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cyberwolfie

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  • Self-Host Weekly #147: Ad-Free

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  • Sorry, what does this have to do with the post? I tried to find references to it but couldn't, and now I am confused.

  • How do you handle junk email?

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  • Since switching from Gmail three years ago to Proton, I've not had a single spam mail. I also use aliases most places so that I can disable it if I start receiving spam on one.

  • Just installed Linux mint on my moms desktop

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  • Nice - I've done a similar thing for my mom, except she was transitioning from macOS (but had used Windows a lot previously for work). So far she has had a package conflict that broke the package system (Signal was installed from their PPA) which raised a rather ominous error message for her ("Your package system is broken"). I could fix it easily as I had set up VNC via SSH, and that worked as expected first time I needed it, but it's not something she would be able to do by herself. And I still haven't installed Singal in a way that won't break things later yet...

    She still uses her old Macbook on and off, and there are some things she only has access through that machine. I want to set up better cross platform solutions for her. Especially file sync and images needs to be fixed, but I've not landed on a way to do that. I could set her up with an account on my Nextcloud, but I don't like having access to her files and I also would not want to be liable for her files disappearing. Same with images. I use Nextcloud for images myself, have thought of setting up Immich. But same thing here, don't really want to have access to her stuff (not sure if Immich can be set up to be E2EE?)

  • Bad experience on selfhosting nextcloud

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  • I've been running tge AIO container for several years now and it is running perfectly fine. I only enable whatever I use, so for instance no Collabora.

    But for Collabora, while it should be good for single-person use, if you require some kind of collaborative simultaneous work, you should probably set up the high-performance backend. I did this at work for a NC-instance hosted via Hetzner and it works well when we tried it, but we don't really use those kinds of tools much in our daily work.

  • Using Fail2ban to protect exposed services

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  • It depends on what service - some, like Jellyfin, are accessed only from home IPs which are static (for music through Jellyfin I use offline mode to prevent too much mobile traffic), so I can add those specific IPs in the whitelist. Otger services I need to access from elsewhere, and I can add entire subnets (i.e. for my phone carrier network or VPN servers). Those change once in a while and that is annoying. Other services I want publically available.

    Jellyfin especially still has some unsecured endpoints where it would be wise to take some.extra precautions. I think the risk some people seem to think this poses is a little overblown (i.e. rights holders finding your instance and reverse mapping your entire library and suing you to oblivion), but better not risk it.

  • Using Fail2ban to protect exposed services

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  • What kinds of things are you planning to expose? What I expose I hide behind a reverse proxy with IP whitelists. Whatever I don't need access to on the go I don't expose.

  • Backups of Backups

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  • I put encrypted backups (borg or restic) on a storage box from Hetzner. One local copy on a different drive and one remote. Keep your encryption passwords safe though, otherwise they aren't worth much.

    Oh, and I plan to report status of the cron jobs that run these backup scripts via MQTT and display backup status in Home Assistant. But haven't started that yet. So far I dump the logs and view them occasionally.

  • What distro do you install on other's computers?

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  • I installed Mint on a newly acquired used Thinkpad for my mom, to get her used to it as her Macbook is showing signs of giving up. So far it was smooth sailing until one day the package system broke due to some conflicts (I had set up Signal via their PPA). I had already set up remote access so I could easily fix it for her in a matter of minutes, but she would never be able to fix it herself even though the instructions were clear. Other than this though, she enjoys it. But I still need to set up a couple of additional things, in particular file sync and some way of managing her photos.

  • Underappreciated top

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  • My go-to! There's a Python version, bpytop, as well - not sure why you would want that over the C++-version though.

  • DAW software for Linux?

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  • Nice, thanks - I'll check out Unfa! I hope to get started soon, but I tend to be slow starting these things, so don't expect any DMs just yet - but I'm saving your post for future reference, so perhaps something will tick in eventually :) Thanks for the offer in any case!

  • DAW software for Linux?

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  • I want to get into using Ardour. I tried setting up my stuff via the Flatpak version, but it seems I should probably avoid that to get stuff to work properly, so I am planning to pay for the precompiled binaries soon.

    But I am new to DAWs in general - do you or anyone else know of a good introduction to DAWs via Ardour?

  • Sony WF-C510 connected on Linux, but never recognized as a headset

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  • I use my WF-1000XM5 on Linux fine, paired normally IIRC. Any reason your set would be different?

  • How often do you update software on your servers?

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  • I think their point was to make sure they are done in order, i.e. update before upgrade, not the other way around as in OPs example.

