Thanks, I’m checking that out, but can’t find any “add services” button. Alsp someone mentioned IONOS, which is local to me and doesn’t seem to have bandwidth limits… I was trying to find the poop and they require lots of personal info just to get the account setup, still a bit torn there.

That would be awesome, currently it’s 500GB for their cheaper option which starts at 23/year. I didn’t find an option to increase the bandwidth before completing the order. Also it needs to be deployed in NY (which would be possibly slow for me in Europe). Finally their isos are somewhat old, the latest Ubuntu they have is 20.04 (which has an EoL next year).

All that being said, 23/year is very cheap for a VPS, and for people in the US that use less than 500GB/month that’s the best deal I’ve ever seen.

Do you have an alternative to cloudflare tunnels? I’d love to hear it, because I’m also not really happy about relying on them either, but tailscale only works up to an extent because not all devices can connect to it and it’s a pain in the ass to get random family members to connect to it as well.

For me self-hosted refers to #2. Many of us also have jobs that are either fully or partially related to #1, but I wouldn’t expect a #1 answer here. Questions here are usually directed to, and answered with, the #2 mentality.

They are very different things. If all of the places where you want to access the data have storage large enough to accommodate all of it syncthing is probably easier. If however you also want to access the data from your phone, then syncthing won’t work, because it will sync the entire folder to your phone, there’s no way to use it like you would Nextcloud, i.e. only downloading things as you need them.

That’s the one I use exactly because of that. I know compose, not going to learn another program to do the same, just want something that gives me an easier way to edit them than sshing into my box and using an editor.

Why not use Journal from Silverbullet since you already have it https://silverbullet.md/Library/Journal

You can just copy those templates and edit them as you wish, for example I have one for Stand-ups at work

Others have suggested Markdown formats, if you’re willing to do that you might want to look at Silverbullet.

Not the user you’ve asked but I’m using Silverbullet and have been loving it, it ticks every box of what I was looking for:

• Self hosted
• Stores files in plain markdown text format
• You can edit those files externally and Silverbullet picks up the changes
• Allows customization and expansion easily
• Provides queries that allow you to extend markdown to pull data from other files
• These use an SQLite db to get these things to work fast, but if you delete them they get regenerated
• Can be easily synchronized with multiple nodes by using synching to sync the markdown files

just making a docker compose and maybe having ansible deploy that?

that’s what I do, why ansible? Because it makes it easier to deploy the same service in different servers with slightly different configurations, for example when migrating from one server to another. Also it helps with having something I can easily backup (e.g. git repo) that can redo my server(s) if needed.

That being said I’m still setting everything up with ansible.

Where do you want to sync the phones to? I assume you have a server where you want to keep these, otherwise my_folder is just your phone’s local storage.

With that in mind what you described is a very straightforward synching configuration. You install it on the server, give it access to the three folders, install it on both phones, and configure it to sync:

• Phone1 local_folder to Server my_folder
• Phone1 shared_folder to Server shared_rolder
• Phone2 local_folder to Server wife_folder
• Phone2 shared_folder to Server shared_rolder

Don’t understand why you think you need users for that.

I have been setting it up on my home, still not done but I can already see some benefits from it, e.g. I’m about to build a new server and migrate a lot of stuff to it, with ansible it will be very easy to just move some configs around and setup the server in no time at all. It also is encouraging me to keep a standard on how I do things which is great, and after setting up some initial things now adding new services is quite straightforward.

Overall I think there are a lot of positives about it, especially if you have multiple machines to manage. But even for a single one the fact that you can recreate everything from scratch in just one command is quite awesome considering the amount of times I’ve redone my server from 0 for different reasons over the past years.

I always name my PCs with characters from the book I’m currently reading. Here are a few: Teatime, Cthulhu, Dirk, Horus, Binky, Pteppic

A man of culture I see hahaha. Just like VLC devs.

GNU Terry Pratchett

I’ve tried several, but I’ve had a major incident and lost all of the recipes I had because of a database corruption.

So I decided against keeping recipes in databases. I migrated to Notion, but I kept looking for a replacement since that’s not self-hosted. Eventually I ran across Silverbullet, and I’ve been using it for everything, so far it’s been great. Not exactly specifically what you asked but it can be used for it and works great.

Correction, Raspberry pi zero can run lxd, been there done that. So if that’s all OP wants a $10 computer should do it, he really needs to be more specific.

O was going to make a weak suggestion, but the more I read the stronger my suggestion becomes. I strongly recommend you look at Silverbullet. It’s similar to Obsidian in that everything is a markdown file, but has an excellent query language. For example in a random file I add a task with a tag, e.g.

* [ ] Do something [priority: 30]

Then on my homepage I have this block of code:

\```query
task where done = false and
priority > 0
order by priority desc
render [[Library/Core/Query/Task]]
\```

Which renders as a list of all my tasks on all my files ordered by priority, you can see how this becomes extremely customizable, e.g. using where page = Some/Page will only render tasks from that page.

It’s not a kanban board like you asked, but it’s great for all those stuff, and it’s highly customizable to whatever you need.

You can keep track of problems each on their own page and have a frontmatter with general information that can be queried as if it were a database.

For example I keep one page for each tool I use at my work, and on the index of my work I have a table that shows these tools and links or cli examples.

Yes, but any person calling on WhatsApp would get through. Granted, that’s better than not using DnD, but still it’s not perfect like people are making it out to be.

Not OP, but AFAIK that doesn’t work for Whatsapp or other in-app calls, and since my family lives in another continent if there’s an emergency they’ll call via WhatsApp.

An argument could be made that because I live far away I don’t need to be informed of emergencies right away, but there are cases in which I would like that, even if just to buy a same day ticket to go back as soon as possible.

Portage has supported binary packages since forever, back in 2012 I had some binary packages on my system, I clearly remember because it was a pain in the ass to compile certain things, for those I installed the binary version. It’s like Debian supporting source packages, it’s been there since forever but people don’t know about it.