I absolutely love Libre/FOSS, but I don’t always have time to fuck around learning new ways to skin a cat. I’ll almost always recommend proprietary solutions if that’s what you’re used to. It just makes sense. 🤷‍♂️

Always use the tool that’s best for the job, and sometimes that’s hot steaming piles of closed source shit.

Depends on what you’re doing and why.

If I’m doing something for work, I’m not wasting my time using anything other than Excel. I have shit to do.

For home stuff? Sure. I’ll mess around with anything non-proprietary.

I’m not too sure how Netxcloud operates its storage, but rclone is likely a very good option, here. Hopefully you can “go behind” the nextcloud instance and simply pull the data directly to your local storage.

It looks like I have learning curves in more than just one area ahead of me.

lol oh yeah. It can feel insurmountable, but nothing here is actually too crazy. After a week or two, or maybe even after the first time you set it up (and actually see how it works) the learning curve will flatten out.

Gotta get ahead of that old school me that thinks running a software on a different hardware plays a crucial role in the threat model.

I mean, it can. I personally don’t see anything wrong with that approach either.

That’s a setup I may borrow from you :)

It was a real PITA to get everything to play nice. May God have mercy on your soul! haha.

homeassistant.local

So then this isn’t what you set it to during the setup.

I could not find any useful information about this though

Because it’s not a thing.

Proxmox doesn’t automatically edit your router settings to add itself so you can connect, it simply allows all connections from local sources until you can set it up securely. If the mDNS isn’t working, just visit the IP address.

Agreed.

Forejo isn’t an “app.” It’s a for-profit fork of Gitea… It’s a hosted git solution. Quite a bit more than “an app.”

Yeah let’s instead install a massive bloated shit project that the original developers left years ago and the maintainers don’t know heads from tails of the code base because it’s too massive to maintain

So much this. I recently had OneDev recommended to me as a forgejo alternative. I was told that it was “very lightweight.” Intrigued I tried it out. It fuckin’ runs java and is resource heavy as fuck. Just sitting idle it consumes almost 13% of VPS RAM: http://i.xno.dev/u/SGXxO2.png

Really love the KISS concept.

OK, but the entire point of having a secure alternative is for it to be secure, isn’t it? Having an unencrypted backup on your phone’s storage isn’t very “secure.” The entire point is to have infrastructure with encryption that you control, and only those you designate access to can view that information.

I tend to use ZFS because of its advantages when making backups. What would you do?

Then I would stick with ZFS if you’re already familiar with it.

Do I use QEMU/KVM virtual machines or LXC/LXD cointainers?

LXD is a management system for LXC containers. If you’re just starting out, stick, with LXD. It’s much more user friendly.

I shy away from running all services as Docker on the same machine for backup/restore purposes and rather have VMs per service. Is there anything wrong with this approach?

Not really. I run a VPS which acts as a reverse proxy for my docker setup, which has non-local storage via NAS. I don’t particularly see a point in fragmenting docker like that, but if that’s how you want to roll, then go for it.

I’ve equipped the Deskmeet X300 with a WiFi card and antennas. AFAIU trying to use WLAN instead of LAN will create some trouble. Has anyone running Proxmox on a machine with WLAN insteal of LAN access successfully?

I very strong advise against this. But it’s perfectly possible. You’re just at the whim of the airwaves. I live near a main highway and sometimes when large trucks go by, I lose WiFi for a quick second. Really fucks with certain things.

Is this just me being paranoid

Yes. Nothing wrong with software firewalls.

would you recommend putting a hardware firewall between the internet access and the Proxmox server?

Also yes. Particularly (like I have setup) I have a software firewall that tunnels my local vLAN to my VPS, and then everything else is further bisected using a hardware firewall–so all outside incoming requests are proxified by my VPS meaning any direct connections are dropped by the software firewall, then I manage ports from within the hardware switch.

the app won’t load if I have no internet connection.

lol I mean yeah, that’s how the internet works…

Can’t beat Mox: https://www.xmox.nl/