Jeena

Normally wake on län is a bios setting and has not much to do with your software.

I did turn it on a Dell computer at my parents summer house and the sending the magic package from a raspberry pie worked without problems every time.

I also started with Lemmy on a small VPS where I run a lot of other services for me and my family. Every update of Lemmy somehow needed more and more resources to run, so many in fact that it would overload my small VPS. I think it is because Lemmy is designed to be run for å huge amount of users, so it has quite a overhead at first just to be able to handle very many users later.

And because I didn’t want to upgrade my server and make it more expensive, I decided to try PieFed which has from the start been concentrating on having a small footprint on the server.

And that played off emensly, not only was I able to keep running on a small VPS for cheap, but I also found an amazingly open developer community around PieFed on Matrix.

Nice work, although for single user instances I would suggest using PieFed.

https://radicale.org/ is taking care of our address books, shared calendars for the family, todos and notes, all with one Backend but many different clients on different operating systems.

You can hist both on the same VPS without problems.

But hosting things is kind of involved, especially installing and updating. You at least need Linux knowledge to be able to do it.

An alternative seems to be https://yunohost.org/ which takes over most of the work for you, but I have never tried it myself.

Yeah the hetzner one.your biggest bottleneck will be the hard drive space.

But here I would propose to get a object storage and connect it to peertube, mastodon and Pixelfed, all of them let you store the media files in object storage, that is probably the cheapest way to host it.

Oh and as a future PeerTube admin, may I interest you in my channel? https://tube.jeena.net/c/peertube_admin_chronicles/videos

Every software has its own documentation, so you need to look there because they are made with different technologies so that the installation process is different.

You can start with the smallest VPS, mastadon, pixelfed and peertube should work well enough on it. Once you want Lemmy you will need to expand it, but that’s normally quite easy with VPS providers, without the need of reinstalling.

The accounts server is also part of the same repo, it’s called tokenserver https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncstorage-rs/tree/master/tokenserver-auth but yeah good luck getting that up and running.

Yes I did for many many years. There are two parts of it, one is the accounts themselves like the identity and the other part is the part which syncs the objects. I don’t host the account myself, I just use mozillas account server, because I don’t see much benefit for me and it’s quite complicated to do.

Bach then I wrote a long article about how to do it with the old python version: https://jeena.net/firefox-sync-15 but that version is obsolete because it was written in Python 2.x which had it’s end of life a coupple of years ago.

Now there is the rust version. The problem is that the rust version is even more complicated to set up. Therefor I created a docker-compose so people could do it in a easy way, and it collected quite many github-stars: https://github.com/jeena/fxsync-docker/

This is the one which I am still using, but it’s also a older version from last year. It uses the docker images Mozilla releases. There is a problem https://github.com/jeena/fxsync-docker/issues/3 with the newer version and configuring it to run with your own MariaDB instance instead of google-spanner which Mozilla uses.

To fix this a guy took inspiration from my git-repo and did a lot of work building his own docker images with the configuration changed so it uses MariaDB instead of spanner: https://github.com/porelli/firefox-sync

Sadly I didn’t have time yet to check out his version, but it looks very promising.

Yes exactly, but not only to the NAS but also between each other.

First you need to change the UI port on the second user, to do that you have to change it in the config XML file for that user.

Once done you can start both instances at the same time. How do you start it now? I’m starting it with systems, and there is the way to start it for each user seperatelly on boot with:

systemctl enable syncthing@myuser.service
systemctl start syncthing@myuser.service

For android there is https://github.com/Catfriend1/syncthing-android/wiki

I use syncthing like you on a Linux laptop with two users. You need to run two instances of syncthing on two different ports then there is no problem.

PostgreSQL is the more feature rich, but if you don’t care about all those features like saving and searching in json structures, Geo data structures and a to of other stuff because you have a simple APO then MySQL is good enough, maybe even SQLite.