I’m not surprised by that at all. I used to use it, but found it strange how closed-source it felt, and how it’s almost a carbon copy of microslop office, in it’s interface, the latter being the main reason I started using it.

Literally why I’m here. Some bullshit in their bot detection flagged me as a bot, and disabled my account, that I had for 7 years.

ditto, switched from keepassxc to vault/bitwarden. Couldn’t be happier. I have it accessible via cloudflare tunnels, so I always can sync so long as I have internet.

Once I set up S3 cloud storage, I’ll have offsite backups as well.

You know, I was thinking that having access to a private tracker to anime and manga would be pretty nice, because of things like this.

It’s already been said: FOSS projects can be abandoned, but resurrected via forks and re-writes, whereas proprietary apps are simply dead with no recourse unless the original dev/team releases the source code.

That being said, I am not a developer, so when a project dies, I am at the behest of other devs to revive the project. I do find that projects that many people value, like all the recent discord alternatives or health/money management apps, tend to survive longer because they provide value to a wide range of people. Things like wikis or new protocols are far more niche, so I am not surprised that they might not outlive projects like sharkord or rackula.

Good on him for this. I started self-hosting a couple years back, so my “tech fence” is already fairly complete, with a few glaring omissions, still a WIP.

I do wish he got someone to provide links to guides or wiki pages, but I understand that making people go out and search for things is also important, even if it’s a simple task to search on google/github for open source projects.

Inspiring tale, glad you found something you both enjoy and learn from! I think that’s a great use of time, to problem solve and develop tools that benefit you day-to-day.

I’ve had some family that have experienced strokes, ranging from a slight scare to full on life-changing. You’re certainly doing well if you’re writing your own apps, I can barely script BASH.

I was scared off a couple years ago when I attempted to host it myself. I took a break from selfhosting, but now I’m back, and from what I learned in the past, I know now not to torture myself swimming upstream when there are far easier downstream currents to follow.

I’m looking at conduit but I’m currently writing up a doc to plan out the process, and understand it before I actually deploy anything. I don’t want to open ports, don’t need federation and don’t need encryption, since I’ll be using tailscale to host a private server to only members of my tailnet.

I’ll report back, either here or in the main community, because I don’t want to expose ports, rent a VPS or use ansible for a simple private server for less than 10 people.

I lack formal education in the tech field, but I honestly wish I didn’t waste my 20’s on drugs (it was fun though, honestly) and an attempt at a rap career, instead of getting my hands dirty in the field, so to speak. I got into computers in the early 2000’s, discovered linux in 2006, and since then I’ve been that friend who’s into computers and stuff.

I kind of forget what exactly got me into self-hosting . . . but youtube probably had something to do with it, with many youtubers like Raid Owl, Level1Techs, and even LTT talking about things like Jellyfin and TrueNAS, it got me curious as to why I never got into it sooner.

I honestly only use debian headless, and manage the server via ssh and manage docker containers via portainer’s web ui.

I’m not new to linux though, so 100% stay with a desktop environment like the one that comes with Mint, because that makes things much much simpler. It’s all debian under the hood at the end of the day, and 95% of services provide install guides for debian-based systems anyways. Is this optiplex 3050 your first homelabbing system?

thanks for this . . . .I keep worrying about security, hardening the system … etc, but forget about the essentials: power and networking. #1 priority for me is to get a UPS this year, once I find a job, that is

1080p/2160p Bluray remuxes would suffice. Oh yeah, you said websites. Private trackers are the best bet, if you want well-seeded torrents in super high quality. But *public torrents, from places like limetorrents and 1337x could suffice.

For specific films? Interstellar, Inception, Redline, The Tree of Life, Dunkirk, Blade Runner 2049, Vertigo, House (1977), Ran (1985), The Night of the Hunter (1955), Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)

There’s definitely many lists of great films to test of TVs/Projector setups, keep looking

ads? I almost never use a browser without ad blockers, so I never noticed.

comeback? I use it all the time with the .li mirror

https://t.me/Udemy_Courses_Free_Daily

maybe

try looking for telegram channels, there’s some that share courses, but what they share varies

would have been better to use the breaking bad “Jesse Pinkman and Jane” template, no?

RIP to all the music we lost due to unintended carelessness 🫡

Yeah, I pretty much had a similar linux pathway, started with kubuntu -> ubuntu -> arch (manjaro, then endevour os) -> Nobara. I was afraid of NixOS so I avoided it, might try it one day if I’m feeling spicy.

I’ve yeeted entire boot partitions and learned the hard way not to mess with what I can’t handle haha.

what music client do you use? I’m using mpd + rmpc right now, finally found something that’s customizable and powerful.

Oh yeah, I almost forgot firewire was a thing haha, glad that didn’t catch on. Hope you can get those tunes somehow, I know I wish I still had my music collection from my old mp3 players, or even the ipod shuffle and 1st gen nano I used to rock back in the day.

On nice, I went with airvpn too, and also use Nobara, what a coincidence?!

Concerning how soulseek works, as I understand it, it’s basically like the bittorrent protocol, just another peer-to-peer sharing protocol.

As to your collection, share away! You never know how far the happiness can go when the right collection is discovered!

Nice, I think the world’s a little better when we can share our musical tastes. It’s definitely some work to get all that music organized, but I’ve been messing around with scripting with python and that can do a lot of the monotonous stuff like fixing filenames and what not.

And plus you never know, you’ll see songs being uploaded from your library and might think, “who the heck downloaded that?”, as I have many times. Every time I see unique music being downloaded, I feel a little better knowing eclectic music taste is still alive and well haha