Any Foss no-code tools you’d recommend?

I don’t know where you’re based, but I work in a international NGO and the majority are in the MS ecosystem. Same with many midsized NGOs in Sweden.

Mealie is what keeps me s/o tolerant of my selfhosting obsession

This is true - it is enabled by default in win11. I disagree with you it being a terrible idea - imagine all the sentistive data people put on their hard drives - would they want to to fall in the wrong hands if they lose their computer? Or if their hard drives fails so they can do a secure wipe?

I’m not a fan of Microsoft, but they did solve the key issue in the enterprise setting by storing the key in they entrance identity. Same should be done for home consumers, since having a Microsoft account is being shoved in everyone’s throat anyway…

YES! That was the same distro that was my entry, it came along with the book Linux for dummies. However mine came on a single CD. Must have been the “lite” edition 😄

Ha. My kids is the best AND worst part of my life 😆

I spun up version 0.3 to try it out, and it seems pretty and lean in comparison to paperless. However, it lacks a lot of functionality - I couldn’t even change the name of the document.

I get it, its a very new project and I imagine it will kick ass once it matures, however it is too bare bones for me right now.

Short answer: a lot 😉 its an authentication protocol to have a single identity provider take care of all your users passwords, access rights etc., like those “login with Facebook” buttons.

It’s a bit of advanced topic, but a solid way to minimise authentic based alley on username and password.

Just tried it, and liked it. Too bad there isn’t support for OICD right now.

I’m really curious about Papra, but don’t see the benefits it provides over paperless. Besides, I won’t migrate unless there is a tool to brings over the tags, metadata etc…

It’s a matter of when, not if, that happens. And in that situation there’s headscale but also Netbird, among other services. And of course, there’s also just plain wireguard 😏

I wanted to use this on my RPI2 buy I think the CPU is too old 🙃 I to however have a openWRT router and I suppose I can achieve similar functionality with a bit of hacking on the OS.

Thank you for taking the time to write this! Well, first stage of my project (getting openwrt my router) has gone according to plan, and now to strive for the next objective 😏

Thank you for taking the time to answer throughly! I noted your advice and chunked up my goals into “mini-projects”, once I have all the configurations set and all devices connected to the new router. I did check what I bought is a router, not a switch (I find the naming of the device acting as the gateway between the LAN and WAN to be a bit ambigous: switch, router, gateway…).

As for the IDS capability, this is something that would be done by a raspberry pi being fed packets from the router. I don’t know if I will ever undertake that task, but I keep it in mind if I’ll feel adventorous 🙃

(for those wondering: Linux Magazine #279 has a guide on how to accomplish this with a Fritz!Box 7583).

Thank you for all the questions to help me clarify my use case 🙂

At the very basic, I’d like to:

1. achieve better security through segmentation by isolating cloud-connected devices, guest devices from trusted devices.
2. Being able to “pin” a Mac address to an IP, and being able to use internal network name resolution to reach those devices.
3. a blocklist for known ad-domains / malicious domains.

Once the basics are in place, I’d like to elevate my netsec game and implement:

• a high level monitoring capability to seen what devices are communicating with what domains / IPs
• An IDS capability of some sort to be able to detect anomalies in my LAN.

The NAS part is just for convince, it would be nice to have a samba / NFS with my files available when I need them.

Welcome to the deep rabbit hole :-) how much do you know about how computers work? In general, you’re going to need to understand some basic networking and general Linux administration, but if you already have a grasp on that then I’d say you just need to start small (simple service, aim to have a resilience goal with backups and restoration) and other metrics that motivates you. Perhaps you want to learn something new with every service you host? You decide, this is your hobby :-)

Devin Townsend was without a doubt one of the best artists I’ve seen live last year. I limed his music for the longest time, and got tickets the day before the concert, and it was so damn good. It wasn’t anything fancy, just awesome interaction with the crowd and amazing music.

I think for matrix to be usable in a homelab setting, Matrix needs to enable a way to handle these huge data storage with prune or something similar.

You can export your data, but its like exporting your onenote data in PDFs. Your notes will lose the built in functionality and relations.