Hello all,

I'm hoping to get some advice on my self hosting environment. I currently run Proxmox VE with a few VMs, and use Proxmox VE's built in VM backup method to my NAS. I don't currently have a good backup method for the host server itself, and I know I'm playing with fire not having that properly backed up.

I have an older laptop that I'm considering turning into a Proxmox Backup Server, which should allow me to backup the host server and VMs, which would make me feel a lot better. The one thing I haven't really seen info on in my research is if there's a convenient way to backup THE backup server. If anyone uses PBS, do you back that up as well? How so?

I appreciate any assistance or advice!

Today I fumbled thru the install of Rayfish and Yggdrasil. Both are awesome, but Rayfish was so much easier to install and use.

Have you tried these yet?

Here's the Yggdrasil link:

https://yggdrasil-network.github.io/

Yggdrasil has Android, Windows, Linux, Apple installers.

Rayfish only works on desktop right now, but hopefully soon they will be able to get it on Android.

I have a bunch of services running on my LAN, mostly from a single Debian machine. I access them at URLs like http://devicename.lan:portnumber. I would like to change to http://servicename.devicename.lan.

How it works now: The router (openwrt) sets a static IP per device and the port number is selected by the application or system unit running it.

What is the absolute simplest way to accomplish this? I don't mind if it is managed by the router or by the server machine itself. Hoping for something that can be configured with a text file or web interface or other basic mathod.

These sevices are private, just for me and I have no plans to ever access them externally. I have so far avoided any certificates or SSL or other stuff. I don't use docker and would rather not get into it right now. I like my domain name setup how it is with fake local domains.

Hoping this could be possible without making a whole project out of it.

Hey everyone! There have been a bunch of comments lately, all basically the same with the same link, and all coming from lemmy . 1095 . me.

If you see a comment from an account there, please report it as spam and don't bother with a reply.

google search results are still kind of useful especially for non-english language queries, anyone knows a good alternative?

searxng also doesn't really seem to work these days..

This is not a real post, but several examples of a self-promotion post that would need to meet the requirements of rules 7 & 8. The links will all go to the wiki I've started on Codeberg. While none of it was created with an LLM, its being used as a sample link.

These are the categories for a disclosure. Only those with AI assistance (at any level) get listed.

• Design - architecture, system design
• Implementation - production code
• Testing - writing tests, test plans, and QA.
• Documentation - Docs, comments, README, change logs
• Review - Code review and pull request feedback
• Deployment - CI/CD configuration.

Each category that uses AI is then shown, along with the level of AI involvement. There are four levels of AI support to then use:

• Hint - AI suggested solution, human does the task.
• Assisted - AI acts on part of a task, but a human handled the bulk.
• Pair - About a 50/50 split of human made and generated.
• Generated - Human prompted, AI generated.

A few different examples are shown below

Example 1 - A human prompted, and AI generated everything

I made a thing! It does stuff, and you can find it at codeberg. Its open source, and since my account is more than 30 days old I can post about it here!

AI Disclosure:

• Design - Generated
• Implementation - Generated
• Testing - Generated
• Documentation - Generated
• Review - Generated
• Deployment - Generated

Since AI generated everything from a prompt, and each category is involved in my fake project, all categories are displayed

Example 2 - Mixed levels of AI use for the entire project, except for the Design (architecture/system design)

I made a thing! It does stuff, and you can find it at codeberg. Its open source, but there is a paid subscription component. My account is more than 30 days old and I regularly post and comment without promoting my project for at least 90% of my posts/comments, so I can post about it here!

AI Disclosure:

• Implementation - Generated
• Testing - Hint
• Documentation - Pair
• Review - Assisted
• Deployment - Generated

As the design came entirely from a human, it does not need to be listed. Everything after that though involved AI, so they do need to be listed.

This tells the community that the implementation (code) and deployment (CI/CD pipeline) were entirely handled by AI from a prompt.

For testing, I asked AI for the best way to handle it, but implemented the test plans, tests, and performed the QA myself.

The documentation was about a 50/50 split on effort, because I used AI to generate the readme, changelogs, and some of the general documentation, while the rest of the documentation and all of the comments were handled by a person.

Review (code review / pull request feedback) was mostly handled by a person, but still involves AI in some of the effort.

