As always, submit your own release or someone else's, it can be by #FediMusicians or not, hosted on #Bandcamp, #Faircamp, #JamCoop, #Mirlo or #SelfHosted, as long as it is by an #IndieArtist (but bonus points for supporting Bandcampers today, as it's the last one for a while).
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Let me kick things off with a plug for @radiofreefedi, which is my number one source for discovering new and exciting #FediMusic these days.
In the unlikely even you haven't checked them out already, do yourself a favour and head to https://radiofreefedi.net/, for not just one but three channels of musical goodness.
The best thing is that every song played has a link to the artist's #Fediverse profile as well as a link to their music, so it's easy-peasy to support and/or contact them. 🔈🎶
So I have a bunch of #selfhosted services running at home. Now, my home #ISP is your typical large Canadian telco (aka assholes) and they are actively sabotaging my host-at home stuff. (i.e. I set it up, it works a few days, then it stops being reachable from outside, at work, rebooting doesn't fix etc.)
Can any recommend a reliable "just works" remoting solution (where the host is linux) where I can always remote in if the host has power and an outbound connection?? (paid is ok)
I'm behind the curve but I'm finally experimenting with @tailscale to see if integrating it into #Dropserver could be a solution to the connectivity problem for a #selfhosted install.
Honestly, it's a great product! The onboarding is top notch. I ran into a few very minor technical glitches but it works very well. It didn't take long to set up and soon I was accessing an app I had running in ds-dev on my Mac at home while munching on a Poke Bowl at the mall. Super cool!
The only gotcha with #tailscale is that their "at home" plan is only for 3 users. As soon as you past that, you have to go to the Starter plan which is $6/user/month. So for four users you're looking at $24/month. That's not a small amount!
Of course, I get it: they're not in business to give their product away.
But for the Dropserver use-case, it means Tailscale can only be useful for limited situations, and I'll have to keep finding other solutions to connectivity challenges.
It's probably still worth doing an integration. The magic of tailscale solves every connectivity problem at once for a subset of use cases.
Example: serving Dropserver apps that involve only you, or perhaps you and your partner. That actually covers a good amount of ground currently (DS is great for making "home-cooked apps")
My personal note taking app would be better off inside a tailnet. Even the Leftovers and shopping list apps are only used by my wife and I, so that would work.
I've been overwhelmed with the positive feedback from the community since last week's launch and have been trying to add projects as fast as the requests come in.
Two new features since launch: License details added to the project tiles and a "Recently Added" sort option for users to easily view projects added since their last visit.
Next feature on the list: RSS feed for newly added project notifications
Huh, looks like @nextcloud Talk can be (or is working on being) federated between Nextcloud instances. That'd be pretty cool. Instant, video, and audio messaging without relying on someone else's platform would be pretty cool. Its hard choosing a platform that works on desktop, Android, and Apple, and is not trying to monetise my children. #nextcloud#selfhosted
@ironicbadger - I was just listening to the latest episode of #SelfHosted where you talk about using a travel router and it got me to wondering if you know how to fix the bug that prevents the @tailscale exit node feature from working on the GL.iNet OS. I’ve got a GL-A1300 and have learned there’s a bug related to the routing tables that breaks all outbound traffic when the exit node feature is enabled.
@ironicbadger What kind of models are you looking at? any fun use-cases popping up? I've toyed around with ollama, but hasn't come up with any exciting use cases yet. Though I'm wondering if I can tie it in with obsidian for certain summarizing tasks. What I really want is to consume local content and be able to query it, but haven't had time to dig in how to accomplish that.
I've had a change of heart. All this #selfhosted infrastructure and #Linux experimentation now seems like a misguided quest for #freedom It turns out that true freedom might just be simplifying things and not reinventing the wheel.
But, facing my own laziness, I'm pivoting back to the convenience and familiarity of big names like Microsoft, Google, and Facebook. So, farewell #Fediverse and the depth of knowledge Ive acquired there. Its been real, but I'm seeking simplicity over sovereignty now.
So, I still need a #SelfHosted version of the following:
Shared grocery list, either one with an iphone app or much better, a UI that works on any browser. Couldn't find much when I last looked, and #Nextcloud Notes app is not as good/robust as Google Keep. Definitely something I could do, if my meds keep working, myself...
RSS Reader like Feedly or Google Reader. Also seems like something I could sort out with time, but who has time. So many cover letters to write...
It would be great if Google's search engine started actually working again, not that I see that happening.
If you really wanna cry, imagine the internet where they just decided to give everyone a free connection back in the 90s and allowed us to build it all ourselves in the first place.
@jpaskaruk This is one of many other reasons why I try to promote free open source software and cool resources online. The curation is what fills this void in my mind.
Also might I suggest in the future to try using these resources instead.
The downside of replacing an ARM soc with an old laptop for a #SelfHosted server - when the server goes offline and it's because the cat sat on it, closing the lid and causing the laptop to suspend.
The latest news, updates, launches, events, a spotlight on #FitbitHealthDashboard - a script for fetching and visualizing #Fitbit data, and more in this week's self-hosted recap!
Ok, After much ignoring during a move mastodon.aridgway is back baby... latest mastodon and all the posts incoming #introduction #justmoved #selfhosted
Started a jellyfin server on my raspberry pi last night to host the ebooks I want to keep up with. I love how easy it is just to have all this stuff running on such a tiny little single board computer. I now have Komga, Nextcloud, and Jellyfin running at the same time with no issues!
@ironicbadger Are you keeping Ansible to deploy applications to the server? I am curious how much one can still do on NixOS with Ansible and what is the benefit of splitting up the responsibilities.
Is there a really solid tutorial on getting a Mastodon server up and running (on a VPS or self-hosted at home) that someone could recommend? Interested in running a single-user/small instance long-term.
