Obligatory mention of Kagi (which is actually brilliant).

Freetube = seriously good.

Immich is the must for self-hosting photos. Bye Google.

I reckon Kagi is the best search engine out there. It's paid though. Second I'd have Qwant followed by DDG.

Currently running NixOS with Debian and Arch containers in distrobox. Certain apps in NixOS (e.g. Calibre) don't respect the scaling in Gnome, but work perfectly via distrobox. Btw, there's a nice GUI for distrobox called Boxbuddy that works really well.

Get a room.

I hadn't considered this. It's interesting stuff. My old doctor used to just Google stuff in front of me and then repeat the info as if I hadn't been there for the last five minutes.

This is the part that bothers me the most, I think.

Same thing happened to me. That was The Day I Dumped Google.

Ah sorry man. I didn't spot it.

Actually this fixed it. Thanks! They can access if I share it but NOT if I add them as a user and then share it. I had to delete them as a user first 🤷‍♂️

I'm using Immich in Nixos. It's simple. Takes about 10 mins. You need to set Docker up in your configuration.nix then set Immich up using docker compose. Let me know if you need a hand getting it going.

Immich is on a par with Google Photos, imo. It's self hosted though, so not for everyone.

OK, good points. I've had lots of hallucinations and fake info tho.

Yeah but the report says the vulnerability is related to graphapi which doesn't seem to be a part of all OwnCloud installations. I can't see it on mine either.

Thanks a lot. Tailscale is out, unfortunately. Because the server also runs Plex and I need to use it with Chromecast on remote access (it's an old CC, so can't add tailscale to it). Looking into Cloudflare and port forwarding. I've just signed up to NextDNS though, so don't want to add another layer of DNS stuff to my mix.

Yeah, the personal backup and sync. Sorry, I didn't think to make it clear.

Ah, I very much did not know that! Ok, I'm off to investigate Tailscale a bit more.

Just signed up for this. Thanks for the heads up.

Oof. That's bad news. I don't have that bit of kit on my setup though. Luckily.

Thanks. I'm still a bit confused about the domain stuff, but I'm looking into it.

Yeah that's interesting.

Doesn't Gnome 45 have improved scaling (haven't tried it yet)?

That is true. I only use mine locally, so it's not a problem. Although you can remote access via Tailscale for safety. It's quicker and easier than trying to set up remote proxies etc, about which I know nothing. Tailscale took 5 mins.

proxy_pass https://

Thanks. I found it, but still borked. Need to do some digging. Strange things are afoot at the Circle K ...

Replying to my own comment to say thanks again for all the tips and advice. I got it all sorted with Tailscale. The final piece of the puzzle!

I'm not that tech savvy, and iDrive is cheap 🤣

Thanks a lot. Whereabouts do I add it to Nginx? Do I need to do this through the dashboard for the proxy host or is there something in docker that I need to add?

There are four candles. https://piped.video/watch?v=CNTM9iM1eVw

I bit the bullet on Kagi a few weeks ago. I love it. Am never going back. Worth every penny to me.

The scripts are loooooooong. And the main problem for me is that Nixos doesn't use the FHS, so it's difficult to use standard .deb files.

Thanks. Annoyingly, perhaps, I've just signed up for a year of NextDNS.

This looks really useful. Thanks!

Thanks, I'm going to try the port forwarding part. That seems like the simplest step. NPM looks very useful though.

Thanks, I'm going to try this.

I use Kagi and it's great. But I'd also throw in a big honourable mention for Qwant. Imo it's better than DDG. Throw in some NextDNS ad blocking and you'll practically never see ads in your search again.

Thanks to you I have today discovered Kavita. It's excellent!

Skiff are pretty good too. Worth a look.

Oh cool. For some bizarre reason iDrive ask you to email them to get the link for the scripts. But you can get them here: https://www.idrive.com/online-backup-linux-download So just download the scripts, install Distrobox, and pull the Debian 12 image. Then enter the Distrobox Debian and navigate to the scripts. Change the permissions (chmod a+x *.pl) and execute the account_settings.pl script. I think I got an error about perl, but I just installed it myself (sudo apt install perl) and carried on. I think I might have had another error at some point but I just ran it again and it all pulled through properly. And now my Distrobox is on my iDrive dashboard and everything works properly. Just remember that if you reboot you might need to go back into the Distrobox and execute account_settings.pl again, but because everything's already installed it will just ask you to login, and that's it - you're back online. Good luck!