Example 3 - I used AI to help me work with a piece of hardware over a serial connection, and nothing else

I made a thing! It does stuff, and you can find it at codeberg. Its open source, and since my account is more than 30 days old I can post about it here!

AI Disclosure:

• Implementation - Hint

Note: I only used AI to figure out how to communicate with this weird device I bought from a garage sale and couldn't find any documentation on the protocol.

Since I only used AI to figure out how to talk to the device, and through that series of AI prompts I came up with the code for the communication protocol which I then wrote entirely myself, only Implementation is listed.

Since it was such a small part, I decided to note how I used it, both to show that this came mostly from me, but also by mentioning it this is where folks may want to pay attention if they want to contribute. Someone may be familiar with the device I found at a garage sale, and has a printed copy of the 40yr old manual that includes the protocol.

Example 4 - I used AI in some way, but I've already made that clear in the git repository with an AI declaration file.

I made a thing! It does stuff, and you can find it at codeberg. Its open source, and since my account is more than 30 days old I can post about it here!

AI Disclosure can be found in the git repository here.

Since I've already created an AI disclosure document in my repository, I don't need to declare it again here. Instead, I can link to that disclosure for everyone to easily find and get the full details.

Hopefully this helps clear up any confusion around how to make an AI disclosure. If you have any questions please feel free to message before posting.

Hey everybody, first time post here.

Here's a quick rundown of my setup. I'm running an ubuntu server with a Nextcloud/redis/maria db stack. I've enabled collabora online built in CODE server for my online nextcloud office. On my pixel i use the collabora app and my linux mint desktop I'm using either libre office or collabora office. I'm currently just a single user and I use a wireguard server on my router for remote access. I'm fine with not having live web based editing for now as I'm the only user. My syncs between my phone and my nextcloud server UI are flawless.

The PROBLEM I'm experiencing is on my desktop when I open say a .xls(using calc) or .docx(using writer), libre office or collabora opens them with a ".~lock." When this is opened it wipes the data in the file and resyncs my nextcloud server UI and my phone nexctcloud app with the wiped version.

Has anyone else experienced this and found a solution??

I've also only recently been tinkering with servers and self hosted applications for about 5 months, so this is all new to me and I could easily be overlooking a few things.

Many thanks in advance

By popular demand from this post, here's the write-up for my version of that travel server.

The travel server is shown with the, currently, bare 5V UPS board to its right. One day I hope to have a 3D printed case for both of those, but they're currently separate as my 3D modeling skills are basically non-existent. The power cable is wrapped in aluminum foil and then wrapped in electrical tape due to EMI from the wifi adapter causing random glitches. A ferrite bead would probably solve that more elegantly, but I didn't have any on hand so made due with what I have.

Hardware

• Banana Pi M4 Zero
  • 1.5 GHz Quad Core ARM64
  • 4 GB RAM
  • 32 GB eMMC
  • 1 TB Samsung PRO Plus SD Card (bought before prices went nuts)
• Li-2B UPS Board + 2x 3,000 mAh 18650 batteries
• USB-C to USB-A 90 degree angle adapter
• USB Nano Wifi adapter

Note: Unlike the Pi Zero, these have two USB ports. One is configured in host mode and the other in peripheral mode.

Features and Capabilities

• Multiple wifi clients can use this for network access
• Multiple "WAN" options
• Multiple VPN connections (OpenVPN, Wireguard, IPSEC) e.g.
  • Privacy VPN for general internet traffic
  • Wireguard to connect back to home network
• Ad-blocking via PiHole
• Local file sharing via Samba/SMB
• Locally-hosted web applications with valid hostnames and valid SSL certs (via Let's Encrypt).
  • SearxNG
  • Jellyfin
  • Pairdrop
  • CodeServer
  • Snapcast Server
  • myMPD (MPD web UI)
  • Kiwix (including full Wikipedia dump with images)
  • NodeRED
  • CalibreWeb

Travel Router / Access Point

For internet uplink, there are multiple options depending on need. By default, the internal/bulit-in wi-fi is the internet uplink and the USB wi-fi adapter is the client-facing AP interface. This is how I normally keep it configured in my use-cases.

Alternatively, the built-in wi-fi can be used as the client-facing AP and the uplink to the internet can be provided by a USB-tethered smartphone or a USB ethernet adapter --OR-- the internet uplink can be omitted entirely and either the USB or built-in wifi adapters can serve clients (or both: one in 2.4 GHz mode and the other in 5 GHz mode). Fortunately, the built-in wifi chip in the Banana Pi works well in AP mode but that's not always the case (cough Orange Pi Zero W2 cough).

