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Like, from inside China to the outside, but a bilateral solution would be fine with me, too.

Papra is a minimalistic document management and archiving platform. It is designed to be simple to use and accessible to everyone. Papra is a platform for long-term document storage and management, like a digital archive for your documents.

Forget about that receipt of that gift you bought for your friend last year, or that warranty for your new phone. With Papra, you can easily store, forget, and retrieve your documents whenever you need them.

A live demo of the platform is available at demo.papra.app (no backend, client-side local storage only).

Github Project: https://github.com/papra-hq/papra

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Part 1 of my Headscale and Traefik blog post seems to have gotten some good traction, so I just wanted to share with the community that I just published part 2!

I have a small ITX pc with a 256gb ssd and two nvr drives for recording my security cameras. I have a google coral installed to run frigate. I'm doing a fresh installation and I'm not sure what the best partition setup is. I'd like to have all of my vm's and containers on the ssd and mirror the two separate drives just for video recording. I'll run backups of my vm's, containers, and configs elsewhere in case the ssd fails.

I have bunch of textbooks, and a lot of lecture notes and notes from colleagues, all in PDF format. What is a good way to classify, manage, store, and read these PDF files? I am trying calibre-web, but it seems difficult to find applications to connect to it.

Shameless self-plug here. I wrote a blog post to document my methodology after having some issues with publicly available examples of using Podman and traefik in a best-practices config. Hopefully this finds the one other person that was in my shoes and helps them out. Super happy for feedback if others care to share.

I have a server on my local network. So far I have it sync my laptop and phone's Joplin and Calendar when I get home. I was thinking it would be neat to host my rss/podcast feeds on my nextcloud so that the read/listend to passes around.

Is nextcloud generally the way to go with this or has the community gone some other path?

Clients are a linux laptop and pixel with graphene if it matters.

So, I finally installed Watchtower to auto update my containers. I was a little hesitant because just letting apps auto update kind of makes me a little nervous. Even Windows updates give me bouts of trepidation. Everything went well, there was a little hiccup with Netdata but resolved in less than 5 minutes.

My question is that there are four remaining containers that haven't been updated: Speedtest Tracker, Portainer, Doppler Task, and Dockge.

2025-04-19T06:00:46.510622594Z INFO[38092] Session done                                  Failed=0 Scanned=48 Updated=0 notify=no
2025-04-19T08:00:46.040690535Z INFO[45292] Session done                                  Failed=0 Scanned=48 Updated=0 notify=no
2025-04-19T10:00:45.952863778Z INFO[52492] Session done                                  Failed=0 Scanned=48 Updated=0 notify=no
2025-04-19T12:00:47.755915129Z INFO[59694] Session done                                  Failed=0 Scanned=48 Updated=0 notify=no
2025-04-19T14:00:50.046498408Z INFO[66896] Session done                                  Failed=0 Scanned=48 Updated=0 notify=no

Is this indicative of an issue? Do I just need to update these four manually or will Watchtower eventually update them?

Additionally, has anyone ever had any problems with auto updating? It does make me a bit nervous, however I think I will get used to relying on Watchtower.

You can find screenshots on this page: https://docs.endurain.com/gallery/

Unfortunate news for those of us who have been following this podcast, its been a very entertaining and educational podcast. Unfortunately it ends in three episodes. Here are the podcast details for those who want to hear about it - its at the beginning of the episode.

Self-Hosted: 147: The Problem with Game Streaming

Episode webpage: https://selfhosted.show/147

Media file: https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/7296e34a-2697-479a-adfb-ad32329dd0b0/431317f3-db02-48b3-a9c6-3cb43108daf9.mp3

Synology's telegraphed moves toward a contained ecosystem and seemingly vertical integration are certain to rankle some of its biggest fans, who likely enjoy doing their own system building, shopping, and assembly for the perfect amount of storage. "Pro-sumers," homelab enthusiasts, and those with just a lot of stuff to store at home, or in a small business, previously had a good reason to buy one Synology device every so many years, then stick into them whatever drives they happened to have or acquired at their desired prices. Synology's stated needs for efficient support of drive arrays may be more defensible at the enterprise level, but as it gets closer to the home level, it suggests a different kind of optimization.

In my journey to self hosting and Degoogling, one thing I've missed is being able to access my phone on a computer. Is there a self hosted solution that allows syncing between text messaging and a PC/web interface?

I don't necessarily need a sophisticated Features like customer management or automation. I just want to access my messages from another device, and of course have a server based backup. The ability to reply to messages from the computer is a plus but not necessary. Is there a good option for this?

I've got forgejo configured and running as a custom docker app, but I've noticed there's a community app available now. I like using the community apps when available since I can keep them updated more easily than having to check/update image tags.

