bmcgonag

@bmcgonag@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SMTP provider⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Been using Purelymail, full email, but SMTP as well, and love the service thus far.

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

  Headscale server, open source, self hosted, with the open source tailscale clients are the way to go.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft’s controversial Windows Recall feature is coming back in October⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To the title of this article /post, all I can say is Duh.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you handle family requests that you disagree with?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have to agree with this. It’s your mom. If she isn’t hurting you, or asking you to watch them, and you have the space and bandwidth, just do it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is replacement for home device controls so complicated?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  THIS.

  Home Assistant is the brain of the operation. Your smart phone is just an arm or hand in the operation. It’s the same for any of the services you perceive to be just using your smart phone. They actually call out to servers owned by the various companies, and then return requested operations to your devices at home. So with Home Assistant you have the opportunity to use devices and a server that all remain in your own network. Your data and information aren’t being sent to a third party. This, of course, depends on the devices you buy.

  But that’s the power behind Home Assistant.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Simple authentication for homelab?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This. 100%

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's your favorite note-taking application?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d like to highly recommend QOwnNotes with. File system sync like Nextcloud. Superb.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Any recommendations for monitoring my servers?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m kind of loving Zabbix, but not sure if it’s the right solution for your needs. I’d say it would definitely work, but does take a bit of setup initially. This article is interesting, and seems to have a lot of what you want. Not sure if you want to do all of this. opensource.com/…/build-raspberry-pi-dashboard-app…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨VPN gateway server to share one config⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If you want to self host check out Wireguard options like Netmaker, Headscale, Netbird, etc. these all allow you the ability to setup a machine as an exit node into a LAN, and allow LAN to LAN communication. If you are just looking for a VPN and don’t have to self host, then Tailscale might be a good starting point. Figure out the setup you like, then move to a self hosted headscale setup later using that as a model.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do any of you use Raspberry Pi’s ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I run OpenSprinkler Pi on my raspberry Pi 3 and HomeAssistant on my Pi 4. Works incredibly well for both.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨mr. pepper⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I always heard it was an honorary doctorate.