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  • Self-hosting is having a moment. Ethan Sholly knows why.

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  • Nothing wrong with having to pay for software if the prices are reasonable. It's a product like any other, with real people working on it.

  • Is a NAS the ultimate goal? Which yes - which one?

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  • The simple answer is: Yes! If you want to be completely sure no one is accessing your data - now or in the future - then you have to host it yourself. There are companies and countries that are more trustworthy/safe than others, but you never know how politics will change.

    I've been using a Synology NAS for ages, and I can wholeheartedly recommend it! Especially if you don't have that much experience with Linux and servers, but also if you want something that's more Plug-n-Play and stable, or you want access to some of their proprietary services or really good customer support. Just make sure you get one that supports Docker, because that's how you'll install most if not all of the 3rd party services.

    That being said, building one yourself can also be great fun, and you do have that one additional level of control if everything is open-source and installed by you.

  • Self-Hosted Beeper Alternative

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  • if I can get it working

    It's really as simple as starting one container per chat service, with a config like this:

     yaml
        
services:
    beeper-<service>:
        image: ghcr.io/beeper/bridge-manager
        restart: unless-stopped
        environment:
            - MATRIX_ACCESS_TOKEN=<your beeper matrix token>
            - BRIDGE_NAME=sh-<service>
        volumes:
            - ./beeper-<service>:/data

    then messaging the @sh-<service>bot:beeper.local bot user, and logging in to your chat account.

  • Self-Hosted Beeper Alternative

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  • I'm using the Beeper Matrix server, but self-host their bridges. That way the de- and reencryption is done on my server, and Beeper only sees encrypted Matrix messages. It's extremely easy to set up if you've used docker before, much less work than running a full Matrix server yourself.

  • Storage solutions

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  • I opened specific ports where needed, and also limit most frontends to local requests only.

  • Storage solutions

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  • I'm using the DS920+, as it's still the best 4-bay Synology NAS for media streaming/encoding tasks afaik. Caches are read-write, and do use the NVMe slots.

    The RAM upgrade and added caches definitely made a huge difference. The system is averaging around 70% RAM usage, and goes beyond that for certain tasks, so the current workload wouldn't really be feasible without the extra RAM. And the caches really make most IO operation noticably faster, especially random drive access e.g. from multiple simultaneous processes.

    I have some Arr containers on there, as well as Plex, Audiobookshelf, AppFlowy, some Beeper Matrix bridges, FileFlows for media conversion, my own Piped instance, SearXNG, Vaultwarden, FirefoxSync, and a few smaller ones.

  • Hiding read posts stopped working

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  • I switched the account in the app, so it should use it and fetch content from LW.

  • Simple mail server

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  • I agree with everyone here that self-hosting email is never easy, but if you still decide to go down this route then here are two tips that I personally found very helpful, especially when you decide to host it at home:

    The first is to get an SMTP relay server. That's just another mail server that yours can log into to actually send its mail, just like an email client would. That way you don't have to worry about your IP's sending reputation, because everyone will only see the relay's reputable IP.

    Second is to configure a Backup MX. That's an additional MX DNS entry with lower priority than the primary, and it points to a special mail server that accepts any mail for you and tries to deliver it to the primary server forever (or something like an entire week). So when your primary server is unreachable other sending servers will deliver mail to the backup, and it delivers the mail to the primary as soon as that's back online.

    You can get these as separate services, but some DNS providers (like Strato for example) offer both with the base domain package. It makes self-hosting an email server much simpler and more reliable in my experience.

  • Hiding read posts stopped working

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  • That was my first thought as well! But I also tried LW which is still on 0.19.3, same problem.

    Edit: My bad! I had "show read posts" enabled on my LW account, and read posts are correctly hidden when I disable it. So it really seems to be a problem with the new version.

  • Boost for Lemmy @lemmy.world
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  • Arch Linux, made immutable, declarative and atomic: blendOS v4 released

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  • Welcome to the Linux community. :)

    You will probably never understand everything about Linux and all of its included and associated systems. That's completely fine, no one does! That's why we are many, and it's what asking for advice or help is for. You can just learn whatever interests you at your own pace, and know that there will always be interesting things you haven't seen yet.

  • Europe @feddit.de
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    Election: Poll results for small parties?

  • How do you guys feel about Session?

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  • I really like the idea of creating a decentralized network that has a fair monetization model built right in, instead of relying on donations like the Fediverse. Crypto got a very bad rep, but this kind of stuff is exactly what it's good for imo.

    It also has some core features that are missing from other similar messengers, like multi-device sync. And lastly, the devs seem pretty capable and open as well. They are very transparent with their work and seem to have the right ideas about where things should go and which trade-offs to make. E.g. their reasoning for not using the Signal protocol seems solid to me.

    So I'm hopeful, but time will tell if it all works out.

  • Was this community banned on lemmy.world? I was trying to access some bookmarked posts and comments but they weren't there.

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  • The thing is, Reddit also has money and lawyers. LW doesn't, so it's understandable that they play it safe imo.

  • How many of you use Usenet VS torrents

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  • Good to know I guess, but yea that's a bit too speculative for my taste.

  • How many of you use Usenet VS torrents

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  • Looks ok to me, what in particular do you take issue with?

  • How many of you use Usenet VS torrents

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  • This UsenetServer discount link gives you 1 trial month for $1, then $50/year after that, and includes a 1TB TweakNews block and a paid PrivadoVPN account.

  • Why Do You Pirate Music?

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  • Completely agree! There are solutions for letting Lidarr download from Deezer and Tidal, but afaik no other music streaming services for some reason.

  • Best Audio Format for Storage?

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  • I'm transcoding everything to 320kbps MP3s. It's much much smaller than flac, and I can't hear the difference even if I try.

  • Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of May 26th

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  • Trying to finish the Horizon Forbidden West story, but it's a bit meh. Really sad about that! The HZD stories were great, and the world is as beautiful as ever, but I stopped caring at some point with the newest one. Other than that, I just bought the Age of Wonders 4 season pass and am trying out the new races and traits.

  • when you upgrade an OS, do you clean install or upgrade?

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  • Fedora, I usually wait 1-2 weeks for the last bugs to be found+fixed and extensions to catch up, and then just upgrade in-place. Haven't had a major upgrade problem for years now, it's mostly as smooth as any other offline update. And I don't feel like I have to reinstall the OS every few years on Linux either.

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
    shrugal @lemm.ee

    Guide: Setup authentication for the default Synology reverse proxy

    codeberg.org /shrugal/synology-reverse-proxy-authentication
  • FF addons&extensions @lemmy.ml
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    Touch navigation gestures on desktop

    addons.mozilla.org /firefox/addon/touch-navigation/
  • Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ @lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    What does AC3D mean?