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stonkage

@ stonkage @aussie.zone

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Football, tech, and self-hosting mammal. I tinker (and tend to break) servers, follow the birds — the feathered kind — and dig through bits of local history.

  • Why?

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  • Had to create dummy emails, fake info for my 8 year old just so they could have their own kids logon. Despite it being a kids account MS still thought it was fine to show news and photos from Gaza. Spent an hour before nuking win 11. Running Linux mint, just works for us.

  • Those who don't use dashboards, how are you managing your services?

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  • I mucked around with so many dashboards, homarr, homepage, dashy but settled on glance

    Mainly because it's minimalist and mostly text based. Handles my RSS feeds and anything that I want render I can usually vibe using the custom API widget.

    https://github.com/glanceapp/glance

  • Podman or rootless docker?

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  • New to selfhosting

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  • It's a pretty broad question and part of the adventure is learning what works for you.

    I have found https://selfh.st/ a great resource of seeing the art of what's possible and what is out there

    Chatgpt is also helpful especially for fixing your yaml files which seems to be the main config format for most container based projects.

    For remote access I have found tailscale the easiest way to access self hosted away from home.

  • HDD randomly unmounting

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  • What does your fstab say?