Agreed. You also have to make sure you get everything configured correctly. The admin should get some suggestions for set up needed in the settings screen.

I also had to provision a lot of cpu cores for it. It doesn’t use much while idle, but try to pull a doc or picture, and you’ll see the cpu usage skyrocket.

And at the end of the day, it’s going to be heavily impacted by your disk speed. If you want superior performance, time to consider data center grade solid state drives.

Didn’t know about borg warehouse. Thanks for the heads up!

I like borg with rsync.

I’m not sure it would intelligently handle that on its own. There’d need to be some manual work on your end.

I recommend looking into a borg/borgmatic setup.

Regarding the ‘taking your phone with and joining untrusted networks,’ you can set up WireGuard to auto join your vpn on any network you haven’t whitelisted, including your cellular network.

Does it need to be exposed to the internet? Putting it behind a vpn would be best.

Besides that, just make sure only the users you need to have access to ssh logins, and use keys for extra hardening. Keep your system updated. Limit that system’s access to other systems on your network, so if it is compromised, they can’t use it as a pivot point for the rest of your setup.

The other commenter’s suggestion of fail2ban is also solid.

Plus certbot and acme easily auto renew the certs.

This Russiaphobia is so completely out of fucking control.

This is why I’ve stuck with Emby.

I get why people switched, and I’m open to it eventually, but Emby is much more polished. That’s not to say the Emby clients don’t also crash from time to time.

Thanks for the heads up! Tired of trying to make the Emby app work for audiobooks.

I just wish their official app would get out of beta already. It’s been stuck in limbo forever.

If it’s anything like Emby, it blows for audiobooks. Lacking essential features, and regularly loses its place.

LoL. That feature is literally the only reason I also have a Plex docker pointing to my library. But they’ve definitely not been supporting it for a while, because I don’t think it’s worked well in forever. Last few times I tried it with friends, we ended up having to just try to hit play at the same time.

Oh well. One less container now.

Apple TV is rad, because you can pair it with a controller, and use the Steam link app to play on your computer from another room.

No need to have the computer near the tv for couch gaming. No need to listen to the pc fans screaming.

Do the Ecobees have any issue if you block their access to the internet? Any issues making it lan only?

Thanks! I’ll give it a whirl.

What self-hosted alternative would you recommend for document collaboration? Word processing docs, spreadsheets, pdf’s, etc.

I was using Nextcloud, but it’s not been as straightforward for file-sharing as I’d like, multiple people can’t work on a document at once, and it doesn’t save changes consistently (especially with fillable PDF’s).

So then save cash, set up a raid array, and get multiple proper backups running. You need to do steps 2 & 3 regardless.

Frostfall is so good, I refuse to play without it. Should’ve been built into the base game. Traversing the mountains and the snow actually feels like a trial.