Self-Host Weekly (7 August 2026)

Ways to Expose Services Publicly

I want to expose my services publicly on my own domain name, how would you guys do that?

I have seen people using Cloudflare, but I don’t want to use Cloudflare out of principle. I have also seen stuff on caddy and frp that I’ve done some rough researching.

What do you guys do?

Dawarich 1.11.0, now with custom maps and posters [AIP]

Hello there my good people of self-hosted Lemmy! Dawarich got some new stuff since my last post, so here I (Evgenii) am, ready to tell all about it! Make yourself comfortable and prepare for awesome stuff :)

By the way, Dawarich — is your free (now and forever) open source self-hostable alternative to Google Timeline. And hey — we just reached 10k stars on Github! Yay! Here’s a small bonus for you! youtu.be/-7o2WJPXMVw

AI Disclosure (as per lemmy.world/post/49320548):

Implementation - Generated

Testing - Generated

Design - Generated

Our links:

Github: github.com/Freika/dawarich

Website: dawarich.app

iOS app: apps.apple.com/us/app/dawarich/id6739544999

Android app: play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.dawaric…

First of all, tons of bugs were fixed. Right now I’m steadily keeping number of open issues on Github at around a hundred, and, hopefully, I’ll be able to significantly reduce it in the upcoming months. It’s time for Dawarich to get some more stability.

So, let’s start with the big things!

Since 1.9.1, the following changes were introduced:

• Poster Studio: you can now generate posters, wallpapers or images for your social media, featuring your location history on the map, in a beautifully styled way. Check out screenshot below.

• You can also order a printed poster via our print-on-demand integration, thus supporting Dawarich development. Print quality is superb: I personally ordered two posters to test it, pictures are also can be found below. Important: it’s built with privacy in mind, so nothing gets sent to our print-on-demand provider unless you explicitly click a button. Prices are 44,99€ for 30x40cm, 54,99€ for 50x70cm and 74,99€ for 70x100cm poster, printed on 200 gsm premium matte paper. Delivery and VAT included, for now — EU only.

• As a side-effect of the Poster Studio introduction, you can now apply same styles to your main map and customize the colors or provide custom schema for vector maps. It’s pretty fancy, check it out!

• Dawarich can be installed as PWA! Pretty neat for read-only purposes on mobile, and I have some ideas on how to make it look nicer on mobile screens in the future.

• Replay upgrades — Polaroid photo pile, live photo-layer toggling, recenter & follow camera

• Google Takeout & Polarsteps imports now extract visits, named places, tracks, and transport modes, not just points (1.11.0); retroactive via “Extract additional data” on the Import page TCX/FIT/Google-takeout activity types now feed transportation-mode detection

• File imports stopped storing raw_data copies; streaming batches for large GeoJSON/Timeline files. Less space on disk taken, less memory during import consumed. Existing points are re-checked after upgrade, with tracks/stats/digests rebuilt on the lowest-priority queue. If you’re updating and noticing resources consumption surge, just let it work through the background jobs.

• Self-hosted stack ~20% lighter: 452 → 325 MB app container, 843 → 690 MB total. I also have some more ideas on how to make it even slimmer later

• GET /api/v1/points endpoint now works up to 5 times faster than before

• ImageMagick removed from the image, making the docker image smaller

• Oh, and mobile app update was released, for now just for Android, iOS is following in a few days: you can now enable/disable points, routes, heatmap and visits layers, easily navigate between days and replay your daily movements. The iOS version will also include an (for now, optional) experimental tracking mode, that shown pretty good results, but it needs the famous blue arrow to be on all the time. The choice is yours. Oh, and Dawarich for mobile now eats a lot less of your phone battery. Thanks for all the detailed reports.

These are the most notable changes, but under the hood, there is a lot more. If you’re interested, check our our Releases page ( github.com/Freika/dawarich/releases ), it’s all there.

And now, that we’re done with what’s already there, let’s talk a bit about the future.

