I also use Tailscale.

It’s fair to say that I don’t really know what I’m doing, so am picking my way through the world of self-hosting one lesson at a time, but even with that in mind, I’ve found Tailscale an absolute breeze to set up, even if I still don’t fully understand how it all works, and what it can all do.

In short, I have my server at home as part of my tailnet. I’ve also installed it on my Hetzner VPS, which is running YunoHost. Within YunoHost I’ve set up a bunch of redirects which take the Tailscale ips of my various services and turn them into URLs.

So in essence, my Navidrome server goes from being http://100.111.11.1:4533/ to navidrome.mysite.co.ck.

I’ve got Navidrome, Immich, Home Assistant, Invidious, and Jellyfin running like that, and as far as I can tell I’ve not had any security issues at all.

52% of those who voted

In reality, Trump was voted in by around 32% of Americans who are eligible to vote. He’s tearing everything apart with a mandate from 23% of the US population.

Democracy, baby!

I have an Italian friend, so tried to learn Italian. I did French at school (30 years ago), so how hard can it be, right?

Real fucking hard.

WHY DO SO MANY THINGS HAVE GENDERS?! WHY IS AN APPLE TREE HE, BUT AN APPLE IS SHE?! (or is it the other way around?)

I’m English, so I guess I’ll just carry on the grand tradition of talking louder and using hand gestures.

No one can stop you ordering a huge steak and a glass of water.

OP said “unethical answers only”.

YOU WOULDN’T DOWNLOAD A REDDITOR

What have the Romans ever done for us, eh?

God I fucking hope not.

Whoa whoa whoa. As a proud English man, I can’t sit idly by and let you lay all the blame on the US! England is the reason for at least 80% of the problems, with the US only really coming along after we’d set the ticking time bomb

Get the fuck out with your American exceptionalism!

Took delivery of a Pixel 9 last Thursday after 16 years of iPhones. Within an hour of delivery I had it on Graphene and after a few days of VEEEEERY steep learning curve I’m really enjoying using it.

I have absolutely no idea how any of the sandboxing stuff works, and could stand to have fewer notifications warning me what the system is doing, but overall it’s pretty straightforward.

Relatable content.

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I’ve lost a couple of podcasts to Spotify. Life goes on. I don’t begrudge anyone wanting to earn money, but I won’t support Spotify’s practices.

There’s such a wonderfully low barrier to entry these days that there’ll soon be something else coming down the pipe.

As someone who’s made a number of podcasts on and off over the years since 2007, much of this post resonates.

However, I take solace in thinking that a podcast is just an extension of a broadcast; where a broadcast is, well, broad, a podcast is a self contained…cast. In a pod. Broadcasting covers audio and video, so it figures that podcasting would as well.

With that in mind, my own style of podcasting, and my preferred format is personal stories. I love podcasts that are by people in their bedrooms talking about their lives, or by journalists who talk to regular folk. Regardless of what Spotify do, that style will always be out there, available on an RSS feed.

I don’t use Spotify, I don’t use YouTube. If I can’t get it in my app then I don’t listen to it. And that’s OK.

I really need to get back into it though. I used to love making them.

Fuck you, guy!

I ended up manually downloading my subscriptions using Freetube and yt-dlp and throwing them in my Plex server. I don’t watch a huge amount so I’m happy to spend 20 minutes a couple of times a week doing it. There are ways to automate the process but I’ve never been able to wrap my head around it.

I didn’t say it could, just that it’s easy to do (assuming your hardware is supported of course).

I’ve only been using Apple stuff since '07, but I’ve been through a similar thing lately. My iPhone contract was due, so after a ridiculous amount of consideration and research I ended up getting a Pixel 9, which I’ve put GrapheneOS on. Its a huge learning curve, but I’m glad I did it.

If I have to have a smartphone, I may as well have one that’s as much on my terms as possible.

After 16 years of iPhones I switched to a Pixel 9 two days ago so I could run GrapheneOS. It took me ten minutes to install. Shit’s remakably easy to do. Assuming your phone isn’t carrier locked, of course.

“take him to Disneyland”?