I like running bare metal for single-purpose hardware items. Home Assistant OS has more features and is easier to manage on its own with its own peripherals (Zigbee dongle and whatnot) when running bare metal. Same with a router IMO.

I’m running a Unifi Dream Machine (first gen canister model) that’s still going pretty strong after 6 years. But I’m considering a jump to an x86-based router running OPNsense or OpenWRT once that thing inevitably shits the bed. I mean, I got my start on selfhosting with an old RT-N66U running Shibby Tomato…

Only 54?

repeat offenders automagically ratchet up their stay in the sin bin.

Now that is a glorious read first thing in the morning haha

Syncthing-fork is a completely different project than Syncthing.

Syncthing-fork merely uses Syncthing under the hood. Syncthing itself is maintained by a completely different team from Syncthing-fork. The Syncthing-fork team packages Syncthing into an Android-compatible wrapper with a touch-friendly interface.

Syncthing itself was not affected by any of last year’s drama.

Wondering what is a good sub $300 computer I can order that will run Jellyfin, Immich, and a few light services off of?

A lot more options than you think. The Tiny/Mini/Micro PCs are fantastic for what they are, even one running a 7th gen Intel CPU is more than plenty.

I just run Docker CLI and Dockge on top of it. Works great. Dockge gives me the general “most-used” controls, and if I need to do anything more advanced I can just drop into the terminal.

So is everything else. But KeePass has been a highly reputable password manager for close to 20 years now.

This. Sounds like a classic example of the XY Problem

TL;DR? For those of us who haven’t been paying attention…

My favorite April Fool’s joke was convincing my then-elementary age kids that they missed April Fool’s Day. Somehow I managed to do this completely deadpan. Them coming home from school and immediately yelling “DAD YOU TRICKED US” was the icing on the cake. They’re teenagers now and still talk about it. Good times.

Recently though, I’ve grown a distaste for AF jokes in general. I fell for two of them within 10 minutes of waking up. One was a youtube creator (miniminuteman’s “Atlantis” episode" that he’s actually been working on for months), and the other was a buddy of mine on a Discord we’re in telling us that he blew his engine in his only vehicle.

To be fair though, in years past I would find a photo of a wrecked vehicle that matched one of mine, same year/make/model/color, and post it on social media captioned with something to the effect of “well that was short-lived” or “luckily it was just me” or whatever. The last time I did it was a few years ago, my wife (then girlfriend at the time) called me within 10 minutes of posting it, clearly panicked, and demanding to know if I was at the hospital 😂 I should have looped her in, in hindsight. But I don’t do it anymore anyway because 1) everyone caught on 😅 and 2) fuck Facebook.

I’ll have to give this a shot. I’ve tinkered with Monica a few times over the last several years, but never really stuck with it since their mobile interface wasn’t exactly…good.

Optionally you can also activate the CardDav server to sync contacts to and from your phone.

This right here is going to be incredibly helpful. Manually adding contacts is a serious chore. Syncing with my phone makes that process 100x easier.

I’m not exactly an expert, but I’m comfortable enough that I can figure out most things.

I still prefer a GUI option for a lot of things.

This. OMV is no-nonsense.

Barebones with a wide selection of useful plugins. That’s kinda how OMV operates, and it’s fantastic.

Matter is a shit-tier standard. The fact that big tech companies put their weight behind Matter and that several have already walled it off behind mandatory account creation tells me all I need to know about their intentions with it.

Right on. I actually saw your response to the other person down lower right after posting this 😂

I’m curious to see how you tackle this puzzle. I usually just text myself with this kind of thing, but I know that doesn’t work for everyone…

I find that just texting myself does the trick for things like this. But that’s how I operate. I’m curious to see how you tackle this puzzle.

Edit: disregard

The .io TLD that tech startups love to use is assigned to the British Indian Ocean Territory.