I’m the one who files the most bug reports on github under a different name. Our instance runs on LemmyScheduler, so thanks!

I used Portainer for a while and still like it for checking out networking stuff, but try out Dockge! It’s more open sourcey and basic, but makes updating easier.

It’s great. You can subscribe to all sorts of stuff including Lemmy communities if you want. You just have to be a little nerdy to get it set up.

I used to use Google Feeds (I think that’s what it was called?) until they shut it down. Then I switched to Feedly. I think both of those had some “discovery” functionality so normal people could just search for something and follow it. You have to find your own RSS feeds with FreshRSS but it’s still great. I use Read You as an Android app.

I use gmail. You just have to set up an “app” password. I always have to search for how to do that, but once you have an app password you’re off and running.

I also just started hosting my own nfty and have been moving as much as possible to that. So far I’ve replaced two email notifications with push notifications, which is nice.

The Google account is still there, I’ve just hidden each of those calendars. New events seem to default to whichever calendar you used last (citation needed) so once you’ve created an event under the NextCloud account, it should default to that. The app I use (Business Calendar Pro) doesn’t even give the option if a particular calendar is disabled.

As far as DAVx⁵, the default is to only sync every 4 hours. Phone to NC is instant (once DAVx sees the change), but NC to Phone has a delay. However!..

I just set up the ntfy app to create instant two way sync both ways. It’s pretty slick. Dig around in the DAVx⁵ documentation about how that works. You install the DAV Push app on the NC server, ntfy on your phone, enable UnifiedPush in the DAVx settings, do a little dance, and then NC notifies DAVx every time there’s a change.

Edit: you can also delete calendars from Google Calendar settings on the web, but this is obviously permanent. I think you can also totally remove Calendar from your account.

Edit2: You can’t remove calendar from your account, only delete individual calendars.

In a web browser I use the NextCloud one. It’s functionally very similar to Google and I like it a lot.

For our Android phones, my wife uses the Google Calendar app, and I like Business Calendar Pro.

Both apps you just have to go into the settings once DAVx⁵ has done the initial sync and uncheck all of the Google calendars so they aren’t shown, and check the boxes next to the new Calendars.

Exporting and Importing I could only really easily do via the web browser for both.

A couple of days ago, after testing it myself for a few months to make sure I understood how everything works, I made the switch to NextCloud Calendar, and will no longer use Google Calendar.

This is the best part though… I somehow convinced my wife to do the same. She let me install the NextCloud app(optional for Calendar stuff but makes the setup easier) and DAVx⁵ on her phone (both from F-Droid, so DAVx⁵ was free). I exported and imported her calendar, and made sure the notifications were set up to her preferred default.

It’s multiple days later, and she hasn’t complained!

I’ve also moved all of my contacts over to NextCloud, but have yet to coerce my spouse to do the same.

I read below that you activate the 3D terrain using the mountain icon, but I still can’t get it to work with Firefox. I’ve tried the demo site with the same results. Is it maybe some sort of proprietary Google thing?

Edit: I see now in the docs that I need to point it at my own terrain data. I’ll look into that.

Wow, sounds like a big update. Integrations sounds super cool and should really help with the workflow part of things.

Will the Strava integration create new trails every time or is it possible to have it create new entries to the summit book?

Speaking of which, is Summit Book the best name for that function? It took me a while to figure out what that was about.

Plex can sometimes get by without port forwarding by using UPnP or NAT-PMP, but I had to open a port to use Plex (before I started using Jellyfin and a reverse proxy).

Same with Nextcloud, you either have to open a port or use a reverse proxy. Reverse proxy is more secure. Good stuff!

Worth mentioning that either way you’re opening up ports (you need to open 80 and 443 for the reverse proxy), but that’s much better than opening a bunch of ports, one for each thing you’re running.

The hardcore security minded people will always scream “use wireguard or whatever”, which also works really well (even combined with a reverse proxy that’s not exposed to the internet (80 and 443 not forwarded)). I do this for some of the stuff I run that I don’t want exposed at all, like my password manager. To access my password manager while out and about, I need to connect to my wireguard thing (my router sets it up for me), and then my phone is effectively back inside my LAN, and I can access whatever I need to. Fortunately it’s rare that I need to do this, because my password manager keeps a cached copy on my phone.

Sorry, getting long winded. You get the point!

My seedbox accepts crypto payments through Coinbase. Coinbase recently started requiring personal info when paying.

Wrapping my head around reverse proxy was a game changer for me. I could finally host things that are usefull outside my LAN. I use Nginx-Proxy-Manager which makes the config simple for lazy’s like me.

Wow. W Bush was president (or Obama depending on month).

Edit: yep, W. Bush. Oct 6th 2008, so Obama hadn’t even been elected yet.

I’m glad you asked because I’ve sort of been meaning to look into that.

I have 4 8TB drives that have ~64,000 hours (7.3 years) powered on.
I have 2 10TB drives that have ~51,000 hours (5.8 years) powered on.
I have 2 8TB drives that have ~16,800 hours (1.9 years) powered on.

Those 8 drives make up my ZFS pool. Eventually I want to ditch them all and create a new pool with fewer drives. I’m finding that 45TB is overkill, even when storing lots of media. The most data I’ve had is 20TB and it was a bit overwhelming to keep track of it all, even with the *arrs doing the work.

To rebuild it with 4 x 16TB drives, I’d have half as many drives, reducing power consumption. It’d cost about $1300. With double parity I’d have 27TB usable. That’s the downside to larger drives, having double parity costs more.

To rebuild it with 2 x 24TB drives, I’d have 1/4 as many drives, reducing power consumption even more. It’d cost about $960. I would only have single parity with that setup, and only 21TB usable.

Increasing to 3 x 24TB drives, the cost goes to $1437 with the only benefit being double parity. Increasing to 4*24TB gives double parity, 41TB, and costs almost $2k. That would be overkill.

Eventually I’ll have to decide which road to go down. I think I’d be comfortable with single parity, so 2 very large drives might be might be my next move, since my price per kWh is really high, around $.33.

Edit: one last option, and a really good one, is to keep the 10TB drives, ditch all of the 8TB drives, and add 2 more 10TB drives. That would only cost $400 and leave me with 4 x 10TB drives. Double parity would give me 17TB. I’ll have to keep an eye on things to make sure it doesn’t get full of junk, but I have a pretty good handle on that sort of thing now.

This has some limitations if I remember correctly. It doesn’t use PostgreSQL, and I don’t think you can use Collabora or whatever, so editing documents in your browser won’t work.

It’s quite possible that I’m wrong about that.

This prompted me to try using it again. The pointer is moving around slow, then fast, then way too fast. It’s difficult to get it to land on what I want. Is that the point?

There’s an add-on and an integration, yeah.

Oh interesting. How fast things change. I’ve only been using Frigate for around a year and I’m already behind the times.

The Home Assistant mobile client? Or is there a Frigate app, too? I have the Frigate webpage bookmarked and used that. It’s also available in the HA front end, but I prefer using Frigate directly.

Frigate for software. Add a Coral to your computer (they come in M.2, Mini PCIe, even USB) to handle the object detection. Configuration is slightly complex, but the documentation is very good.

I’m using a couple of Amcrest cameras which I have on a VLAN that can’t access the internet, so no spying from the manufacturer.

I also added a hard drive specifically for the recording. It stores a ton of days worth of footage and Frigate handles deleting old footage to make room for new. I figure that hard drive will probably fail sooner than my other drives which is why I got one just for that.