I agree with this thread, but to answer your question I think the point is to tinker with it j “just because”. We’re all in this for fun, not profit.

My old DS916+ is great at the ile services but too weak for computing, so I have a reclaimed business laptop for the services. I could not imagine running anything on the DS.

Neither my UniFi router/gateway nor the ISP modem offers that.

Between my network and the ISP modem, I habe a UniFi router. That’s the one I tell to send DNS requests to Pihole.

The only way to get around that is by setting e.g. 1.1.1.1 into the local computer’s network settings. My boys aren’t that tech literate - yet.

You are correct - this isn’t a tech issue at its root. But it is one of the arrows in the quiver.

We’re running a grandfathered Google Workspace for the whole family. Parental tools don’t exist in Workspace :'(

Adguard has a clumsy text-based block&unblock method, so it’s tedious to do. And given that we all have several devices, I’d have to (un)block a lot. Which is why Pihole seems more useful at the moment.

If I keep UniFi DHCP then Pihole will not show individual clients, making it hard to put blocks on those individual clients.

In the past, the only solution I found was to let Pihole provide DHCP instead of UniFi.

Simple file copying is easy and smart.

What do you do about databases? I’m guessing you are running some containers that have a database, like paperless and many others.

🤷 They probably think they have a good reason for it.

Well, backups aren’t important at all,until you need them. Like insurance - you’re screwed if you don’t have any when trouble strikes.

How do you host Obsidian? Last time I checked, it only ran as a local install, so the “hosted” version was just a virtual machine running a local copy. Is it still that?

Correct. It refuses to run without https. That is by design.

Forgejo is a fork from gitea that is made for us. Forgejo is the new gitea.

There was some licensing or something, some kind of disagreement I don’t recall. Forgejo is the one that is still free and open source.

And don’t think that you can just back up using a file-copy process. These things have databases that also need to be backed up. It’s not as simple as it first seems.

Source: been selfhosting for an embarrassingly long time without any backup!

In my experience, firefly is not aimed at household or personal finance. It is very obviously made by and for accountants.

Actual Budget is much more approachable for the normal home user, and very similar to the successful YNAB.

Sharing your creations without a central hoster profiting from it, I guess.

I pay ~8€ per month at DreamHost, for many, many domains and databases and mailboxes. I worry that having to maintain a VPS myself is tedious and risky, and there’s no automatic backups, and there’s no tech support, and it can’t possibly be as cheap. I’m fine hosting some stuff at home, but for some things (like mailboxes) I want a real independent service I can trust.

I’m still a huge DH fan. It’s just that the latency from Europe is noticeable, and also there’s an increased risk that some self-proclaimed dicktator might do something stupid so I lose access to my account and my mailboxes. We’ve all read the horror stories of people suddenly being permabanned by Google and losing access to all their precious data. I’m trying to cover some scenarios here.

Thank you. It makes sense that the demo shows ALL the features and I wouldn’t need to use all. It’s probably better for my OCD to skip this tool :)