Since you’re just sharing things within a small group, I think it’s safe to give out your IP or a domain pointing to it. However, you need to put your services behind a DMZ. Make a separate VLAN on your network and put the Pis behind it. Make sure traffic from your private LAN can enter the DMZ but nothing from the DMZ can go to your LAN unless it’s return traffic for a session started in your LAN. If a machine in your DMZ is compromised, it shouldn’t affect your LAN.

Good to know.

Private email. Very nice 👍

I’m gonna sound like everyone I complain about here, so feel free to ignore me. How did Proxmox break? I’ve been hosting a bunch of Proxmox containers on a 15 year old crappy laptop and it’s been smooth sailing for at least a year and a half.

Not trying to shun you for using windows or discount your personal experience with Proxmox or anything, just genuinely curious. If you prefer windows, use it.

Are you hosting on win server? I’m genuinely curious, not trying to shill Linux though I prefer it on the server side, believe me I’ve been on the receiving end of that for desktop Linux. How do you manage it? Do you have your home LAN set up as an active directory domain? Do you use mostly Powershell or the GUI? What do you have running on it? It just seems like everything on the server side assumes you’re using Linux and the only stuff that runs on Win server is stuff made by Microsoft like MS SQL server or IIS.

I also like LocalSend. Not quite as automagical as airdrop but it’s cross platform

Hay I did this exact thing, too. Not with so much code, I just have a derivative sensor based on humidity, and look for spikes indicating rapid changes in humidity to tell when I showered.

I hope you feel better. Depression stinks. I know from experience.

I had a similar thing with more involved code that told me when the last time I peed was. This is due to a weird psychological quirk I have. If I wake up and look at the exact time, I won’t go back to sleep because my brain says I only have X hours left. So I have to find creative ways of knowing the approximate time, or time relative to some event (last time getting up to use the bathroom in this case).

I think we have the same UPS

Naively I assumed that anything in the last decade or so with a battery already has some sort of battery management system that regulates this stuff to help prolong battery lifespan, but maybe I’m wrong.

I also have a 2015 MBP lying fallow in my closet. Do you have any suggestions for turning it into a server? Are you using MacOS still or have you installed something else?

If you’re curious what I’m running on here, it’s mostly containers plus one VM for Docker. (I’ve made my dislike for Docker as a distribution platform known elsewhere on here and this is why).

Most are various wikis that I’m testing, MediaWiki, Bookstack, DokuWiki, PmWiki, An Otter Wiki, DocMost.

It’s weird but “long U” is pronounced /ju/ so even though it’s a vowel letter it starts with a semivowel.

CF-53

I bought it used from Amazon about 5 years ago, so it hasn’t been in my possession the whole time. It was likely used enterprise/industrial stock. Judging by how one of the modifier keys is stuck it was well-used. The seller replaced the original hard drive with an SSD and the battery may have been replaced as well.

Prior to becoming my home lab it was my ham shack computer running win 10.

Why do you say that?

Thanks. I had been skipping over the git-specific portions of the docs because it didn’t click that it would be relevant. It sounds like the intended way to add files is to add the files to a local repo, then push them to the wiki. I still have to figure out how that works but you’ve pointed me in the right direction for further troubleshooting.

This was wonderfully detailed thank you have an upvote. Though I should clarify why I’m messing with git in the first place. Most wikis have some sort of revision control on wiki pages. The ethos, at least on sites like Wikipedia which uses MediaWiki under the hood, is to allow anyone to edit, but record every change so bad edits or vandalism can be reverted. Otter has elected to use git as the revision control system for the wiki itself, with wiki pages being markdown files stored on the file system and tracked by git. If you have a bunch of pre-existing markdown files you want to put onto the wiki, you have to add them to the repo in the CLI.

If I understand the relationship between the container and host correctly, the instance of git that’s tracking the changes in the wiki lives inside the container, but the files are most easily accessed outside the container in the persistent volume set up by docker compose, which is running a completely different instance of git with its own configuration. When I try telling git to track the new files, I’m telling the git that’s on the host, not the git that’s in the container.

I don’t know the specifics of your app, but Docker containers aren’t designed to be used for persistent data. They are designed to be immutable after they’re built.

It’s on a Raspberry Pi 5 running Raspberry Pi OS.

Also, I’ve brought this exact point up elsewhere, that Docker doesn’t seem like it was meant for this purpose, to distribute server applications to end users, but to be used by developers who need a reproducible environment, and that dockerizing things can cause as many problems as they solve, but I got a fair amount of push back. I keep running into apps that are distributed mainly or exclusively through docker, like nginx proxy manager.

In my case, I’m already using containers, whether in the form of cheap low spec VPSes or as proxmox containers on an old anemic laptop, so having to make a virtual turducken just to host one app adds frustration and complexity.

It is also likely that docker is just an alias for podman on a Linux machine.

This is on a Raspberry Pi running RPi OS, and I installed docker and docker compose myself.

I’m just getting a clownflare server down error.

I’ve heard of Immich for other stuff, but I’d probably use it for my personal photos. This would be for, as you put it, silly memes to share online. I know most cloud services have a share link feature, but I’m thinking of something low friction, just plop the image and the link is autogenerated. Image resizing would be nice though. Like I said, what Imgur does.