Dawarich started as a tool to show location history on the map, but it became so much more since then (all thanks to you, by the way). In the nearest future, subjects of our primary focus are:

• Better mobile experience: UI, more feature parity with the web, better onboarding and family features
• Reworked Search UI
• Simpler and more concise UI overall across the app (I heard Timeline is not that easy to work with)
• Geofence (tell me about your use-cases!)
• Less bugs
• Two new locales (German & French, web first, mobile will follow)
• Better performance and architecture improvements
• I also want to play around MCP so your LLMs of choice could easily talk to Dawarich, improve visits detection and transportation mode detection, but the last two will take some work.

So yeah. As usual, lots of work behind us, even more is ahead of us. I want to say thank once again to all of you who are using Dawarich on daily basis, reporting bugs, suggesting features, opening PRs with fixes and new features supports us financially or just spread the word about the work we do. Without you guys there would be no Dawarich, so — thank y’all.

We also highly appreciate your donations, every single one makes a difference, whether it’s a 1 time 1 euro donation or a recurring one on Patreon paid in full for the next year. Every single one of them brings us one step closer to a point where Konstantin (who is in charge of our mobile apps) and I will be able to spend more time polishing Dawarich.

If you happened to be (or know someone who is) a Youtube blogger, a podcaster or just have a blog, we’ll be happy to talk to you in case you’d like to create something featuring Dawarich (or Dawarich Atlas for that matter, I’ll be giving a talk on it on October’s Berlin Geomob). So ping me!

As always, our links to save you a scroll:

Github: github.com/Freika/dawarich

Website: dawarich.app

iOS app: apps.apple.com/us/app/dawarich/id6739544999

Android app: play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.dawaric…

Donate: www.patreon.com/freika / github.com/sponsors/Freika/

Thanks and see y’all in a ~month!

P.S. Cooking something legendary

Jellyfin theming...or alternative main page?

Hi guys! I have a frequent issue on Jellyfin, that is, whenever there’s a new TV show or movie, it quickly gets buried behind by new episodes of existing TV shows, and in the case of movies, even old releases being updated can push behind a brand new release. I was wondering if there was a better theming that might prioritize better brand new movies and TV shows over repeating ones?

[AIP] CookTrace v1.1.1: In-App Updates, Full i18n Sweep, Android App-ID Fix

CookTrace is a self-hosted recipe, pantry, and cook-diary app. Single Docker container, PWA + native Android app, no accounts on external services, no telemetry. Third app in the Trace family alongside NutriTrace and LiftTrace.

v1.1.1 rolls up everything since v1.0.3 (a couple months of work, went straight from 1.0.3 to 1.1.0 to 1.1.1).

Added

• In-app updates. New Settings → Updates panel checks GitHub Releases for a newer version. On Android, downloads the signed APK and hands off to the system installer via FileProvider. One primary button drives the whole flow: Check Now → Download & Install → Downloading X%. Skip This Version link when an update’s available, inline “What’s new” markdown panel, opt-in Stable or Dev channels. Silent shade notification when the OS notification permission is granted; top-of-app banner as fallback.
• Full i18n retrofit across the app. Every hardcoded UI string extracted into src/i18n/en.json and reads via svelte-i18n. ~460 new keys, Weblate-ready. Covers Settings, Pantry, Recipes, Cook Diary, Shopping, Trace AI, and every shared widget. Chicago-style title case for labels/buttons/headings, sentence case for body prose. Column-aligned values and paired <key>_desc sibling keys so translators get inline context.
• Pull-to-refresh sync (Android). Swipe down from the top of any page to trigger a manual sync in native server mode.
• Smart connection banner. When sync fails, the banner explains what actually went wrong (no network vs cellular-only vs server unreachable vs HTTP error) with a Retry button, instead of a generic “sync error”.
• Cloud icon in hamburger menu goes red on server disconnect. Previously only lit up when the OS reported offline; now also triggers on server-side outages and cellular-vs-LAN routing mismatches.
• Pantry page: configurable default search source. New setting under Settings → Food Sources → Pantry Search picks which chip the Pantry page opens with (All, My Pantry, OFF, USDA). Sticks across sessions + devices.
• Optional email on Create Admin Account form. Shows up when SMTP is configured via environment variables. Stored on the admin user record for password-reset and invite emails later.
• Accent-tinted browser chrome. The browser tab bar picks up the current accent color via <meta name=“theme-color”>. Running CookTrace alongside NutriTrace / LiftTrace? Distinct accent per install makes tabs visually distinguishable at a glance.
• Docker Hub mirror. Images now publish to both ghcr.io/traceapps/cooktrace (primary) and traceapps/cooktrace on Docker Hub. Identical multi-arch tag set on both registries.

