Same here. Dockge is also developed by the Watchtower dev.

It’s so much easier to use than Portainer: no weird licensing shit, uses standard Docker locations, and works even with existing stacks. Also helps me keep Docker stacks organized - each compose.yaml lives in it’s own folder under /opt/stacks/.

I have 4 VMs on my cluster specifically for Docker, each with it’s own Dockge instance, which can be linked together so that any Dockge instance in my cluster can access all Docker stacks over all the VMs.

“NAS” is just an acronym for “Network Attached Storage”. Companies have capitalized on that and will happily sell you a “do everything box”…Until you realize that it’s closed-source, overpriced, and underpowered garbage that will go EOL after a couple years, and might even lock you out of using non-approved drives coughSynologycough

A NAS is literally any computer that is setup to host storage that’s accessible over a network. That’s it. Don’t get suckered into overpriced underpowered crap. Dollar for dollar, literally any PC made in the last decade has more horsepower than a brand new “dedicated NAS”. Hell, a Pentium G4560T (i.e. 6th/7th gen Intel) will run OMV or TrueNAS or whatever without a hitch. Stuff an old ATX case with hard drives, load OMV or TrueNAS or something, and go to town.

As someone who daily drives the Pinebuds… Me too. 😅

I’m switching to Jellyfin myself.

To stream remotely from your own server?

If I chose to use Plex’s plex.tv services to expose my server to the internet, that’s one thing. But I have my Plex server exposed through my own infrastructure (NPM + Let’s Encrypt), so fuck that shit.

And this is why I’m setting up Jellyfin. I paid for a lifetime Plex pass a while ago, and I would have been happy to toss them some more money if they had just stuck to the core service (like Nabu Casa/Home Assistant - absolutely worth $7/mo), but nooooooooooooooo Plex decided to spin up their own streaming servers and go down that path instead.

I smell an IPO coming soon.

Sure!

My Zigbee coordinator is just the Home Assistant Connect ZBT-1, the plugs are these “EightTree” brand units (zigbee model, not wifi), and most of my lights are these ThirdReality units. I’ve also got a handful of ThirdReality soil sensors for my wife’s plants.

The plugs and lights double as repeaters, which is nice.

How many times are they going to keep hyping this thing with the same headlines every couple months?

Android Authority posting reactionary content? Shocker.

Stick with 8 then, until we know it’s stable.

I use KeePass (Keepass2Android, KeePassXC, OG KeePass, and KeePassium) for everything. Been using KeePass in general for 20-ish years.

Recently, I decided to export all of my passwords from Firefox, Chrome, and Edge, import the data into my KeePass database under their own folders, then delete everything from the browsers. That way I can move entries that weren’t already in the database to their respective locations in the database hierarchy, delete duplicates, and change insecure passwords.

The database is hosted on my phones (work and personal), laptop, gaming PC, and a server at home, all synced with Syncthing. My work laptop also has Portable KeePass that accesses the database via WebDAV to my server.

I do the same thing on my laptop and gaming PC. My only beef with KeePassXC is that they refuse to implement WebDAV, despite the OG KeePass having it. Otherwise it’s fantastic.

Yeah, super hard to find…

It never went away. It’s still a feature. It’s just stored locally on your device. Thats it.

Misleading as fuck. The Timeline feature never went away - it’s just device-only.

Ah, this makes sense now. I was wondering why it hadn’t been updated in a while, that was my only hangup.

What if I decide to digitize my entire movie catalog? I would have to rip those DVDs and blurays…

Synology is already enshittifying itself

$5 for mine

Ah, that’s a good point. The full tower version has space for that, though.

I’m not saying you should get an Optiplex 7050 specifically, but a used office PC tower (like an Opitplex, HP Elitedesk, Lenovo Thinkcenter, etc) can be picked up for under $500, ready to go, and has more than enough processing power to handle the loads you’re asking of it. Plus, they usually have Intel’s AMT management option (aka “vPro”), which allows you to remotely manage the PC even when it’s powered off.