Making the switch would mean migrating from sqlite to postgres, plus some amount of file restructuring. It'll also tie my setup to truenas, which is a platform I like, but after being bit by truecharts I'm nervous about getting too attached to any platform.

Has anyone made a similar migration and can give suggestions? All I know about the postgres config is where the data is stored, so I'm not even sure how I'd connect to import anything. Is there a better way to get notified about/apply container images for custom apps instead?

Hey all. I'm hosting a Docmost server for myself and some friends. Now, before everyone shouts "VPN!" at me, I specifically want help with this problem. Think of it as a learning experience.

The problem I have is that the Docmost server is accessible over internet and everyone can log on and use it, it's working fine. But when I try to access over LAN, it won't let me log in and I am 99% sure it's related to SSL certs over LAN from what I've read.

Here's the point I've gotten to with my own reading on this and I'm just stumped now:

I've got an UNRAID server hosted at 192.186.1.80 - on this server, there's a number of services running in docker containers. One of these services is Nginx Proxy Manager and it handles all my reverse proxying. This is all working correctly.

I could not for the life of me get Docmost working as a docker container on UNRAID, so instead I spun up a VM and installed it on there. That's hosted at 192.168.1.85 and NPM points to it when you try to access from docmost.example.com - that's all dandy.

Then, I installed Adguard Home in a docker container on my UNRAID server. I pointed my router at Adguard as a DNS server, and it seems to me that it's working fine. Internet's not broken and Adguard Home is reporting queries and blocks and all that good stuff. So that's all still working as it should, as far as I'm aware.

So, in Adguard Home I make a DNS Rewrite entry. I tell it to point docmost.example.com to 192.168.1.80, where NPM should be listening for traffic and reverse proxy me to the Docmost server... at least I thought that's what should happen, but actually nothing happens. I get a connection timed out error.

I'm still pretty new to a lot of this stuff and have tried to figure out a lot of things on my own, but at this point I feel stuck. Does anyone have advice or tips on how I can get this domain to resolve locally with certs?

I can provide more info if needed.

Cheers all!

Edited 19 April 2025 to add: Thanks for all the tips and suggestions everyone. I'm not 100% sure I fully wrap my head around what was going on here, but I did end up getting something working. I am going to continue looking into alternative solutions if only for educational purposes.

For anyone in future land who stumbles on this looking for help with a similar issue...

I'm not 100% sure what did end up fixing the issue, but I'll remark on some things I did here. Check my comments in threads below to see troubleshooting steps and advice from others.

This bit is specific to Docmost itself, but I ended up switching the APP_URL variable from https to http. This change allowed me to login to Docmost over LAN using the IP:Port of the service itself, though my browser was of course warning me that the connection was not secure.

It may be just because I restarted my PC between tries, but upon trying it again tonight, the domain resolved when I entered it into my browser... but the issue now was that it was just going to the UNRAID login page rather than getting proxied by Nginx (which as a reminder, runs in a container on UNRAID system).

So I decided to spin up a different Nginx Proxy Manager container running in a VM on a different local IP, and pointed my Adguard Home DNS rewrite entry to that IP instead of the UNRAID system. Once I configured the NPM at that IP to proxy the address to Docmost's IP:Port, voila! It worked! My friends were able to access Docmost at docmost.example.com and I was also able to access it at the same URL on my local network, and we were using the service simultaneously without issue.

My current picks are Woodpecker CI and Forgejo runners. Anything else that's lightweight and easy to manage?

Hi guys! What's the status of the Sipeed NanoKVM FOSS image? I was subscribed to the thread, and I even saw Jeff Geerling's comments. Eventually they claimed the whole image was open source, and left it at that. If you go now to their github, the last published image is from February, v1.4..0. But everyone talks about the last upgrade to 2.2.5? In fact, if I connect my NanoKVM, it does detect that update, but I don't think it's the fully open sourced version? Is this correct?

Anyone can provide a bit more detail on what's going on? Should I manually flash v1.4 that you can download from the repo? And if so...how do I do it?

Thanks!

MAZANOKE is a simple image optimizer that runs in your browser, works offline, and keeps your images private without ever leaving your device.

Created for everyday people and designed to be easily shared with family and friends, it serves as an alternative to questionable "free" online tools.

See how you can easily self-host it here:
https://github.com/civilblur/mazanoke

Highlights from v1.1.0 (view full release note)

I'm delighted to present some much-requested features in this release, including support for HEIC file conversion!

• Added support to convert HEIC, AVIF → JPG, PNG, WebP.
• Paste image/files from clipboard to start optimization.
• When setting a file size limit, you can switch between units MB and KB.
• Remember last-used settings, stored locally in the browser.

The support from the community has been incredibly encouraging, and with over 4500 docker pulls, the project is now humbly making its way toward a 500 stars milestone.

