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I have had Proxmox running nightly backups and saving them to my NAS for years now without any issues. I've been thinking that it would also be nice to have these copied over to my cloud storage (some smaller company, no available plugins).

I know Proxmox Backup Server exists, but not much more than that other than it can backup to popular cloud providers.

The cloud provider I have has a Linux client that will create a shared folder on the system. My thought was to mount the Proxmox VM backup location with CIFS, install my cloud client and then write a script to run as a cronjob that would copy files from the Proxmox VM to the cloud folder each night.

This feels a bit clunky so I just wanted to ask if anyone knew of a better solution.

The scariest part of this recent news is that TM Signal seem(ed) to be interoperable. People using TM Signal could interact with actual Signal users. How are you to know whether or not your groups have people using bastardized versions of Signal? Are things like Session interoperable with Signal?

I currently have a lot of my light automations setup by first having an automation that turns the light on at a certain time, then another that turns the light off at another time. This works, and it has for years, but I'm imagining there must be blueprints or other methods to do this on/ off behavior in a single automation rather than having them in pairs (this is not scaling very well).

Anyone have suggestions? The image is a blueprint I have for turning lights on/ off based on a time window which is very handy, and I'm hoping there's something similar out there for my needs.

I realized I have some old hue bulbs laying around, and they're working well enough with my Zigbee controller (no bridge), but if I decide to scale up I definitely don't want to pay the Hue premium.

Anyone have a Zigbee bulb brand they recommend? I hear Third Reality is nice?

I previously hacked together an Ikea sensor which worked well for the price, but was not weatherproof, and my solution caused the temperatures to be very inaccurate.

I'm looking for something that can be used offline (connects to HA via WiFi, Zigbee, etc but does not need WAN access) and is plug and play. I see some solutions like this, but am not sure if they will work in an 'offline' mode. Anyone have any suggestions? Something with wind speed, etc would be awesome.

Up until now, I’ve just been saving an emergency fund in a HYSA. I’m getting to the point where I’d like to put excess savings into the market, and am looking at something like the VOO ETF. It seems things are essentially at an ATH right now, and there are a lot of big political things happening at the same time.

Would it be ill advised to buy into VOO right now? I could hold this in my HYSA but at the same time, I’m not needing this money for a while and long term I would think the market will continue to rise.

I know there was news a couple days ago about Berkshire Hathaway selling their S&P 500 ETFs, but this made up ~0.01% of their total portfolio.

Between rent and school payments, I am paying quite a lot over ACH and am wondering if there’s any way to also get some benefits back from these payments.

There are cards out there like the “Fold” card that will give back up to 1.5% in BTC for ACH transactions, but that’s contingent on you spending a lot on other transactions and the card also has a $100 annual fee.

I don’t care if the rewards are USD, BTC or booster packs of Pokémon cards. I’d just like something back from these transactions.

I’m currently evaluating switching from Proton to Tuta and the experience has been pretty great so far. There are just a couple pain points/ questions I have before taking the plunge.

Recently, Proton recently released a calendar widget last week that has been very useful for me. Is there any change of Tuta calendar doing the same, or is this not possible to do securely?

I also use Simple Login for aliasing and have a hundreds of aliases. I know it’s possible to do the same in Tuta with custom domains, but are you also able to “pause” those aliases, or is it just create and delete? Curious as to what the management interface would be like

I recently generated a self-signed cert to use with NGINX via it's GUI.

1. Generate cert and key
2. Upload these via the GUI
3. Apply to each Proxy Host

Now when I visit my internal sites (eg, jellyfin.home) I get a warning (because this cert is not signed by a trusted CA) but the connection is https.

My question is, does this mean that my connection is fully encrypted from my client (eg my laptop) to my server hosting Jellyfin? I understand that when I go to jellyfin.home, my PiHole resolves this to NGINX, then NGINX completes the connection to the IP:port it has configured and uses the cert it has assigned to this proxy host, but the Jellyfin server itself does not have any certs installed on it.

I recently setup SearXNG to take the place of Whoogle (since Google broke it by disabling JS free query results). I am following the same steps I've always done in adding a new default search engine.

Navigate to the address bar, right click "Add SearXNG" then go into settings and make it my default. After doing this, rather than using the local IP the instance is running at, Firefox uses https://localhost/search for some reason. I don't see a way to edit this in the settings section of Firefox. Anyone else experienced this?

Update: After updating the .env file with my IP address and bring docker down/ up, all is working as expected (able to use SearXNG via Caddy using the https:// address)

Let me start by saying that I am not a runner. I hope to be one day, but for now I'm just running < 1 mile after work.

After a few days of this, my knees (the tendon thing that goes down from the knee to the shin) are pretty sore. I'm wondering if I should power through this or do something differently?

A friend suggested these as he's had good luck with them, but I'm not sure if this is something the community condones or endorses.

Update: Thank you all for the suggestions! The consensus seems to be to take it easy as I begin, and run every other day (and continue to walk every day).

For years, I have been using Whoogle for my self-hosted searches. It's been great, but recently there were some upstream changes that seem to have broken it.

I'm guessing that SearXng will soon follow (based on the assumption that they too are using the JS free results Google used to provide).

Does anyone have any self-hosted search options that still work? I hear Kagi is good for paid/ non-self hosted options, but just curious what you all are using.