This looks awesome. I’m going to check it out.

I don’t know the specifics but forgejo is a gitea fork. There was/is some controversy around gitea governance and movent towards prioritizing a closed source paid/private versions of gitea.

Again, I don’t know details, just very broad strokes. I chose forgejo because it’s under active Foss development and I didnt want to deal with potentially going with gitea and then having to abandon it later for whatever reason might develop.

And I totally understand that. These AI crawlers really suck.

Not saying this is an option for you, only that I kept my forgejo instance private to avoid dealing with this AI crawler bullshit. I hope you find a good solution.

I’ve been using Ubuntu server on my server for close to a decade now and it has been just rock solid.

I know Ubuntu gets (deserved) hate for things like snaps shenanigans, but the LTS is pretty great. Not having to worry about a full OS upgrade for up to 10 years (5 years standard, 10 years if you go Ubuntu pro (which is free for personal use)) is great.

A couple times I’ve considered switching my server to another distro, but honestly, I love how little I worry about the state of my server os.

I’ll give ultrasonic a try. Thank you.

🤜🤛

Have you had problems on android with tempo not continuing playback?

I also run navidrome, and have tried tempo, substreamer, and another client I can’t think of, and any of the clients that stream keep stopping playback after one song when the screen is locked.

I’ve given the client all the permissions for running in the background and using battery that I can and no matter what I do, it’ll just stop after one song.

I’m on a pixel 7a with gOS.

For now I’ve settled on Poweramp with tla selection of the music on my phone since I can’t fit it all in storage. Its been really frustrating.

Ytdlp works with Spotify too iirc, and there are Spotify downloaders out there too.

I’d encourage learning. The more you understand the better you can control your data and maintain your services. You don’t need to be an expert but I’d encourage working towards relying less on gpt.

wg-easy is what you want

DOWN:

I’m currently fighting with my OliveTin config file. I added a simple new config for a button action and ylthe whole thing just shit the bed. Now OliveTin won’t load at all. Even after removing the new config. Stupid yaml.

UP:

After reading the Jellyfin docs and their Hardware Encoder Quality section which states

Apple ≥ Intel ≥ Nvidia >>> AMD*

I decided to spin up a test server on the m1 mini that’s been sitting unused in my basement for a couple of months now to see if I can get better performance out of jellyfin on the m1 vs where it’s running currently, which is on an i7 Intel that’s going on 10ish years old now.

I also spun up baserow and directus containers to see which one I want to use for my database needs.

Audiobookshelf for sure. It handles audiobooks fabulously, and it also does handle ebooks.

I use it to manage my eBook library, but not as the reader. You can set up a “send to ereader” option to email the ebooks to your reader of choice. So I just shoot them off to my pocketbook ereader when I want to read one.

Another for radicale. Been using it for years now. Its great.

Same here. luks encrypted drive in my work locker.

Right now I sneaker net it. I stash a luks encrypted drive in my locker at work and bring it home once a week or so to update the backup.

At some point I’m going to set up a RPI at a friend’s house, but that’s down the road a bit.

+1

I self host vaultwarden and its great. Its an easy self host, and in my experience, it has never gone down on me.

That being said, my experience is anecdotal. If you do go the vaultwarden route, realize that your vault is still accessible on your devices (phone, whatever) even if your server goes down, or if you just lose network connectivity. They hold local (encrypted at rest) copies of your vault that are periodically updated.

Additionally, regardless of the route you take you should absolutely be practicing a good 3-2-1 backup strategy with your password vault, as with any other data you value.

Karakeep might work for you

As an additional warning probably best to avoid amazon because counterfeits are just dumped in the bin with the actual mfr stuff and you could get burned there too. Buy from B&H or some other vendor that doesn’t have this practice