Changed

• Bitwarden and other password managers show a real app identifier instead of “localhost” (Android). The Android app used to serve its WebView from https://localhost/, so autofill entries saved as “localhost” and were indistinguishable from any other localhost app. Now identifies as app.cooktrace.local, which reads clearly in autofill dialogs and saved-credentials lists. One-time upgrade cost: the origin change orphans locally cached web-only state, so on first launch after upgrading you’ll re-enter your server URL + log in again (server-connected users) or lose theme / accent / display prefs (standalone users). Recipe, pantry, and shopping data is unaffected (that lives in a separate local SQLite DB).
• SMTP “Username” field relabeled to “Email or Username”. Most providers want the full email; the label change removes the guesswork.

Fixed

• OFF country filter works again + picker expanded 15 → 30 countries. The Pantry’s Open Food Facts country filter was being passed with the wrong query shape (countries_tags_en=<slug>), so selecting Norway or any non-World option silently had no effect. Fixed by using search-a-licious’s native inline Lucene syntax. While in there: alphabetized the picker and added Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Chile, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland.
• App icon no longer shows a white halo. Bundled icon PNGs had ~15px of solid white padding baked into their corners; on tinted browser chrome the halo was visible around the tab favicon. Corners now clear cleanly. Icon URLs cache-busted with the app version so future icon fixes take effect without a browser cache clear.
• Create Admin form password field no longer crushed. The password input on the Enable User Management form was rendering as a colored sliver because of a flex-layout bug. Password + Confirm now sit symmetrically side-by-side, each with its own eye toggle sharing show/hide state.
• Server-connection banner no longer covers the phone’s notification bar (v1.1.1). The red “server unreachable” banner sat edge-to-edge at viewport top:0, which on Android slid it up over the status bar / clock. Now floats as a rounded card below the status bar and the compact header.

Where to Get It

Docker Compose:

services:
  cooktrace:
    image: ghcr.io/traceapps/cooktrace:latest  # or traceapps/cooktrace:latest on Docker Hub
    container_name: cooktrace
    ports:
      - "3003:3001"
    volumes:
      - ./data/db:/data/db
      - ./data/uploads:/data/uploads
    environment:
      JWT_SECRET: change-me-to-a-long-random-string
      DB_PATH: /data/db/cooktrace.db
      UPLOADS_PATH: /data/uploads
    restart: unless-stopped

Then docker compose up -d and open http://localhost:3003/.

• GitHub: github.com/traceapps/cooktrace
• Docs: traceapps.github.io/docs/cooktrace/
• v1.1.1 release notes: github.com/traceapps/cooktrace/releases/…/v1.1.1
• Full CHANGELOG: github.com/traceapps/cooktrace/…/CHANGELOG.md
• Android APK: signed, on the Releases page (shared TraceApps keystore, in-place upgrades work)

AGPL-3.0. No accounts, no telemetry, no external cloud unless you opt in (Open Food Facts, USDA, or an AI provider you supply the key for).

AI Disclosure

Per Rule 7 / [AIP] disclosure requirements AI was used during development as a coding assistant. Level per category:

• Design (architecture, system design): Hint — I make the architectural calls; AI suggests trade-offs and edge cases I might have missed.
• Implementation (production code): Pair — roughly 50/50. AI drafts, I review, adjust, test on real hardware, and only commit what I’ve verified. Every commit is manually reviewed before it goes to my dev repo.
• Testing (writing tests, test plans, QA): Assisted — real-device testing is manual (I test on my own PC and mobile devices before every release). AI helps draft test plans and think through edge cases.
• Documentation (docs, comments, README, CHANGELOG): Pair — release notes and changelog entries are drafted with AI then edited for tone; comments and code docs are mostly Pair as well.
• Review (code review, PR feedback): Assisted — I’m the reviewer; AI helps with security sweeps, audit passes on complex changes, and consistency checks.
• Deployment (CI/CD config): Hint — Docker/GitHub Actions/release pipeline is largely conventional; AI-suggested improvements only.

