Linux Prepper podcast

cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/38171652

For me, I'll be waiting for at least a point release in Ubuntu before I ever consider migrating any machines. Then I'll check against the forums and any security announcements.

Lemmy struggles with properly displaying the Castopod shownotes. I've filed a bug report here.

Relaying show notes here...

Why Offline & Local-First

• Rising Cost of Consumer Technology
• Cloudflare Outages - interest in local hosting
• Re-purposing older machines into functional use!

(00:11)

Offline Tooling, Local Tooling, Resilience Introduction

(00:50)

Sponsor Ameridroid

• LINUXPREPPER code

(01:14)

Domain Changes and thoughts after years on .network, xyz and org

(01:32)

Forum posts related to simple, resilient setups

• Show notes listed there as well

(02:21)

Do you have a device in a drawer that might be useful as-is?

(04:38)

KDE Connect - Thoughts after Three Years

(08:30)

Unbound, DNSMasq - Local DNS Caching, Recursive DNS and Resolvers

(09:30)

Quad9 - Global Public Recursive DNS for Public Benefit, alternative to Cloudflare and Google

(09:55)

Local DNS Resilience and Why It Matters

(12:15)

Connecting Multiple Services and What DNS Adblocking Actually Does with Pi-Hole, Adguard Home, etc.

(13:04)

Dividing IP Ranges for Custom DNS, Adblocking assignments

(13:55)

Adding Resilience, Privacy and Speed Most Routers Do Not Offer Natively

(15:20)

Challenges You Can Try at Home!

(15:59)

Wiki in early development as plain text. Learn more on the forum

(17:00)

Low Key Gear Exchange for LFNW. Details for forum users!

• Forum post for registered users

(17:36)

100 Selfhosted Services for Low End and 32-bit Hardware

(19:11)

HomeLab Episode to be released with Robin Monks. Unedited interview available on Premium

(19:29)

Nginx, Caddy - Reverse Proxy via DNS Challenge for Local HTTPS Testing

(20:00)

mDNS and Avahi for remote machines gifted to others without https

(22:35)

Become a Premium Subscriber to Support the Show

(23:36)

How resilient is your setup? Let me know! podcast@livingcartoon.org

(24:05)

Discord and bridged Matrix Chats for discussing the show! Please Share with Others!

(24:55)

LFNW Schedule, should be live shortly. April 24th - 26th

(25:11)

AI Scanned My Brainrot, Live only at LFNW, on 04/26 at 3pm!

(26:17)

Upcoming Episode on SeaGL, LFNW and Conferences!

Genuinely curious, what makes a project into AI slop for you. Was thinking about this based on a recent discussion of recommended self-hosting tools, which brought up ntfy.

• Massively popular project. Repo releases since 10/2021 and 29k stars on github.

Context: ntfy

• Sponsors include Warp, an AI-based development environment. That sponsor is mentioned twice in the readme. Saw a mention in a chat room of the project being described as having become AI slop, but don't see any such concerns in their project repo within any issues or merged pull requests. And, the code is dual licensed under Apache 2.0 and gpl-2.0

What do you think? Is the sponsorship as problematic as actual code? Or, is there something else I'm missing. Curious on how you would compare ntfy with other sorts of AI concerns.

Domain annual and VPS monthly services come to mind.

I find everyone using different services, so unsure how to best manage (and balance) concurrent access in Ubuntu/Debian to:

• Local network services
• Tailscale services from userA
• Tailscale services from userB
• Wireguard (OpenVPN also option) from userC
• Twingate from userD

Each user is wanting to share different services via VPN, and pressuring any to change their production setups to a different style of VPN is not going to happen.

• Management via software in Ubuntu
• Possibly up a routing device along the lines of OpenWrt or OpnSense.
  • Could even distribute such devices between these friends.

Thanks for all thoughts!

Didn't realize this was actually a John Cage composition.

Curious on suggestions for airtags, or similar, for tracking important things on flights or other cases where losing the specific item would be too much of a financial / sentimental loss. Anyone doing this from Linux, or from graphene? How is it?

Curious on what tools people would recommend, either from clients, locally or self-hosted.

• privatebin works nicely as a basic pastebin.
• stuffedanimalwar is just silly fun, with group drawing collaboration and chat that only exists in the active client session.

Detailed episode for pairing with the very light "A Great Day for Linux". Hope you enjoy it. Since Lemmy struggles with markdown from Castopod, here is a link to the notes.

Show notes link, since Lemmy struggles with properly displaying posts from Castopod.

Hoping to spread the word, and continue to grow this small show. Wish Lemmy could properly render show notes format from Castopod.

Thought I'd create a distinct thread from the previous one asking about daily use, because I really do want to hear more on people's pain points. Great to know people are generally sounding pretty positive in those posts who recently switched, but want to know your difficulties as well! This way old and new users can share their thoughts, hopefully to inspire a respectful discussion.

Curious on the experiences of those recently migrating to Linux from Windows 10, Intel-based MacOS, etc. How is it being on Linux? Anything surprise or frustrate you?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/36741547

I know dashboards are super trendy, but I'd love to hear from those who are not using them. I personally use FreshRSS to keep track of as much as possible, along with Uptime Kuma and plain old bookmarks. Perhaps there is a better overview solution, but I also love filtering what I see to not feel overwhelmed. or spammed, by information.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/36414259

Curious to know what the experiences are for those who are sticking to bare metal. Would like to better understand what keeps such admins from migrating to containers, Docker, Podman, Virtual Machines, etc. What keeps you on bare metal in 2025?

