Nice!

Is devrandom your router or something?

What happens if you decide to use Fedora or Ubuntu on two devices?

Sounds like a good option for a VPS.

What happens if you add another RPi?

Hmm, this wouldn’t work well for me since I use Dvorak. All the vowels are on the left and the most common consonants are on the right.

My consonant options on the left hand are: py (top) and jkxb (bottom).

? A and L are on opposite ends of the keyboard.

Use Lua, it uses one-based arrays. This is nice for a few reasons:

• last element is array[length]
• zero can be reserved for the type (especially nice for representing XML: 0 = node name, 1-N = children, named table entries = attributes)
• very rarely see + 1 and - 1 in my code

It feels wrong coming from C, but it’s actually really nice, especially since the reasons C does it don’t apply (i.e. index is just a memory offset).

Nah, just a huge fan of barley tea.

Hmm, what does localhost.local do if you use mdns?

Also, your router must be a bit confusing:

• localhost - 192.168.1.2
• localhost - 192.168.1.3
• …

Why not Saṃsāra? Or maybe it’s Rin’ne in Japanese?

I use “butler” terms, like:

• Jarvis
• Archibald - used for my old Arch desktop
• Alfred

They serve me well, and I give them due respect.

If they’re using Linux, they should be fine. Most desktops don’t use a ton of RAM, and there are light desktops if that’s their issue.

If they’re running vanilla Minecraft with a handful of friends, just hosting the server should be fine. Mods are where things get ridiculous.

I went with mikrotik. It’s not too expensive, has way more features than I’ll ever need, and it’s rock solid. I used openwrt before that, which also did the job.

Exactly. I have my firewall set up to block everything I don’t explicitly allow through. That way if I’m a little loose with running things on ports, it at least won’t leak ports past the firewall.

It’s fine, it just grabs the network settings from the gluetun service.

Btw, your post is hard to read due to formatting. Surround the code block with triple backticks at the top and bottom like this:

```
code goes here
```

Example:

services:
  gluetun: # This config is for wireguard only tested with AirVPN
    image: qmcgaw/gluetun
    container_name: gluetun
    ...
    ports:
      - 8888:8112 # deluge web interface
      - 58846:58846 # deluge RPC
  deluge:
    image: linuxserver/deluge:latest
    container_name: deluge
    ...
    network_mode: service:gluetun

Awesome, that’s exactly what I want! I guess I missed where pods could be part of multiple networks.

I’m on podman 4.x, but I’m planning to upgrade the OS anyway soon, so it probably won’t be an issue.

Thanks, you’re a stud!

Awesome, thanks!

In terms of architecture, which is preferred:

• separate pod per “app” (e.g. NextCloud), but all one network
• separate pod and network per app
• everything in one pod

I’d like to have one gateway, Caddy, so my cert renewal and proxying are all in one place, and I’d like those proxy configs to look like http://<container>

I’d prefer my containers not be able to talk to each other unless I specifically allow it. The second option would get me that, but I think it would force me to expose ports for each app to the system.

TL; DR - Can I have a “Caddy” pod that can see exposed ports from other pods, but hide those ports from regular system users? If not, I’ll probably do the first option. I also want to be able to expose ports to the host on a per app basis if needed.

They’re also slightly cheaper since they don’t take any profit from their registrar side, hoping to make it back with other services.

I was with Namecheap for years, and they’re totally fine. I am now with Cloudflare because they’re a bit cheaper and their API is well supported in various tools, and they also seem fine.

Two main options for self-hosting:

• OnlyOffice - focus on compatibility with MS Office formats, but full disclosure, it has ties to a Russian org (R7? Product is marketed as R7-Office), but the primary developer seems to be Latvian (Ascensio System SIA)
• Collabora CODE/LibreOffice Online - Collabora CODE is a community edition of a for-profit office suite based on LibreOffice (maintained by The Document Foundation) by a company in the UK

Both have integration with NextCloud and probably other cloud suites (I think Seafile supports both?), and I think they can both be used standalone. OnlyOffice also has client versions that can be used separately or with a cloud version.

Some technical differences:

• rendering - OnlyOffice renders in the client, Collabora renders on the server and sends images back to the client; both support collaborative editing
• format support - OnlyOffice focuses on MS Office formats, LibreOffice focuses on open formats, though both have support for multiple formats; you’ll likely get more rendering differences vs MS Office w/ Collabora, though both have their issues
• features - OnlyOffice has limited features, Collabora has whatever features LibreOffice has (read: lots)

I personally use Collabora, mostly since I use LibreOffice anyway, so I’d rather deal with some jankiness w/ the server-side rendering than deal w/ jankiness due to MS Office support. I use it through NextCloud, though I’m trying out Seafile and may swap to that instead.

Editing spreadsheets on mobile works for me, but it’s janky. Not sure how the OnlyOffice experience is though. Fortunately, I mostly just use it to edit a couple cells pretty rarely (think budgeting), so it gets the job done.