hello, she has a gigabit connection , and my upload speed is fast enough to deal with it but for some reason she has 8/10 times constant issues where it buffers every second ,whether with directplay or transcoding (i can transcode at 6x the framerate of the shows so shouldnt be an issue)

can anyone recommend a way to speed up or solve this issue? it wasnt a problem till i had to reinstall jellyfin and i believe i have put all the settings back to how they were.

is there an alternative to tailscale , that is still free and maybe faster without any issues such as relaying

I started on 28 may to try and self host vaultwarden.

It was not so hard I thought after spending a day to self host vaultwarden, immich with tailscale.

Then I went down the rabbithole of self hosting.

First came the hair pulling experience of nextcloud.( it took me 4 days to figure out how to use it with tailscale funnel 😂 and to clean up the mess I created in the meantime).

Then came cryptpad (because I did not like nextcloud docs even though both use the same) was not so hard I learned from nextcloud experience.

Then came jellyfin, it was relatively easy, just took me a little more than half a day.

Then came home assistant not much hard as I did not have any smart devices and I just wanted to try it out so can't tell much

Then I learned about portainer (ah how easy my life could have been if I had learned about it earlier or so I thought).

At last it was adguard home (I had to fall back to use terminal and ditch portainer) I literally LOST sleep and went at it for two days because on dnsleaktest it was showing my carrier name only to learn that quad9 has official partnership with them. (I made so many changes to my firewall deleted and reinstalled adguard multiple times only because of a single peice of misinformation 😇 THEY SAY afterall information is the most important weapon in war).

At first adguard left a bad taste in my mouth but after configuring it for two hours I feel a sense of accomplishment and satisfaction finally my homelab is complete.

EDIT: Now let's focus on my exam that are in ten days and I have used all my vacation on self hosting. Wish me luck.

Edit2: spelling error

I installed Netdata on my home server a few months ago Thought it was cool seeing all the graphs nd metrics

Then it started showing a little banner at the top asking me to sign up for a free account

Okay fine I ignored it

Then the banner got bigger

Then it started covering part of the dashboard

Last week I updated to the latest version nd now the entire top third of the page is a prompt telling me to create a cloud account to unlock more features

I just want to see my CPU temp on my own machine without being sold something

I get it they need to make money But this is running on my hardware on my network

Anyone know a fork or an alternative that just shuts up and shows the damn graphs

Hi all,

Wanted to share a project I've built a while ago - It's effectively static page generator which creates websites based on the RSS/ATOM feeds. I've been using Newsboat for this purpose for a long time but wanted something I can access on any device - hence the idea.

You can:

• Set it up on your own Github pages (with automatic updates - see Liveboat Github Runner repo.
• Run it locally.
• Set it up with Docker (image included).

The generated page has built in support for Youtube vids and player for podcasts etc. Personally I completely stopped visiting YT at this point since Google decided to bombard me with AI slop at every point.

• Demo - https://konrad.website/feeds
• Repo - https://github.com/exaroth/liveboat
• Github Runner - https://github.com/exaroth/liveboat-github-runner

No AI involved ofc.

Hope you find it useful

So i have a printer like most of you i belive, the printer and scanner work really whell from the terminal, but it's not wife approve, do some webapp exist to just make a frontend to cups and sane ?

I'm curious about the general consensus on scheduled reboots for your homelab?

Currently my buddy and I joke about being "Uptime Kings" but I can't help but wonder if there's a standard for scheduling restarts.

I recently set up a Raspberry Pi 5 running K3s and wanted to make a few things accessible from outside my home network like my blog and other services.

I have documented the whole process, including some of the issues I ran into and how I solved them for:

• Dynamic DNS via Cloudflare for a stable hostname
• Traefik as the Kubernetes ingress controller
• cert-manager with Let's Encrypt for automated TLS
• A residential internet connection with a dynamic public IP
• Router port forwarding for secure service exposure
• A K3s cluster running on Raspberry Pi hardware

I'm curious how others are handling remote access to their homelabs. For personal use or deploying web services. Are you exposing services directly with HTTPS, using a VPN (Tailscale/WireGuard), Cloudflare Tunnel, or something else?

Article: https://thethoughtprocess.xyz/en/series/home-server/deploy-kubernetes-internet-dynamic-dns-https

Feedback and suggestions are welcome.

Started with "I'll just host one thing" and now I'm sitting here looking at old mini PCs, random NUCs, and Facebook Marketplace listings like they're Pokémon cards.

I swear every self-hosted project creates three more projects. You install something simple, then suddenly you're setting up monitoring for the thing, backups for the monitoring, and a dashboard to monitor the monitoring.

The craziest part is that half the fun isn't even using the service. It's staring at Grafana graphs at 2 AM like they contain the secrets of the universe.

