Sync is one of those things that seems like it should be trivial but is actually super complicated.

I use wireguard and have public DNS refer to private IPs.

For example if my server is accessible at 10.0.0.1 via wireguard then I point *.myserver.mydomain.com to that IP.

Sorry if I’ve misunderstood your question.

this sounds great. thanks for the tip!

I think I already have pinchflat. Didn’t know sponsorblock worked for podcasts. Thanks!

She refuses to use pipepipe. IDK why.

I like gogs. Automated backups and then deployment seemed super easy with gogs but not so with gitea.

Gitlab seemed like a heavy weight for my needs.

You do you regarding hosting for friends. I wouldn’t do it. I self host as much stuff as I can and I’m happy to bear the responsibility for my own stuff, but taking responsibility for someone elses stuff and access to that stuff is a whole other level.

One thing I’ve learned over the years, is that making something work today is only a small part of the job. Ensuring that it works every day for the next 5 years is the real challenge.

My SO watches free tier youtube.

I’ve never used portainer sorry.

If you see the published port for a very short time then something might be crashing when it tries to start.

docker logs searxng from cli might be revealing

edit: I do have a searxng container and my compose.yml is very similar to yours. I guess we both copied the example. The only difference I can see is that you still have the env variables for UWSGI_WORKERS and UWSGI_THREADS. I just set both of those to 4 instead of using the SEARXNG_ env vars

I’d just install debian because that’s what I use so that’s what I can most easily provide support for.

I know you’re joking but with flatpaks and app images you don’t even notice the oldness any more.

Pretty much me.

I’ve been daily driving debian for many years. I’m very comfortable here.

In 2025 with docker containers and flatpaks the benefits of an atomic OS don’t feel very compelling.

Nextcloud really does feel old.

Guy, everyone operates off their own limited experience.

LibreOffice has user defined functions that work just fine. You’re just illustrating my point really.

It sounds like you’re talking the ability of ms office products to open documents authored by libreoffice.

I have no way to evaluate whether these claims are true. Pretty much verbatim what people say about libreoffice.

Can I ask your perspective on the comments here saying that Krita and Inkscape just aren’t comparable to their commercial alternatives?

The reason is… I’m not a professional graphic designer, I have a small consultancy with several staff and work with documents and spreadsheets all day.

Occasionally I encounter similar threads discussing the difference between LibreOffice and Microsoft Office, and the comments are all the same. So many people saying LibreOffice just “isn’t there yet”, or that it might be ok for casual use but not for power users.

But as someone who uses LibreOffice extensively with a broad feature set I’ve just never encountered something we couldn’t do. Sure we might work around some rough edges occasionally, but the feature set is clearly comparable.

My strongly held suspicion is that it’s a form of the dunning-kruger effect. People have a lot of experience using software-A so much so that they tend to overlook just how much skill and knowledge they have accumulated with that specific software. Then when they try software-B they misconstrue their lack of knowledge with that specific software as complexity.

Well it makes people feel like they’ve done something.

I wish there was something that just did file sync.

I know there’s syncthing but that’s not ideal for large repositories with many users and many files.

PHP apps always feel old.

Could this be a snaps thing?

I despise snaps and left Ubuntu for that reason. I don’t remember the specifics but I think even after installing firefox with apt it somehow get’s magically switched to a snap.

I daily drive debian on a t490s and it’s rock solid. There’s just no way anyone could consider this set up unstable.

In recent years I’ve found most of my problems come from the fancy new packages. In order of reliability I find that it goes apt > .dev > AppImage > flatpak > snap

This is what I do. Changing the port to a higher number will prevent almost all bots.

I understand that obscurity is not security but not getting probed is nice.

Also ssh keys are a must.

I do log in as root though.

However, I block all IPs other than mine from connecting to this port in my host’s firewall. I only need to log in from home, or my office, and in a crisis I can just log in to OVH and add whitelist my IP.