Considerations when buying an LSI HBA?

Hi everyone

I’m looking to expand my storage. I have a case capable of 8 bays and I don’t think I’ll exceed that soon (currently at 3 drives).

I bought a m.2 slot with a bunch of sata ports on it but it doesn’t work. I’ve researched and read an HBA is a much better solution anyway.

If I’m going to get the HBA I might as well run all 8 ports on it.

Aside from the clearance on the card in the case, are there any other considerations I need to he aware of? I justbeant to get something that works from the get go. For my uses I have a good amount of apps and I stream media from the server

CPU- i5-10400f 2.90ghz

MOBO - asrock h570m-itx/ac

RAM - gskill f4-3200c16-8gvkb

GPU - Quadro k620 (gm107gl) rev a2

CASE - Jonsbo N3

[AIP] I built three apps to automate and manage your manga/comics library

I’ve been building an /*arr stack of apps to automate manga and comics. Together, they allow you (and ur users) to request media, then automate and organize it for you.

• Edit: This was made with AI! My apologies for forgetting to state that. I spent a lot of time testing and iterating these apps, but they are very much built with Claude and Codex!

Mangarr — manga library automation

Mangarr helps you keep a manga library current and tidy.

• Search for series with cover art, descriptions, and up-to-date chapter lists.
• Choose which series and chapters you want to follow, then have new chapters added to your library automatically.
• See a clear “wanted” view so you know exactly what is missing.
• Browse your collection in a poster-style library and see each series’ chapter progress at a glance.
• Works alongside an existing collection: it can recognize what you already have, so it focuses on the gaps instead of starting over.
• Scan your folders for newly added files, review anything it could not identify, and match it manually when needed.
• Preview and apply consistent filenames without overwriting or deleting your existing files.
• Keeps each chapter neatly organized and ready for a separate reader such as Komga or Kavita.

Pullarr — comics library automation

Pullarr is the western-comics counterpart to Mangarr.

• Search comics by series, with cover art, publisher details, issue lists, and release dates.
• Follow the issues you care about and have newly released issues added to your library automatically.
• See missing issues in one place instead of manually checking long-running series.
• Keep your comics in a clean, consistent folder structure, ready for Komga or Kavita.
• Bring an existing library with you: Pullarr can scan your folders, recognize files you already own, and avoid downloading them again.
• Preview renames before making any changes, find duplicate files, and clean up mismatched items.
• Manually match collected editions or trade paperbacks to the issues they contain, so your library progress stays accurate.
• Offers more detailed creator, story, and collection information when available.

NextPanel — a request app for your library

NextPanel gives other people an easy, friendly way to discover and request manga or comics from the library.

• One place to search across both manga and western comics.
• A Discover page with trending manga, seasonal picks, favorites, newly released comics, and new comic series.
• One-tap requests for titles that are not already in the library.
• A simple approval queue, so the library owner can approve or decline requests with a reason.
• Clear request progress: people can see when a title is being processed, partly available, or fully available.
• Notifications when a new request needs approval, or when a requested title becomes available.
• Separate accounts so people see their own requests while admins can manage everything.
• Installable on a phone like an app, with a layout designed to feel comfortable on mobile.

I built these because I wanted the convenience of a well-organized media library for manga and comics. Feedback, feature ideas, and bug reports are very welcome.

AI Project Disclosure [AIP]

AI was used in the development of these projects as follows:

• Design — Assisted: I drew up the designs and used AI to help turn those designs into the applications.
• Implementation — Generated: I defined features, tested the apps myself, and identified bugs, while AI produced most of the production code.
• Testing — Generated: AI generated much of the testing work. I also tested each app myself, identified issues, and guided what needed improvement.
• Review — Generated: AI handled most code review, while I provided direction based on the features and issues I found.
• Documentation — Pair: AI generated the initial documentation, and I refined it for accuracy and clarity.
• Deployment — Pair: AI drafted the Compose files and helped set up the automated image builds and Docker Hub publishing; I worked with it to configure and validate that setup.

