Not federated but a really good selfhosted open source project that’s coming along nicely: https://wanderer.to/

+1

I like this perspective of yours, and while I don’t think I’ll join you on your instance (I take it this was an open invitation, yes?), I’ll look into ways to hide votes on my client.

Although I do wonder, would you prefer everyone to return to long strings of “+1” and “agreed” posts?

There is no silver bullet that will let you understand all about “the self hosting world” from the get-go without getting your hands dirty and without making mistakes.

I recommend formulating a concrete goal (e.g., I want to run a Nextcloud instance on a Raspberry Pi 4 on my LAN, and I want to be able to reach it from outside via Wireguard), and trying to tackle this goal step by step:

• Which OS on the Pi and why?
• Container or bare metal and why?
• How to install Wireguard?
• What precautions need to be in place before I open an ingress point into my LAN for Wireguard and how do I do it?
• What about TLS, how do I get a nice lock icon in my browser? Selfsigned? Letsencrypt?

It’s much easier to help with concrete problems and sub-problems like these, too, and you will find this community here incredibly helpful when you ask specific questions on which you’re stuck or unsure about.

All that said, I started learning about network administration before containerisation was a thing, and I feel like I learned a lot by setting many things up manually and bare metal. I’m not sure if it’s the best course of action for a beginner today, but it exposes you to many topics very directly. While Docker and other modern tools are incredibly convenient and a godsend for tasks that used to be horribly error prone and tedious, I have a feeling they abstract away things that might make it harder to “peek behind the curtain”, even if they might lower the entrance barrier significantly.

But no matter which route you take, you will struggle, and you will learn, and you will break things and learn some more. Get your hands on it!

Love the outside the box thinking though. Really inspirational!

I would totally do that. Only problem is that the third yacht really is my favourite, so I’m gonna pass if that’s okay. Thanks!

The star, of course, being the almost universally accepted sign for “entrance” in braille++. Or “exit” in certain dialects, conveniently.

… and enhanced by a sentence or two why it is worthwhile. Getting really tired of the no-effort link drops around here. Better yet, the same no-effort link drop to multiple similar communities on various instances.

Is there a block function for link-only posts?

Are there filters to prevent seeing duplicate content?

But boy, if he does…

I recommend installing calibre web on a home server, installing koreader on the Kobo, and accessing your eBook library over your WiFi and OPDS.

Koreader is such a good reading experience, I never want to go back to stock firmware (well, except for the dictionaries maybe, those are better.)

I have done a similar thing in the past, but to flash firmware onto any device with a certain USB descriptor that gets plugged in. It was a mess of USB hubs and cables, but it worked.

What I did was write a udev rule that checks for the vendor and product id of a newly plugged in device and calls a script when there’s a match. The script then performs the flashing and logs the output.

In your case:

1. dd the source USB to a file (make sure the partition you’re dding is smalled than any target drive
2. Udev rule according to your needs (all the same product or different drives?)
3. Script that dds the file you created earlier back to the newly plugged in drive.

Edit. Did this on a rpi3

Lay the page order out in Excel (might be a nice puzzle in itself), concatenate into a single comma separated string, and feed that into the “what pages to print” print dialog field?

This looks promising, but I can’t get it to work.

Wireguard, even though they explicitly mention it in their tutorials, doesn’t have an allow/block list for me, so I can’t allow the proxy network bridge. Curious those settings are gone. Too bad!

Thanks, but not an option.

Much obliged.

I agree, it’s a good solution. Just not worth the downsides for my situation currently.

Really? How does that work? Maybe it’s time to look into Tailscale after all…

Thanks for the ideas. I’ll consider it, although my use case doesn’t really warrant carrying a router around.

Having strong opinions is what Graphene does. 😅

And they do seem to be an authority on all things security, so most of the time I like that about them.

Thanks for the link. I am on Graphene, and if a fellow poster in here is correct that doesn’t help. Bummer.