I recently deleted my Meta-account, and I hope they will be a thing of the past in the not too distant future. Zuck can get fucked.

Perfect, thanks!

They also said that XMP is not supported - does that change anything?

Have they been cross-posting 1:1 between Mastadon and the platform formerly known as Twitter so far?

What are you looking for in a host?

Hm, after the initial upload, it shouldn’t really generate much traffic if I can only manage to upload the diff, so it might not be much of an issue for me. I am not yet really familiar with tools like rsync and rclone, and also don’t know how the changes are stored in the Borg repo (e.g. if I move a 1 GB file from one folder to another, does that get picked up as a 1 GB change by the syncing tools?), so I would need to do some more research to see if that would be achievable.

Hetzner also looks nicely priced, but it would’ve been nice if I could choose an even cheaper tier with less storage, as 1 TB is quite overkill for this particular use case. I could of course use it to backup other things.

Not a requirement that it is E2EE, as the Borg repo is already encrypted. Guess my knowledge of these services is biased towards E2EE from previous research for use cases where that was a requirement.

Thanks for the tip, hadn’t hard about Backblaze before. Very reasonable pricing. Would a good strategy then be to schedule rclone to have it synced, or are there other ways that would be better?

I recently started organizing my music to use with Jellyfin and/or Navidrome. Since Jellyfin requires a particular folder structure, I used this, and I’ve also used MusicBrainz Picard to tag all my music so that it works better with Navidrome. I ended up just using Jellyfin as it suited my needs perfectly, and using it with a desktop client on my laptop (Feishin) and mobile client on my phone (Finamp).

The way Jellyfin requires it to be organised is the way I would’ve done it myself anyway:

Artist 1
|-- Album 1
||----Disc 1
||----Disc 2
|–Album 2
Artist 2
|-- Album 1
etc …

In my experience, if you try to organize based on genres, you need to have a very defined sense of what genres everything you have is. Either you stick with very broad genres (Rock, Jazz etc.) or you get tons of subgenres that you quickly lose control over if you don’t know exactly what is what. Since the clients I use have the possibility to sort by genre, I am planning on giving it an overhaul at some point, but then I will use very broad genres.

I also got 9/20, feeling certain about only a handful, and completely thrown off by others. Since all questions were yes/no, expected score would be 10/20, so my score correctly reflects that I had no real idea what was AI-generated or not. I expect the average score to be close to 10/20, skewed somewhat higher by those who might have a keen eye for some telltale signs of AI-trickery.

…lock-in tactics should put any person who cares about those things off.

Unfortunately most people don’t care.

And once you are locked-in, the barrier to get yourself out of it is often so high that it dissuades most people from even trying to get out. I moved from macOS to Linux last year, and even though I was only using a small portion of the Apple ecosystem (iCloud was the only thing I believe), it still took a lot of time as they are designed to make it difficult/time consuming to migrate. Not to mention the macOS/iOS only applications you might’ve ended up using, as cross-platform functionality was not top-of-mind when choosing. In my case, the notes app Bear was such an example.

This is probably where my lack of knowledge in networking shines through more than ever, but I kinda thought that local IPs would be handled locally and not depend on which DNS servers I use? But I guess that if VPN is active and has not been explicitly told to allow local connections through split tunneling, then it actually do make that request with whatever DNS server I use, which obviously couldn’t resolve some random local hostname?

Nice!

Ah, that would explain it. I could set up split tunneling on a per app basis only in my current VPN, and not IP, but it works. However, I am in the process of migrating to ProtonVPN now. Here the “per app”-permission also works, and it does have the option to allow certain IPs, but I was not able to get it to work.

Just checked this, and “Allows local access” is checked in the VPN application, and “Block all non-VPN traffic” is unchecked in Android settings.

About potentially overlapping IPs: I did check, and they were all different (server, laptop, phone).

They are different, but share the first three numbers.

Thanks for the tip. I will be looking into setting up SSH keys fairly soon, and look more into strengthening ciphers et al.

From a practical point of view, what is the likelihood of a brute-force login attempt to succeed? There are plenty of login attempts, but most of them are for root, and as I’ve disabled root-login that will fail no matter what. Other attempts are typically for generic other names such as ‘admin’, ‘user’ and ‘test’ that has no associated user on the server, as well as some weird choices that I can only imagine comes from some database breach.

That sounds convenient, and having looked at some videos, it seems very nice. I can see myself using this for things that I need to work properly, like Nextcloud, and maybe host other services in a more complicated way, to be able to learn more.

A log is a very good tip - I’ll definitely start with that.

Thanks for the description, I’ll look closer into this and see if I can get this to work (on a test server at home first… :)).

This thread is the first I’ve heard of Podman - is this something I should look into in favor of Docker, or would you say it is more a case of “pick one and stick to it”?

Great tip - I don’t see myself running multiple servers, and I will be the only user needing access to them, so I guess ssh keys are sufficient.