Might look into the pangolin project if what you’re trying to do is expose services from your home network over wireguard to a reverse proxy on a vps.
The software suite is basically wireguard, traefik, and auth middleware wrapped in a trenchcoat. Much simpler than rolling your own implementation, but there has been recent controversy with the project over locking “basic” existing features behind a paywall after the project got popular, though after public backlash they’ve backpedaled on that iirc.

Edit: Just realized you said tailscale. Above recommendation might be a deal breaker depending on your reason for wanting tailscale specifically

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Thanks for the info! Just struggling to find a suitable tempered glass protector now since the pixel 9s moved to the ultrasonic style fingerprint reader.

Pixel 9? If so, what screen protector did you go with?

Just got one and the screen protector I bought doesn’t work with the new style fingerprint sensor, so looking for a known-working brand

It’s because the original image macro that this is based on was about piracy, saying something along the lines of “I bring a certain ‘just torrent it’ vibe to the conversion that the riaa just doesn’t like.”

Their reuse of the macro is indirectly an answer or a continuation of it that can be seen as acknowledging the original message.

Good bot

Wait, is that even a thing here?

There has been a bit of discussion about it Here. Seems pretty cool, but there are some functionality issues that make it a deal-breaker for me.

Yeah seems to be a pretty interesting piece of software, but I’m not sure that it’s really ready for general usage at this point. I love the potential though, and it seems to be in active development, so I’ll be keeping an eye on this project for sure.

Ah, wasn’t aware. Just went with release binary for a quick test. I may be missing something, but on 1.0.3 it doesn’t seem like filtering by “forum” works correctly. Are you seeing the same issue?

Looks like there’s an outstanding issue for it already on Github. Jeroba is likely taking a distant third place to backend and web-ui development time right now, so it could be a while.

all of us who still have our reddit accounts should be going over there and letting people know about Lemmy in a helpful way

Oh I’ve been trying to, hopefully got a few converts so far. Trying to tiptoe the line between informative and pushy since “horses water and drinking bla bla”

Just downloaded a new build and it seems to be working now. Very cool concept, but seems pretty bare-bones. Let me know what you think if you end up giving it a try.

Have you trued running this yet OP? Someone posted about neonmodem a few days ago and I tried it but met with errors, as did they.

In Lemmy, you weirdly need the ! in front when searching it to find it

This hasn’t been my experience on Lemmy. I’m regularly able to use for example [email protected] or https://madeup.server/c/anime_tiddies in the search bar and it resolves it both ways. Sometimes you need to wait a few seconds for it to populate though.

Saved. Thanks OP! Hopefully the future revisions of this gist wont require as much “how to get around these UX problems” and have more “This is just different than what you’re used to, here’s how to do it”. I’m very hopeful that will be the case.

I’m all for this actually. Though I’d be doing that on a dedicated machine with just pfsense/opnsense on it. Any other way would be kinda dumb right?

I’m not sure what kind of link would be best, but sure. It’s a Dell PowerConnect-5524. Picked it up from eBay I believe maybe 6 or 7 years ago. Not a particularly great switch, but it was cheap, had plenty of expansion, and some management capabilities. Consumes more power than I’d like though (~20-25w), and doesn’t have some of the advanced capabilities of some newer switches.

For power consumption, yes. I prefer to use power efficient devices. The big standout in my lab is the NAS and Dell switch. The NAS is running very little, but still idles at ~100-110w so I’m looking at lowering that usage with a motherboard / processor swap in the future. It’s using a server board and xenon processor which aren’t really built for power efficiency. Swapping this to a recent consumer-grade board with an i3 would likely address this, but depending on chipset I’ll probably loose ECC ram compatibility. I’d like to swap the switch to a more modern microtik 10g unit I think, with a large dumb swich; but I haven’t settled on the idea for sure.

If you’re just looking for ebooks Calibre/Calibre-Web will do the job. I wanted a good audiobook player too so I went with Audiobookshelf as it does that and a few other things. You could also go with Jellyfin as I’ve read it can do epub, but I have no experience with it.

I think ejabberd or another other xmpp server would have been my first choice for a service like this by a log shot. If only we had some good iOS clients to go to. While I’m on android, most of the family and some of the friends use iOS, so it was kind of a non-starter from that alone.

