Using unbound on opnSense with blacklists. Works wonders and do not require an additional device.

Went to try pfSense. Need to register to their shop to buy a free download link.

Then during installation it won’t install unless it can phone home and report.

OpnSense all the way.

Than you for your very appreciated feedback. Feel free to DM/PM me for anything related.

Nothing wrong with that!

Just saying that not necessarily everything should be about money.

Also, knowledge and sharing has been critical for advancement of human civilization. Imagine if scientists where to sell their research instead of publishing it(*) where would be today?

• = I mean, you might have to pay to read those publications, but they are literally free and can ask the authors for a copy free in most cases…

I keep a wiki on all that I do.

This is the page on radicale: here

This is the more general page on reverse proxy here

And so on, Check the sidebar.

I mostly write it so that in future I remember what I did and how I did it, but I use some unusual techniques compared to the mainstream point of view from this community, so keep that in mind.

Side hustles should be hobbies and done with no need to monetize them.

What the fuck, your job should be enough to support you and live, which includes free time to enjoy your life and hobbies.

But I understand, and more than once in my life I had to look for side hustles.

Gentoo linux with Radicale on bare metal. Radicale is behind NGINX reverse proxy that slaps HTTPS and authelia redirect for authentication on top.

And of course i use DAV5X on android.

Never had an issue with caldav and cardav. Maybe you are using broken servers or clients?

Even notes can be done efficiently on those standards…

But, hey, I am using only FOSS server and clients, maybe you referring to proprietary ones? You know, those who are mare by vendors who have no interest in interoperability?

Good to know! I tried, but I guess I need to uninstall Garmin connect first…

Amazing stuff!

Home Assistant with a bunch of ZigBee sensors?

Go https, today there is no real reason not to and tons of good reasons to do it.

Let’s encrypt is 100% free and using their certbot its also automated and easy to do.

The open source market for smart watches sucks. Gadget bridge doesn’t really work for any “new” (i might be wrong here) devices.

Luckly Garmin watches are top notch and the software side its pretty good. You can not install the app and manually download all activities files via USB if you like.

That’s really true. I was lucky enough to lose data, but be able to recover it. Very lucky.

And you find out you are not really backing up enough!

All my got repos are on my server, not public. Then backupped on my restic, encrypted.

Only the public keys are under backup tough, for the private ones, I prefer to have to regenerate them rather get stolen.

I mean, when like in foegejo you add the public keys for git push and such.

Tell me how that would have helped at all? Can zfs Unformat a drive? Don’t think so…

Zfs is not backup guys. Snapshots too, are not backup!

I feel you man! Lessons are really learnt only the hard way!

Many suggest zfs, I want to spend a word on ext4 instead. Solid, reliable, well proven. Does the job and works pretty well.

Been on ext4 on RAID1 for decades, since it got stable. Never had an issue, except when I borked it by my mistake.

It has maybe less features than zfs, but doesn’t need external kernel patches or complex tools, and again its solid, well proven and very stable

Edit: ext4 on top of Linux software raid (mdadm)

Exactly! FWA… My typo ;)