If a PC is connected to USB0 (the OTG port), the device will act as an ethernet gadget. The travel server will add its end of the usb0 interface into the LAN bridge along with the client-side AP. This means the connected PC will be on the same LAN as the wireless clients.

It's also possible to add a USB ethernet adapter and bridge it into the LAN side as well.

Depending on configuration, a small USB-C hub may be needed. I've got one that includes a USB A port, ethernet port, and additional USB C port.

VPNs can also be configured as needed. I've got a privacy one that can route all traffic as well as a Wireguard one that connects back to my home LAN when I'm using it remotely.

DHCP and DNS are both provided by PiHole

Reverse Proxy

All applications hosted on the travel server are fronted by Nginx and use valid Let's Encrypt certificates. This eliminates the need to install a custom CA cert in end devices or have the clients accept an untrusted self-signed cert.

This also ensures all applications are protected by TLS which is required for full functionality of some applications.

How does that work?

The hostname of the travel server (mobile) is a subdomain of my personal, project domain (mydomain.xyz). All applications are a subdomain of that (e.g. jellyfin.mobile.mydomain.xyz), and I simply request a wildcard cert from Let's Encrypt for *.mobile.mydomain.xyz. Currently, Let's Encrypt requires the use of DNS validation when requesting wildcard certificates.

Movies/TV

Movies and TV shows are provided by Jellyfin and are stored on the 1 TB SD card. I've tested 4 simultaneous streams, and the travel server didn't even break a sweat. Granted, it's not transcoding anything so I believe I'm mostly limited by USB, wifi, and/or SD card bandwidth in that regard.

For reliability, the Jellyfin database is stored on the internal 32 GB eMMC rather than the SD card. This both reduces wear and tear on the card as well as proves to be faster and more reliable.

CPU transoding is a non-starter, and the GPU drivers for these boards isn't exactly well supported. The GPU drivers also rely on V4L which Jellyfin has deprecated for hardware transcoding, so I opted to forego transcoding entirely.

To load movies/TV shows on here, I pre-process them with ffmpeg in the following way:

• Scale to 720p to save space
• Encode to H.264 in an MP4 container (including subtitles as mov_text if available) in yuv420p pixel format to avoid the need for remuxing or transcoding
• Map only the primary English audio and subtitle streams to further save space
• Downmix multi-channel audio to two-channel stereo

Music

Music is provided by a combination of MPD and Snapcast and the library is also stored on the 1TB SD card.

MPD manages the music collection while Snapcast allows synchronized multi-room audio and connecting receivers via wifi.

For local playback, I use myMPD web UI and use its streaming feed or use the MPD and Snapcast clients on the end device. There's also a Snapcast client installed on the travel server itself, so if you add a USB speaker it can playback music directly.

Books

It runs Calibre-Web to manage my book collection which is also stored on the 1 TB SD card. When my phone is connected to its wifi, it can use my FBReader app to connect to the Calibre library over OPDS to download books.

Development

The travel server runs CodeServer which is an un-Microsofted web-based version of VSCode. You can set that up however you want, but I've got it setup for:

• React / NextJS development
• Python development
• ESP8266/ESP32 development with Platform.io

Other services it runs to facilitate development include:

• NodeJS and Bun
• Postgres (via Docker)
• Mosquitto MQTT
• Redis
• CouchDB
• NodeRED

Offline Knowledge

Kiwix is installed with a large selection of ZIMS for offline reference.

• DevDocs for React, Bun, NodeJS, ExpressJS, NextJS, etc. Pretty much every major libarary and framework I work with has offline docs
• Full text Wikipedia dump with images (approx 130GB)

Search

I installed SearxNG so I always have an ad-free, AI-free, no BS search engine available.

