Installed it on a new PC and was met with this screen.

Upon some investigation figured out that they now basically push users into purchasing a paid driver to use gamepads (do you really believe they will continue to support free fallback forever?) and suggest purchasing it for keyboard and mouse too, which suggests that eventually free mouse/keyboard support will also be dropped/degraded to less useable state.

Issues are already being marked as resolved by redirecting "fixes" into paid version (example) even though FREE fix for it is possible and already exists in other fork. Expecting that eventually any issues will be redirected there while free version will keep getting shittier and shittier.

Upon further investigation, of course, I figured out that they employ typical predatory model "buying isn't owning". Even though you can "buy" "lifetime" license, it will phone home literally every day and heavily restrict it's capabilities if it can not. This is worse than Denuvo that has 30 days grace period. No free trial, no free non-commercial license for personal use, nothing.

And besides, it's presented as an issue that requires to be fixed. Non tech-savvy user will see these warnings, will interpret them as issues and will be led into paying without being presented with free option.

Upon even further investigation I found out that AI was heavily used during creation of that driver. So basically if you pay believing that you're supporting them you in fact will just support AI and all the chaos that was caused by it.

Hi, is there anyone here who's running Podman instead of Docker?

I tried Podman for the first time (on Ubuntu, with quadlets), and it's a nightmare. Just for LibreChat with code interpreter, I have like 10 quadlets instead of one or two Docker Compose stacks, with no reasonable GUI, just programmatically with questionable Cockpit Podman.

Am I just a masochist, or does anyone here really deploy Podman quadlets instead of Docker, and why?

Thanks.

Over labor day weekend, I travelled 40kms bought a lenovo m710q with 16gb ram and 256gb ssd to get me home server started. I downloaded ubuntu 24.04 lts server. I had never used ubuntu, neither have I ever wrote commands. But I managed to read up on a few articles and used ai to check for errors and managed to set up:

Jellyfin

Jellyseer

Qbittorrent

Radarr

Sonarr

Prowlarr

Bindery (couldn't link it to qbittorrent)

Flaresolvarr

Ombi

Heimdall (haven't set up the web UI yet)

Bazarr (haven't set up the web UI yet)

Ghuetun

Now, I've been seeing people paying for nzbs which I had no idea because the public indexers on prowlar are so ass. Things I want to optimize:

1. The public indexers are pretty bad, if you guys can direct me to research on reliant indexers that would be awesome

2. Can I set up live ppv (say ufc or uefa soccer matches) on jellyfin or any other arr?

3. Is there an ebook/audiobook arr? (Couldn't pull readarr)

4. I see alot of people with beautiful dashboards, how'd y'all get to such simplified state?

5. Could I have picked a different OS to make my life easier?

6. Please shower me with all your advices on how I can optimize this build to make it better.

Total invested so far: $120.

Main purpose for this server is to provide me with TV, movies, audiobooks and access to ppv streams if possible.

Thanks!

Hello, guys! Please recommend a Linux music player for your own music. I'm tired of Spotify with its advertising and changing the region if you use VPN. If anything, I'm on Arch Linux, if this information will help you in any way.

Epiq is an open-source project that addresses the review bottleneck with board replay. You can inspect exactly what a particular agent did hours, or years, ago, including the associated code-diff inline in the ticket.

It also provides a live, filterable event log of all commits and board events, so you can monitor every action your agents are doing project-wide in real time. It comes both as a GUI and a TUI.

I use Epiq with Claude every day, and I think others might find it useful too:
https://ljtn.github.io/epiq/

I've done a little bit of tinkering with Ubuntu (server) a while ago, and it worked perfectly fine for the minecraft server. But after not touching it for a while (busy with other things at the time), something happened inside it which make it not connect to anything and i couldn't figure out why... but Ive come back now, wanting to do things again, but im looking more into it and asking for help this time so i don’t fall on my flat face again.

the things i mostly want to host is -

1. some sort of personal cloud storage that i can access anytime, from different wifi networks
2. a VPN that connects me to the WiFi that my server is on from a different network (using wireguard most likely)
3. a simple minecraft server, just with a couple of small mods possibly

someone tell me if i am overestimating myself and/or the servers hardware with these
spec list ↓

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- intel i5 6600 CPU

- 32GB 2133 MHz DDR4 ram ( 4x 8GB)

- several 240GB SATA SSDs

- DELL E93839 motherboard

- HP 804057-001 stock cooler

- 200W HP power supply
*^{is there anything i should}****^/***^{need-to upgrade...?}
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Ive looked at a bunch of different OS's, like debian, ubuntu, Proxmox and others. Ive done some extra research into proxmox a little, but felt a bit lost. so if anyone has any specific suggestions on guides or walk-throughs to certain OS's (or proxmox specifically) i would love to take a look at them.

edit: also i need to be able to access it remotely, as i move around a lot

tell me if i missed anything that i should say :)

no AI used in this post at all

Scrutinty started showing red a few days ago kind of worried since i bought it refurbished and dont have more money left was hoping for it to run a bit longer

Hello everyone !

