Original for sure. That's one way of hanging a mirror.

Hey there!

I just wanted to share a bit about my experience as a hobbyist and self-hosting enthusiast. While I may not be the most educated on the topic, I've been able to self-host my favorite services to avoid relying on big companies like Google and Amazon.

A few years ago, I started my self-hosting journey with Nextcloud, and it completely blew my mind. Finally, I didn't have to rely on Google Drive anymore!

However, I quickly realized that using a Raspberry Pi made things a bit sluggish. I tried upgrading to a more powerful machine. Still slow. I then tried with an i5-4460, but it was still slow and buggy. I even tried an i3-10100, and it was still a bit of a pain to use. It seems like many others feel the same frustration, so I know I'm not alone. I often wonder how some other people claim they have no issues with Nextcloud, but hey, good for them!

Because of the tinkering it seems to need, I feel like I don't have enough time and knowledge to make Nextcloud work as smoothly as I'd like, which defeats the purpose of self-hosting it.

That's why I've been exploring other options. I gave Seafile a shot, but couldn't figure out how to solve a "CSRF verification failed" error. Projectsend and Xbackbone are great, but they don't quite match what I'm looking for. I also tried Cloudreve, but I wasn't a fan of its sorting philosophy. I did find Picoshare, which I stuck with, but for a totally different purpose.

Then, I tried ownCloud for the first time. Wow, it was fast! Uploading an 8GB folder took just 3 minutes compared to the 25 minutes it took with Nextcloud. Plus, everything was lightning quick on the same machine. I really loved using it. Unfortunately, there's currently a vulnerability affecting it, which led me to uninstall it.

I also gave OCIS a try, and it felt even faster. The interface was smooth and fluid, it was truly impressive. However, with the recent news of it becoming part of Kiteworks, I'm a bit unsure about its future.

I can't help but wonder why so many people have been raving about Nextcloud all these years when ownCloud performs so well right out of the box. I'd love to hear about your experience and the services you use. Share your thoughts!

Hi !

I'm a privacy enthousiast. I have pihole running at home, I use it as my DNS resolver, and I use wireguard on my phone to connect home and use pihole on it. Never been happier. No Facebook, no Instagram, no social media at all.

Thing is, I'm making big changes in my life. I'm moving from Paris to the countryside and I need, I badly need to advertise my services as a freelancer (sound engineer and wedding photographer).

Of course, I'm in the process of building my website (almost there), but I am nothing if I don't post on Instagram and Facebook (in particular for my photo work). I've seen what other successful wedding photographers do with social media, and I need to do something alike.

I deeply despise meta, but I'll have to make a sacrifice at some point.

I've already found something like hootsuite to schedule my posts without having to login into fb or insta, but I'll have to login at some point for the interactions. So I'll install some secure OS on an old phone I'll use only for that purpose, but damn, I already feel dirty.

How would you feel about this ? What would be your approach ? For those of you that are in a similar situation, what's your method ?

I've recently started a crusade for the perfect selfhosted note taking app.

I posted here and I read a lot of others posts and for now I think I have what I need.

But as I see Joplin recommended every now and then, and given it doesn't offer a webui I can access everywhere from any computer (you need to install their app), I had this thought: how could I dockerize, say, the Linux Joplin app so I can put it behind a reverse proxy with auth and access it when I'm away from home from any computer.

I've seen this done for soulseek, mkvtoolnix and others, so I know it is feasibile.

Being just a hobbyist selfhoster with no programming background, I'm not sure where to start educating myself.

I'm sure there are some guides out there, but I'm not sure what to look for, what terms to use in my searches.

Somebody could point me to the right direction?

Hi.

I'm curently using Nextcloud notes for its convenience. I use the app on my phone, and the webui on my pc.

I'm willing to ditch Nextcloud as a whole, so I want to replace my note taking habits.

I've tried Trilium, which lacks an Android app, and I feel the WPA makes the UI unpractical and hard to read.

I've tried Joplin, but it lacks a webui.

Are there other alternatives I've missed out ?

Solution: I ended up finding Flatnotes. It's dead simple to run and to use, has markdown and WYSIWYG, and the WPA is flawless.

Hello.

I'm looking for a solution to send text from my PC to my phone, but also the other way around. Big plus if I can send files too in both ways. I already use pairdrop which is nice (while not 100% reliable from my experience) for files, and ntfy is good to send a notification (so basically text) to my phone but the android app won't let me send from my phone to my pc.

I used to use airdroid a while back, but I don't want to use proprietary software if I can.

Any idea ?

Solution: snapdrop or pairdrop. For text, right click on PC, long press on phone.

Hello.

It was some time ago so I'm not sure but I think I tried picodrive to play a Saturn game. It was Shining Force 3 scenario 1.

While the game was running without bugs, it was sloooooow and it wasn't the best experience.

Now that it's 2023, what would be the most optimized emulator to run saturn games at full speed ?

Thanks for your help.

Hello.

I was willing to post this in the home network community, but it is not active at all... So I hope this is the right place, as I use a self hosted wireguard and pihole.

I'm just a hobbyist whose first language is not English, so please, bare with me :)

So I use Wireguard Easy to create a tunnel to my home network to use pihole on my phone and access my services from outside.

I have an app to wake my home computer on LAN that is working fine when I'm home. I'd like to be able to wake it from outside and I don't know how.

A few things are bugging me. If I'm connected to my home network, shouldn't I be able to WoL my computer as long as I use my tunnel ?