File Sharing

The travel server has a few different ways to share files:

• Samba (SMB) shared folder
• PairDrop for quick and easy one-to-one local sharing in the browser or phone app
• SSHFS (alternative method of accessing the SMB shares

Future Plans / Not Yet Implemented

• Add data passthrough to the UPS board so a host PC can charge the UPS/power the travel server while also enumerating it as a USB ethernet device. Currently the UPS board only passes power and plugs into the peripheral USB port.
• Add some kind of tile server and map viewer. Inspired by this project.
• Set up captive portal so Android (and probably Apple, too) devices don't freak out if there's no internet uplink. Currently requires an annoying "Stay connected to this network" and enabling airplane mode so that DNS will work over the wifi connection if there's no internet uplink available.
• Make a web UI to manage services/configs. Currently, config changes require SSH-ing in and modifying the config directly. I do have preset configs for different "modes" but you still have to swap them around by hand.
• Design and 3D print a case that can hold the UPS board and the travel server itself while allowing the travel server to be "ejected" (basically I imagine it slotting into it from the outside and connecting to fixed USB and mini HDMI connectors embedded in the case).

Hello everyone! Daniel here.

Today, I'm excited to announce that Linkwarden is getting one of its largest mobile updates so far, along with a web app that’s much lighter to run.

For those who are new here, Linkwarden is a tool for collecting, organizing, reading, and preserving webpages, articles, and documents in one place. Linkwarden is available as a Cloud offering, or you can self-host it on your own server.

Let's get into it.

What's new on mobile:

🖍️ Highlight and annotate

You can now highlight text in the reader view, pick from four colors, and attach a note to any highlight.

There's also a new Notes & Highlights view per article which lets you skim what you've marked and jump to it in the text.

📥 True offline mode

Previously, the app only saved preserved formats for links you had already opened. Now, you can turn on Save for offline access in the settings, and the app will download every preserved format in the background as you browse.

🪪 Link details sheet

Long-press any link to open Link Details, which shows all the information about a link in one sheet, similar to the web app.

📖 Customizable reader view

Adjust font, text size, line height, and background color as you read.

What's new on the web:

🧠 Much lower memory usage

Linkwarden 2.15 roughly halves idle memory usage, from around 700 MB down to about 350 MB. We explained this in more detail on our blog.

🐳 A much smaller Docker image

The Docker image has also been cut in half, dropping from roughly 3.0 GB to 1.5 GB.

🔑 Generic OIDC provider

Self-hosters can now connect any OpenID Connect identity provider. Check it out in the docs!

🔒 Increased security

A good chunk of this release went into security hardening. We strongly recommend updating to 2.15.

There's more...

As always, there's a long tail of smaller improvements across the web and the mobile app.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/linkwarden/linkwarden/compare/v2.14.1...v2.15.0

Thanks!

Thanks to everyone using Linkwarden, reporting bugs, suggesting improvements, contributing to the project, responsibly disclosing security issues, and supporting its development. Your contributions genuinely shape every release.

If you'd like to try Linkwarden without dealing with server setup and maintenance, our Cloud offering is the easiest way to get started.

We hope you enjoy the latest Linkwarden updates!

Basically, the title. It's an old Toshiba flat screen. I successfully "taught" the keyboard the power button code. The keyboard will turn the TV off, but not on. The power button on the remote is just one button, a toggle, like normal. Of course, the remote will turn the TV on and off, by pressing that one button. I can't imagine what is wrong, it must be the same code for on and off, right? I mean, the things aren't that complicated.

Thank you.

EDIT: It works if I program a button on the keyboard other than the power button. So I programmed button "C1" as the power button and for whatever reason, that button will turn the TV on and off. Weird. It's the keyboard treating the power button differently.

OK, this is cool

https://www.instructables.com/Jcorp-Nomad-Mini-WIFI-Media-Server/

What is Jcorp Nomad?

Nomad is a self-contained, battery-friendly media server that fits in your pocket. 

It creates a local Wi-Fi hotspot with no internet connection needed, allowing you to stream your own movies, shows, music, books, and more directly from a microSD card. It’s perfect for camping, road trips, classrooms, or any scenario where connectivity is limited or unavailable.

TL;DR: Low power ESP-32 media server, that creates a local WiFi hotspot, media front end and serves upto 8 streams simultaneously.

Disclosure: no affiliation with project, other than wishing I'd thought of it first. I love me some ESP-32 black magic.

Torum is a self-hosted, Tor-native discussion forum modeled after Hacker News. It runs entirely as a Tor hidden service, accessible only through the Tor network via a .onion address. All data is stored locally in an SQLite database, and the entire application is managed through a single interactive shell script. Designed for operators who want to run a private or semi-private community forum with no reliance on clearnet infrastructure, third-party services, or cloud hosting.

Wanted to share my setup so far, in part to get some feedback, in part to share results of my own research.

