Episode 135: Rebuilding For the Last Time

Self-Hosted SRE — Private to Michael Redmond

From Nextcloud Breakup to Blissful Reunion: Chris's journey back to a smarter setup. Plus, Jellyfin's game-changing features and a beloved self-hosted app get the upgrade we've all been waiting for.

Links:

• ⚡ Grab Sats with Strike Around the World — Strike is a lightning-powered app that lets you quickly and cheaply grab sats in over 100 countries.
• 🇨🇦 Bitcoin Well — Empowering sovereign ownership with free automatic self-custody 🔒
• 🎉 Boost with Fountain FM — Fountain 1.1 with Nostr support, upgrades, and super simple Strike integration for easy Boosts. You can also Boost from the Web via their site.
• Jellyfin 10.10.0 — This major release brings several new features, improvements, and bugfixes to improve your Jellyfin experience. With our faster release cadence between 10.9.0 and 10.10.0, this release should be far less daunting, so please read on for a quick peek at what's new and some important-to-know breaking changes!
• HA-Firemote: Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, Chromecast, Homatics, NVIDIA Shield, onn., Roku, Xiaomi Mi, and Android TV remote control card for Home Assistant — Firemote is a custom Home Assistant card that is capable of controlling your media devices directly from any Home Assistant dashboard. The Firemote dashboard remotes are designed to look just like your physical remote controls, but they also contain TONS of customization options to choose from!
• TrueNAS 24.10 (Electric Eel) — 24.10 (Electric Eel) brings many new features and improvements to the TrueNAS experience
• mealie Release v2.0.0 — The introduction of Households is one of Mealie's most requested features and a huge technical change. The implementation of it touched 300+ files and 10k+ lines of code.
• Etebase - Your end-to-end encrypted backend — Think Firebase but encrypted in a way that only end-users can access their data.
• Nextcloud - NixOS Wiki
• nixpkgs/nixos/modules/services/web-apps/nextcloud.nix at master · NixOS/nixpkgs
• dumb: Private alternative front-end for Genius. — With the massive daily increase of useless scripts on Genius's web frontend, and having to download megabytes of clutter, dumb tries to make reading lyrics from Genius a pleasant experience, and as lightweight as possible.
• gluetun: VPN client in a thin Docker container for multiple VPN providers, written in Go, and using OpenVPN or Wireguard, DNS over TLS, with a few proxy servers built-in. — Lightweight swiss-knife-like VPN client to multiple VPN service providers
• Jawa — Get the absolute best prices on custom prebuilt PCs and gear, backed by buyer and seller protections that actually matter.