more people use their servers exclusively for personal entertainment than I expected.

Uh-huh, think of it like jigsaw puzzles…

That said, I prioritize ease of maintenance and simplicity, still wouldn’t expect my family to pick it up in any reasonable amount of time, nor have the motivation, more’s the pity.

I’ve moved to podman (quadlet) containers mostly, easy to read and edit, secure (mostly userspace), systemctl integration, autoupdate. I’ve done my distrohopping, fedora (in my case bazzite immutable) isn’t going anywhere, does everything I need. I run fairly lean, but have a bunch of stuff that can be spun up at a whim that I don’t use daily. It’s entertaining without being a burden, and useful stuff just happens.

Honestly, ssh and btop cover most of my monitoring needs, serious stuff gets a notify-send to my laptop. I’ve tried the web gui stuff and I don’t look at it enough to justify it, I’m not a sysad monitoring hundreds of computers, it’s just a hobby.

Pinchflat

Thanks, looks like it could work, bit more than I want, and it’ll need integrating, but it is what it is. I’ll see if it’s worth the pain to transition.

Of course there’s this…

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I just have a somewhat annoying yt dlp script that runs on a schedule on my computer that downloads all my subscriptions. I tried everything else including pinchflat and it wasn’t really much of an improvement tbh.

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Could you share that script please? I’d like to set up something similar
    MonkCanatella
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    Give me a bit, I’ll set up a gist with the details!
        TheLeadenSea
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        Thanks!

followed by crickets. Such is life.

So, cool and all, but I’ve been using freshrss with libredirect and freetube for this for ages, and it’s great when freetube works, which with the cat and mouse with youtube is less often than I’d like (kudos to freetube, great project).

Honestly what I’d really like is something to download rss yt vid to a cache with yt-dlp (which breaks much less), grab the sponsorblock and pipe to something light and distraction free like mpv or vlc. Clear the cache after a day or whatever.

Anyone seen anything like this ?

For say a keypass db you don’t need even that, Just sshd gets you rsync on your computer with cron or systemd timer / service… Personally I just use an old version of Syncthing-Fork though, security implications for local network are minimal.

Sounds good.

Sensible, limiting scope and knowing your limits are wisdoms all too many lack. Having something that fills the text/sound/vidya needs and is easy to spin up will find uses, doesn’t need to do everything.

To the end of being easy to spin up, which is likely to attract other developers in time if that’s something you’d like, consider wrapping it up in a docker container. It’s not that hard, basically follow your own instructions in a special docker build format.

Some things to think about.

Even ZFS now let’s you add a new drive to an array, and the sweet spot for $/TB is ~16-20TB at the moment, so maybe think about 2 or 3x16TB and add more later (also less power).

Consider manufacturer recertified (not refurbished) server drives from serverpartdeals.com or your local equivalent, after all RAID is there to let you survive a disk failure, it’s treated me well, and lets you avoid SMR drives.

You can mix drives of different sizes if you use Unraid or roll your own with mergerfs+snapraid (+OpenMediaVault perhaps). I do the latter, it’s a bit of a setup, but has the advantage that drives are just drives and you can use the working ones while rebuilding the array and you can recover accidental deletions (for a while), which brings me to ‘RAID is not a backup’.

For true data safety you should have an offline backup (i.e. drives that live disconnected from your computer except during backup, safe from lightning, accidental deletion etc.) and eventually an offsite copy.

Personally I think the AI bought all our drives from WD is likely BS (seems lightly supported) to goose their product prices, so hopefully it’ll blow over, but prices seldom go down, inflation catches up. Sigh.

Yeah, I have “Analyze Video Files” on, doesn’t get me a list of substandard files though, just sends the arr after stuff it’s probably already not finding.

tdarr

Hadn’t seen the Property search in here before, might get me most of the way there. Got it around somewhere, might have to spin it back up. Maybe I can raid it’s database as well. Thanks.

So, unless I didn’t dive deep enough, Configarr / Trash guides is mostly about setting up quality profiles and media paths and so forth, something I long ago sorted out to my satisfaction.

What I guess I was after was something to find stuff that has fallen through the cracks, highlighting stuff that doesn’t meet my standards and seeing whether I care enough to go looking for upgrades.

Strangely there doesn’t seem to be a simple app to run ffprobe over your library and populate a database for querying video quality, maybe I’ll get around to knocking one out one day, but today is not that day.

I don’t want to balloon the project

Fair cop, and no I haven’t really dived into Configarr and the trash guides (although I vaguely remember coming across them), oh joy, another rabbit hole. I do try to keep a simple stack, and what I have has served me well for years. But thanks, no need to reinvent the wheel if that handles my use case.

Having smaller projects with specific scope that do something well and can be plugged together is always preferable to some sprawling monstrosity. Used to be called the Unix way (pipe sed into awk etc.) and could stand to be revisited today. Best of luck.

I had a quick look, I think I could find a use for it but what I’d most be interested in is a dry run spitting out a list of missing / low res / low bitrate / stereo (I much prefer 5.1+), perhaps old codec, etc. media. Like many I have my own standards for what needs to be how good and so forth.

Ideally I could edit said list and put it back in as an active search list (perhaps chunking and prioritizing as well and iterating the process). Seems like this is 90% of the way there, any chance of an enhancement ?

Bit reluctant to just let someone else’s code go ham on my media library without a me in the loop step.

And ideally the storage will be encrypted and have basic privacy assurances.

Why would you trust a company to encrypt for you when Cryptomator exists ?

Also, a couple of 4TB drives for cold backup (one offsite) avoids another subscription.

Do you not get ‘open on the internet’? All the three letter agencies hoover the data up, your countries equivalents do as well, other companies. It’s only a bit in one companies hands, because it’s ‘open on the internet’, just like xitter, facebook, tiktok, their walled gardens don’t stop state level actors, just us plebs (a bit). That just leaves control (in real time), some power, some money there, but long term it’s the data that counts.

Agreed. They’re both open on the internet and the data is in many repositories. Moot point (OPs’, not yours).

Ah, my bad, down to might be interesting I guess.

If you want to do it right, have a look at podlet (docker to podman quadlet converter), should get you 90% of the way there.

Normally my policy is “E2EE or GTFO”, but the concept only applies to a subset of Discord use cases. A good Discord alternative needs to handle the same variety of use cases as Discord.

E2EE for a public forum makes no sense.

Totally valid point, especially w.r.t. ease of onboarding for public usecases. Sure would be nice if it functioned (optionally) as a private forum as well. Seems like a lot of commonality there and covers the DM case and the ‘semi-public’ but discord is totally logging everything case. One can hope, but I agree, first things first.

Perhaps I’m missing something, or perhaps everyone who thinks Matrix is a good substitute for Discord just don’t use Discord very much.

Seems likely, certainly Matrix has some pretty evangelical supporters. I think you nailed it with discord being more useful for mid sized numbers and having a client that handles it pretty well. I’d also add pretty painless onboarding. An OSS offering that matched it’s primary features (and has E2EE) or has a good framework, roadmap and people to get there would come in pretty clutch as discord goes public and starts monetizing everything in sight. A million (or thousands) independent FOSS ‘discords’ in the night would be a sweet sight.

Fair enough, thanks.

Different usecase, but I wouldn’t be particularly scared. OP is about a selfhosted discord replacement (lacks E2EE so far I think), I’d quite like that if didn’t look like more of a maintenance burden than the rest of my stack combined (even without moderation burden, but I’m thinking of keeping a small server). I also think it’d be a social boon to have millions (even thousands) of independent discords pop up.

Do you host your own matrix ? Did it go down when matrix.org did ?