Oh I have quite a few that I’ve set up then pulled out of service for various reasons. I’m always evaluating potential use-cases for new services and if a different service would better suit my needs than what I have deployed currently. It’s definitely a hobby.

Some container-based projects that I’m loosely tracking updates for and have deployed, but since, have pulled out of service (non-exhaustive):

Media:

• Calibre / Calibre-Web

  • Supplanted by Audiobookshelf. For tagging and book conversion I just temporarily install Calibre on my Workstation when the need arises.

• FreshRSS

  • Did not end up using it for much at the time. Re-evaluating if I’d like to stand it up again.

• Plex

  • Plex is nice but too many drawbacks that don’t work for me. Supplanted with Jellyfin.

• Overseerr

  • Didn’t have much use for this, but it will likely change soon. Since I’ve stuck with Jellyfin I’ll be going with Jellyseer if I decide to stand up this kind of service again.

• Libreddit

  • Rarely made use of it. Nice project, but it’s not feasible now for obvious reasons.

• Miniflux

  • Same as FreshRSS, though I’m a big fan of go and rust projects in general so this is the one I’m more keen on re-implementing.

• Tautulli

  • Part of the Plex ecosystem which I abandoned. It was useful software, but unfortunately locked to Plex.

• Unmanic

  • Never really had a use for this, though I thought I would at the time.

• TT-RSS

  • Project is decent but the author is a asshole and very user-hostile, so I dropped it when I retooled my homelab a few years ago.

• Jackett

  • Supplanted with Prowlarr.

• Ombi

  • Same as the reason for dropping Overseerr.

• Neko

  • Did it’s job, consumed lots of resources, and no arm64 docker image; though I managed to build my own. Got rid of it when I no longer had a use for the service.

Archival/Documentation:

• Filestash

  • Something about the project rubbed me the wrong way, vague on the details though.

• Shiori

  • Was decent but the lack of updates then subsequent maintainer turnover scared me off. I check in from time to time to see how the project’s going.

• Wallabag

  • Ended up being too slow and clunky for me, but that could be the hardware I was running it on at the time.

• Archivebox

  • Same as above, but it definitely wasn’t the hardware.

• Bookstack

  • It was alright but decided I didn’t need a separate service for documentation, I just use Code-Server with a documentation repo and raneto to give me a pretty page to navigate and for the family.

• Filerun

  • Worked well while I was using it, not a fan of the closed-source nature and just didn’t feel the need to redeploy when I retooled my infrastructure.

• Wiki.js

  • Same as bookstack, didn’t really have a use for a separate service.

Dashboards:

I’m going to preface this by saying I have some sort of addiction with dashboards, it’s unhealthy really.

• Organizr

  • Didn’t like how everything was an iframe and it seemed particularly resource heavy for what I needed it to do.

• Heimdall

  • My second dashboard. Liked the API integration not so much the design.

• Homer

  • Wasn’t a fan of the design.

• Homarr

  • Also didn’t like the design much.

• Flame

  • Decent project, but decided to move on to something configuration file based.

• Sui

  • Liked this one a lot and used for quite a while before homepage lured me away with API widgets.

Infrastructure:

• Apt-cacher-ng

  • Inadvertently made my infrastructure brittle with how I had it implemented. Decided to just rebuild my cluster’s cloud image on-demand instead of daily and update my apt distros the old-fashioned way.

• LLDAP

  • Liked this project a lot, but added complexity to my infrastructure that could be more simply achieved other ways.

• OpenLDAP

  • Same as lldap, but more feature rich and thus even more complicated.

• Docker Registry

  • Set-up briefly but found a better use-case with Gitea’s integrated package registry which I’d already had deployed.

• Guacamole

  • Used this for a while, but the clipboard situation sucked at the time and I gravitated to just using SSH anyway, and since I have Proxmox on hypervisor duties just used xterm.js or noVNC for console access.

• Watchtower

  • Did it’s job but the :latest tag is dangerous to use. I like having change logs, an evaluation environment, and an approval based update workflow so I switched to renovate-bot.

• Netmaker

  • Was a decent option for sure and faster than what I’m using currently in theory, but seemed a little to unnecessarily complicated to keep running for me.

• Netboot.xyz

  • Definitely useful. Will probably redeploy it at some point.

• OpenSSH-Server

  • Supplanted with Wireguard implementation in Tailscale.

• Node-Red

  • Tried it very briefly but N8N fit my use-case better.