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Oof. Dump that router and get yourself something nice, like a Unifi router. Or go the DIY route and build an OPNsense box.

OPNsense is the way I’m gonna go after my OG UDM shits the bed. But it’s almost 7 years old and still kicking…

Edit: I saw this post from dbzer0, so it appears to be working well.

I heard proxmox is like pseudo open source

Proxmox is open source. They use a customized Linux kernel (based on Ubuntu’s newer kernel) to add support for other features that are useful in datacenter environments, like ZFS and such.

The only thing they paywall is access to their enterprise production-ready repositories. But they still offer free access to their non-production repo.

Smart.

I did, actually! Got a couple ESP32s set up for Bermuda, but I’m having a hard time figuring out how to make it…work.

100%. Home Assistant has proven to be incredibly useful in my house. My wife loves it for the laundry notifications, the fact that I essentially replaced Life360 with it (Traccar, really, but it ties into HA so nicely), and the automated lighting: our basement (the younger kids’ play area), and themed lighting for the outdoor lights.

We’ve been fighting tangled toilet flapper chains over the last few years. The tangled chain keeps the flapper from closing, which causes the tank to continuously run into the bowl, which causes my water bill to skyrocket if gone unnoticed (we have 5 kids, 4 toilets, and the chains get tangled no matter what I do: new chain, longer chain, shorter chain, different type of chain/string/twine, etc… I blame the hard water). I finally got fed up, so I bought and installed a zigbee water level sensor for each toilet tank, then whipped up an automation which notifies us via Android’s “alarm_stream” notification channel if a sensor has been dry for longer than a few minutes. That channel overrides DND, and I am going to add an entry to ping my HA Voice thing as well in case we don’t have our phones on us.

Don’t use Ubuntu as a server. Pretty much every server application will run happily on Debian, meanwhile Canonical keeps adding/changing shit that is Ubuntu-specific and has broken otherwise-functioning server installations. I may or may not have personal experience with this.

Ubuntu used to be the go-to, but Canonical is quickly becoming the poster child for Linux enshittification.

For servers, use Debian and never think about it again. Except the one or two times a year it should probably be rebooted because of kernel updates.

Fair enough. Signal does ship desktop clients for Windows, Mac, and even Linux; I’m actually using the Linux desktop client to chat with my wife right now.

It’s something 🤷

My wife and I tried Signal a while back and didn’t care for it.

What about it didn’t you like? I have no investment in Signal, my curiosity is just piqued since my wife and I use it.

So I’d there a server + local system? Like Joplin… You can write notes all day with no server at all. The server just Synchronizes it all. In the past I used syncthing and I will continue using it. One thought was to have an automated backup from Vaultgarden that was automatically synced to my various devices as a Keypass database.

This is exactly how I use KeePass, and is fully supported as well. Set it up, import the VW database (might need some fuckery to do so, I’ve not played with VW), place the KeePass database in a location that makes sense to you on your device, then sync that folder via Syncthing to your other devices.

You’re using Linux, obviously, and the OG KeePass program was never written for Linux, so you’ll want a fork called KeePass XC. Unfortunately, the XC team doesn’t support plugins, but that should be a non-issue if you’re using Syncthing. Just point XC at the folder that’s being synced and you’re golden.

What other platforms are you using? Android? iOS? Windows? There are many forks of KeePass available for every platform. they are all cross-compatible and can utilize the same database.

I was lucky that somehow the database was available offline.

That’s how BW/VW is supposed to work. It retains a local database that syncs with the main server.

I’ve noticed that with Facebook. Facebook will push conflict to my feed excessively hard, to the point that spending not even 30 seconds there will start making me angry. I refuse to use Facebook at all anymore.

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