and let’s hope that the login page doesn’t have any vulnerabilities…

Home assistant also supports mTLS.
home assistant is something you’d likely ever want to allow from a handful of trusted devices, so deploying a client certificate on them can make sense.
This way a non-onboarded device doesn’t even get to the html part, it’s denied upstream by a reverse proxy before HA is involved.

I’m a big fan of mutual TLS, which I just do in nginx reverse proxy.
Client certs get installed on trusted devices and then it’s mostly seamless.
Not every app will support it, but I use Firefox as a fallback for stuff that doesn’t, or my VPN.
TBH, I’m just happy homeassistant supports it as that’s the one thing I’d rather be as seamless as possible.
Other things I don’t mind having to connect a VPN for, like jellyfin, which I don’t currently share with others.
For nextcloud I’m currently not running mTLS as it wasn’t supported back then and I had to share some links with some people where I wouldn’t deal with certs. I think mTLS support has been merged since, so if you just use it for devices under your control, or might be viable

All good answers so far.
Basically your internet gateway doesn’t support what’s called NAT hairpin, also called NAT loopback.

The DNS solution is better anyway, and that particular setup is called split-horizon DNS, which basically just means your internal DNS requests get different results than ones from outside your network.

This reads like ragebait or a hit piece, but I don’t even know what I’m supposed to rage about?

We all use some sort of automod bot to flag or even ban accounts.
We’ve all banned accounts for way less.

Am I supposed to be offended that this user, of all people, was banned from anywhere?
Or that an LLM summary is linked in the modlog for it? If an admin reviewed it, why should I care?

Am I supposed to get mad about political profiling?
/looks around to literally everywhere in the fediverse and gestures wildly.

My only gripe is it would maybe be more environmentally friendly to just skim that profile instead of using an LLM but whatever.
“Save the planet, ban people with the old ban hammer.”

IDK this whole thing feels like stirring shit for the sake of it. WTF is even the point of this post.

Yea, I was referring to the OSI model.

A single misconfigured thing can suck real bad as you’ve seen.
Selfhosting involves lots of things that can be misconfigured or go bad.

That’s not to scare you out of it out anything, merely to congratulate you in seeking knowledge first.

Disclaimer: I’m biased towards networks because I’m a network engineer, opinions may differ.

I would say… having at least a vague grasp of layers 1-4 of the traditional network model is a decent start.
You don’t need to understand everything, but knowing a minimum will help a lot imho.

It’s hard to point you in the right direction without knowing what you already know or not.

Yes and these comments also show up on mastodon.

I’ve not had good luck finding something that gives me the confidence to go about it

Now’s a good time to make sure you have good backups.
Knowing you can fallback to your backups helps a lot with confidence.

One this that’s really hard to replace is DDoS protection.

I use this one:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.orrs.deliveries

It can usually get the status of most courriers unless they’re actively hostile against API/scraping.
Worst case you can still track status manually, or open the webpage.
It doesn’t track payment, but I don’t usually have a tracking number before paying.
I think you could technically add your own custom status entry.
I keep them as active until shipped and verified after which I mark them as completed.

Works well enough for my needs.

You can use an adapter just fine.
Or use a 5.5" drive caddy, that’s just a little drawer that slides in and out.
Real question is it you have enough SATA connectors available.

Make sure you mention your lemmy.world username especially if it’s a different one

lemmy.world admin ping
OP has trouble accessing their account, likely IP or cloudflare related

@MrKaplan@lemmy.world

Warrantied drives still fail, they just happen to ship you a replacement.

Commercial drive trashing solutions are basically a smaller, fancier version of the mechanism in a log splitter.
You could probably rig a sketchy drive wedge/bending thing with a pump jack rather easily.
Wear PPE.

The odds of someone taking a failed drive and transplanting the platters to a working drive is pretty low to begin with.

Me? I don’t have tons of drives to destroy, so I just unscrew the thing, get the platters out and smash those.

LPT: Maybe don’t start comments with “Go fuck yourself”, people might take you more seriously or be more receptive.
🤷

Your examples seem vaguely related to home automation, so maybe they’re already in Home Assistant.
https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/

It has a bunch of sensors and media related integrations. You can also add custom REST API queries.

For me, Plex would often end up having audio drift lag and it was annoying as fuck. It’d start fine, then the lag would gradually increase until you changed encoding back and forth, then gradually increase again.
Jellyfin just works.
That was enough to get me to switch and not look back. I’m also rid of the bullshit plex login that I never cared for, and also of their push for whatever “recommended” stuff is supposed to be about.

Make sure you test this from outside your network and not simply by using the public IP, but from inside your LAN. Odds are your ISP modem doesn’t support NAT loopback (also known as NAT hairpin).

Yea, it’s not the first time I’ve seen this discussion either.
I don’t wanna seem like I’m not believing you or belittling your experience, I just find it weird that we (we, users, as a whole, not just you and I) have such wildly different experiences with it.

As is, I have a vastly better experience with my own nextcloud than with corporate’s onedrive, with more stuff on mine.

Wish I knew why it’s so inconsistent.
Even though my nextcloud experience is fine, I know plenty of people with the opposite.

Legit have had none of these issues.
I do get a notification once in a while if I modify a picture fast enough, like a quick crop and it’s still uploading. Like snap pic and edit within the same 5 seconds or so.
Basically just a: “there are multiple versions of the same file (which is true), which one do you wanna keep”.

Then again mine is running on a pretty beefy server which might hide issues rooted in performance.
I remember it being hell when I was running it on a RPi.