I can tell there are at least 5 people who didn’t like your suggestion. LMAO. But indeed, AI can do this and do it well. I put a few songs in and tell it to recommend similar Indie musicians. Works like a charm.

Man, that would absolutely rock if it integrated with Navidrome.

Navidrome can scrobble to Listenbrainz which this supports.

Every so once in a while I get the notion to run a honeypot, but it doesn’t seem prudent for me to attract that much attention to my network. I can already see the traffic using ntopng, and pfsense/unbound/suricata/pfblockng and robust ruleset do all the heavy lifting. I block everything, then only allow what is absolutely necessary. If it were run solely on a small VPS or droplet, it’d be an interesting project, but I’m not sure I want to poke the bear that much on my local network.

Awesome! In my younger days traveling, I picked up a few languages enough to get by, but that was decades ago and if you don’t use them you loose them. At one time I spoke patois fairly fluently which you would most likely hear in Jamaica or the Dominican Republic.

The map you posted…that is a year of travel? You don’t get out much do you? LOL J/K If you were to track my travels, it’d be confined to 22 acres. I don’t get out much either. :)

- 1,191 Stars on GitHub.
- 404 Commits to main with 311 PRs merged.
- 250 Issues closed.
- 9 Languages supported.

The project looks great tho, and congratulations on the success of your app. I’ve often wondered where independent devs get their multiple languages from. 9 languages supported is pretty huge. Do you have people contribute translations, or is there a more structured avenue?

That’s cool. I can tell you there are 700+/- different entities traversing the edge router of my network or at least vying for a slot. I’m not sure about adding 41,840 more. LOL

It does nothing except tell you how many other users you are connected to.

…but why?

Navidrome checks all my boxes. I don’t seem to have the same issues you are having with umlaut letters tho. I’d check tags/metadata. MusicBrainz, Mp3tag, Foobar2000, Beets, can help with that.

The amazing thing about it is that with an instance of meilisearch I was able to index all my media libraries/book libraries/game libraries and searching for !home <query> actually sarches within my home lab, which is a huge win for me.

I’m intrigued. I’ve always wanted to point my search engine to my ebook library and be able to search them for data. Scrape my library as it were. I’ve also wanted to change the Searxng log as well, to personalize it.

searx.yourdomain.tld/search?q=test

Do you have the %s in the search string: searx.yourdomain.tld/search?q=%s. For instance, in Firefox, when you add you searx instance, I had to add the %s to get it to search properly.

Non-technical users don’t have any problems with Linux as an alternative. They don’t know nor care what is running on their PC as long as they can click on icons opening the handful of basic programs they actually use.

My lady friend has got to be the most tech illiterate person I’ve met. In as much as I try to educate her, she’ll end up saying ‘I don’t care, just make it do what it do.’ She had an old laptop and was getting frustrated because Windows has a tendency to get junked up with crap, and things start not to function properly. So I swapped her Windows OS for Mint. It didn’t phase her a bit, and it really wasn’t much issue with ‘learning’ a new OS. Now, she doesn’t use the cli and asks me to install something, but if there’s an icon, she’s good to go. She did mention that it seemed a bit more snappier, which is probably due to the way Linux addresses RAM and resources.

I recommend Linux to a lot of normal, everyday, people, I’ll even set them up with a live thumbdrive to test drive and see if it meets their expectations. I think the hesitancy for most people is that they grew up using Windows, and so anything that isn’t Windows seems scary. There can be a learning curve if you want to pop the hood and get into the guts, but for the most part the people I recommend Linux to, take to it rather well.

Our new dog chewed up the Ethernet cable

Ugh! I had some of the same issues a while ago with a Jack Russell I adopted. Cool dog, high octane energy, eager to learn new things. Since he was teething, everything became a chew toy regardless of the mountain of chew toys I had already provided. USB cables, Ethernet cables, power cords, I’ve replaced a bunch. Thing about a Jack Russell is you can teach them anything and they are eager to learn and please, however, if they pick up a bad habit, it’s hard to break them of that. He doesn’t chew anything any more, but there for a stint, he was hell on wheels.

Just throwing this out there since you may be in the market for equipment and subsequently RAM for said equipment…I’ve had good experiences with MemoryStock over the years. It’s at least good for a bookmark to consider later on if the need arises.

That’s pretty cool. I’m not sure I have an immediate use case for it as I seem to be short 40k in pictures, but I certainly bookmarked for later. The dataset wall is pretty wild, and fast. Thanks for sharing.

The 2025 Wrapped: Self-Hosted Software Launches is quite a list.

Bonus question: what’s a good distro to use?

I stick with Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish). Most people here seem to gravitate to Debian, which Ubuntu is a brother from another mother. As far as equipment, I wouldn’t waste my money on enterprise equipment or equipment older than 5 or so years years old unless you’ve got a mini nuclear power plant. Thing is, now days, with advancements in technology, it doesn’t take a lot to get a lot out of modern equipment.

I did want to come back and throw this into the mix:

Linux Upskill Challenge

It’s a good read even tho you may not understand all of it at this point in time. Takes you step by step from Day 1 to Day 21 with each chapter giving a straight forward learning environment. …and it doesn’t stop there:

Github repository: https://github.com/livialima/linuxupskillchallenge

• Website of the course
• Full lesson source
• Complementary video playlists
• Monthly lessons on Lemmy
• Monthly lessons on Reddit
• Chat with Discord

document document document…on paper

My handwriting has deteriorated quite a bit over the decades and if I were to document on paper, I probably wouldn’t ever be able to decipher it. I do back up my digital documentation in separate, multiple storage containers. I do agree with documenting being key to surviving your self hosting journey. It will also help others help you when you know exactly the steps you have taken or tried. One of my former bosses would tell me ‘If you didn’t write it down, it didn’t happen.’

I have much respect for the opensource dev teams/individuals that write the software I use. It just seems to be a more personal product than using an equal commercial solution. Plus, I get a ton of fun and education from it all, so thank you so very much for your efforts. They are much appreciated.

Since you are just starting out, I will pass along some advice that has been invaluable to me, and that is to take notes. I used to work for a firm in a non related field, but the rule was ‘If you didn’t write it down, it didn’t happen’ and that has carried over into my personal life. Write it all down. At the very least, you will have a bread crumb trail back to where you started if the wheels fall off. Notes can also help others help you by seeing the steps you have already taken.

Also, don’t be under the delusion that those of us here woke up one morning, spun up a server and apps, and everything from then on was jippity jippity. For me it’s a process of:

Reading/asking --> doing/trying/documenting --> screwing it up --> rinse/repeat ad nauseam with much colorful language thrown in between, until I finally get it.

I wish you the very best in your endeavors, and I look forward to hearing of your selfhosting exploits.