We aim to introduce additional paid services (not paywalled features, as we will never implement paywalled features), which will help support the project and that enhance self-hosting, making it easier and more reliable. First among the many services already planned is an end-to-end encrypted, off-site backup and restore feature, built directly into Immich. This will enable a buddy backup feature as well.

I love this.

Free features, but offering actual useful services for self-hosters (encrypted cloud backup). Great business model for a project like this.

Wireguard and PiHole. Set the Wireguard routing to the local network IPs of your homelab, and you get the same setup.

I run a Signal Bridge to a Matrix server, then Element with ntfy notifications. I think you can do the same with Molly and ntfy.

I wonder if this is also true for developers or stenographers. I.E. anyone with repetitive hand movements that require accuracy and dexterity in their lifestyle. Gaming probably wouldnt be enough variety of movement.

Dropbear. You can run a small SSH server in initd that allows you to SSH in and type the encryption password. It doesn’t run a shell, just cryptsetup.

No it’s not. Tell them to learn to switch or lose access. It’s your server, do what you want.

If they’re not mechanical droves, why are you worried? They could be thrown around and be just fine.

Linode has good, cheap VMs, and are a better deal than the AWSs of the world.

Also, when you set up Nextcloud, also set up something like samba-domain with LDAP for users. That way you have central user management as you add new services.

I made an 8 outlet box with relays connected to each outlet (might post a how to). That’s connected to a Pi via GPIO.

The Pi runs PiKVM, but also has a service that:

• Checks if the router can be pinged
• Checks if the internet can be pinged
• Checks if the router webUI is up

If any of those fail, it toggles the plugs for modem and router.

I run OpnSense on a 5V miniPC. I have a second one and will be setting up CARP, too.

Note: Cellular backup is more involved, but a separate Cellular inbound might not be. I’ve considered putting one on the Pi above.

Sure, there are workarounds, but most people aren’t going to jump through all those extra hoops just to use an app.

To @irotsoma@lemmy.world’s point, could a phone app be made to :

• Record tower eNBID, signal strength, and GPS coordinates on a regular basis
• If, near a given GPS coordinate, eNBID is now different, or the same with significantly changed strength, alert the user

Theoretically this would allow a device to notify on a new “tower”/etc. Oddly enough I’m going to be around a bunch of telecom people in the coming weeks, so I might ask about this.

Yea, running from repo there are updates, but yea, sad it has stagnated for releases. It’s why I’m starting to look at Lawnchair again.

They were acquired by Branch Analytics, and right after the APK went up in size by 150% with no visible changes.

It then asks for location and accessibility (to see notifications) permissions.

They then got rid of most of the staff, leaving a sole developer.

No one knows what it sends back home (at least not the last time I read about it, which was years ago).

I stopped using it years ago when it got bought and immediately injected with spyware. Neo Launcher or Lawnchair are very similar to Nova. Lawnchair gets more active development, but I use Neo because it’s nearly the same as Nova.

Not that I think you need it for this, but a DynDNS implementation would give you a hostname you can dynamically change to your VPN ip, thus solving the SSL host issue.

It you want to try something new that gives you more freedom than the print bed, consider 2020 alluminum extrusion. I’ll be doing a custom enclosed rack with it soon, using the printer to make shelves/containers between beams.

My one change: I do SSHFS over LAN, because of guest machines and sniffing potential.

I do NFS on direct wire or on a confidently set up VLAN (maybe).

Samba-Domain is extremely lightweight, surfaces LDAP and AD, and can manage Linux and mac laptops, not just Windows. I wouldnt call it overkill.

Also, restoring single files from a snapshot is simple, I don’t get this? Lastly, of your whole data drive is one dataset in ZFS, you are ZFSing wrong.

Before you get too far, consider setting up users with a domain like Samba-Domain. This way you get centralized user management for anything you decide to host alongside it.

Also, ZFS is great for backups.

Are you using/going to use LibreOffice or OnlyOffice? Libre is more popular, but Only was built for web and has better MS compatibility.

I bet this could be used to load balance regional servers with a bit of tweaking. (I made Plex-sync a long time ago for a similar purpose)