Protip, if you think about what you post before you post it, you don’t have to scrub the record after the fact. :D

Thanks for the reply. I have Vikjuna running and it’s honestly pretty similar to TickTick.

The mobile site works great as a PWA and I grabbed the app just to see what they where working on. PWA is great, app is still very much WIP, but not a deal-breaker at all.

I do have one workflow that seems to clash. Perhaps you folks can help me logic something together:

I have a family member who is very list-adverse. They get upset and stressed out with due dates, and missed deadlines, and competing priorities. I still need them to help with chores. I was wondering if there was a way to have tasks in a project regenerate themselves when they are marked complete with a start date x days into the future. The basic idea is that instead of seeing “You didn’t clean the toilet on 1-June-2026.” they would see something like “Clean toilet, task created 10 days ago (with no due date).” Planka showed the number of days since a card was created in the bottom right of the card but didn’t support recurrence (and didn’t appear to be fully FOSS despite being self-hosted). Ideally, someone could go to look at the tasks and instead of seeing “You should have cleaned the sink on 2-JUNE you failure,” they could instead just see all the chores on cards with a number showing how long they’ve been sitting without being done. Know anything like that?

I use Obsidian in other contexts (e.g. long-term goal setting, journaling, knowledge recall). I tried to use it for tasks, but quickly over-complicated things. I have a lot of tasks and it can be hard to wrangle everything without a bunch of smart lists and tags and such. I may give it another try. I’m making a list of solutions I want to try for a week or two each. This is the core of my daily routine (along with my calendar), so it feels reasonable to over analyze the choice.

Thanks for the suggestion. I’m about to sound like a grumpy old man: I’m mildly frustrated with Nextcloud, though I’ve used it for a few years and the calendar sync and file features are pretty good. I’m annoyed not because they did anything that really deserves my annoyance, but for years they resisted the call to be able to select ISO 8601 date and time (e.g. YYYY-MM-DD). Instead I was pushed into the MM-DD-YYYY that’s commonly used here in the States, and only after cobbling together a horrific combo of language and regional formats did I get a Monday-starting week with 24h time and a YYYY-MM-DD date format. despite the days being in a weird language or something. No other piece of software I used tied date and time options so immutably to a single local and then gets defensive in the comments when a bunch of people don’t fit that mold. Most just have a dropdown for each format so you can tailor it to what you use. They also love to put so much whitespace between elements I’m worried I’ll be able ts see only 5 tasks or so without scrolling (common web 2.0 design failure). I’m sure Nextcloud is awesome. I’ve experienced that, but I’m waiting for it to mature a bit more before I dump a bigger workload onto it. Using NC does have one big advantage for me as my NC box is the only one accessible on he web without VPNing into my network.

I also REALLY like that the old Astrid app ties in with tasks.org

jtxboard I’ve heard of, but don’t remember. I’m gonna poke around and see if that one does it for me. Thanks again!

I appreciate the warning. I could see that and I’ll graciously accept it if it happens. I would still like to get the self-hosting communities pov because I want to be aware of any weirdness I should know about when it comes to running TrueNAS off of this kind of memory, especially in regards to the comment about everything being loaded into RAM after boot. Is boot drive speed on TrueNAS not that impactful?

In my experience remapping keys is easier on Linux than Windows. I copy and pasted a lot in past roles and unlike my own Linux PC which will allow me to set whatever key combos I like, the Windows comp at work didn’t have any software for this and IT didn’t have anything for me to install. I ended up adding my shortcuts directly to a hardware keyboard with user-modifiable firmware and that made it easier than ever before. Now copy and paste are a single keypress and even some of the weird key combos I could never remember have a simple stand-in. I guess what I’m trying to say is don’t discount hardware solutions because it may be the simplest way.

Good description. I read this and perfectly estimated the location you described within 5 seconds.

I toyed with the idea of exposing ports and decided against it. I don’t understand networking well enough yet. For me specifically, VPN access has been perfectly workable in the US with both speed and ease of access.

Can you use fail2ban on Jellyfin? That might be a wise step.

I remember this too. Somehow, despite all the laptops I installed it on I got VERY lucky and only had a couple of WiFi issues, one totally incompatible laptop, and one that would not boot until I got the boot parameters right. I heard plenty stories from other people though. All that said, it’s so much smoother and easier installing Linux nowadays that the Windows install where I worry the whole time that MS is trying to reverse psychology me into agreeing to sell my unborn children into slavery.

