I got a minimal setup with pihole and nextcloud. I was wondering what else I could do. Share your ideas🙂
My weekend project will be install mint for my first flurry into Linux.
I’m going to set it up for some light gaming and media streaming.
Running on a Dell Latitude 4980, long term hoping to learn enough to set up a home jellyfin server.
Welcome to the Linux community!
Thanks. Finally after Mint didn’t recognise my network adaptor I tried Manjaro (everything worked great, but I don’t think I’m ready for Arch) so ended up on Pop_OS … everything works so I’m going to stick with this for now.
My choice as well. I had some weirdness with Steam at first, but was able to get that sorted.
Already done with mine. Setup obsidian-livesync and configured it on all my devices. It’ll be my first time trying out a markdown note app.
Create a dotfiles repo in git. Gives you a way to track changes to your .bashrc or .zshrc
With extra bonus: write an installer script that symlinks the files to the correct place. Use Ansible, plain old Bash, or Python depending on your preference.
I’m waffling between that or just setting up a bare git repo. Am prepping a VM or two to explore the pros/cons of each approach and to dive into the implications.
It’s funny - this project idea seems to free bubbling up everywhere this past week. I’m sure I’m seeing the consequences of search algorithms, but on Lemmy, it’s nice to see what is a definite and pleasant coincidence.
When in doubt always do a
git init .and a git add, git commit every once in a while. You’ll never regret it.
rcm
https://github.com/thoughtbot/rcm
rcm will do symlinking for you and is pretty awesome. Been using it for this purpose for years
Or GNU stow.
That is the next item on my to-do list. I’ve already installed my own gitea container to run at home. Yes, I could use a public repo (set private) but I wanted I learn how to do this and besides, I wanted to cast a wider net for which files to store but not worry about inadvertently publishing something with passwords embedded…
I didn’t really see the benefit of this besides having a snapshot or backup of my home folder for my use case (I don’t have that many config/text files that needs tracking), but I can recommend chezmoi for those interested.
There’s so much you could do.
- have a reverse proxy for your services, as containers
- connect then through netbyrd or nebula if you want the FOSS route (or headacalescale)
- set up an IDPS, such as fail2ban, snort, etc
- Set up a backup job, there’s many projects that does this well - check out Borg and kopia.
- since we’re on linux, try out different shells. Zsh or fish are pretty popular and pretty to look at.
I’ve been wanting to set up neko for a while now and i finally can next week when i get some free time
I made a home inventory management software, because I don’t have much space in my flat, so I track every single piece of the compressed pile of boxes; with qr codes on them.
It’s a very simple app but you should have a printer to print qr codes for the boxes.
The documentation lacks some detail, so ask anything about it, if you want to try it.
https://github.com/fxdave/DavidHomeVentory
EDIT: yeah I didn’t update the readme. The installation may not work. So tell me if you want to give it shot.
It looks like this in action btw:
Might be worth hosting Gitea/Forgejo
Paperless-ngx. It’s a document management system for home users or small companies. Pretty cool if this is something you need. If you spend a lot of time filing away documents, you definitely need this.
is it easy to export its contents to a different app
They have an exporter and a REST API. So yeah.
Just keep in mind it will take a bit of effort to add and categorize your stuff. 😄 I’ve had Paperless installed for two months now but can’t get around to actually moving my stuff into it.
You are so right! That is the painful part that no one talks about! Took me a few days to get paperless-ngx working, because I had wrong firewall and port settings preventing docker containers communicating with each other. Once solved that I was proud and relieved - started scanning and categorizing - but in hindsight that was nothing compared to the amount of work to move stuff to it. I finally accepted that I will just have to keep doing that when I feel like it… which for the past months has been “never”. I now only put new docs in, but the older stuff is still sitting in nas folders.
I have an old mini PC that I’m going to use with proxmox to share some of the load from my nas. Today I setup tailscale and for it working with unbound DNS so I can use my domain when connected.
It’s endless!
If you have uncapped bandwidth you could run a syncthing relay server. Syncthing rocks as a file sync option and I host my own.
Ooh…this is interesting. I’m going to look into setting this up. Thanks!
I’m going to be building out a third wireless access point with OpenWRT to get better wireless coverage in the house.
Currently working on a replacement for BirdCAGE. It was a pretty cool project, that was unfortunately based on some pretty hacky code (not the dev’s fault, he based it on BirdNet-Pi) and subsequently has been abandoned.
MVP is up and running, just polishing and adding features. Still no GUI just yet, right now it’s just presisting the data locally (recordings with detections, spectrograms, and a database of detections) and submitting the results to Birdweather which you can use as a basic UI until I get around to it.
It’s been a great learning experience.
Do you have a project page I can keep track of? I have some spare Pi-compatible machines.
Looking at BirdWeather the only node on Vancouver Island is 200km from me. Would be a fun thing I could stick outside my house, we have lots of bird traffic here. Just today I saw robins, crows, ravens, eagles, swans, geese, ducks, and gulls and I was only barely paying attention.
I was going to try to set up Ampache so that I could access my entire music library at work.
Host your own Gitea server and then version control your own RPI configs on the RPI. I mean… save them elsewhere also, but it’s yet another thing you could do with that awesome little device.
Do what I do. “Oh shoot, Jellyfin stopped, now I have to remember how to tell Arch to clear out its cached packages” (it’s pacman -sc if you’re me and you’re reading this in the future)
This is me… In general with Linux. So I have a whole section of my Obsidian vault dedicated to troubleshooting and setup steps for my server projects. It’s saved me hours of research already. Stupid brain…
