I moved to Google workspace for email, yes I know it Google.

I have my home IP and dedi IP in the routing settings, then just use SMTP to Google and let them forward to me.

All servers have null mail installed and setup for Google, I also have docker containers with config if needed

You need a way to hand it a file for editing, nextcloud can do that

I use nginx as the internet facing proxy, write my own config and manage it with source control. Also use traefik in docker land with service labels to configure it

Me either!

also if you have a want to make and edit alarms from your phone, go add your thumbs up to this issue 👉 https://github.com/pebble-dev/pebble-firmware/issues/10

batter specs yes, like battery and screen. but dont mess with it so its not a pebble!!

Long live pebble, I do hope the new hardware and software is still like the old pebbles

Yes a VPN could solve it. Run the VPN on a domain you know is good and on port 443 HTTPS.

Im not sure I understand your issue, DNS is the magic that allows you to goto home.somedomain.com and get a webpage. But you still need to give DNS the location of the server, much like the contacts in your phone.

DDNS is how you have your home connection attached to a DNS record that is updated when the IP changes, see other comments.

Also once you understand how it all hangs together, you can do some really cool magic to make getting to your services easier

Lemmy has everything if you know where to look, this is very cool -> https://lemmyverse.net/communities

Will reserve judgement till I see a new watch

I signed up, me please

Can confirm that zigbee is much better for IOT things, I find the zigbee stuff is quicker to react to events as there is not WiFI setup. Some WiFi devices running on batterys will have lag while they get WiFi link back up.

Oh, not sure where I got glow from. Will have a look.

Pulsar is a fork of atom and is in active development, it can still be a little slow sometimes. But is now getting updates to make it run better

Edit: this https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow

I use pulsar edit, the successor to atom. Also on the terminal, have a look at glow.

First off, backups of the configs any user data that you can’t torrent should the inevitable happen.

Then set time aside to do updates, I spend Wednesday evenings updating and improving my setup.

Then find a way to track update announcements, I use both an RSS reader and newrealeases.io to know when something I run gets an update

What I can tell you, working for a company hosting data for the UK NHS.

Is that hosting is easy, I have a very reliable homelab. I keep things up to date and make sure to secure things the best I can.

But security is hard, there are many things to secure. Blind spots you didn’t even know you had.

The bast way to look at security, it to start with secure and dial things back so that it works.

With let’s encrypt and DNS APIs, theres no excuse not to have a real certificate!

More so if you want to have that service interacte with other systems not your own

Yes you can use lemmy apps to access a self hosted instance, but you will need a real certificate for that to work.

A quick check of Lemmy.rip show it has a self signed certificate, thats not going to allow you to access it easily and my even stop federation from working.

You should be able to get a lets encrypt certificate very easily.

I have my home assistant check and also my nagios, better safe then sorry

no, just no