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Yeah, I hate facebook too, but sometimes you just have to acknowledge that flying the FOSS flag is not your primary objective. Like someone else said, if you have half the people on whatsapp, you’ll get much less than that with anything else.

I occasionally dream of having a better “community” in my suburb but basically, I just have zero available effort to invest in that. Like I’m not working today and looking forward to spending the afternoon in my pyjamas fiddling around at home. If I feel super motivated and energetic later I might take the kids somewhere. If there were a community thing scheduled I just… wouldn’t feel like going.

I think the best form of community I can manage is simply having a few people’s numbers in my phone and telling them when something happens “Hey Barb, just letting you know the neighbours car got broken into last night, hows things down your end?”

Containers have layers. So if you create an instance of a syncthing container whoever built that container would have started with some other container. Alpine linux is a very popular base layer, just used as an example in this discussion.

When you download an image, all the layers underlying the application that you actually wanted, will only be as fresh as the last time the maintainer built that image. So if there were a bug in the alpine base, that might have been fixed in alpine, but wouldn’t by pushed through to whatever you downloaded.

I didn’t realise this was a problem.

I’m not too worried about it though.

each container has such a small attack surface. As in, my reverse proxy traefik exposes port 80 and port 443, and all the others only expose their API’s or webservers to traefik.

I’m also in this category, but OP is talking about something else.

Like if you use container-x, which has an alpine base. If it hasn’t released a new version in several years then you’re using a several year old alpine distro.

I didn’t really realise this was a thing.

This is me.

For example, /srv/docker/synching contains:

compose.yml .env ./Sync

That last one is a directory bound to the container which contains all my sync folders.

Occasionally it makes more sense to put the mounted folder in /srv like /srv/photos is mounted by /srv/docker/photoprism/compose.yml

However, thats a rarity. Things mostly accessed by a single compose stack are kept alongside the other files for that stack.

Basically, im getting old and weird and less willing to abide corporate fuckery.

Yep.

“I manage my server in yaml. Sometimes yml.”

Im self employed so I can use what I want.

I have a few assisstants who use win 11.

I use an unofficial teams appimage all day every day.

I think its probably an electron thing.

I hate having to use it but it works fine.

what do you enjoy doing online?

my recommendation would be to start small, without having to trust yourself with your own data, at least not in the short term.

maybe try your own instance of photon, it’s a frontend for lemmy.

Sorry what integrations?

My small team using mxroute for a few years now.

Its fine. Its cheap. Support is very responsive.

Fastmail is probably the best, but their pricing is egregious.

I was with them for a decade or so but with a large archive of emails and multiple users i couldn’t justify the cost.

I think OP wants somewhere to configure a DNS zone, not just a DNS server to query.

I use cloudflare also but I suspect that OP will find them unfavourable because they’re just another giant. I’d like to de-cloudflare myself.

I use keepassxc and syncthing and have never had this problem.

I think there’s something in the settings to save after each change and reparse if there’s a remote change.

Usually I find these lists a bit “meh”, but there’s actually a bunch of stuff here I want to try.

• Upvote RSS
• Sync-In
• Poznote
• Postgresus
• Loggifly
• OpenArchiver
• BentoPDF

Yeah I use StirlingPDF extensively.

I might give Bento a try but ultimately not much incentive to change.

I’ve had a Synology NAS for 15 years or so, and I think it’s ideal for this kind of use-case.

It has a point and click configuration UI that you access from a web browser.

There’s a reasonably large ecosystem of packages you can install.

I’d have a super-serious talk with them about backing up their stuff.

IDK, I think there’s a niche here.

I have a home server and rent a larger bare metal server in a data centre. Each has many docker containers. I haven’t had to deploy ssh keys in years.

There’s another school that seems to prefer to spin up a digital ocean vps for every new thing. That’s fine too, and I can see how this project would make that kind of workflow more manageable.