OIDC settings for them. Tailscale so far for me in the last year or so has been quite simple to use. Plus, being able to log into my admin console and any devices I enroll through Authentik’s front end, has given me peace of mind knowing it’s quite secure. (All of this on a Proxmox server BTW).

  One may argue about self hosting Wireguard and I agree, it’s quite easy to do if you use something like wg-easy which makes it simple to add phones to your network. My concern with it though was having to poke a hole into my firewall for the WG traffic to hit the server, once I got into Tailscale, it’s made it easier and I don’t have any open ports on the router now. I think this is primarily why the Jupiter Broadcasting guys push it so much on their podcasts, not to mention one of the hosts on his podcast is an employee for Tailscale as well, so that probably helps a bit.

  As for funding for both Nebula, or Tailscale, they do cater to enterprise customers so you have the assurance that they do have to answer to them if they revoke a service or ruin it. :)

  For Tailscale, it’s just a matter of them allowing you to add 100 devices for free and it’s simple command to install it on any client via the cli including Apple TV for example. For phones, I have Tailscale on my phone connected 24/7 to my exit node which is my Proxmox server which acts as one, and as a backup, my Raspberry Pi which acts as one as well. So, even if I’m on the road or away from home, I’m always on my home network (unless blocked by overzealous sysadmins on their public WiFi networks). There’s not much to manage via the phone, but I like to think it’s ‘set and forget’ really, once you have it all configured, it just runs in the background and they do not decrypt your traffic much less care what goes through it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you prefer to selfhost?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Cyberchef, I’ve looked at but honestly for me, IT Tools works best for my needs so it’s all good on my end.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you prefer to selfhost?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Dozzle is just log viewing plain and simple. Dockge shows more that’s all I know. I tested Dockge earlier on in development and haven’t been back since, I know it’s grown a lot more since.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you prefer to selfhost?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve seen a few mentions of PiHole and AdguardHome, I started on PiHole, then moved to AdguardHome for adblocking. Then I heard about and have been using TechnitiumDNS server which is sort of overkill for our needs, but with the right ad-lists, it is fantastic at blocking advertisements on my home network. Super fast install too, even on a Raspberry Pi 2 :) I run that along with Proxmox-VE (Protected behind OIDC Login) and several other containers on my cranky old Dell Desktop server.

  Mostly Vaultwarden, and a few other services for home private use such as PairDrop for inter system sharing and a self destructing file sharing server for when we need to send documents to our Attorney’s (rarely but sometimes we need to) office via Pingvin.

  I also run:

  • Home Assistant
  • Transmission Dockerized so I can help contribute to the Linux community and share the ISO’s.
  • For some of my externalized sites, I run Authentik It acts sort of like a Reverse Proxy if you configure it to do so. I love that I can simply identify myself with my WebAuthn device skipping any passwords. :)

  With Authentik setup, I can login to things like my Fresh Tomato Router TechnitiumDNS (Both use HTTP Auth headers) and Memos which uses OIDC/SSO. It’s meant to replace our Google Keep notes.

  • Tailscale is installed and I connect to it from my phone when away from home to always stay on my network. Sometimes, hotspots block it so I generally avoid those as much as possible.
  • Wallos to help keep track of our re-occuring subscriptions.
  • Grafana and Promethus - both are staged and ready for configuration and one of those I will get around to eventually.
  • InfluxDB - I plan on moving Home Assistsant logging soon to that which should tie nicely into Grafana later.
  • Ben Phelps’ Homepage - it’s my main server dashboard my wife and I use to access our server. Quite simply one of the best dashboards IMHO.
  • Wyze Cam Bridge - One of the better services in which you can log into your Wyze cams and convert their streams to RTSP, RTMP or HLS streams easily. I have that feed to my Home Assistant Security Dashboard.
  • Baserow It’s a good Airtable alternative and I use it to keep track of my Static IP assignments, Sleep tracker (I suffer from insomnia), and other data points. It’s pretty amazing. I even created a pain logging for for my wife so she just accesses it and answers basic questions about her pain levels and it pushes it to the database for later retrieval.
  • Joplin Server - Sorry, I don’t have the link, but it’s installed via compose. I use Joplin Notes on my phone and computer for keeping my code snippets. I’ve tried Obsidian and it didn’t really meet my needs and Also Anytype, but that’s not self-hosted. Joplin server is for me and that’s become handy a time or two when on the road.
  • Bookstack - my grand plan for that is to build a Wiki for my family to use in the event something should happen to me, they can know how to manage the server with nice screenshots and instructional steps. I have that protected behind Authentik’s OIDC logins.
  • IT-Tools - hands down one of the coolest self hosted tool sets you can use.
  • Webcheck - All-in-one OSINT tool for analyzing any website web-check.xyz is their demo site. :)
  • Stirling PDF - Kind of like a Swiss-army knife for PDF’s. :)
  • Dozzle - For those times with you really need to see what your Docker logs and too lazy do run a docker logs -follow command.