Hardware

The base is an old Dell laptop with 8GB of RAM, nothing special.

For network I got cheap (~30 euro) Cudy router compatible with OpenWRT. I looked at MikroTik but it was more expensive and the setup looked more complex. OpenWRT was very easy to install and fairly easy to set up. I really appreciate the firewall, I was able to easily cut off my smart TV form the internet for example. Setting up port forwarding was also easy.

For storage I got Icy Box USB RAID, set it up to RAID 1. It was the cheapest solution I found and it works fine after a bit of fiddling (issues with the fan but it's a long story, can give more details if someone's interested because otherwise I'm happy with it). I use it for backups for now and plan on using it for slow storage in the future. I also got 5TB USB drive for media (arr). I don't care if I lose it so no backup or RAID here.

No UPS so far. I'm planning on installing solar planes with battery which should protect me from power cuts.

Software

Proxmox as a base. I hesitated if I really need it as I was planning to setup 3 VMs only but in the end the ease of backups and storage management convinced me to use it. Works great, no issues here.

VMs based on Debian.

I'm using cosmos cloud to manage my apps (https://cosmos-cloud.io/). I compared couple of different solutions and this one had the biggest library of supported apps and uses docker (I like the additional security provided by containers). It works great so far and has all the features I needed.

I chose netbird for VPN and I'm not happy with it. The Android app has serious issue with battery usage. It was reported long time ago and it's still not fixed. That's really sad because otherwise the app is great. I'm trying to switch to netmaker now. Why not tailscale? I don't want to tie myself to a closed source app like that.

Backups

VMs backed up by Proxmox daily, stored on the RAID and synced to external server (VPS with NFS drive).

Network and VMs

One internal server accessible only thorough VPN. It hosts *arr stack and bitwarden.

One external server accessible through port forwarding in OpenWRT and nginx with fail2ban. It will host forgejo, my webiste and so on.

One exit node VM running nord VPN.

Phone with always connected VPN routing everything through the exit node.

Bitwarden with self-signed cert imported on phone.

Monitoring

Simple monit scripts pinging individual servers, checking VPN status and status of hard drives.

I've been running it for couple of months and so far everything is working great. I want to setup the external server next, test the backups and switch to self-hosted netmaker for VPN.

Anything else I should do or anything I should stop doing?

cross-posted from: https://piefed.zeromedia.vip/c/selfhosting/p/451238/1-year-into-navidrome-with-dilligent-tagging-and-rating-and-this-is-how-someone

forgive the tyos, english is absolutely my first language but we strugglin over here, ya feel? or, take it as confirmation this ain't some damn clanker bullshit

It's just like holy shit! this is what I've wanted my music to do my whole life! This is almost just another member of the family.

Feishin and the smart playlists really really shine when adding user ratings into the mix. plus, adding a "mood" tag and then being able to use our own terms, it is incredible.

Build a custom station with the tags you want, then add "not played in the last days" (depending on how much traffic/supply of that particular kind of music gets) and it keeps it fresh. Add in "rating is not 1" and you'll see the stuff that hasn't been rated yet, but it won't even let 1 start tracks into the queue!

I have rediscovered old favorites, found new songs by classic artists, have perfectly curated playlists down to the nth degree, custom stations that show me exactly what i want before i even knew i wanted to listen to that right then, all without commercials, on every device i own.

i am pumped for the future of the open subsonic API's! I think a skipped count could be awesome. I'd like to automate some stuff based off skip counts.

the navidrome plugins are getting some inertia, i am excited to see where that goes.

Other Navidrome/opensubsonic users, how do you guys use the 5 stars? for me it is

• 5 amazing song, not only will i 99% of the time never skip it, i will try to get everyone's attention and have them listen
• 4 i really like this song and have stopped what i am doing to pay attention to it, it is not likely but may get skipped depending on the mood/genre desired at that time
• 3 - this song is good and i notice it and smile while continuing doing my thing, unless it is the wrong mood/genre (can i blast it while working?), which means it gets skipped.
• 2 - this song is unobtrusive and doesn't appear to bother or inspire me.
• 1 this song catches my attention due to disliking it. I will go out of my way to stop it from playing. i set up my stations to never call for those again.

I am looking for other ways to interface with this to be able to rate songs a little easier/safer (while driving?)