I remain responsible for the projects’ direction, feature decisions, testing, and final validation.

Should I bridge Whatsapp on Matrix? (Or alternatives to get on Whatsapp)

Heyhey everyone,

I am going to switch from my Synapse instance (back) to Continuwuity in a month. The main reason I’ve been using it is to chat with family who are only on Whatsapp and iMessage (Yes, I tried getting them someplace else. Whatsapp ended up being that other place). Though I’m also in groups on other Matrix instances.

The main annoyances I had with using the bridge until now are:

1. I need to open the app every two weeks on my second phone (which tends to get lost when I need it).
2. The time my server went out for a couple of days also made me unsure of self hosting a bridge. I don’t mind if I can’t see some support messages for a couple of days, but I do mind not being able to get texts from family.

Compared to just using the app it’s a difficult proposition. But on the other hand I don’t have anything proprietary installed on my phone and I’d like to keep it that way if possible.

There is technically a third option by hosting an iMessage bridge, but I don’t have a spare Mac. And while my second phone is an iPhone, there is no documentation on how to bridge via a 64-bit iPhone. In this case however, there would be no two weeks access requirement.

I’d love to hear you guys’ thoughts and maybe some other way to tackle this!

Cheers!

Edit: Thanks everyone for the help! I’ve heard some awesome suggestions. I opted to keep using the bridge. Apparently you don’t need to open the app to refresh the biweekly timer, just run it in the backgroud. I happen to have a device that is on more than often enough for Whatsapp to refresh that timer in te background.

Why do people host RSS?

I see a lot of options for self-hosting RSS subscriptions and I don’t actually understand what they are for. The very nature of RSS is that it tracks and connects to online content. It seems like having a home server track and download the content just so that you can download it on another device from your server instead of the original servers a bit redundant. Also, it seems like the clients are more limited, since it has ro connect to your personal host, as opposed to the many RSS readers available.

Sorry if this is a stupid question, but I genuinely don’t get it. What am I missing?

Selfhosting Sunday! What's up?

It’s been a while! Let us know what you’re currently working on, what exploded, what cool stuff you found, or just brag that everything is running fine unattended.

I haven’t been doing a lot, renovate auto upgrades for patches and sometimes minor updates work great so far. I got involved in my union to spin up a mastodon server soon, so there’s a new project, but I already run mastodon so it shouldn’t be much of a deal, I just need to get comfortable with the infrastructure. I also set up ntfy but only sent some test notifications and didn’t configure any app yet - planned for Element Chat.

[Meta] I’m not sure how to apply the new tags. In the recent versions of this thread, people sometimes posted about their ollama setup or the like, but I’m not mentioning AI in the post body (except this meta thingy) and it shouldn’t be much of the discussion, but it’s an open post. Maybe curbstickle can chime in to let me know if I should apply one of them.

Is this a good first homeserver?

I don‘t know if this is the right place to ask, but is this an OK build for a first start in selfhosting? Is there anything obvious I could improve? I‘d mainly run Nextcloud, Immich, some Docker containers and smaller web applications and cronjobs.

[CBH] Released Lanemu P2P VPN 0.14.1 - Open-source alternative to Hamachi/Zerotier/Radmin/etc.

• Fixed issues in the RUDP library: memory leaks when using shutdownHook, deadlocks, handling of corrupted UDP packets, and many other issues that were identified during testing.
• Added the display of the connection protocol to the peer list.
• Added an experimental build that compiles a .jar file into an executable using native-image in GraalVM. For now, this is for the headless version of the application on Linux x86_64. To avoid running Lanemu as root, you also need to do

sudo setcap cap_net_admin=eip Lanemu-headless

• Updated dependencies.

[AIP] - Changerawr v1.0.7 Release

[AIP] Disclosure: https://github.com/Supernova3339/changerawr/blob/master/AI-DECLARATION.md

Hello c/selfhosted! I’m Nova (known as Supernova3339 online) and was told to post here by my friend fccview. Admittedly, I have made this post before (apologies for not noticing the rule) and hope my second attempt will be much more favorable for all of you. I’m just facing constant rejection and hate on Reddit, it’s not like it used to be anymore unfortunately, and I’m hoping you’re willing to give me a chance :)

You can find Changerawr’s source code here
With that out of the way, let’s get started with the release notes!