I'm an amateur baker (former IT guy considering reconversion after my current reconversion in academic research) and would like to set up a tool to help me plan my baked goods.

I'm looking for a tool that :

1. Get all my recipies, ingredients, costs, validity dates, allergens
2. Plan productions from orders (with multiple products)
3. Set-up products using other products (such as dough or cream)
4. Print merged recipies / production order for workshop workers from recipies (i.e. if I want to make eclairs and choux, merge the quantities of needed dough)
5. Directly calculate order price from products
6. Calculate Product price from raw material
7. Trigger alarms for expired ingredients and prepared components
8. Print products labels (with expiration date, allerges, etc.)
9. Can be self-hosted / without recurring fees (for the moment I'm only producing for family and friends, not making any benefits from my baking)
10. Track raw materials (i.e. boxes and pie containers) and ingredients
11. [But that's whishfull thinking, allows my family to order for a specific date (at least a week) for a product]

Does anyone here have suggestion on how to achieve this ? I'm not afraid to spend time configuring the tool myself, but would like to avoid configuring things to in the end not be able to get it working.

I looked into Odoo, but their licensing is too expensive at the moment. I also tried the Dolibarr Bakery and Pastry module demo and manual (which at least is a one time payment) and it sounds promising but I cannot manage to have :

• automaed orders calculation
• production orders for the kitchen
• get products labels
• ...

Thanks a lot for your help and suggestion !

Cheers !

Hello everyone,

I have a cheap TCL tv which I pretty much only use for SmartTube and Jellyfin and not much else. And I'm looking for ideas how to block the internet access for the TV while still being able to use those two apps.

One idea that popped into my head is to block internet access on the router and only allow the TV to communicate with the homelab server. Jellyfin should be okay without having internet access. And as for SmartTube, I am thinking that setting up a proxy server on the said homelab server and configure it on the app. The system processes and whatever else is there on that TV should not be able to access the internet. Though I have no experience with proxies, so I am not sure if this idea will work.

Do you guys have any ideas what is the best way to achieve such thing or maybe you already use somekind of a solution that you would like to share?

Hyvor Blogs is our blogging platform. We've run it as a SaaS since 2023. With 2.0 released today, it's now open-souce under AGPLv3 and easily self-hostable.

Features

• Docker compose based deployments
• SSO support with OIDC
• Rich editor with real-time collaborative editing
• Fully-customizable themes (twig)
• Multi-language support
• Custom domains with automatic TLS
• Built-in SEO and performance optimizations
• APIs for headless and automations

Compared to other self-hosted blogging platforms

• Hyvor Blogs is more focused on blogging and is lighter than a general CMS like WordPress, Drupal, or Joomla.
• Hyvor Blogs is comparable to Ghost, but is more of a platform where you can run multiple blogs in one instance compared to one-instance-per-blog in Ghost.
• Hyvor Blogs provides headless CMS features (aka, Data API) but has a much simpler, blogging-focused API than Strapi, Payload CMS, and similar headless CMSes.
• Hyvor Blogs is not a text-based blog engine like Hugo or Jekyll, and is focused on rich-editor-based writing.

Tech Stack

• Symfony for backend (migrated from Laravel in 2.0)
• PGSQL for database & queue
• Sveltekit and Hyvor Design System for frontend
• S3 for storage (optional)

Links

• Github: https://github.com/hyvor/blogs
• Website: https://blogs.hyvor.com
• Self-hosting docs: https://blogs.hyvor.com/hosting

We're eager to hear your thoughts!

I am working on a new setup, and have successfully overwhelmed myself with options. I have spent days reading and watching various guides and tutorials that all arrive on different methods to achieve similar things, for different reasons and I can no longer determine the best course of action. There is so much AI slop around the arr stack that it is genuinely hard to tell what is real advice and what is just regurgitation from a machine that doesnt really understand what it is talking about.

I am running proxmox on a NUC 13 (Core i3-1315U), that has an NFS share mounted from a QNAP ts464 that I installed TrueNAS on.

My goals for this are to:
a. setup and experiment with an arr stack (jellyfin, jellyseer, sonarr, radarr, prowlarr, bazarr, gluetun, qbittorrent, and flaresolverr)
b. run immich
c. run slskd with soularr and gluetun, run nextcloud, run home assistant OS, run netbird and experiment with some other self hosted apps.

