The WinAmp maybe sorta open-sourcing is interesting. I’ve never used it (aside from downloading it to get MilkDrop working in Foobar2000).

These names are really fun! Good ones to add to my list…

Cool to see the Immich team going full time. I don’t use it personally but I hear great things

Also, I was just looking this morning at writing something like that Fitbit/influxDB integration for YNAB (You Need a Budget) for visualization in grafana!

I usually don’t pay much attention to the “new software” section, but PerPlexed looks pretty cool! It never occurred to me that it would be possible to create an alternative Plex UI from scratch like that

You should reach out to the authors! I have no clue how they create their “new” section

Also, that CLI trick is crazy! Never knew that and I’m a fairly proficient shell user.

Anyone use authentik? Seems useful, most of my homelab services are unsecured ATM (just local only/vpn)

The thought of colocating my homelab is intriguing… But also sounds like way too much effort and money

Also, I like the “alternative to” blogs in https://blog.while-true-do.io/spotlight-alternatives-for-google-dns/?ref=selfh.st - it’s an interesting series.

Spotted homepage on there - might switch my dashboard from Homarr to that, give it a try. Anyone used it (or other dashboarding software) before?

Nice to see that BitWarden’s UI is getting some love… I tried using it a while back but couldn’t get past the terrible UX. Been happy with 1password since but maybe I’ll try switching again…

Happy to see ActivityPods, never heard of it before but was thinking that would be cool!

I don’t think they’re necessarily meant to be self-hosted, although they can be. The point is to decentralize and take control over your data. Will happily explain more when I sober up :)

Some excellent content this week. Some of my highlights:

• Plex continues its BS, alienating the users who want to actually use their product
• Fun “fediverse for dummies” writeup

Some really good content in there this week!

• The Plex monetization continues to be concerning, although it’s a good thing they’re almost profitable
• Cloudflare security breach was interesting to read about
• Morphos server seems like good software - I never thought of self hosting a file converter, but I’m always so sketched out by the free online ones
• Might finally set up tailscale, who knows!
• Never heard of watch - always thought I had to write a watcher (e.g. with a node library). That’s massively useful honestly

Sucks about VMWare, that’s a blow for sure

I don’t remember exactly, it was around 2 years ago. It was easy to set up, but I found the feature set to be lacking some essentials, and I ran into a couple of big bugs. Couldn’t really replace my airtable setup yet. Happy to give it another try though!

Anyone used NocoDb recently? Last time I tried to get it running, it was too buggy to be useful

I use Backblaze B2 for my backups. Storing about 2tb, comes out to about $10/mo, which is on par with Google One pricing. However, I get the benefit of controlling my data, and I use it for tons more than just photos (movies/shows etc).

If you want a cheaper solution and have somewhere else you can store off-site (e.g. family/friend’s house), you can probably use a raspberry pi to make a super cheap backup solution.

Ooh, ryot is really nice! And seems to have a similar feature set to Media Tracker, plus exercise. It’s also maintained actively.

Have you used it before? Any warnings?