I only ever touch them to add media

Bingo. Every other day.

The problem with my family buying into the setup is that I’m now the media manager. And I’m OK with that, but sheesh… Sometimes it feels like I’m torrenting manually again.

You’re implying that self hosting has to be a certain way.

I don’t need to be able to rebuild an engine to be into customizing my car.

I’m working on Fatiguarr. A locally-hosted web instance to give me a f%&!ing day off from managing the bloody Xarrs in my life.

Ah, gotchu. Carry on.

Library access won’t allow upload, this will.

This isn’t right. https://docs.immich.app/administration/user-management/

I understand following op’s pattern of wanting to set controls on underlying storage together with a share, but simply using immich’s built-in storage labels is much easier.

Plus, each user can be assigned an NFS share to their individual files separate from immich’s access requirements for storage. There is no need to make this a worse hodge-podge than op has already made it.

My VPN tunnel automatically turns on when I leave my home lan. All traffic is tunneled and leaves my home network.

Are you able to use the internet with VPN turned on when you’re out and about? You may simply need to set that.

Squashing per-user is a blanket measure intended to default “public” users into a default access permission.

It is usable according to your layout, but this is effectively logical control preventing users from affecting files that aren’t their own.

And if that is the goal, you might as well set this up as library access through immich.

Yes, ZFS cache has been contentious for exactly the reason you posted, but it is generally not a functional issue.

ZFS will release cache under memory pressure, however nice values of virtualizing can potentially demand it sooner than ZFS can release it.

There have been many changes to ZFS to improve this, but the legacy of “invisible cache” is still around.

I use this. it works well for what it does.

Amazing, thank you! I’ve had the same issue, otherwise I love CWA. Especially with Kobo integration.

No, the logistic problem Google “solved” in making YouTube functional and free was born from a time when dumptrucks of VC money made it viable. It will never happen again, regardless of innovation.

This is not a technical problem, and in the case of the YT monopoly, it’s beyond even a people problem. Google got the money, and google won. It will be very difficult to unseat them.

Well, hobbyist projects are surely not the only pillar of the open source systems

Your hunch is correct, they are, because the differentiator between open source and walled garden projects is freedom, and freedom will spontaneously generate projects based on an unfulfilled need. A paid market by itself will not.

In my early days of programming (late 80s), I was copying code from books and magazines. Then came windows and mac, and these were far less friendly to devs, and became more and more so.

Most of these tools were born of need and want, not because any infrastructure existed to pay them. Look at the list of apps in frdroid; most are very obviously solving a problem unique to the dev.

And there is one more thing to account for: for all the apps and scripts you see in a public code repo, there are many times more than that living on someone’s HDD that will never see the public eye.

The point you’ve ignored in your article is that this is simply the split free market creates. We’ve had this issue since the invention of transmissible ideas.

Fair enough, thanks for taking the time.

With respect, help me out here…

I process PDFs all the time, both assembling text and images into PDFs and extracting images, text, layouts, etc. My uses are mostly cleaning up metadata and unwanted elements so they render correctly in more environments. I use pdftk and imagemagick for this, generally.

Is bentopdf just a nice GUI for tools like these?

I’m struggling to understand what part of bentopdf is “self-hosted”.

Maybe I don’t understand the use case for bentopdf, and considering how popular it is, that is likely true. However, I don’t get what this does…

• it’s self-hosted, but the processing happens on the client? Is this just a local application?
• it only works with PDF documents?
• What advantage does bentopdf have over something like paperless ng?

Again, if this is obvious to most ppl, forgive me.

Synching fork has been passed to a new maintainer for a couple months now. The new github is https://github.com/researchxxl/syncthing-android.

If you were using the old catfriend1 version, update your fdroid version and the source will switch over.

This is all out in the open and is resolved, there have been several app updates since then.

We would need to know your DNS query path and whether you are querying from inside or outside your private IP space. If you are querying against public servers, then that is completely public.

I registered mydomain.com as my primary router’s domain

Routers don’t typically deal with dns except to forward requests upstream or hand out server addresses as dhcp options. Can you elaborate what you mean by your “primary router’s domain”?

I had some friction with Jessie to stretch and a little again from bookworm to Trixie. Nothing I couldn’t solve, but there are still a few edge cases that aren’t handled.

This is fine, but k8s is already a big ask for homelab and self hosting. And kamal requires a basic fluency in ruby, which is… not the most intuitive interpreter. I say this coming from years of managing chef.

When they bought Sun, they:

• killed Solaris, effectively
• tried to kill zfs too
• nearly killed mysql with licensing audits
• became borderline evil with licensing practices
• acted like complete assholes in court, holding up cases for years