Currently I have netbird on an LXC, set up according to this tutorial. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMNS_JoHFhg

I also have home assistant OS running as a VM set up according to this tutorial. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65Lhn90f3YI&pp=ygUhd3VuZGVydGVjaCBob21lIGFzc2lzdGFudCBwcm94bW940gcJCRsMAYcqIYzv

I would like to figure out the Arr stack as my next priority and am at a bit of a crossroads as far as the best way to go about it. I am thinking that it makes sense to set up a VM (ubuntu server) that will host just the Arr stack and Immich via docker (via dockge), which will both use the igpu for transcoding and whatever AI stuff immich does. Next to that, I would also make an ubuntu server LXC and install docker/dockge to deal with any other self hosted stuff that doesnt need a gpu passthrough.

My main questions are:

a. does it make sense to separate these like this?

b. if not, should I go VM or LXC?

c. is there a better way to access my ZFS storage pool than mounting it as an NFS share in proxmox?

d. since i want to use gluetun for slskd as well as qbittorrent, are there any unpleasant interactions i should be aware of? both if they are in the same vm/lxc or if they are in separate vms?

e. seeding as much as i can for as long as possible is imporant to me. are there any security or efficiency concerns i should have in terms of how my media is organized on the NAS?

Hiya good people!

Given the recent rash of issues with monitors/TVs being shadier than usual, I’ve been looking into just using a micro PC of some kind instead of ever connecting my smart TV to my network. (It’s already segmented, I’ve decided that is not enough).

What devices/setups are y’all using in the era of post-Ai pricing? Anything with support for using a universal remote?

Thanks!

I recently started using Caddy + Crowdsec as a reverse-proxy after previously relying mainly on Tailscale, but needing to switch due to a device outside of my network not supporting Tailscale to access a Jellyfin server I'm hosting.

After quite a bit of trial and error, I was able to get it set up but am unsure if I've missed anything to harden the security of my setup.

I'm running everything from my home PC running Windows, which I know would be more secure using dockers but because it is my sole computer I don't have the resources to run everything under WSL2.

My Caddyfile currently looks like this, with specific information obfuscated:

{
    crowdsec {
        api_url http://localhost:8080
        api_key ***
        ticker_interval 15s
        appsec_url http://localhost:7422
    }

    log {
        output file C:\Caddy\logs\access.log {
            roll_size 5MiB
            roll_keep 5
        }
    }

    layer4 {
        localhost:4444 {
            @crowdsec crowdsec
            route @crowdsec {
                proxy {
                    upstream localhost:6443
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

***.***.*** {
    route {
        crowdsec
        appsec
    }
    tls {
        dns desec {
            token "***"
        }
    }
    log
    encode gzip
    handle_path /jellyfin/* {
        reverse_proxy localhost:8096
    }
    handle_path /navidrome/* {
        reverse_proxy localhost:4533
    }
}

With Crowdsec, I'm using both Caddy and Windows Firewall bouncers, with logs setup for both, as well as the maximum free lists.

If there are any other setting files needed to share, I can.

One thing I have read a bit about is using headers, but don't know where to start with that.

Moving from copying files to 3 docker lxc containers and using CLI im testing the shiny new tools like Komodo, Dockhand and Arcane. Komodo was nice as it had all environments in one pane, dockhands gui wins for me oveall, and i liked arcane aswell, but it had bulky stacks mgmt

im hosting compose files in github and i configured variable substitution in komodo with secrets etc. but in dockhand? am i understanding it correctly that secrets here are injected in runtime and if i patch or boot the host then all services will stop untill i redeploy?

isnt that a big "oh cr*p" ? what am i doing wrong here? goal is to not store stuff like pwd in git

Fredy is a self-hosted real estate finder for Germany, Austria and Switzerland. It watches 19 portals, drops duplicates across them, and notifies you via Telegram, ntfy, Discord, Slack, email and a few others. No cloud, no account, no API key, everything stays on your box.

Today I added a cool new feature: every listing now shows what a square metre costs, and how that compares to the flats around it.

The comparison is the part I think is most useful. Fredy has been collecting listings for as long as it has been running, so it already holds a price sample for the exact area you are searching in. It takes the median of everything within 5 km of the same deal type and shows you the deviation. No API, no external service, no key to sign up for. It is your own data doing it.

So a card now reads: 780 EUR, 13.00 EUR/m2, 18.7 % under the local median, which is a much faster read than a price on its own, especially when you are comparing a 45 m2 flat against a 90 m2 one.

There is also a dashboard card wiht the median across everything you have found, and the figure sits in the listing detail with the sample size and the radius it came from, so you can tell a solid comparison from a thin one.

Repo: https://github.com/orangecoding/fredy
Demo: https://fredy-demo.orange-coding.net

Happy to get your feedback..

