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Post by js4ever »

selfhoster11 wrote: post #359
js4ever wrote: post #230

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I doubt there will be a native GUI renaissance, look at the mac app store, it's not making a dent in the global direction and it's available since years. Ok it's only for a single platform, it's even worse on the windows app store! I think there is no way back for desktop apps. Browser is the best sandbox available.

VM hypervisors are even better sandboxes. I don't imagine any browser will be more secure than for example a VirtualBox or VMWare VM, unless the browser itself literally is a VM hypervisor.

Oh yeah everyone have an hypervisor including your grandma right?

Browser is maybe not so common compared to hypervisors on end users computers?

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Post by ornornor »

deckard1 wrote: post #117

Top two are definitely Syncthing and Navidrome. I really couldn't live without either of these. Organizing music is always a pain. But I use MusicBrainz picard on a desktop or laptop over an sshfs mount to my server. It works quite nicely. I use Calibre-Web, but the whole Calibre system is just plain awful. It's straight out of the 1990s in terms of UI and work flow. I'd like to replace it one day, but I haven't foun…

Calibre is pretty good imho. Nothing compares to organize ebooks, remove drm so that I can read kindle ebooks on kobo, and convert files to kepub so I still get the kobo specific enhancements on non-native kobo epubs.

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_carbyau_ wrote: post #348

Asking for advice:(to HN of all places but eh...) I know nothing about docker. I have a handful of VMs(Jitsi, pfsense,VPN). Want to be able to set up useful self-hosted services at home without killing my family downtime. My current plan: yunohost https://yunohost.org/ and a RPi4 to see the possibilities. Then if I see a rock solid requirement maybe go for something more specific. (NixOS config seems interesting...)…

I’d go with a tinymicro server instead and use proxmox with VMs and LXC containers. This type of containers is pretty much like a VM (you get a full OS and can hardly tell the difference with a VM, unlike docker). But it’s much lighter (it’s a container) and all your regular tooling like ansible etc works out of the box. Along with tarsnap or borg for backups and unattended-upgrades and it’s near set and forget (unlike, again, docker)

I went the docker route for home and I don’t recommend it. It’s too high maintenance to keep up to date, it’s over engineered for the home. I’ve since switched to proxmox and vms/lxc.

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Post by ornornor »

tra3 wrote: post #73
avanai wrote: post #54

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For my bedtime routine I have it fire when I start charging my phone. There’s an iOS shortcut that fires an HA event when I plug or unplug my phone, and if we’re all home and it’s after bedtime it turns everything off and sets the alarm

Huh, that's a pretty great idea/workflow! I'm still figuring out HA's scripting. I find the JSON based DSL to be pretty awkward so far, so I haven't experimented with it much.

I felt that way too and didn’t like the point and click interface of nodered. Instead, I’m using appdaemon which lets me write all automations using actual code (python) along with the VSCode plugin for HASSOS (not my editor of choice but it’s the only available one)

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Post by ornornor »

whalesalad wrote: post #257
tra3 wrote: post #25

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Home assistant is fantastic. The number of integrations available is unbelievable (and also somewhat scary, security wise): What I have right now: - integration with Tuya lights/electrical outlets - integration with AirThings air quality sensor - integration with EcoBee thermostat/presence sensors - integration with an LG Oven (status only as far as I can tell) - integration with Garmin ecosystem - integration with p…

What is the modern/idiomatic platform to do IoT? Specifically the rudimentary stuff like light bulbs, electrical outlets, etc. Is zigbee the way to go?

I’d say so. It’s interoperable so you’re not vendor locked and is very well supported by HA.

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Post by senorsmile »

jacooper wrote: post #362

These are the applications I personally host. My home server: - Nextcloud It is my family's main cloud platform, with a 4TB nas HDD. I run it with PHP opcahe enabled and nginx caching to speed it up. And since its local, the upload/download speed is unmatched. - Nginx proxy manager(NPM) and Portainer For NPM its easy and simple to maintain, and the WebUI makes it easy for someone else to change settings Its mostly th…

I recently tried out netmaker. On mobile it just uses wireguard, but it is not mesh at that point; only Linux/Mac/windows nodes are fully mesh.

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Post by ornornor »

jdoss wrote: post #180

I setup https://paperless-ngx.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ with a Brother ads2800w scanner and I no longer have a pile of paper mail sitting by my desk. I just scan it, tag it in Paperless-ngx, and then shred it. I just pushed up my script here if anyone wants to give this a try: https://github.com/jdoss/ppngx I will most likely move this to a Hashicorp Nomad job on my home server once I find the time.

I use mayanedms with a 2008 HP business scanner (with double sided ADF) I bought used for very cheap.

Can concur, it’s very convenient and satisfying to have hundreds of documents over the years archived, OCRed, and fully searchable. Reduced clutter drastically and I’ve never lost a paper again.

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Post by ornornor »

movedx wrote: post #277

I'm late to the party, but I do have a question. For me, reliability and data backups/recovery play an important role in setting up systems like this. I find that if I think about setting up a self-host solution, my mind goes to, "But what if it fails and you lose all your effort in a theft, fire, flood, or just hardware/data failure?" And that side of my brain would be right: what if that happened? So I guess I'd as…

Same thoughts as you. Anything I run also takes care of backing itself up using tarsnap or borg to rsync.net (depending on when I originally setup that particular application)

Some things you can just copy the files on a regular schedule (with tarsnapper or borgmatic), others you also have to stop the DB and take a dump of it before restarting it. And everything I can set up again with a collection of custom ansible playbooks and roles.

But yes I wouldn’t self host without a reliable backup strategy and auto updates (with unattended-upgrades).

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Post by ornornor »

ochrist wrote: post #89

Kanboard, Grocy and Lychee: https://kanboard.org/ https://grocy.info/ https://github.com/electerious/Lychee

Curious: I found grocy very impractical to use day to day. So you manually enter each item you stock in your pantry and manually decrease it by the gram after cooking/baking?

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Post by iamevn »

colordrops wrote: post #317
akkartik wrote: post #308

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How much time do you spend maintaining this stuff every month? Like upgrading versions, etc.? Do you subscribe to any security channels? Do you care what language it's built in, try to keep it all on a few languages to minimize maintenance burden, etc.? I've been considering self-hosting, but put off thus far by the above concerns.

Initially I spent a lot of time as I used it as an opportunity to learn Nix/NixOS. I used Nix intentionally as it's a rolling release and also it's declarative and intended for reproducible deployments, so I don't need to deal with an OS like Ubuntu that slowly gets crufty and out of date and needs a clean-up or upgrade or complete re-install. And if I do need to re-install, it should be mostly a one-liner. For secur…

How do you handle partition management? I've got all the mount points set up in my configs but the initial creation of partitions was still a manual process that I'd need to go back to my notes for if I ever have to redeploy things.
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