  I still use Portainer-CE and am happy there, I may try Dockage or the others, but it’s fine for what I need it for (It’s also protected by OIDC)

  I’m sure I may have missed a few, but this post has gone on long enough. :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Generative AI could soon decimate the call center industry, says CEO⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In one way, I’m happy this is happening, in another way, I’m not - I’ve given well over 2 decades of my life to the call center way of living. Let me give you a sneak peak into what really happens in the daily life of a call center worker.

  • You live by the time on your telephone, it’s your punch in and punch out system in most centers. Don’t clock in more than 8 or 15 or whatever insane metrics they set past your clock in time else you will be considered tardy. This includes all breaks and clocking out.

  • If you are a first contact person and taking phone orders, your ‘talk time’ is measured. Anything more than the standardized 5 or 6 minutes is considered excessive and they tell you to move the calls along faster.
    If you are customer service, your talk time is loosened but you are also the first and last contact the customer should have for the issue.

  • Your phone calls are monitored and/or recorded (For Real!). If you are like me and hate to your your voice, woe be it to you when they play back your last call or two so you can hear yourself talking to the customer. If not recorded, then it is up to the monitoring person to be nice. You are then told what you need to do to speed up your talk time, or increase sales etc…

  Telemarketing

  Oh dear God, this is a life sucker and has the highest turnover on jobs. You quickly learn more about human nature in an odd sense. The sheer pressure on booking that next sale is insanely high and if you don’t meet the sales minimums for the day or even hour, you are sent home without pay. I worked for a company which sold HR Manual trials, I was never more relieved and happy to be fired when I was for not making the per-requisite sales quotas for the half day.

  TIPS

  I don’t think I’ve encountered a single call center rep in my years of service where a CSR decided that today, they would be a jerk. All we ever want to do is get through the day and earn our wages and go home.

  One thing I will say with confidence, is everyone you work with has something in common, you aren’t there necessarily because you enjoy it, you are there because it puts food on the table and beats living off of unemployment benefits. It’s a thankless job.

  If you receive great service from a call center rep (CSR) and are happy, politely ask to speak with their supervisor and when you do, be sure to leave them a good review. It doesn’t always help to do this after a bad call, but sometimes rebounding to a new agent by calling the company back and asking for a supervisor will make a big difference if you take issue with them about the poor quality of service you received.

  Remember, if you can’t resolve an issue with a CSR, It’s not always that they don’t want to resolve the issue for you, their hands are probably tied and in fear of losing their job or being reprimanded, they simply won’t budge.

  Kindness goes a long way with us as well, if you are respectful and kind, we reflect the same back to you and often have tools at our disposal to grant you an extra discount and/or savings. We genuinely want to see you happy!

  ON THE OTHER HAND

  If putting AI in front of the call centers will help screen out the most common issues, then by all means do it. Also, if the stupid bean counters out there which insist of outsourcing to third world countries as it’s cheaper, can find it to be more cost effective to use AI, and keep the jobs local to their country of operation, then I’m in favor of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thinking of building a database of "stuff" that I have at home + some other family households. Multiple accounts with private and shared inventories.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Homebox - before we relocate - whenever that is, I will be printing labels and putting them under and behind my stuff, scanning it into there and then will use that to keep track of our items after the move to know what is in which box etc.

  NocoDB Self Hosted (I use this for a few things) - started out with my network ip’s I have on my servers and ports for my containers and most recently a sleep log.

  Just a couple there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WeatherStar 4000+ Emulator⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  From their readme. I asked about that last night and he replied an pointed me to it. :)

  Kiosk mode

  Kiosk mode can be activated by a checkbox on the page. Note that there is no way out of kiosk mode (except refresh or closing the browser), and the play/pause and other controls will not be available. This is deliberate as a browser’s kiosk mode it intended not to be exited or significantly modified.

  It’s also possible to enter kiosk mode using a permalink. First generate a Permalink, then to the end of it add &kiosk=true. Opening this link will load all of the selected displays included in the Permalink, enter kiosk mode immediately upon loading and start playing the forecast.