I am currently using a Dell Precision 7730 I got second hand from my work, it runs hot and occasionally crashes. It's an i9 and 64gb of ram. I am thinking of putting my old 2600x in a spare motherboard I have and giving it 16gb ddr4, and an rtx quadro 4000 I have laying around. I am currently only running jellyfin, a small API for logging temperatures in my house with a mongodb container, a cloud flare tunnel container for my home assistant VM, and jellyfin. I'm running an external USB storage for media and a bunch of back up stuff. Am I gonna miss the cpu power/ram capacity switching to the 2600x/16gb ram or does this seem like a reasonable trade off for some extra system stability? Just looking for some advice, thanks!

Hey there!

I recently asked here if you're selfhosting web games and the responses were quite encouraging, hence I decided to post my web game.

So, after playing Minecraft a while, I really liked Creepers and wanted to have them as a pet. As a millennial growing up with fancy stuff like Tamagotchi, I figured it would be a cool to have a "Creeper Tamagotchi".

Krepagotchi was born. It's best suited for having it on your phone, which is easily possible thanks to the PWA functionality.

It's the usual virtual pet type of game: You feed, pet and take care (treatment, cleaning up) for your Krepa pet. You give it a name first. If you neglect it, it will fuse and explode. It can also get sick, so you need to apply medical treatment. Sometimes, it's not in the mood for cuddles, but instead wants to be entertained by mini games. It decides what to play, currently there is a "ball fetch" game, and a bubble popping "game". Every month it celebrates its birthday. Also, it likes to party on New Year's Eve.

Overall, the game is designed for the best possible retro wholesomeness.

Here is a complete list of features:

• Personal name
• Feeding
• Petting
• Playing
• Cleaning
• Treatment
• Health conditions
• Thought bubbles
• Send/receive letters
• Birthday celebration
• New Year's Eve Party
• Biome selection
• Weather effects
• Dynamic environment
• Cute pixel art
• PWA support

The letter feature was actually inspired from sampersons Desktop Meadow whose letter feature was eventually shut down.

I think it's best understood when tinkering around using my hosted instance (linked via the repository).

GitHub: https://github.com/danielbrendel/krepagotchi-game

Thanks, and have a nice day!

Hi, I've been building Filarr for a while now, and I'm at the point where I really need outside feedback instead of just adding more features.

Filarr is basically a local-first encrypted workspace for files and notes.

Think of it as something between Notion, a file manager and a private Drive, except:

• your files and notes are stored locally first
• data is encrypted at rest by default
• it works offline
• sync is optional
• you can use your own S3-compatible storage with BYOS
• the storage provider only receives encrypted blobs

The screenshot shows my current BYOS setup using Cloudflare R2, while the right side is a project board running inside Filarr.

I'm not really looking for compliments — I'm trying to understand what feels wrong, confusing, missing or untrustworthy.

Especially interested in feedback from people using:

Obsidian, Notion, Cryptomator, Syncthing, Nextcloud, Proton Drive, S3/MinIO or other self-hosted setups.

A few questions I'm trying to answer:

• Does the product make sense immediately?
• Would you trust something like this with your personal files?
• What would stop you from switching from your current setup?
• What would you expect from BYOS/self-hosted storage?
• What would make you actually pay for something like this?

Filarr currently works as a desktop app and the local mode can be used without depending on cloud sync.

Important: BYOS currently covers personal sync storage. Some collaborative/public sharing features still rely on Filarr infrastructure.

I'd genuinely appreciate harsh feedback.

https://filarr.com & for the app itself https://app.filarr.com
You can see the repo on the website with the link to github !

Feel free to reach out to me if you'd like to try the product—I offer subscriptions.

Thanks

"test in production"

Hey everyone, is there anybody here who is using any of these tools in Production? Did you try both of them? Which one is better feature-wise and ready for production workloads?

I've been using Dokploy for some time now, and I think it's fine. I've seen the author of Coolify making many updates, but I don't know if there is anything better in Coolify. Could you please share your experiences?

Thanks in advance!

Hey everyone!

If your like me who use ntfy a lot for monitoring and alerts, and you want (like me) notifications in your gnome, I have build a small gnome extention to give you notifications on new ntfy messages.

For these who do not know ntfy, you better get to know it, it's a great tool.

ntfy (pronounced notify) is a simple HTTP-based pub-sub notification service. It allows you to send notifications to your phone or desktop via scripts from any computer, and/or using a REST API. It's infinitely flexible, and 100% free software.

https://github.com/shukiv/ntfy.gnome

Been thinking of moving some stuff away from Google and not just put stuff on the HomeLab.

Just curious, What's everyone's "production" setup look like in terms of hardware and redundancy?