I would check out Recallbox. It’s quite polished feeling and looking. It can run on a raspberry pi, or something more powerful. You mention accessing the files and I liked the SMB access because I could just cut and paste my new ROMs over from the PC or phone. I imagine you could set up a script to do this automatically or just expose a read only SMB server for your friends to access. If your games are older, like Atari or Sega Genesis this would work great. If you have big ROMs like Gamecube or Xbox, then you’ll probably need a different solution since copying entire romsets to the device itself may not be practical.

I have seen a DIY Steam-ish software floating around, hopefully someone pitches in to get you that link as well.

I hope your project goes well!

Same, once I got PWM set up right on my fans, my desktop former gaming PC server has been 90% silent. Even when under load, it only kicks up a notch or two. I’m under the roof, so my summer temps will be the real test.

Thanks for the reply. At this point, I’ve decided I’ll need to try both. Fortunately my old router still works. I just need to make some hardware decisions now as I don’t have any hardware with multiple lan ports to try it out on. I don’t want to buy twice, so I’m trying to figure out what I’m going to need to overshoot my requirements a bit but not go crazy overboard and overspending for unused specs. My current router is the GliNet Flint 2 which has an open-WRT advance mode that I’ve messed with a little bit.

Sounds like you are pretty far along in your networking journey. I can appreciate the vLans and the 10G backbone, but a lot of the hardware you mention is over my head. :D I’d take the miniPC route, but like you, I’d like to attach my 4g router as a failover.

Glad to know I’m not alone! Sometimes it feels like everyone else has either figured it all out, or I’m charting new (and potentially silly) territory and nobody knows wtf I’m doing.

I’ve been doing Linux stuff for a long time, but I was still living under my parent’s roof back then so I never had to network anything, I just had the wifi password. After school, out in the world, I still didn’t have my own network for quite some time. Only in the last few years have I really started to grasp how it works well enough to actually do something useful with that knowledge. I’ll take a look at ipfire too. Luckily my current router is still functioning okay, so I have time to play around and see what software will work for me. Right now I have to make some sort of decision about hardware because I don’t have anything with dual ethernet on hand.

I have the fiber ONT straight from the wall. The tech support guys at my ISP gave me all the details I needed to configure my own current router (GLInet Flint 2). I’ve just been not trusting corporate solutions lately. I’m almost completely degoogled on my phone and the recent router banning drama is encouraging me to do this now instead of later when I had originally wanted to do it.

This is good info. I remember hearing a little bit of that and someone set me straight on DDWRT vs OpenWRT as well. I think I’ll take OPNsense for a spin.

Thanks for the reply.

I have devices I could use, but they’re earmarked for other projects. I’m looking at acquiring hardware specifically for this project. I could acquire it at a garage sale or a classified ads site. I don’t really want to spend more than $350 if I can help it and even then, I have to be able to justify that to myself somehow. (since that almost enough to add another 2TB of SSDs to my server). Having said that, if the features I want are only present in pricier hardware, I want to find that out now.

I have a 4g WiFi router I carry around when I travel that I call “the hocky puck”. It also has an ethernet port, so when I’m home, I take the battery out and attach it to my router as a backup in case the fiber fails. If I want to do the same thing on OPNsense, I would need to add an expansion card with more network ports, right? That would steer me from miniPCs to barebones router hardware or a small-form-factor PC build where I could add as many NICS as I have PCI slots.

Does wanting a 2nd WAN pretty much rule out mini-PCs for me?

Even in my God Tier build-dreams, I only have 2WANS a LAN and a management LAN. :D

They should have sent the manager and crew to the thrift store with a corporate CC and a box truck for furniture. Instead it’s bland, depressed, “I can’t believe it’s not cardboard™.”

Chipotle is still the king of food poisoning. They have a proven track record in toilet-related war crimes going back many years. Guess I’m adding BK to my no-go list now too.

I’m happy to drink a $2 coffee from the gas station (probably a half gallon of it 🙂) and set the remaining $7 aside. Then again, I only get drip coffee and not any of the milkshake-y stuff Starbucks specializes in.