Automatic upgrades handle the security patches. Everything else maybe once a month. My big services like Nextcloud auto update as well.

I’m using the cookbook plugin for Nextcloud.

Don’t host email from home. Many ISPs block that to combat spam and most email servers don’t accept mails from home-IPs for the same reason.

Most people will recommend not hosting email at all because it is a pain in the arse to set up so that other aervers actually accept your mails.

Even better when you’re already familiar with it. And I’d consider a media server to already be “selfhosting”.

Edit: Sorry, thought you were OP.

Without knowing what you actually want to do, I’d put Debian on it. Very good, very stable, very widespread OS with plenty of tutorials around for whatever you decide to do with it. Do a minimal installation and 4 GB RAM are plenty to play around with.

If you want comments on such posts pick one and crosspost it to the relevant real community.

Nobody wants to comment on pure bot posts because you cannot get any replies from OP.

Hmm, I should look up how that works.

Edit: https://developers.cloudflare.com/ssl/origin-configuration/ssl-modes/#custom-ssltls

They don’t need your keys because they have their own CA. No way I’d use them.

Edit 2: And with their own DNS they could easily route any address through their own servers if they wanted to, without anyone noticing. They are entirely too powerful. Is there some way to prevent this?

Cloudflare would need https keys so they could read all the content you worked so hard to encrypt. If I wanted to do bad shit I would apply at Cloudflare.

No idea about their storage boxes. But I’ve rented dedicated servers from them for a long time. Both as a corporate and private customer. Never had a problem. Support was always great. Sometimes even Mr Hetzner himself would step in.

Isn’t one of Cloudflare’s biggest strengths that they have a shitton of servers around the world and can thus provide DDOS resilient caching?

Having a shitton of servers is kind of the antithesis of self hosting.

HDMI-CEC seems to be currently unsupported. So you won’t be able to use your TV’s remote yet.

Nice! The revival is further along than I thought. Can’t wait to put it on my Steam Deck. And maybe my desktop PC will move into the living room in the near future. Would be the perfect timing.

Currently before establishing an encrypted connection to a webserver the domain is sent to the webserver unencrypted so that the server can choose the appropriate certificate to use for encryption. That is called SNI, Server Name Indication.

Of course that’s a privacy risk. There are finally protocols to fix this but they aren’t very widespread and depend on DNS over HTTPS.

I think issuing certificates based on the IP and sending the domain name encrypted based on that certificate could have fixed this issue ages ago.

I never understood why we don’t use IP certificates to encrypt the domain with SNI.

Probably. And with the next version Lemmy as well.

I think Piefed supports that. Multicommunities. Was already a thing on Reddit that was calle Multireddit, I think.

Yes, I love giving other people access to my private pictures I explicitly don’t host on Google, Dropbox or other external clouds. I usually pay them from the hoard of gold that’s stashed away under my bed.

Yeah, trouble is that it doesn’t really work well with Nextcloud together so I would have to migrate all of my devices.

And in the end it doesn’t work much better than NC.

Nice to see that the professionals have the same problems I have.

I actually want AI on my Nextcloud. As long as it runs locally. We’ve taken thousands of pictures over the years and desperately need some help in categorising them. Unfortunately so far I wasn’t able to find any reliable way to automate it.