Xeriscaping. Lawns started as a form of opulence and stature of the rich. It signaled wealth as they were rich enough to afford to have a lawn, pay for it’s grooming and labor, and not use it to grow food, along with paintings of oversized livestock. Let the chips mellow for a while before planting the garden as rotting vegetation puts out a crazy amount of heat and will scorch tender sprouts. If you’ve ever stuck your hands in a compost bin, it’s quite toasty.

That’s pretty interesting. I remember when ‘robotic mowers’ became a buzz word way back when. They just never seemed to really take off on a mass consumer level or maybe I just haven’t noticed. Now something like a DeepKron would interest me.

I might just deal with the heat and get a push mower

You’re a better man than I Gunga Din. I got up at 5:00 AM the other day and cut grass. I’ve got a lot of lawn, so I’ve got a 54" Toro ZTR and a bush hog for the tractor. It’s 109 F in the shade, and the ‘feels like’ temp is probably hotter than Beelzebub’s ball sack. There’s be no way I’d push it.

To me, the question is ‘How much do you secure a home server that’s only accessible with VPN?’ to which I would answer, secure everything, every last jot and tilde. Especially in a homelab environment where a nefarious actor could gain lateral movement. The data on my server, tho important to me, is not the prime concern as much as becoming a zombie in someone’s botnet. The very first Linux server I stood up got hacked overnight. Since then, I’m keen to lock everything down. I’ve been told I go overboard, but I’d rather that scenario.

You bet. So far, it’s an enjoyable read.

My point is that I think Cloudflare is ok with personal use, but if you are heavily hammering them on the daily, it would probably be an issue. It hasn’t been an issue to date, and I’ve been running with Cloudflare for quite a while. You do bring up some good points/concerns, and it’s something every user should consider before hitching their wagon to Cloudflare. It is a free tier after all, but not unlimited.

Jellyfin/Plex? Walking the line on getting banned.

I don’t run JF or any parts of the *arr stack, so legal/shady video content isn’t a concern. I do stream my private/physical audio collection via Navidrome I’ve been amassing for decades all converted out to flac. I mean, from Cloudflare’s standpoint, I think it’s reasonable and understandable.

Very nice site set up man. Looks like a lot of good info and a lot of work involved. I too use Authelia as an added security step. I have your site bookmarked and will peruse it’s contents in a bit. Thanks for sharing.

Ok cool. I was just curious. I think you’re the first I’ve heard with this situation so it piqued my interest.

I didn’t realize how overwhelming this would be, the amount of information is incredible.

Speaking from experience, it was quite overwhelming to me at first as well. It took me a handful of tries to wrap my head around Cloudflare Tunnels/Zero Trust. I persisted tho, and succeeded. It doesn’t help much that Cloudflare keeps rearranging their site, making it difficult to find necessary information. I will say, that when I migrated to a new server recently, it was a snap and everything clicked in place. There was no need to set up anything on their side. As I remember, it was a matter of a one liner code sequence they provided, to install the necessary components on my server. Jack’s a doughnut, Bob’s your uncle.

I’ll have to say it has been decades since I’ve seen an ad show up on my screen. However, as I said, I do not run the *arr stack or JF, so my experience might not be applicable to everyone.

So, you stream a video using JF or other and you are getting ads show up? Like pre-roll ads, or other? That just sounds weird to me. Could you provide a screen capture of said intrusions?

I cannot get these type of homepages except to have done a thing and feel happy about it.

There is much merit in doing a thing if only for the experience of doing it.

that thing in between my ears

Yes, well, some of us have dented brains. Plus I like a good UI. I’d rather just click an icon.

I’ve been using Homarr for quite a while, and I can’t say as I have any complaints. It does have integrations, tho if you want to go nuts with that, Homepage would probably be a better fit. It’s a pretty straight forward app and it’s very pleasing to the eyes.

Nice dashboard OP. Very clean

I don’t have a definite answer for that. I don’t stream video through Cloudflare.

Well, I don’t run the *arr stack or JF, so I cannot comment to your issue.

Well, to cut through the FUD, we’ll have to look at the operative words which are: ‘disproportionate percentage of pictures, audio files, or other large files’. It’s not saying, you can’t stream a video or some audio, or look at your pictures. So, yeah, I think I’m good, and if it does happen, drop back to option 2. No biggie.

Dokuwiki, from what I’ve heard and read, is a great package. If it weren’t for seeing Ingis at selfh.st, I would have gone with Dokuwiki. As it so happened, I figured I’d give Ingis/Obsidian one last shot. If I were serving up documents to the public, I would think Dokuwiki would be ideal.

Like I said, if you’ve hooked up 20 of your best buds to your JF, then yeah they’d probably have an issue with that. Personal use, I doubt they’d care really.

The 4790 will always have a special place in my heart 😂

I was actually pleasantly surprised. I had two Dell T320, which are good too, but put out a lot of heat, and cost about $40 USD/month to run. So I decommissioned one, and am now looking to purchase an additional 7020 and decommission the other T320. Don’t know what to do with the T320s tho. Nobody on ebay would be willing to pay what it cost to ship a boat anchor. The money I’ll save in electricity costs will more than cover the price of admission.