Tailscale serve might work; I haven’t tried it so I don’t know what it’s capable of.

Usually I’d recommend getting a real domain name and using Let’s Encrypt. .com domains are around $10/year but some TLDs are even cheaper. If you don’t mind which TLD you use, go to tld-list.com and sort by renewal price.

Edit: I forgot to mention - a server does not need to be publicly exposed to use Let’s Encrypt. You can use a DNS challenge instead of a HTTP one.

Interesting! They used to have a warning about it. I guess they removed it at some point. It’s referenced in this discussion for example: https://github.com/immich-app/immich/discussions/13008

Tailscale is great. You should use it. Most of their code is open-source. Their coordination server is closed-source, however there’s a self-hostable open-source reimplemention called Headscale if you want a fully-open-source Tailscale stack.

Tailscale is a peer to peer VPN, meaning there’s no central server like with OpenVPN. Systems on the VPN connect directly to each other. You can also use Wireguard in this way if you configure it as a mesh (every device on the VPN has every other device configured as a peer, and for each pair, at least one of them has the port open and forwarded). Tailscale is more reliable for that as it uses several NAT traversal techniques, so you don’t need to open the port and it works even if both ends are behind NAT.

Immich doesn’t rely on Tailscale; you can use any VPN. They don’t recommend exposing it to the public internet at the moment though, which is why you’d use a VPN (edit: as per a reply, this is not the case any more). In general, never expose anything publicly unless it absolutely has to be (like a website that anyone can access). For giving access to friends, you can share a device with them via Tailscale and configure an ACL so they can only access particular services on it.

For the drives, I’d recommend ZFS instead of Ext4 or NTFS. ZFS can detect bitrot and corruption using checksums, which neither Ext4 nor NTFS can do. NTFS isn’t recommended unless you’re running Windows Server, but you already said you’re using Proxmox.

IMO, use Syncthing instead of Nextcloud, unless you’ll be using all the other apps that come with Nextcloud (calendar, office tools, chat, etc). Syncthing does one thing and it does it well, which is almost always better than using software that tries doing a large number of things. Consider Seafile too.

For backups, I’d recommend Borgbackup and Borgmatic. Get a cheap storage VPS to store it. You should be able to get a deal for less than $2/TB/month during the current Black Friday sales. Check LowEndTalk for deals. A Hetzner storage box would work great too.

Unfortunately it looks like that one is for Apple devices, whereas I use Linux on desktop and Android on mobile.

There’s some, but I haven’t seen any that have the main features Plex and Plexamp have:

• Cross-fading when playing random tracks, but gapless playback when playing an album in order
• Analysis of the music using a local neutral network, such that you can tell it to play play “similar” sounding songs to the current one
• Automatic playlists - liked songs, decades, etc
• Downloads for offline playback
• Multiple libraries, for example I keep regular music separate from DJ mixes
• Equalizer with presets for common headphones

And probably other things I’m forgetting.

Thankfully CGNAT isn’t as common in the USA as it is in other countries. In the US, ISPs generally either offer native IPv4 (most of the major ones), or only use IPv6 and provide IPv4 at all. The latter is the case with a lot of the mobile carriers, especially T-Mobile. Your phone only gets an IPv6 address, and their network uses 464XLAT to connect to legacy IPv4-only servers.

Do you have a CVE for this?

Plex still has the most fully-featured music streaming app (Plexamp)

Prices rarely, if ever, go down in a meaningful degree.

In 2011, there was a large flood in Thailand that impacted ~40% of hard drive manufacturing. As a result, hard drives significantly increased in price. This was back when SSDs weren’t mainstream yet.

A year or two later, when manufacturing capacity was restored, prices were essentially back to what they were before the disruption.

Apart from disruptions like that, HDDs, SSDs, and RAM have always been going down in price.

Hmm, it’s missing the Docker repo. Check in /etc/apt/sources.list.d and see if there’s even a file for it.

LTS is supposed to contain stable components though. They really should wait for a stable (1.0) release before committing to it.

I’d connect vis SSH and manually inspect the files that it’s supposed to be creating. Does apt update show any errors?

I think the real issue isn’t the rewrites, it’s the fact that Ubuntu started using the new Rust coreutils even though they weren’t ready for production yet. uutils hasn’t even reached version 1.0 yet, and still fails some compatibility tests.

All your internet traffic is likely going through at least one network administered by a furry. It seems like there’s a much higher proportion of furries in network admin and cybersecurity jobs compared to IT/tech jobs in general.

The healthcare system in the US isn’t great, but you do get a decent experience if you have an employer that offers good insurance. My employer pays most of the cost of my health insurance. I pay around $200/month for my wife and I, but that’s pre-tax money, and the plan is great for US standards. $15 for doctor visits and $100 maximum for ER visits.

In Australia we pay a 1.5% tax to fund the public health care system, so for a $60k salary that’s $900/year.

I didn’t realise that the Pi 5 has an NVMe hat. Is that what you did? It’s a great solution.

SD cards are mostly designed for use cases that do very little writing. There’s high endurance SD cards, but those are designed for long continuous writes (mainly for dashcams and security cameras). Home Assistant does a lot of small writes, which is the worst case scenario for an SD card.

Back when I used a Pi for Home Assistant, I had a SATA SSD attached to it using a cable like this: https://a.co/d/2tlYZW2.

These days I’d probably try a USB NVMe drive, like a SanDisk Extreme Portable SSD or similar product. NVMe drives were a bit iffy with the older Pis since some of them pull way more power than SATA SSDs and the Pi couldn’t always handle them, but it should be fine with the newer ones.

If you don’t have any offsite backups yet, I’d get a storage VPS (look for good deals on LowEndTalk on Black Friday!) or Hetzner storage box and back up to it using Borgbackup and Borgmatic.

An important note missing from this article (but included in others) is that Jeff Atwood, the founder of Stack Overflow, donated 2.2 million Euros to Mastodon. That’s likely partially where the 1 million Euro payout for the CEO came from.

Why don’t you like people being paid for their work?

us software salaries are insanely high compared to the rest of the world, because the cost of living in SV is insanely high.

I moved from Australia to the San Francisco Bay Area. My starting income was maybe 3x what I was getting paid in Australia, but the cost of living definitely wasn’t 3x higher. Major Australian cities are considered HCOL (high cost of living) areas too. Some things like electronics and food were cheaper in the USA too, at least until inflation and tariffs made everything go up.

Are they all from the same sender? I wonder if they just have Outlook configured to set the importance to high for every email.