I am hopeful i will have the wiggle room to donate to navidrome, feishin, snapcast, mopidy, spindle, soon!!!!

NutriTrace v1.0.0-rc.54 released: Health Connect sync fix, local LLM proxy support, backup fidelity pass

NutriTrace is a self-hosted nutrition tracker (Docker + Android, AGPL-3.0). Small point release focused on stability and fixes.

Fixes

• Health Connect users' Android sync unstuck (#89). Pending Health Connect rows on the phone were tripping a SQL bug on push, which stopped every subsequent pull. Symptom: items added on the browser weren't reaching the phone. Every user with Health Connect enabled on the Android app was silently affected. Two independent reporters (duplaja + traebertthomas-cpu) traced this to the same root cause within days of each other. Update the app on Android; the sync error banner clears on the next sync cycle.

• More accurate Time to Sound Sleep in Sleep Quality. Server-side ttss derivation now includes the initial 5-10 min settling-in awake segment, matching what the Fitbit app measures. Closes the consistent -5 to -7 min under-count on nights with a short initial wake segment. Applies to Health Connect and Google Health syncs.

What's new

• Server-side proxy for OpenAI-compatible AI providers (#90). Env-locked AI now supports AI_PROVIDER=oai-compat alongside claude / openai / gemini. Point AI_BASE_URL at a private-network Ollama, LM Studio, LocalAI, vLLM, or similar and the server calls it directly, so the browser never has to see the endpoint. Solves the mixed-content + Docker-internal-DNS gap for self-hosters running a local LLM sidecar. Same capability added to LiftTrace and CookTrace at the same time.

• Backup + restore fidelity pass. Eight silent data-loss scenarios closed across the full backup, JSON export/import, and Android local backup flows. Highlights: OFF unit metadata (nutrition_basis, alt_units, density_g_ml) from rc.50 now survives a restore, federation API tokens survive backups, JSON settings import correctly pushes to the server on PWA, and native restore no longer double-inserts on a second pass.

• "Copy to another date" defaults to today. Copying a meal or item from a past date now pre-fills today in the picker instead of the source date. One less tap for the "same lunch again today" case.

Install / upgrade

• Docker: pull the new image and restart your stack (see the README for compose snippets). Image is multi-arch (amd64 + arm64).
• Android: signed APK on the release page.
• Full CHANGELOG: main repo.

What is NutriTrace?

Self-hosted nutrition tracker. Diary + Foods catalog (with Open Food Facts / USDA / Mealie search + barcode scan), wellness integrations (Fitbit, Garmin, Withings, Google Health, Health Connect), workouts, goals, statistics, recipes, multi-user, OIDC SSO, federation with LiftTrace and CookTrace, AI assistant (Claude / OpenAI / Gemini / Ollama). Docker on the server, Capacitor app on Android. AGPL-3.0 licensed.

AI Disclosure

Per Rule 7 / [AIP] disclosure requirements AI was used during development as a coding assistant. Level per category:

• Design (architecture, system design): Hint — I make the architectural calls; AI suggests trade-offs and edge cases I might have missed.
• Implementation (production code): Pair — roughly 50/50. AI drafts, I review, adjust, test on real hardware, and only commit what I've verified. Every commit is manually reviewed before it goes to my dev repo.
• Testing (writing tests, test plans, QA): Assisted — real-device testing is manual (I test on my own PC and mobile devices before every release). AI helps draft test plans and think through edge cases.
• Documentation (docs, comments, README, CHANGELOG): Pair — release notes and changelog entries are drafted with AI then edited for tone; comments and code docs are mostly Pair as well.
• Review (code review, PR feedback): Assisted — I'm the reviewer; AI helps with security sweeps, audit passes on complex changes, and consistency checks.
• Deployment (CI/CD config): Hint — Docker/GitHub Actions/release pipeline is largely conventional; AI-suggested improvements only.

Solo maintainer; no team.

Hello!

I am currently working on building an open source self hosted application that allows you to record, edit, and publish podcast episodes (like Castopod but more emphasis on recording and editing).

I'm not sure if this is the best place to ask but I am looking to see if I could maybe find a small handful of people who would be willing to play around and test either a version running on their own system or the production demo I have running.

I've been messing around with it myself for several months but have not received feedback from pretty much anyone else and would like to know what some others think. I initially published the project to GitHub about 5 months ago.

Thanks!