  • How to install the original super Mario

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  • You would need to emulate it. I assume you mean the NES version since you say the original one? In that case you would need to find a NES emulator and a ROM of the game. If you don't dump the ROM yourself from a cartridge you own, you are in legally dubious territory. I am not sure about this community's stance on piracy, but there are several communities on here that are completely fine with that and can help you along.

  • The case for piracy on Android

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  • If you are already into, or want to get into self-hosting you could set up a media server like Jellyfin or Navidrome and use a mobile client that works with the one you choose. I am using Jellyfin with the Finamp beta on Android. I use it only in offline mode when I am out and about.

    I sometimes hear people complain about some issues with Jellyfin, although I have not had any of those myself (I have a comparable collectiom to you). I run all music through Musicbrainz Picard before adding it to the server, so I think that may be a pre-requisite for a smooth experience. Navidrome is perhaps more forgiving.

  • Be on the lookout for this scary piece of malware! Your tech illiterate relatives' PCs are probably already infected!

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  • What benefits are you getting from actually updating the 8BitDo-firmware as opposed to... not doing that?

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    Jellyseerr and Overseerr merging into one, gonna be called Seerr

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  • Can it be used without arr-integrations? As just a way to keep track of stuff users would love to have available, but currently isn't?

  • Is it so hard to get Nvidia GPUs working with Linux?

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  • No. I have a RTX 3050 Ti Laptop which I have not had many issues with. The biggest issue I have experienced was that a game completely froze at the same point every time. This was due to a regression in their drivers. They spent their sweet time fixing it to, and following the issue thread highlights one of the main issues with their drivers being non-free: extremely competent users providing logs and effort to troubleshoot, but unable to work on the fix themselves. And what seemed to be summer interns replying once in a while and nothing happening for a long while.

    But that said, I find the hate overblown. You could get tge impression that running Linux on a machine with an Nvidia-GPU will instantly burn down your house or spawn a portal to hell. It will not. I will get an AMD card at the next crossroads, but I am not ditching my card now just because it is Nvidia. It works fine enough.

  • Why?

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  • Had a 6-year old Macbook Pro that was increasingly difficult to use due to the small SSD-drive (I think only 128GB?). Coudn't really update the OS without uninstalling most stuff due to this. In addition, I had started to get the urge to tinker with stuff again, but ran into roadblocks often (often following a guide to do something in the terminal only to get stuck at inatalling something from apt). Same time I got more and more fed up with Big Tech, so when I was buying a new laptop to replace it, the choice to avoid Apple and Microsoft was obvious. Having used a terminal on macOS, doing work on HPC-clusters (which obviously ran Linux) and moving an increasing amount of my workflow to Got Bash on Windows on my work machine (all three of which reinforced my level of comfortability with the terminal and desire to use it), the prospects of the terminal was more enticing than frightening.

    Now I have been a full-time Linux user for three years, my partner, brother and mother have since switched, I manage some bare metal Linux servers for work and IT has finally agreed to allow me to ditch Windows for Linux (although they are taking their sweet time setting it up, so I am still waiting to actually get it).

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    BOSS RC-5 and Linux compatability?

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    Headaches with signal propagation when piping in a Docker container

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    A letter to the CalyxOS community

    calyxos.org /news/2025/08/01/a-letter-to-our-community/
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    Just had a donations round

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    What's your disaster recovery plan?

  • Self Hosted - Self-hosting your services. @lemmy.ml
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    Question

     Why does a Docker container have access to a directory on my system not explicitly mounted as volume?

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    Make Calculator in KRunner respect system settings for numbers?

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    Access to Samsung washers and dryers in HA without SmartThings?

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     Best way to switch a headless server from WiFi to ethernet?

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    Fixing wrongly set environment variable in Flatseal (when Flatseal won't run)?

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    Epson ET-2815 on Linux - epson-printer-utility not recognizing the printer

  • Self Hosted - Self-hosting your services. @lemmy.ml
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    Question

    Linode network spike

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    Unreliable samba transfers - common issue?

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    (Solved) Seagate OneTouch Hub compatability with Linux?

  • Self Hosted - Self-hosting your services. @lemmy.ml
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    Want to monitor system usage on my server - Grafana my best option?

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    Best way to transfer Borg backup repository from one server to another?

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    Not really sure I get Wayland

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    Contents of Meta data logs?

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    Site-specific about:config in LibreWolf/Firefox?

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    Adding license after some time with no license?