  I didn’t see IIS mentioned, but I didn’t take a close look at the code. They give you a docker run command to set it up, so I converted it to a docker compose file so I can run it later. All of this is running on a Debian 12 system, so if IIS is needed, I’d wager that is if you are running a Windows setup.

  I have mine embedded in Home Assistant now as an iframe using the Kiosk mode setting which works.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WeatherStar 4000+ Emulator⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Looks nice! I set mine up and have it as an Iframe in Home Assistant. The app is a fork from github.com/vbguyny/ws4kp with his demo site here: battaglia.ddns.net/twc That version has the music we all came to know and love from back then.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for a reverse proxy to put any service behind a login for external access.⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Authentik is my IDP provider so I put it in front of all my publicly facing Apps which support OIDC login. For example, I can log into my Portainer instance from an external network, but to do so, I log into Authentik First which sends it to my service.

  For the apps which support HTTP headers, like I said, Pomerium acts as the service which passes my credentials to the device. I admit - Authentik does this also without the need for Pomerium, (through their flow settings) but I found Pomerium to be much easier to set up for this than Authentik and haven’t looked back or felt the need to change it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for a reverse proxy to put any service behind a login for external access.⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  With that, I use Pomerium for apps which accept a HTTP Headers, for example, my Fresh Tomato firmware flashed router, it has a HTTP dialog. This allows me to login from the road if I need to manage something like rebooting it or updating firewall rules etc.

  My access flow is this :

  router.example.com —> Cloudflare Tunnel —> Pomerium IP —>Authentik —> Router’s Gui.

  It works flawlessly. I don’t often use it, but when I do, it helps. I also had it enabled for AdguardHome but moved to Technitium DNS which I prefer and that doesn’t have the HTTP Headers so it’s not fully compatible with Pomerium that I’m aware of.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Simple authentication for homelab?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  www.youtube.com/@cooptonian His Authentik videos are top notch and they (Authentik) have also had him make some for them. One of those videos, I can’t recall shows you how to do this, I think it may be the 2FA/MFA one. I use Authentik and can login with fingerprint login without using my UN/PW first. It’s pretty slick.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Appreciation / shock at workplace IT systems⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I am a former IT Desktop drone…er…support worker… I used to swap towers for my local municipality back when Windows XP was being replaced with 7. I saw passwords on post-its attached to the monitor, mouse pad, and even under the keyboard or keyboard drawer (I had to get under desks to do the swap). Our policy was to remove those whenever we saw them and trash them in a different can across the building or a different one. They have a standard 90 day password cycle and most people couldn’t handle that. I would answer the phone often to 'unlock" their account after 3 attempts. My all time favorite when I would help an end user with software was when I would encounter someone’s “God Mode” icon for some of the registry hacks that used to float around. Everyone had Admin privileges (ironically), so it wasn’t really needed anyway.

  Their primary server admins and IT folks in the main office were Top notch though. Never any downtime and the main security guy was very strong in making sure everything was adhered to. We, as desktop support didn’t have the master password to decrypt a laptop which was GPG protected and had to bring it to him if we had a user which locked themselves out. With great consternation, only a few machines would be allowed to XP and those were VLAN’d and isolated from the outside world.

  The rest of the server admins handled everything with ease seemingly. The fun part was when they had a third party come in and do a security audit. No problems on the server side, but it wasn’t a success. They did the 'ol drop a flash drive randomly in different locations test. Knowing human nature, they knew someone would pick it up, plug it in and be baited with an excel file which looked like it had financials. Unbeknownst to the user, it sent a ping to their reporting server and the drive ID. Which was later reported back. They also did physical security penetration tests - walk in behind you type of thing. I remember seeing a group of guys non company ID badges try to follow me into the main IT office. I stopped them and asked who they were and what they wanted (this was a Govt building), and the look of confusion mixed with satisfaction from them that I stopped them was priceless. I let the head IT guy know who was at the door and left it up to them to unlock it for them.

  I now work in a help desk position for a software company and miss those days of desktop support. But, I know for a fact that I.T. Guys an Gals don’t get enough recognition. They are the understated backbone of a company’s well-being especially when holidays and weekends are prime time for systems to fail and they are practically on call no matter what.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This Week in Self-Hosted (15 March 2024)⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I am testing it and it seems to run every 5 minutes to sync. Handles standard IMAP and POP inboxes. No auth for main page, so they caution appropriately to avoid public facing web exposure. They are planning on adding more support for Gmail and the like:

  github.com/bandundu/email-archiver/issues/6

  It installs by default in debug mode which may or may not be a red flag depending on your security model.