And, on some occasions, I was able to WoL my PC when I wasn't home (I remember doing it once when I was visiting my parents).

Can someone ELI5 this please ?

Thanks for your help :)

We have absolutely no clue what these people are selling

This last one is eloquent.

I suffer several micro cuts a day since a couple weeks. I'd like to monitor these cuts to help diagnose the issue with my ISP.

Is there any docker image that allows to do this ? I only found internet speed monitoring.

Solution: Use NFS -_-'

Hello. I've been using hotio's qbittorent, radarr and sonarr images for a while and I've been really happy with it. But A few weeks ago, I started having problems with radarr failing to copy my files to the destination folder. I have qbittorrent on machine A and my video server on machine B (called "orbiter"). I mounted destination folder on machine B to machine A like follow: sudo mount -t cifs //orbiter/Video/ /mnt/OrbiterVideo -o username=root,password=omgstrongpassword,uid=998,gid=100

And added it to fstab: //orbiter/Video /mnt/OrbiterVideo/ cifs username=root,password=omgstrongpassword,iocharset=utf8,noperm,uid=998,gid=100 0 0

Now, here are my docker-compose for qbittorrent and radarr :

QBittorrentVPN

version: "3.7"

services:
  qbittorrent:
    container_name: qbittorrentvpn
    image: cr.hotio.dev/hotio/qbittorrent
    ports:
      - 8992:8992
      - 8118:8118
    environment:
      - WEBUI_PORTS=8992/tcp,8992/udp
      - PUID=998
      - PGID=100
      - UMASK=0022
      - TZ=Europe/Paris
      - VPN_ENABLED=true
      - VPN_LAN_NETWORK=192.168.1.0/24
      - VPN_CONF=wg0
     # - VPN_ADDITIONAL_PORTS
      - VPN_IP_CHECK_DELAY=5
      - PRIVOXY_ENABLED=false
      - DEBUG=yes
    volumes:
      - /srv/path/Files/QBittorrentVPN:/config
      - /srv/path/Files/QBittorrentVPN/downloads:/downloads
      - /srv/path/Files/QBittorrentVPN/skins:/skins
    cap_add:
      - NET_ADMIN
    sysctls:
      - net.ipv4.conf.all.src_valid_mark=1
      - net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6=1
    restart: unless-stopped

Radarr

version: "3.7"

services:
  radarr:
    container_name: radarr
    hostname: Radarr
    image: cr.hotio.dev/hotio/radarr
    ports:
      - "7878:7878"
    environment:
      - PUID=998
      - PGID=100
      - UMASK=002
      - TZ=Europe/Paris
    volumes:
      - /srv/path/Files/Radarr/config:/config
      - /srv/path/Files/QBittorrentVPN/downloads:/downloads
      - /mnt/OrbiterVideo/movies/:/movies
    restart: unless-stopped

Radarr manages to grab and download a movie, but it fails to copy it:

2023-07-21 16:15:59.3|Warn|ImportApprovedMovie|Couldn't import movie /downloads/awesomemovie.mkv

[v4.6.4.7568] System.UnauthorizedAccessException: Access to the path '/movies/awesomemovie' is denied.
 ---> System.IO.IOException: Permission denied
  
***
End of inner exception stack trace
***
   at System.IO.FileSystem.CreateDirectory(String fullPath)
   at System.IO.Directory.CreateDirectory(String path)
   at NzbDrone.Common.Disk.DiskProviderBase.CreateFolder(String path) in ./Radarr.Common/Disk/DiskProviderBase.cs:line 189
   at NzbDrone.Core.MediaFiles.MovieFileMovingService.CreateFolder(String directoryName) in ./Radarr.Core/MediaFiles/MovieFileMovingService.cs:line 215
   at NzbDrone.Core.MediaFiles.MovieFileMovingService.EnsureMovieFolder(MovieFile movieFile, Movie movie, String filePath) in ./Radarr.Core/MediaFiles/MovieFileMovingService.cs:line 185
   at NzbDrone.Core.MediaFiles.MovieFileMovingService.EnsureMovieFolder(MovieFile movieFile, LocalMovie localMovie, String filePath) in ./Radarr.Core/MediaFiles/MovieFileMovingService.cs:line 165
   at NzbDrone.Core.MediaFiles.MovieFileMovingService.CopyMovieFile(MovieFile movieFile, LocalMovie localMovie) in ./Radarr.Core/MediaFiles/MovieFileMovingService.cs:line 90
   at NzbDrone.Core.MediaFiles.UpgradeMediaFileService.UpgradeMovieFile(MovieFile movieFile, LocalMovie localMovie, Boolean copyOnly) in ./Radarr.Core/MediaFiles/UpgradeMediaFileService.cs:line 73
   at NzbDrone.Core.MediaFiles.MovieImport.ImportApprovedMovie.Import(List`1 decisions, Boolean newDownload, DownloadClientItem downloadClientItem, ImportMode importMode) in ./Radarr.Core/MediaFiles/MovieImport/ImportApprovedMovie.cs:line 129

It is important to note that I didn't change anything in my config.

Is there something I am doing wrong here ? I can't see through this anymore.

Hi all.

I used to follow the progress of Florisboard and stoped hearing from it a while back. I was anxiously waiting for swipe gestures and French predictive text.

I went to the GitHub, and while I see a few commits past June, latest release is more than a year old.

Was the project abandoned ?