Thanks, I’ll check them out.

Thanks, I’ll take a look. Syncing is nice, but I’ll see how it fits!

Does anyone have current recommendations for an alternative to nextcloud file syncing/sharing?

I use it only for the below:

• synchronize some files/folders between some of my devices
• share files/folders with friends who don’t have an account; either with no password/account, or a password set at time of sharing
  • temporary/timed sharing so it is eventually no longer shared is nice, but not required
• use its webui like dropbox to upload files to my server from random machines (or download them)

And for that, nextcloud seems to be overkill.

This is the way

Symfonium on mobile Feishin on PC

I text my buddy, and say “hey do you wanna watch xyz, when you’re done with work?”. We hop on discord to chat and watch it. An hour or two timezone is not an issue, and for someone ‘local’ I’m probably not driving half an hour to their house after work. I do prefer watching together in-person, but thats not always as convenient.

Probably around 40% of my watching is via syncplay on Jellyfin, as I like watching with buddies.

Sans jellyfin you have to find a way for both of you to access the same file/stream and manually sync across snack/bathroom breaks or use the external and separate syncplay app.

I do like the external syncplay app but if I’m going to have to get the file to them anyways, why not just stream it synced? In my mind this is a really convenient feature.

It is not perfect, in my experience;

• on rare occasions, it gets ‘stuck’ and won’t sync correctly, so one will play but noth the other, pausing one unpauses the other, etc. Usually rebooting helps, but if not, I just manually sync
• there was 1 occassion which made no sense. I played a movie with a friend, we were watching together, but they were ahead of me by a whole ~15 minutes by the end of the film. Neither of us felt it was fast/slow or skipping anything.
• I haven’t had luck using syncplay on my TV. The feature exists but it doesn’t actually work.

But these are rare, minor gripes IMO. I’m glad Jellyfin has this feature.

It says it downloads songs from your Spotify playlist using youtube. Granted its not dling from spotify, but it is downloading the things you indicate on Spotify.

Proof-of-storage based cryptocurrency. The article says when it became non-profitable, the drives were reset so their smart stats would appear new, and sold them as such.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chia_Network

Edit:

FWIW, site says you can check the FARM values with smartctl -l farm /dev/sda if you do have a Seagate drive.

Honestly, not sure. What you did looks close to what I’d expect reading the airvpn doc.

1. Is port 6881 something unrelated? I think only local ports go there (e.g. your webui)

2. obviously make sure you set the forwarded port in qbittorrent, then maybe try some external tool like ipleak.net which can give you a magnet link you can put in qbittorrent to see the reported geo location. Not sure if that perfectly vets the port you intend to use, though.

3. glueten->gluetun in depends_on

If you attach to your docker as you launch, you might see some helpful output from either qbittorrent or gluetun (I think the “-it” flags

allows the running of a script whenever the VPN changes port (see PR https://github.com/qdm12/gluetun/pull/2399).

That’s an unknown, but welcome change. My experience for protonvpn was cludgy because you effectively had to run another service to spin and update qbittorrent’s port whenever it changed. Happy to see some form of baked in support for it now.

I’ve been self hosting for years, and am familiar with many of the topics here, but it’s still an interesting read for things like talking about breaking out the three part router yourself. I’m really glad he out this together because it means I can see what others do in detail, even if it’s NOT the 100% recommended way (OPNSense, wireguard, etc)

On one hand, I agree that having a small overview with links to make this non monolithic would go a long way to making this functional and less scary.

On the other hand some information is scattered fairly heavily. Take the switch discussion. He mentions a 15 dollar switch, and then the upper end 1000$ switch early on, to emphasize the range. It’s not until a much much later section he talks about the more practical 20$ switch or 400$ switch he’d use here. So it being monolithic aides Ctrl+F to find this segmented info.

He also mentions the capability/value of having a manged switch (the latter switch is managed) specifically with VLAN, and yet doesn’t to my mind ever state why/when I would do something with the switch management to that end. As far as I can tell, many newer switches will pass VLAN tags (even when unmanaged) from the router, which will enable you to offer a WAP with split SSIDs so you could use something like TP-link 8 port 2.5gb unmanged switch (which at 100$ seems like a meaningful bridge between the 15$ 4 port 1 GB switch, and $400 16 port 2.5gb, 8 port poe switch). He talks about PoE & speed merits but IMHO doesn’t really cover the significance of a managed switch other than saying it had features for vlan (even though the cheapie would pass VLAN tags)

What does the managed switch offer me for VLAN? Specifically just the capability to isolate certain ports so specific hard lines are mapped to a certain vlan?

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Edir: i see this was already mentioned.

Not sure if you meant the video, or written guide, but for the written guide -

OPNsense is not even mentioned.

When we build a router using a standard computer, we can install router software like pfSense or OPNsense,

There’s a bit of a debate between pfSense and OPNsense. TL;DR, the developers of pfSense are not the nicest people sometimes. If this bothers you, consider checking out OPNsense. Since I’ve been using pfSense for a decade, I’ve built much of my infrastructure around it. I am well aware of its quirks and don’t feel like setting up my network from scratch, so I am using pfSense for this tutorial. Regardless of the developers, you are infinitely better off using pfSense on your own hardware than standard routers.

But what are you both thinking you’ll archive?

I really like Symfonium. I’ll second giving it a check.

I love using it for Navidrome & offline caching, and it’s nice because it does offer some casting capabilities internally.

Anything you’d recommend over nextcloud for filesharing? I’ve had it setup so I’ve left it.

I just suggested something like it because OP wanted to they and their friends to be able to use the images.

Thanks! I’ll have to check it out myself.

It doesn’t help if folks are iOS, but perhaps ludicolo@lemmy.ml could set up a file sync server (e.g. nextcloud, etc) that syncs the files to their phones, and then an app like this could be used to pick images?

Or maybe there’s a way to set it up to read from a WebDAV mount point either in application or through Android?

I would say an image archiver like Hydrus might be suitable for an individual, but I don’t think it would have anything for your multiuser use-case.

I am curious if any popular keyboards accept custom gify/etc replacement URLs. It’d be pretty slick to set up Heliboard or Futo keyboard with an integrated self-hosted gify

I think jellyfin offers DLNA support? You could enable it localy and see if your TV(s) can access files that way, without the jellyfin TV app as a middleman

With WebOS app, I’ve noticed sometimes when watching TV shows, if I select one audio track, it will

• go to the next episode
• keep the desired audio track selected
• play the original/nase starting track.

To remedy it, I have to switch from the current selected audio track and back ¯_(ツ)_/¯

As far as possible solutions to bad app behavior on your device - get a separate TV device (roku, etc) or some pc or SBC run a jellyfin app on it. You’d want to research first to see if you could use your existing remote somehow (e.g. maybe an IR receiver)