I realize my options are limited, but what about any robots.txt style steps? Thanks for any suggestions.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.kobel.fyi/c/fediverse/p/26588/please-dont-be-a-lurker

In the monthly server updates for lemmy.zip/piefed.zip there's a mantra that's repeated every month. I think it's wonderful and can be applied to the Fediverse as a whole. > >

If you’re new here - WELCOME! I hope you’re enjoying your time here :) > > Just one small teeny-tiny request. The greatest gift you can give the Fediverse (Original: Lemmy.zip and Piefed.zip) isn’t money, praise, or interpretive dance (although we would absolutely accept the last one). Its participation. > > Upvote the things you like. Start a discussion, debate, or ponder about whether water is wet or merely makes things wet. Make new communities if you don’t see one that fits your oddly specific niche obsession. > (We don’t judge. Well, we try not to judge anyway.) > > The fediverse naturally ebbs and flows, tides of people come and go. But if you’ve found yourself oddly attached to this strange little corner of the internet? Wonderful. Help it breathe. Help it grow. Help it be just a tiny bit weirder in the best possible way. > > So if you’ve gone to the effort of clicking Sign Up and proving you’re not a robot (unless you are, in which case hello and welcome to our new AI overlords), then please, I beg of you: > > Stick around. Add your voice. It really does make this place better. > > Original post by @Demigodrick@lemmy.zip

Join in on the DURP Challenge, where you finish a project you are otherwise ignoring for the Winter season. Putting this out as part of Linux Prepper podcast, which is a DIY and technology-focused show on struggling to accomplish things while still enjoying life.

Keep in mind you are welcome to submit any sort of project you are otherwise putting off! I'll be happy to share them on the show once we hit Spring. This gives you a solid three month window to get it together! 100% completion is not required, but you'll share whatever progress you have made.

The challenge is simply about clout, and sharing in what we've accomplished, over any actual prizes. If you've already finished a project in the recent past and want to proudly share it, that is fine!

Reddit post

HAKboard, a comprehensive Home Assistant integration for Kanboard, a free and open source Kanban project management tool.

• Roadmap
• Repo
• Screenshots

Features:

Interactive Lovelace cards

Integrates project, task and people data into sensor entities

Documented entity schema aids in dashboard and automation development

Supports multiple instances, enabling blue/green deployment

Configurable replication and project filtering settings per Kanboard instance

Zero YAML editing required

Functionality:

In this initial release, it is a one-way sync of Kanboard data into HA, with deep-linking to Kanboard projects from the HA dashboard. It will create an entity for every project that provides aggregate data for tasks, task status, assignees, columns etc.. giving you an excellent birds eye view of your environment, as well as the ability to create automations from the sensor data.

A very near release (see Roadmap in the repo) will introduce the creation of entities for each task and person, and likely others. We wanted to ensure the core entity generation system is rock-solid before opening it up to potentially thousands of new entities and thought it prudent to stagger this functionality.

If you use Kanboard (or want to try it), this turns your HA dashboard into a real-time project hub.

Repo & Docs: https://github.com/aktive/hakboard

⚠️ IMPORTANT INSTALL NOTES: I'm still working through the HACS repo approval process. In the meantime, please follow these instructions if you would like to install (existing Kanboard server required):

HACS > ⚙️ (Top right) > Custom Repositories > Add: https://github.com/aktive/hakboard as type Integration

Configure your Kanboard instance via Settings (Bottom left) > Devices & services > Add (Bottom right) > Search for HAKboard

NOTE: If HAKboard does not appear (either as an integration or a dashboard card), please refresh your browser or restart HA.

Kodi is an option via UPnP, but wondering on any other methods people are using.

Since it is not designed for individual selfhosters, I'm wondering if any groups are actively attempting to run it together? Idea sounds cool, but I'm wondering about practical execution.

They are a warm and welcoming community. You can attend or present at no cost. LinuxFest Northwest (est. 2000) is an annual, free-to-attend F/LOSS conference co-produced by Bellingham Linux Users Group, Information Technology department at BTC, Jupiter Broadcasting, and Cascade STEAM.

LFNW features presentations and exhibits on free/libre and open source topics, as well as Linux distributions & applications, licensing, InfoSec, DevOps, AI/ML, creative software, hardware, and privacy; something for everyone from the novice to the professional!

Genuine question, so please don't be mean to whoever responds. Better to learn than to judge.

Curious if people who are on Cloudflare are considering any selfhosted alternatives? If not, interested to hear what is a deal breaker in regards to using a service besides Cloudflare. I do hear a lot of praise for Cloudflare when facing DDOS, and always happy to learn more!

Headscale - The main objective of Headscale is to provide a non-proprietary implementation of the Tailscale protocol & control server for hobbyists and self-hosters. Acts as a replacement for the listening servers while allowing you to continue using your existing clients applications. Funnel functionality is currently considered in beta status. Does not include a web ui by default.

• Full listing of various webui implementations for Headscale

Netbird - Connect your devices into a secure WireGuard®-based overlay network with SSO, MFA and granular access controls. You can try their hosted service or selfhost it, or whatever.

Pangolin - is a self-hosted tunneled reverse proxy server with identity and context aware access control, designed to easily expose and protect applications running anywhere. Pangolin acts as a central hub and connects isolated networks — even those behind restrictive firewalls — through encrypted tunnels, enabling easy access to remote services without opening ports or requiring a VPN. Combines traefik reverse proxy with Single Sign On and Wireguard. Meant to be selfhosted, but they do offer a hosted instance.

Pin codes, temporary links, password links for exposing services as a “funnel”. Similar to cloudflare tunnels, where users cannot be bothered to sort things out and just want a service exposed.