Woooooo!

Yup it does!

Element, Beeper, FluffyChat, NeoChat, Cinny, Thunderbird

Yeah as far as I know this still works.

You need to use a valid address (there are sites for generating one)

You also need to use a credit card that has never previously been used in Google with another address

As I understand it, it’s just as they said:

Calculating primes is fairly straightforward so you calculate a few large prime numbers, and do some math to them.

Now you have a strong key that didn’t require a supercomputer to create but taking that final number and turning it back into those original primes is a much more computationally expensive proposition.

In fact, it’s one that’s not viable with current technology.

I use a DNS server on my local network, and then I also use Tailscale.

I have my private DNS server configured in tailscale so whether on or off my local network everything uses my DNS server.

This way I don’t have to change any DNS settings no matter where I am and all my domains work properly.

And my phone always has DNS adblocking even on cell data or public Wi-Fi

The other advantage is you can configure the reverse proxy of some services to only accept connections originating from your tailscale network to effectively make them only privately accessible or behave differently when accessed from specific devices

Do you have some kind of timelapse plugin enabled?

Another cool trick is using tailscale to ensure your portable devices always can access your Pihole(s) from anywhere and then setting those server’s tailscale addresses as your DNS servers in tailscale.

This way you can always use your DNS from anywhere, even on cell data or on public networks

I keep a third instance of Pihole running on a VPS and use it as the first DNS server in tailscale so it will resolve a bit faster than my local DNS servers when I’m away from home

https://vscode.dev

And as many others have mentioned, it can be self-hosted as well.

Also fun side note:

As long as you are logged into a GitHub account and in a desktop browser you can press the . key on your keyboard while viewing any GitHub repo to open it in vscode web.

Yeah this is what I do.

Putting Cloudflare as my secondary would allow some requests to get through and then often the device whose requests went to Cloudflare would continue using Cloudflare for a while.

The best solution I found was to run a second Pihole and use it as the secondary.

You can use something like orbital sync to keep them syncronized

It depends what I’m backing up and where it’s backing up to.

I do local/lan backups at a much higher rate because there’s more bandwidth to spare and effectively free storage. So for those as often as every 10 mins if there are changes to back up.

For less critical things and/or cloud backups I have a less frequent schedule as losing more time on those is less critical and it costs more to store on the cloud.

I use Kopia for backups on all my servers and desktop/laptop.

I’ve been very happy with it, it’s FOSS and it saved my ass when Windows Update corrupted my bitlocker disk and I lost everything. That was also the last straw that put me on Linux full-time.

It’s not a Windows app.

You can run it on Windows with Docker, but I would suggest a Linux server and a reverse proxy for the best experience (like most self-host solutions)

The installation documentation is here

And here

Definitely Immich.

There’s a lot of these kinds of services, hosted or self-hosted that are labeled as a “Google Photos replacement”

But very few of said services have features like face matching and object recognition alongside automatic backups.

IMO it’s not a legitimate replacement for Google Photos without those features and Immich really delivers on that without compromising your privacy.

I use and love Kopia for all my backups: local, LAN, and cloud.

Kopia creates snapshots of the files and directories you designate, then encrypts these snapshots before they leave your computer, and finally uploads these encrypted snapshots to cloud/network/local storage called a repository. Snapshots are maintained as a set of historical point-in-time records based on policies that you define.

Kopia uses content-addressable storage for snapshots, which has many benefits:

Each snapshot is always incremental. This means that all data is uploaded once to the repository based on file content, and a file is only re-uploaded to the repository if the file is modified. Kopia uses file splitting based on rolling hash, which allows efficient handling of changes to very large files: any file that gets modified is efficiently snapshotted by only uploading the changed parts and not the entire file.

Multiple copies of the same file will be stored once. This is known as deduplication and saves you a lot of storage space (i.e., saves you money).

After moving or renaming even large files, Kopia can recognize that they have the same content and won’t need to upload them again.

Multiple users or computers can share the same repository: if different users have the same files, the files are uploaded only once as Kopia deduplicates content across the entire repository.

There’s a ton of other great features but that’s most relevant to what you asked.

It’s fine they wouldn’t have lived at all otherwise.

You gave them the gift of a happy life and a purpose.

That’s more than most of us get

You are right, I dunno why I thought it wasn’t actually proxying all the traffic.

I can see how that could potentially be expensive for them if you were using it to stream video or something

I would disagree.

Particularly on the cost/beta stuff.

Tailscale has long supported DNS addresses that link to your tailnet. Typically they only accept connections from addresses allowed within your tailnet, but there isn’t anything particularly complex about how funnel allows any incoming address.

Further, like most of tailscale’s operations, funnel isn’t requiring them to host or even proxy any significant amount of data, it’s just directing incoming connections on that domain to a device on your tailnet.

The hosting cost to tailscale is insignificant and really no different than what they do on a basic tailnet.

I don’t think it will become a paid only option and I don’t think it’s too beta to use for a home server.

Personally I don’t bother using it because I’m comfortable exposing my IP address and opening a port to my home server using direct DNS.

But there are some advantages to using tailscale funnel in that your ip will be obfuscated and the traffic will be routed through WireGuard so potentially more secure.

Ah yeah that’s the one, sorry

• 8 Hosts (6 physical/local, 2 VPS/remote)
• 72 Docker containers
  • Pi-hole (3 of them, 2 local, 1 on a VPS)
  • Orbital-sync (keeps the pi-holes synced up)
  • Searxng (search engine)
  • Kutt (URL shortener)
  • LenPaste (Pastebin-like)
  • Ladder (paywall bypass)
  • Squoosh (Image converter, runs fully in browser but I like hosting it anyway)
  • Paperless-ng (Document management)
  • CryptPad (Secure E2EE office colaboration)
  • Immich (Google Photos replacement)
  • Audiobookplayer (Audiobook player)
  • Calibre (Ebook management)
  • NextCloud (Don’t honestly use this one much these days)
  • VaultWarden (Password/2FA/PassKey management)
  • Memos (Like Google Keep)
  • typehere (A simple scratchpad that stores in browser memory)
  • librechat (Kind of like chatgpt except self-hosted and able to use your own models/api keys)
  • Stable Diffusion (AI image generator)
  • JellyFin (Video streaming)
  • Matrix (E2EE Secure Chat provider)
  • IRC (oldschool chat service)
  • FireFlyIII (finance management)
  • ActualBudget (another finance thing)
  • TimeTagger (Time tracking/invoicing)
  • Firefox Sync (Use my own server to handle syncing between browsers)
  • LibreSpeed (A few instances, to speed testing my connection to the servers)
  • Probably others I can’t think of right now

Most of these I use at least regularly, quite a few I use constantly.

I can’t imagine living without Searxng, VaultWarden, Immich, JellyFin, and CryptPad.

I also wouldn’t want to go back to using the free ad-supported services out there for things like memos, kutt, and lenpaste.

Also librechat I think is underappreciated. Even just using it for GPT with an api key is infinitely better for your privacy than using the free chatgpt service that collects/owns all your data.

But it’s also great for using gpt4 to generate an image prompt, sending it through a prompt refiner, and then sending it to Stable Diffusion to generate an image, all via a single self-hosted interface.

There’s a company called Ploopy that makes some QMK mice.

I don’t think they have any quite like what you are looking for, they seem to favor Trackball Mice.