  The email search is fast, but could use work, I will say it is VERY early in development. But for downloading email for later storage, it should do. It stores your e-mails in a SQLite database in the same directory as the installer, so if you want to manipulate the compose file a bit, it should be able to point to your desired storage directory. With that said, I also was able to add a TZ= directive so my logs at least are a bit cleaner with timestamps to match my timezone, something they have not added.

  If you wish to access this remotely before they add a public facing login, protect it with a SSO solution or other front facing login setup so it would not be accessible. Or securely access it via Wireguard, TailScale, or Headscale.

• If Askjeeves.com was invented today, chances are it would be a GPT Site.
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Proxmox vs. TrueNAS Scale⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I use Proxmox and don’t use Truenas. My setup is basically to install Cockpit on the host server via apt-get and then the 45 Drives cockpit-sharing plugin. This provides the NFS and Samba sharing I need and use. I host Home Assistant in a VM and Docker containers in a few LXC containers which host about 10 containers each. Then, in combination with tteck.github.io/Proxmox/ you can set up pretty much anything you need from there.

  This is on in computer terms ancient, a 13 year old Dell Optiplex 990 with 16gb Ram and software such as Authentik and Vaultwarden from different dedicated LXC containers. Never have any issues with overload of the system resources or running out of memory. It’s pretty much rock solid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What does your current setup look like?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Tailscale is but since you already tried them, maybe headscale that’s supposed to be the self hosted version of Tailscale that someone wrote, so you have better odds at less latency! headscale.net

  Zerotier? Not sure -https://www.zerotier.com/ can speak more to this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What does your current setup look like?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If behind CGNAT and forwarding is not an option, Headscale, Tailscale or ZeroTier may be an option. I use Tailscale and it have ZERO forwarding on and can access anything on my network when connected through it. Think of these as Wireguard on Steroids. :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨virtualizing PFSense. What else works besides ESXi for virtual networking?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As Another Proxmox user - I’ve been doing well with it. I use these scripts for the LXC’s which has been fantastic:

  tteck.github.io/Proxmox/

  I also can log into it from the web as it’s secured by Authentik, SSO OIDC login when Away from home and need to manage it. Rare! But the option is there! :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linkwarden - An open-source collaborative bookmark manager to collect, organize and preserve webpages⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Installed and no way to login, see this in your GH issues:

  github.com/linkwarden/linkwarden/issues/415

  This is a fresh install as about 10 minutes ago so using the :latest tag which I believe is the v 2.4.8 build. Signing up is possible and I was able to create my user account so that’s a good start at least. :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Planning on setting up Proxmox and moving most services there. Some questions⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Since you didn’t include a link to the source for your recommendation:

  github.com/canonical/lxd

  I’ve been on Proxmox for 6 or so months with very few issues and have found it to work well in my instance, I do appreciate seeing another alternative and learning about it too! I very specifically like Proxmox as it gives me an actual IP on my router’s subnet for my machines such as Home Assistant. So instead of the 192.168.122.1 it rolls a nice 192.168.1.X/24 IP which fits my range which makes it easier for me to direct my outside traffic to it. Does this also do this? Based on your screenshots, maybe not, IDK.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Any simple alternatives to smoke ping?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably the only true way of knowing is by setting up an EXTERNAL host somewhere on a VPS or maybe a reputable VPS provider. Then, on that provider, set up Uptime Kuma, or if you don’t want to go through that trouble and don’t mind a potential 10 minute gap in knowing, uptimerobot.com which checks every 5 minutes and sends an alert.

  Once you do this, unless you have a Static IP, you will want to register with a DDNS provider so you can then tell the uptime service to ping your DDNS host which should echo back . If your internet is down, it won’t echo back and then it will trigger their alert. Of course, this won’t work if your IP changes, so staying on top of that is key unless you use a router which auto updates it which a lot do now days.

  Or, if you use Cloudflare Tunnels, it can be configured to alert you when the tunnel is down or unhealthy (A.K.A. No internet or the server is rebooted).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Replacing Cloudflare Tunnels with Tailscale?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Understood! I have subnet routing enabled as well. First thing I did when I realized my phone couldn’t access my local server once connected to Tailscale. :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Replacing Cloudflare Tunnels with Tailscale?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Simply put - I won’t risk making my work’s IT mad by logging into my machinename.tailscale-defined.ts.net. I don’t know if it’s blocked there, but you never know with IT polices and such. I’ve already been able to get through to my foo.example.com address without issue so I’m letting a sleeping dog alone so to speak.

  Also, I think it’s easier to tell someone to go to videos.example.com than machinename.tailscale-defined.ts.net. :)