Why do I use a a different email address for everything? I can just close an account once I no longer use the service or once they start getting spammy, I get next to no spam.

This is really useful and I do this too with the service / product name as the “name” (ie microsoft-mail@mydomain.tla)

It’s interesting to see how emails are sold / transferred over time…

I’ve never used XMPP because all of the clients are extremely dated.

This is what I was referring to.

Did you mean something else?

Conversations was updated was 14 days ago

But do you have File Versioning setup on all the syncthing end points?

If so, you’ll at least get sync-conflict copies - yes, you’ll still need to fix them, but at least they won’t (shouldn’t) be totally lost.

I guess another idea is to have separate personal keepass files to help reduce the editing on a common file…? (That’s what we have)

Not quite following you there, let me see if my system helps.

I have a NAS with multiple syncthing instances (services) running:

• me, my laptops, my phone
• my partner, their laptop & phone
• other equipment in the house (for Music, etc) For me & my partner, I added a shared folder that both syncthing instances used.

It works fine if you ignore file ownerships and set the underlying permissions so both users (ie the group users) have write access. But, if we’re both editing something, syncthing will nuke one of them (so I have versioning on). But for us this never happens as they’re rarely writing to those files.

I went from Joplin to Logseq (now Logseq OG)

Joplin just didn’t click for me, but Logseq saved my life when I took on a new role at work.

I’ve not switched from the markdown to the db version, but after 3 years of almost daily notes it’s ok, but it needs a good spec machine when you’re searching across all the files

I’m just going to wave the MythTv flag and wave it around a little.

Self-built box which is under clocked to run cool with a passive CPU cooler so it’s quiet

A few Hauppage TV tuner cards to record programs and then lots of torrents stored locally as I want to download / stream once.

No issues for years, decent TV UI for TV, films and music… and it just works.

It’s just not in vogue at the moment.

The NAS is on site, yes. It’s backed up to Hetzner - inc. it’s own /etc, /home, etc. so the NAS itself is kinda a 2-1 (2 backups, 1 offsite), but it would be a lot of rework to restore and that’s the device I’d need to recover everything else in case of a total disaster (like a house fire).

(🤔 better check the Hetzner encryption is noted in my keypass file)

I do need to get it’s config setup in Ansible though so it can be rebuilt automatically, but Ansible for single devices can be a little overkill and difficult to maintain.

Similar for my hypervisor box… damn… there goes some more evenings…

Nice philosophy.

I’m kinda in the middle ground here.

I backup “everything” from my raspberries, and just \home for laptops but for an actual disaster recovery I’d just do a clean install, get an IP address and then reinstall everything via Ansible, then drag my home data back off the NAS

But… I like that statement. I’ll use that at work.

I suggest you have 2 separate physical devices.

1 - a NAS 2 - a server that you’re running everything on.

Use OMV for the NAS if you’re not technical enough / want less maintenance and just keep your data there with only a backup app installed,

On the other device pick whatever you’re comfortable with, docker is the mainstream choice, you’ll get loads of youtube / forum / lemmy support, but there’s other options of course.

The advantage to this setup is that you can backup your server and if when you f*ck up you can restore it again.

Less eggs in more baskets

And as others have said, look at your router & internet security too

And not using php for a webui

Technically, all* could be. They’re just indexing the torrents that are out there.

*all = the ones that would list TV shows, etc. of course

I have this on my NAS, works well

Depends…

If someone’s just arrived home, the freezer door’s open, etc, then I’m using Home Assistant to speak / flash a light / etc.

If a device fails, then Uptime Kuma sends via to ntfy & gotify (I’m trying both atm to decide on one)

If it’s something I’ve (not) done, then my partner tells me (arms folded, stern look)

I’m currently running both to decide which to use, what made you pick ntfy?

Not yet 🙂

Both services work well, but the (Android) app is also a consideration… Gotify appears to keep losing the connection, but as I have different alerts going via different routes I need to sit down and spend some quality time with these, which I don’t have at the moment.

SMART data will show the data you mentioned; age of the drive, max temperatire, etc.

I always do a full scan of a new drive too - no matter the supplier

Wow. Harsh comment.

It’s not like your own post was full of details either

Sorry, no disrespect intended, but I’m shocked. It’s like hearing someone say they drive a 1988 Toyota Cressida because it’s great…

How did you know I had an 88 Cressida? (jk)

You have good points there, but for a homelab, it does show some interesting insights (ie, I did an upgrade of my Raspberry Pi Zeros and saw how all their latency changed after the reboot… weird)

I’ve been using this for years as it just worked, but a recent update has broken it (a simple “v1.10 is earlier than v1.9” issue) and I had to rollback and have been waiting for someone to fix the bug for a few weeks, so, yep, the slowness of response is a fair point.

Ah, dunno, maybe I’ll look at some alternatives… one day…

What’s not to like?

Still alive & still maintained, and less resources than Grafana & Prometheus…