I recently brought over some ideas from VanillaOS over to my Arch install.

1. Install as much as possible via flatpak
2. Install a bunch of other stuff in distrobox (with podman backend)

That gives me like 50% (idk fake number) of the features from VanillaOS, but I get to keep control over my system.

Not that I ever had any problems with native pacman installs though… so… not sure how much benefit I’m really getting from doing this. I guess my pacman -Syu command runs faster now. That’s something…

Holy moly, I did not know this existed! Thanks! Just turned this on!

Any resources you’d recommend?

I suspect that it goes down and stays down whenever there is an app update, but I haven’t confirmed it yet.

Does the plain wireguard app stay up during updates?

if the cameras don’t load, open Tailscale and make sure it’s connected

I’ve been using Tailscale for a few months now and this is my only complaint. On Android and macOS, the Tailscale client gets randomly killed. So it’s an extra thing you have to manage.

It’s almost annoying enough to make me want to host my services on the actual internet… almost… but not yet.

Neat. I’ve been getting more curious about WebDAV recently. Also, great website! Thanks for posting!

Oooooooh. Kagi added this lens! Since you can add custom lenses, I thought I added this (and forgot) to my own account. Cool!

Yeah, you’re right. Bad advice actually. Oops.

Shortcut: use Tailscale to create your own private network and avoid hosting on the big, bad Internet. Otherwise, you really have to be careful on how you protect your services.

Minor downside (or upside) is that you’ll have to install the Tailscale app on each device you want to make part of the network.

This made hosting at home a lot easier for me.

Update: Ah! I misread the post. Tailscale doesn’t make sense for this use case. My bad! 😅