Features

• Extensions – Extend the functionality of Changerawr’s beloved Markdown editor. Comes with four extensions installable from the get-go thanks to the official Changerawr Extension Store! If you’d like to make your own, download the official Changerawr CLI!
• Spellchecker – Adds Spellchecker functionality to the editor via integrating with the LanguageTool API! You can configure all related functionality in system configuration. This feature is disabled by default
• Editor History – Provides a git-like editor history for your changelog entries! You can make them memorable as well by assigning icons, titles, and color!
• RSS Feed Extension – Full control over RSS feed content, layout, and styling!
• Maintenance Mode – Put any public changelog into maintenance mode. You can also set your own message
• More Project Personality – You can now set an accent color and icon that will be used throughout the application to identify a project!

Improvements

• Moving some functionality to local AI – Tagging with AI has been moved to a brand-new Tag AI service that runs alongside Changerawr. Also introduces some improvement to the tag selector itself with a redesigned UI. Please note that the model has training, it is, however, fully local and transparent and will never leave your device!
• Request System Enhancements – You can now attach comments to a request as well as request changes! Updated the design of the staff-side requests page as well
• API Page Redesign - Redesigned the API page to make better usage of screen-space and improved accessibility
• Better mobile support – Improved mobile support by separating the project and main sidebar
• Overhauled API Documentation – Improved API documentation generation to be easier to consume and understand
• Administration UI Spacing – Improved screen-space usage and cut out unnecessary clutter. Also added some badges to the sidebar that show up if you have pending actions for certain pages
• Import Tool Rewrite – Improved the import tool to support more options, platforms, and ways of importing. I’ll try to add to the next release where you can fully export ALL of your Changerawr instance’s data! I honestly hate vendor lock-in, you should be able to choose your software and not be forced to keep using it.
• Content Editor Improvements – Improved mobile support in the content editor, the renderer, as well as a lot of internal components to provide an overall better user experience. (v2.0.0 of Changerawr Universal Markdown)
• Slight Settings Redesign for Projects – Made some slight improvements to the UI, as well as adding more deletion controls and hinting at an upcoming feature

Bug Fixes

• Bug Fix Extravaganza – Fixed a bunch of bugs in this release, way too many I can’t remember all of them.
• Fixed development-leaving of false-secure in project email configuration – No matter what you set, it would always send as unsecure due to hardcoding false instead of respecting user-input

Other

• Dependency Updates – Standard update of dependencies, npm audit, the usual maintenance
• Rewrite of a Secret - Rewrote a secret completely to be a much better experience. Also added another one, best of luck in finding it! I will most likely redo the sprite-sheet in 1.0.8/1.0.9 to better fit Changerawr. If you’d like to make it, please reach out!

I aim for a Changerawr release every month or so due to my unavailability with work and other projects. The goal is to ship one major feature per-release until I’m at a point where I can focus on smaller, generalized improvements. Apologies for such a late release, I hope all the effort is worth it! :D

What is Changerawr?

Changerawr is changelog management software. Changerawr lets you write down what you changed, then share those changes with people. You write entries about updates you made, and Changerawr gives you ways to display them - like widgets for your website, public pages people can visit, or APIs to use however you want.

Have a rawrsome day!

If you aren’t able to click the link, copy-paste the below URL:

https://github.com/Supernova3339/changerawr

If your looking for screenshots, you can find them here - as well as a rotating gallery on the project README!

https://github.com/Supernova3339/changerawr/tree/master/screenshots

RasPi Local / Remote Music Playback

Hi good people… just looking for some feedback …

I have a couple of Raspberry Pi 3 with audio amp outputs (one has a touchscreen as well).

They’re currently running Volumio (v2) which we can control remotely with our phones, but that software is old, insecure, and could really do with an update…

Volumio (v4) doesn’t inspire me much, plus, it’s good to check out the alternatives.

So, I’m looking at replacing the local-audio playback with perhaps Moode … or maybe piCorePlayer and perhaps adding Navidrome for remote access??

