I've dabbled in it, but not really committed to it. It's a great lightweight server of course. I am a KDE Plasma user so I did a quick test of that and was able to install it via Alpine, but at the time, the support for javaws
was not there which I needed at the time for my job, so that killed my plans on using it. I may venture back to it later on .
Homebox - before we relocate - whenever that is, I will be printing labels and putting them under and behind my stuff, scanning it into there and then will use that to keep track of our items after the move to know what is in which box etc.
NocoDB Self Hosted (I use this for a few things) - started out with my network ip's I have on my servers and ports for my containers and most recently a sleep log.
Just a couple there.
I came pretty close to death I think - I was home recovering from a surgery and woke up early in the morning, short of breath, my heart was racing, and literally felt like it stopped. Naturally, at that time, my bladder decided it need to be relieved so I stumbled breathlessly into the restroom and did my thing. When I stood up, started to lose my hearing and vision for a few seconds, and felt myself starting to collapse, but I managed to catch myself and things restored, I face planted on my bed which got my wife's attention and 911 was called. All of this was due to a massive pulmonary embolism choking my heart I later learned. The embolism was caused by a clot which traveled up my leg.
Lesson learned: Keep moving after recovering from surgery at home kids! Your life depends on it.
I've always felt that we are like clumsy giants to them lumbering on throughout the home with the great strength and dexterity to manipulate objects. In spite of all of this they can swing from loving you to down right cold shoulders on a whim!
My obligatory cat tax. :)
For those that don't want to go back to the Dark side (Reddit), the post referenced a theme (Grey Layout global theme) which got KDE Dev's involved who in reaction removed the listing from the store.
In short - the theme ran code to run a rm -rf on the user's drive which wiped everything during install. Aside from backing up your data religiously, be sure to inspect the code instead of blindly installing for now. KDE Dev's said they will need to do better so I expect some changes are afoot to provide better security.
For a totally different experience, and if you ever want to spin up a distro in a "container" there's BlendOS https://blendos.co/
I'm an Arch user so I'm sort of staying where I am but am always open to ideas, so I tried Blend a while back. As said on this page for the distro: https://itsfoss.com/immutable-linux-distros/
"In other words, you can install any package on the distro (RPM, DEB, etc.) while getting the immutability and update reliability as one would expect."
That pretty much describes it and I recall, it did well. I also tried this one which is touted to be AI enhanced and feels more like they are making good progress: https://www.makululinux.com https://www.linuxinsider.com/story/new-makululinux-release-brings-ai-to-the-max-177104.html
To get the AI to the max, you need to pay a fee, but It's all in the name of supporting development.
Under Proxmox, I have the following running currently:
**As LXC Containers: **
- AdguardHome
- Psono Password Manager
- Zitadel SSO and
- One I'm trying to get Pomerium installed on
As a VM
- Home Assistant
The rest is all docker on the host OS which is Debian 12, this is not my complete list but the most used ones in my world:
- Dozzle (great docker log viewer)
- Uptime Kuma
- Authentik configured to allow passkey login (Simply awesome!)
- IT-Tools - https://it-tools.tech/
- Homepage by Ben Phelps
- WyzeCamBridge (So I can have RTSP for Home Assistant)
- SterlingPDF (MultiTool for PDFS)
- sshwifty - SSH within your browser - your logins are locally stored in your session only. https://github.com/nirui/sshwifty
- Portainer
- Vaultwarden
Protected by Authentik's SSO
- Portainer
- Statping
- Proxmox
- Wordpress (I'm evaulating this for a suitable Joplin replacement ) In short - I found that it's easier to reference a site instead of installing Joplin when I rebuild my computer.
- Psono password manager
You may wonder why I am using Zitadel and Authentik, I first started with Zitadel, and moved to Authentik, but am evaluating both. They both have their positives. So far Authentik has been the most useful for me. And about the two password managers, I use Vaultwarden as it supports everything I need including Passkey support. My step daughter who is an adult is disabled so having an easier password like Psono makes it easier for her.
I use Purelymail for my primary domain's smtp and imap server. As long as you don't use it for nefarious purposes like automated emails, then you should be fine. My primary use is to hook it into my services such as Vaultwarden, my uptime monitors (Uptime Kuma and StatPing) and Watchtower, so maybe less than 100 per month on it. They don't seem to mind. They have great support via Discord and it's been close to 1.5 years I think that I've been with them, no downtime.
Let me preface this with that I am an experienced CLI user and with Docker, so this really is not in my interest generally, but getting older and dealing with a variety of other personal issues, having a nice dashboard to deploy things sometimes is just really nice ya know? So I figured I would put on my dusty beginner's hat to get this a run.
For the beginner, it's a nice system to get started and get your feet wet with a no-nonsense app install experience. I tested this in a VM on my desktop and installed Sonarr and Sabnzbd which if you use Docker with these, you know the proper volume mapping is key. They take the hassle out of doing this for the end user. With that said though - file permissions are a bit off and both Sonarr and Sabnzbd needed the proper permissions set for the folders. Not a deal breaker for someone accustomed to the CLI, but for a new self hoster, this can be a bit frustrating.
Their app store is pretty impressive and I guess growing, the install on the server was painless to get running. It's something to keep an eye on, it's in good company with the other ones like Umbel and CasaOS, each has their own qualities.
For those wanting more fine grained control over the apps and installs, Tipi is a bit more opinionated to the port numbers and paths used and you can't easily modify those (at least from what I could tell). In the long run, this is a non issue for the most part if you are starting on a freshly installed server and don't want to handle the challenges of proper path mapping, reverse proxying and so forth. (They include Traefik in the install). Not having to worry if port 3000 is already taken or 8080 is, you can trust that it will handle it and it does!
Not sure if I am the only one, but ever since the pandemic, even if I step outside to get the mail up about 500' away , I just have to wash my hands immediately when I come in. Go to the store? I just feel really gross after. It's surreal. I guess I've become a bit OCD as a result.
For those like me which didn't see the video linked it's the Threads by Linked in the OP is talking about.
Be careful for those that install it, I guess if you delete your account there, it deletes your Instagram one too.
https://www.androidauthority.com/delete-threads-profile-3342840/
Why not use a different DDNS service? There are plenty out there. :) I think this may solve your issue. I've been using freemyip.com''s for a while and have had no problem in the past issusing LetsEncrypt SSL's. At the moment, I'm on Cloudflare tunnels so it's automatic with them, which I know is a huge trust issue for a lot of people, but I don't mind it for my stuff. But I do like to have my DDNS as a backup service from time to time.