I would like to backup and test restore app configs not sure how to do that yet :p

Maybe OS backup is the way somehow. Maybe I need an atomic distro …

I’ve always struggles with practicing restoring backups. Do you have to buy an identical 2nd machine to see if everything still works w/o messing up the first one?

I’d be curious seeing the discussion. Its healthy to have respectful competing opinions and see what rises to the top

I am not a very good sysadmin. All I remember is the DoH feature was causing me problems in accessing my LAN servers.

I have it a little different than you: I have a halfbaked split-DNS system wherein nc.mydomain.TLD resolves to my public IP address in public DNS, and then on the LAN, the router and the pihole both have DNS entries saying that nc.mydomain.TLD points to 192.168.1.10 . I know I should just have one DNS provider for simplicity or do it better somehow, but I don’t want a single point of failure BC the raspberry pi has failed in the past.

That’s why I started out setting an exception in firefox. I’ve since put other LAN-only services on mydomain.tld, and I think I was having trouble resolving those too without the exception. But unlike you I don’t have private ips in public DNS, although AFAIK that’s a fine practice.

Does DoH stand for DNS over HTTPS in this case?

I’ve run into similar problems as you, and am now in the habit of adding my mydomain.TLD to the exceptions for DNS over HTTPS.

I did not even consider that NAS might refer to a commercial device.

Making a raspberry pi host an always on hard drive with Samba and calling it Network Attached Storage was the first thing I ever self hosted.

Language is weird how it changes.

Matrix has “threads” but that is cursed. >:(

Hi quaff!

The app I use for this purpose is called Notally, on android. It supports reordering the checkboxes, but it doesn’t do find in page or sync to web (although it can do backup /restore – I sync the folder with nextcloud and I can access the text files)

That said if you try it, you might love how simple it is and use it for something!

https://f-droid.org/packages/com.omgodse.notally

For me the learning curve of learning containers does not match the value proposition of what benefits they’re supposed to provide.

Very cool!

It’s best to keep it around 50℅ and let it charge / discharge about 5%, and then charge again. See the research links on charge.org (note the bias: his business sells a dongle, but some computers like think pads come with this functionality built in.)

I’m setting up a yunohost machine for my brother as a birthday present. I got him a domain good for 10 years, and installed nextcloud and Jellyfin with some home videos digitized from our parents’ vhs tapes.

What is beets, hobbits?

I think I found it: cassette. Unfortunately it is iOS, not selfhosted :(

https://9to5mac.com/2025/08/12/cassette-brings-vhs-nostalgia-to-your-iphones-camera-roll/

https://blog.devthedev.co/p/cassette

I think the difference is that while other services boom and bust, the fediverse keeps growing slowly because it is decentralized, and can’t be enshittified in the same way.

It is not as easy or attractive as Bluesky right now, but it keeps growing slowly and getting more kinds of people.

Maybe it won’t be the network of choice for journalists, metal celebrities, etc, like twitter and bluesky, but it already is making its way as something more like old school tumblr – some people like it, some don’t.

I don’t get it, I thought it allows all browser with JavaScript enabled.

You could maybe do this with tailscale: all your devices will be reachable from each other, and you can specify that you want the external one to be the exit node. It uses wireguard under the hood.

Seconding this, it is very convenient if it supports a good provider. But it is better imo to use a good provider with a helper script on your server than to stick with your router defaults if they’re not that good.

I recommend afraid.org, you get everything that you need for free dynamic dns, and they’re a cool project so someday you may like to do even more with them or send them a little donation.

I started with noip first, and the monthly re-up was so annoying.

Wait so does the client install the game on the local machine, or does the game run on the server like steam link?