Edit: the link to the GitHub is

https://github.com/LoganRickert/HarborFM

Hey selfhosters.

I have a question about starting self hosting; I have run Jellyfin on an old MacBook for a bit and wanna dip more than a toe into the self host pool. Are there any guides out there you’d recommend for actual, complete beginners who knows nothing but wants to learn?

I’ve searched a lot but it feels like they’re pretty advanced for beginners. Is it just a really sharp learning curve to this, or am I not finding the good ones?

Edit: To clarify what level I’m really, truly at: I run the Jellyfin server on regular macOS and have an external 5TB drive connected via usb. That’s it.

I'm looking for help deciding, or maybe with info I haven't found on my own and or experience you have with these drives.

I'm finally pulling the trigger on a drive (more in the future, for now I still have a few smaller ones on my desktop for backup) specifically for use on my home server, so far I've been doing fine with my 2.5' hdd but besides running tight on space, I want a more reliable drive.

I've been researching and looking up options within my budget, payment methods and such and ended up with two options, both WD (the options I've found on seagate are a bit more expensive):

• WD80EFPX WD red plus 8TB (in three different stores at similar enough prices, not sure if that's relevant here)
• WD120EFGX WD red plus 12 TB, not too much more expensive Note that I've skipped 10 TB reds because I've read those have a couple problems like being abnormally noisy and unreliable

As far as I could find out, it seems this 12 TB option is a bit louder (I'm not sure if 30 vs 24 dB is too much, but idk really) and a bit slower data throughput (despite spinning the platters faster, or at least saying so in the specs), but I couldn't find anything about them being particularly unreliable (though I'm new to buying drives for reliability, unfortunately, timing-wise). I do want more storage (who doesn't?), but I'd rather focusing on reliability between these options.

While I don't exactly intend to run RAID, I ended up choosing nas drives for the 24/7 intended usage, I don't think it'll make much difference but I rather the peace of mind, my use is immich for photos (hence the reliability), jellyfin for a small selection of stuff (which doesn't require that much performance as far as I can tell) and a few small services that will mostly live on the ssd (and general NAS usage too, no need for much performance). Similarly big drives for regular use aren't that much cheaper anyways (between the options I have available and accounting for the reliability thing) but will still value your input on the topic, I'm still open to just looking for regular drives if it turns out I'm wrong about that.

Quick note on the topic of noise: I have my home server in the same space as my desktop and the noise of my desktop is already a bit much, It's fine but it's not far from being annoying, Can't hear anything from the server and hope it won't change much after the new drives (I'll focus on making my desktop quieter in the future).

Only other similarly dense (and priced) drives I've found are Seagate IronWolf ST8000VN004 8TB, Seagate Barracuda 8TB ST8000DM004 and then a bunch of surveilance drives which I've read again and again aren't worth getting for NAS or homelab usage.

Hope this is not too far from the topic of selfhosting since it's mostly about storage (for use in a home server).

As you can see, being succinct is not my specialty, sorry for the long post.

Hello everyone

Last week I bought a domain with the intention of connecting it to my NAS so I can access my apps over the internet without tailscale (plus give access to a few family members on jellyfin). I did it through clourflare.

I was very naïve but I had no ideal of the sheer amount of learning it would require to achieve the things I'm looking to do (just basic access with some additional authentication). So far I've managed to publish my immich server (behind a authentication screen) but largely still very confused about how its actually working. And very confused about setting up external auth and using reverse proxy. Honestly feeling quite defeated.

I've posted here in the selfhosted Lemmy and you guys have been really helpful but I think I could really benefit from someone showing me and explaining how it works. I have already learnt a lot from last week but the more I learn the more questions I have.

I've taught myself home networking, I knew nothing about it before I built a NAS, but with this I just want to be sure I'm doing it right.

I can pay you. Not heaps but hopefully enough for 20-30 minutes of your time. Not trying to rip anyone off here haha

Thanks for all your continued advice on this

The summer and its rabid heat is here and i still have a lot of lawn that hasnt been replaced by gardens yet (work in progress) and grows super fast

Im trying to get better and decouple myself from cloud services, but my searches for what robotic lawn mowers are self hostable/dont require wan isnt giving me confidence

I might just deal with the heat and get a push mower and deal with it, but if anyone has experience with a good local-only robotic lawn mower, or which ones to avoid - id love to hear it

Enjoying the simplicity of a single tab setup!