I’d need to be able to play radio streams too, with a sleep timer / wakeup function, so not sure if that’s a deal breaker (it’s hard to find these features on their websites)

Any alternatives that others can suggest (rAudio?) or other feedback?

Or am I ahead of the curve and I have found the Best Solution™️?

TIA

immich help

• Immich always asks for confirmation when deleting an image on android. How can I disable that behavior?
• why is there no delete button for images/videos that are not yet uploaded? It’s annoyng to upload a huge video just to delete it. Why does the UI change dependent on the local/server status?

OS: grapheneos

FANTASTIC video on configuring Openwrt VLANs

Just wanted to share this Youtube video (Invidious link here) that explains how to configure Openwrt VLANs for your Wifi network! I was struggling for hours today trying to configure VLANs on my Openwrt AP when I found an old Reddit thread linking to this guy’s channel!

He seems to have a whole series on Openwrt, so if you need a complete beginner guide he sounds great!

EATX NAS/server case suggestions

I’ve been self hosting a few services on a raspberry pi-based NAS and decided I was ready to up my game. I got on eBay and found myself a decent deal on an old Supermicro dual-cpu board with an EATX form factor. Now I need a case for it.

I could rack mount it, but I’d rather have it be a standalone. I also have several HDDs in a RAID for storage, and would love something that has room for those internally. I was going to get a Darkrock Classico Max, but figured out it won’t fit an EATX board without removing the HDD cages.

Do I’m wondering: anyone out there have a recommendation for a good EATX case with ample HDD space? Anyone else got a setup like this you are happy with?

Navidrome repost: Heads-up: the next release changes all internal IDs

Original post here [redlib link].

Written by deluan

The next release normalizes every ID in the database into a single format. It runs a one-time migration on first start. The PR with this change will be merged this weekend: github.com/navidrome/navidrome/pull/5824

If you run develop or auto-update, this lands soon (this weekend) and without warning. Make a backup of navidrome.db now. The migration is one-way, so rolling back (if needed) means restoring that backup.

The short version:

• Takes ~30s to ~1m20s on my 96k-track library (QNAP Celeron). Scales with library size.
• Everyone gets logged out once. Web UI and clients using the Navidrome API need to log in again. Subsonic clients authenticate per request, so they are unaffected.
• Song IDs change, album and artist IDs do not. Clients that cache song IDs (offline downloads, cached playlists) may need a re-sync.
• Cover art gets re-fetched, so the first browse after upgrading is slower.
• Share links keep working.
• Nothing is lost: favorites, ratings, play counts, bookmarks, play queues, scrobble history and Last.fm / ListenBrainz links all survive. No rescan needed.
• One manual fix: .nsp smart playlists using inPlaylist or notInPlaylist keep the old playlist ID on disk and need updating by hand.

Full write-up: gist.github.com/…/917ebc243c8b486101de857ffae6739…

If you can, please test it with your favourite client once it is merged, and reply here (or on our Discord) if anything looks off.

EDIT: For app/client developers: I’ll merge the topSongsByArtistId PR at the same time as this ID migration. This means that you’ll be able to detect if a server is migrated by checking the getOpenSubsonicExtensions response and looking for the topSongsByArtistId extension.

Unlocking LUKS with NitroKey/Yubikey: FIDO2, HMAC-SHA1, or OpenPGP?

Crossposted from https://thebrainbin.org/m/linux@lemmy.ml/t/1840283

Which approach do you think is better, and why?

1. FIDO2
2. HMAC-SHA1
3. OpenPGP (alternative guide)

Or do you think there is an even better way to use a hardware security token to unlock drives having LUKS full disk encryption?

Homelab discussion

Hello everyone! I’m kinda curious about the services you self-host, and I would love to see what do y’all use!

I’ll start, and list the services I self-host:

• Immich (bye Google photos)
• Open WebUI (web interface for llms)
• Fireshare (clips hosting and sharing)
• Home Assistant
• FMD Server (find my device alternative)
• YourSpotify (spotify tracker)
• Kener (uptime monitoring)
• AdGuard Home
• SearXNG

Thanks for reading, and thanks to anyone who participate!