Exited to see more! Keep up the good work!

My next ‘system’ I’m eyeing of Peergos!

https://peergos.org/

Hell yeah, dude!!

I’m not a Dev, but how did this break the bank? How can we support your efforts?

There are a lot of comments about setups, which is fine and all.

2 things if you’re completely green:

1. Yunohost simplifies a lot of installs and gives you popular applications with ease. You can SSH into it later for more customizations too.
2. ZimaOS is a great NAS platform for basically any hardware. It’ll run Docker containers and gives you a little more control, but it’s a outlet more complicated for someone new. I see a lot of Synology references, just think of this like a free/cheap Synology. (Cheap bc they do have a “pro” version giving you unlimited disks whereas free is up to 4HDDs. I’m currently using 18 drives).

I just feel this is the most automated and complete way to get set up quickly, both have forums and community support too.

Oh dang I didn’t realize! Thank you!! I was just starting to look at those things myself and wanted to also avoid GH. Plus Gitea was available on Yunohost too. I’ve heard of Codeberg, I’ll see if I can host that instead. It’s too bad other companies don’t move away from GH…

Host a Gitea?

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You honestly could get a Lenovo tiny PC with 2 bay so-dimm RAM. I’ve got a i5-10500T and 32GB DDR 4 RAM with 2TB NVMe and 2x 2TB SSDs for various stuff. You can loaf A LOT on those since it’s not Windows. Maybe lol into Yunohost for apps, or ZimaOS.

My recommendation to many newcomers:

Setup Yunohost, which gives you a custom Debian-based OS that’s easy to deploy tested builds, like Rustdesk. You can configure your Domain info, DNS, etc pretty easily, and if you decide, a dynamic domain or Porkbun (cuz is cheap plus free private WHOIS and SSL certs).

Yes, a small learning curve, but easier than building from Docker when you know nothing about Docker nor have the time to learn. I can fumble through a UI, I can’t fumble with commands or code that I don’t instinctively know. Others who day “just take the time to learn Docker”… But I’ve got 2 jobs, kids and their activities, pets, and other hobbies, so not much time for other stuff.

Someone should do a write up for pihole vs adguard vs technitium vs eBlockerOS

https://eblocker.org/en/ (German product?) (BTW you’re all welcome that I showed you a new thing)

Edit May 7: eBlockerOS seems geared towards better packet* inspection, hidden trackers protection, and fingerprinting. You can install a HTTPS cert* on your current machine so it does MITM packet inspection where it can scan*, inspect, and reencrypt from the looks of it.

Im probably going to run this at work on my test environment to see how well it does overall. Maybe less granular control, but I like is more* than just an adblocker like pihole.

I think Yunohost integrates fail2ban, too.

I was under the impression “air-gap” doesn’t apply to browsers, as you’d need to not have an outside internet connection.