The issues with IP reputation, and mail providers like Microsoft and Google choosing to make massive, sweeping email blackholes with no recourse are the real problem.

Hosting your own email is not really all that hard.

It does require some understanding of how SMTP works, and how to avoid things like backscatter - but its all very tractable.

I run my own mailserver on Linode. Granted it is a single user instance, and I don’t send that much email, but I have had very few issues.

The few times I have had an issue is usually places just flat out not accepting email addresses with custom domains. (Looking at you, AutoZone… Looking at you.)

I really like https://karakeep.app/.

I have it plugged into a local Ollama instance for automatic tagging of articles.

I really do not like recommending people chmod 777 anything.

It encourages bad practices.

I don’t often need to mess with PDFs but man StirlingPDF is just fantastic on the odd occasion that I do.

Also, curious - what do you use a download manager like PyLoad for? I’ve seen stuff like this but never found a use case.

I’ve been testing MatterMost for a few days.

It’s closer to Slack than Discord but has most of the same features.

Is Univention essentially just an LDAP server?

If you’re using Hugo it also creates an RSS feed by default every time you build the site.

I’ve actually been fighting with this since yesterday.

Pocket Casts is one of my last things that I’m not self-hosting, and I’m trying to change that.

My list of requirements was:

1. Multi-device sync
2. Be able to play seamlessly from either a web UI or my mobile device, picking up where I left off on either device.

For my Gpodder backend I chose to use the GpodderSync NextCloud app, since I’m already running NextCloud.

I tried PinePods and PodFetch for the web interface, both of which had various issues with sync.

Supposedly there’s a big update to sync coming for PinePods in a couple days, but I wasn’t able to get it working at all.

PodFetch has its own internal gpodder server implementation, but for the life of me, I could not get it to keep listen state in sync. Also, I initially set it up to use OIDC authentication since I’m also running Authentik - but don’t try to do that if you want to use the Gpodder integration. The two are essentially mutually exclusive, at least in its current state.

What I’ve settled on for the moment:

1. AntennaPod for mobile playback. (Be aware that there are additional steps for Android Auto support if you install it from F-Droid as I did)
2. NextCloud GpodderSync to keep track of listen state and subscriptions.
3. NextCloud NextPod app for web UI playback. I’m not exactly happy with this, as it’s a very ugly and basic UI, but it does work, and it does keep track of where I left off the way I want. Hopefully the PinePods update fixes my issues with it, as the web interface for that was much more slick.

UPDATE: I recently discovered RePod which is also a NextCloud app, but the interface is much better than NextPod.

You can set up firewall rules to redirect the traffic destined for public DNS servers to your internal DNS server.

Not sure how to construct that rule in the unifi firewall but it comes down to “any outbound traffic on port 53 that’s not destined for the adguard server, redirect it.”

Shouldn’t use the Xfinity router anyway, that thing is fuckin garbage.

Mail server, but mostly because deliverability in this day and age is a nightmare. If you’re some one off running your own mail server in 2023 be prepared to deal with many headaches around IP reputation.

You don’t need to be home for a cron job to run.

USB has a bad habit of randomly dropping off the bus until you reseat the cable or reset the device.

If you’ve got a copy of the data that’s local, why are you opening up ports? Just run the backup job internally.

I’m also not fond of using SBCs as a NAS, by nature their I/O is extremely limited. It will probably work as a backup, but man do I not trust a USB interface at all.

I also recommend not relying on email for notifications - too unreliable. I use the healthchecks.io docker image and have it send me notifications via Pushover when something fails.

Wow what a throwback

Windows 11 on the main desktop for gaming reasons. Currently Pop_OS on the laptop, considering moving to Arch. My servers all run Debian or Ubuntu.

Doesn’t come with a power adapter and has weird power requirements. Wouldn’t power up at all with a standard 5V 1A wall plug, needed 5V 4A.

Apart from that it’s been perfectly fine. I wish other OS than the armbian they provide supported this CPU.

freshRSS. I’m using the linuxserver.io docker image.

Nothing is really too much.

I have too much hardware to swap out to go 10G networking or I totally would.

The point of my homelab is for me to learn and break stuff in a safe environment, so if that leads me down a Kubernetes rabbit hole at some point so be it.

If you have a Synology their Surveillance Station product is amazing and will work with basically any IP camera brand.

I’d run my own mail server if deliverability wasn’t such a huge hassle.

Basically if you’re not google or Microsoft… Don’t even bother.