Please tell me I'm not the only one whose homelab keeps expanding for absolutely no reason

I developed multiple programs for my personal use, most of them are not really publishable (Single run tools to convert stuff or tools no one in the world would use), and because of that I do not bother with removing private keys/local info/random comments.

When I use github, there is a serious risk of accidentally publishing something should be private, and even if i don't, I still depend on microslop, and it is possible that somehow copilot is analyzing your code.

I heard a lot of positive reviews on Forgejo, and oh my god, it is a piece of work. Simple, private, and really safe workspace to push/pull repos locally.

If you are a hobbyist, this is the best tool imo to organize your multiple random scripts/programs without an ounce of pain.

I am using it behind netbird, pulling/pushing using ssh keys exactly as how I deal with github

I host a World of Warcraft server with AzerothCore. I spawn a random amount of AI bots into the world and it’s actually pretty nice to play with them. I can alao invite friends to my server via Tailscale.

Hello, so I have recently gotten into self-hosting and I am currently hosting an automated media server and my own search engine. I now want to self-host my own GitHub so I'm looking for some good alternatives. I want something pretty minimal.

What do you self-host as an alternative to GitHub or any of the other proprietary platforms and what made you choose it over the other alternatives?

Thanks in advance.

Engineering college student from California passionate about Digital Resistance. (Background in Amateur Radio, Cybersec and Competitive Programming)

State-level blocking is escalating across multiple countries. Telegram, WhatsApp, VPNs are gone one by one. I set up an MTProto + Xray server for someone close. It worked.

Additionally, Meta has recently removed E2EE, controversy about messengers spying on personal messages have been on the rise

But I kept thinking: why does this keep being a problem?

The answer is architectural. Every messaging app: Signal, Telegram, WhatsApp made the same decision: identity lives on their servers. Your phone number, your account, your social graph are under their control. One IP range to block. One company to pressure.

So I have been actively creating a whitepaper for Resonance.

The core idea is to separate identity from infrastructure. Your identity is a cryptographic keypair you own, not a phone number, not an account. Relay nodes route encrypted packets and provide mailboxing, but they never own your plaintext or social graph. If a node gets blocked, your identity migrates automatically. The route changes. You don't notice.

It's open-core. Protocol, SDK, CLI, and relay node are open source. You can run it on a VPS, a Raspberry Pi, a home server. Eventually also LoRa, mesh, radio fallback, satellites for when the internet itself goes down.

Built in Rust. PQC encrypted. Self-hostable. Decentralized

Would love feedback from this community, what is good and what is bad. Especially anyone who's dealt with censorship circumvention or self-hosted communication infrastructure.

GitHub: (recovering from a security breach right now that suspended my account and the rganisation)
You can also reach me via email!

Edit:

It is not only about censorship. It is that every communication system today routes your data through infrastructure owned by corporations or governments. Meta now even publicly discloses that your private Instagram messages are not encrypted! Telegram's servers own your message history, private keys and their code being closed source really does not show you how they might be using it, even if they claim to not be collaborating with any authority.. Even if the content is encrypted, the infrastructure layer is company's, they can also control your account, restrict access..

Hi Reddit, João from Endurain here! With the latest news from Strava I had to take the change to promote a little bit Endurain.

Also with this change I will need to rethink the Strava integration.

If you haven’t seen it yet, Strava just sent out an email announcing a wave of API changes: new tiers, subscription requirements for developers, intermediary platforms being cut off, and an official MCP that’s paywalled behind a Strava subscription. The writing has been on the wall for a while, your fitness data, their rules.

I’ve been building Endurain as a self-hosted alternative for exactly this reason. You host it, you own it, no subscriptions, no API policy changes that break your tools overnight. It’s actively developed and I’d love feedback from this community.

Find more about it here: https://codeberg.org/endurain-project/endurain

Made tongue in cheek and with good intentions. No death threats please.

Hi all,

What with the huge amount of options that are out there I'm never entirely sure whats the best solution these days (and normally I end up with the wrong one!) so I'm hoping for a little help with which option to choose for web based RDP access to my Windows 11 box from outside my network. I'd assume something like Guacamole but happy to be lead elsewhere? Ideally something docker based if possible.

Please and thanks you!

Fredy - Self-hosted real estate scraper for Germany, just hit 1k stars.

I'm super happy to announce a new milestone. After almost 6 years of constant development and effort, I finally hit the 1000 Stars on Github 🔥

Fredy keeps searching for new apartments, houses, and flats in Germany on platforms like ImmoScout24, Immowelt, Immonet, eBay Kleinanzeigen, and WG-Gesucht and instantly delivers the results to you via Slack, Telegram, Email, Discord or ntfy, so you can focus on the more important things in life 😉