The project also received its first donation, which I'm incredibly grateful for!

cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/39309359

I've been running Home Assistant for three years. It's port forwarded on default port 8123 via a reverse proxy in a dedicated VM serving it over HTTPS and is accessible over ipv4 and ipv6. All user accounts have MFA enabled.

I see a notification every time there's a failed login attempt, but every single one is either me or someone in my house. I've never seen a notification for any other attempts from the internet. Not a single one.

Is this normal? Or am I missing something? I expected it to be hammered with random failed logins.

Hello folks,

I got my static IP and I am very happy now, I have been hosting a lot of services since I got the static IP, however I still have to host a fediverse service however it's not that easy to host any fediverse service, I tried to host GoToSocial but the devs said they don't support Podman and my server is podman only ( I tried installing docker but it was failing for some reason so I gave up and used podman instead of docker).

these are the services I am currently hosting ( basically all the easy services which you can host with just "docker compose up -d" :p ):

• Invidious: https://invidious.ghodawalaaman.duckdns.org/
• Qbittorrent ( web ui )
• TheLounge
• XMPP server: https://chat.ghodawalaaman.duckdns.org/

feel free to suggest some other cool services which I can host :D

I'm been listening to the Fedora podcast and it seems like the OCI images are now getting some serious attention.

Anyone using the Fedora base image to make custom containers to deploy Nextcloud, Caddy and other services? My thought is that Fedora focuses on security so in theory software packaged with it will be secure and properly configured by default. Having Fedora in the middle will also theoretically protect against hostile changes upstream. The downside is that the image is a little big but I think it is manageable.

Anyone else use Fedora?

Long story short my Lidarr instance wasn’t creating Album folders and just dropping all the media into the Artists folder after importing, I noticed this because my Jellyfin instance was improperly displaying Albums as Playlists and not getting metadata as intended.

This is quite unfortunate as a lot of content was downloaded and not properly organized, I tried going at it manually however quickly realized how much media was just loosely tossed around.

Is there anyway to force Lidarr to re-manage media already imported or even a docker image designed specifically for media management that I could quickly spin up?

Edit: I believe I already fixed the root cause of my issue above, just need to figure out a logical way of going about the content that is already messed up.

I'm working on a project to back up my family photos from TrueNas to Blu-Ray disks. I have other, more traditional backups based on restic and zfs send/receive, but I don't like the fact that I could delete every copy using only the mouse and keyboard from my main PC. I want something that can't be ransomwared and that I can't screw up once created.

The dataset is currently about 2TB, and we're adding about 200GB per year. It's a lot of disks, but manageably so. I've purchased good quality 50GB blank disks and a burner, as well as a nice box and some silica gel packs to keep them cool, dark, dry, and generally protected. I'll be making one big initial backup, and then I'll run incremental backups ~monthly to capture new photos and edits to existing ones, at which time I'll also spot-check a disk or two for read errors using DVDisaster. I'm hoping to get 10 years out of this arrangement, though longer is of course better.

I've got most of the pieces worked out, but the last big question I need to answer is which software I will actually use to create the archive files. I've narrowed it down to two options: dar and bog-standard gnu tar. Both can create multipart, incremental backups, which is the core capability I need.

Dar Advantages (that I care about):

• This is exactly what it's designed to do.
• It can detect and tolerate data corruption. (I'll be adding ECC data to the disks using DVDisaster, but defense in depth is nice.)
• More robust file change detection, it appears to be hash based?
• It allows me to create a database I can use to locate and restore individual files without searching through many disks.

Dar disadvantages:

• It appears to be a pretty obscure, generally inactive project. The documentation looks straight out of the early 2000s and it doesn't have https. I worry it will go offline, or I'll run into some weird bug that ruins the show.
• Doesn't detect renames. Will back up a whole new copy. (Problematic if I get to reorganizing)
• I can't find a maintained GUI project for it, and my wife ain't about to learn a CLI. Would be nice if I'm not the only person in the world who could get photos off of these disks.

Tar Advantages (that I care about):

• battle-tested, reliable, not going anywhere
• It's already installed on every single linux & mac PC , and it's trivial to put on a windows pc.
• Correctly detects renames, does not create new copies.
• There are maintained GUIs available; non-nerds may be able to access

Tar disadvantages:

• I don't see an easy way to locate individual files, beyond grepping through snar metadata files (that aren't really meant for that).
• The file change detection logic makes me nervous - it appears to be based on modification time and inode numbers. The photos are in a ZFS dataset on truenas, mounted on my local machine via SMB. I don't even know what an inode number is, how can I be sure that they won't change somehow? Am I stuck with this exact NAS setup until I'm ready to make a whole new base backup? This many blu-rays aren't cheap and burning them will take awhile, I don't want to do it unnecessarily.

I'm genuinely conflicted, but I'm leaning towards dar. Does anyone else have any experience with this sort of thing? Is there another option I'm missing? Any input is greatly appreciated!