After years of enjoying a static IPv4 address for free, migrating to a new ISP required either paying a monthly fee for such a priviledge... or simply running a Dynamic DNS service to keep the relevant domains pointing to the correct IPv4 address as it updated.
Headless Steam is like a self-hosted GeForce NOW, which can be useful to play games in a browser while away on holidays. Although mainly intended to play Steam games, it also supports EmeDeck, Heroic and Lutris, all easy to install via Flatpak, and supports Intel GPU which is already setup for Jellyfin on Kubernetes with Intel GPU and not actually getting a lot of use; running games would probably be a better use of that Intel UHD GPU.
Sometimes I wish for a centralized, automatically updated and moderately fancy-looking application to keep track of multiple activities; mostly around digital media.
Looking around for tracking applications in the awesome directory of awesome-selfhosted, two applications look promising and worth a try: Ryot and Yamtrack.
Streaming a Gaming PC straight to an Android TV turned out to be easier than expected; it essentially was much like with Steam Link in the past, and now the WiFi network is a lot faster!
Upgrading from Ubuntu 22.04 to 24.04 in-place can be very convenient and a lot faster than installing Ubuntu 24.04 anew, but does it work well? That has been the question and doubt keeping me from trying again ever since one such upgrade went bad years ago.
I don't often watch videos, but when I do, I find it useful to have them all in one Plex... at least, I did, until the recent Important 2025 Plex Updates made it clear that it was going to have a significant cost; for a service I seldom use.
The new pricing becomes effective today and, although I had a few weeks to ponder the possibility of purchasing a lifetime subscription for a lot less than it costs now, I decided to switch to Jellyfin and I'm glad I did!
SPAAAAACE!!! I like Space.
Despite all my efforts, hard drives keep filling up. Producing videos definitely does not help keeping drives from filling up and these days it's rather hard not to produce videos even accidentally. Besides that, having a single large storage unit allows making all the backups to a single place, at least once. Important data is already replicated in multiple disks and/or machines, having an additional large storage allows replacing one of those copies and thus alleviating disk pressure.
Need. More. Server. Need. More. POWER!!!
Just a bit more, maybe quite a bit more, to run services that are more CPU-intensive than those already running in the current Single-node Kubernetes cluster on an Intel NUC: lexicon.
Running self-hosted services behind a router that allows port forwarding is mostly as simple as forwarding a few ports, mainly 443 for everything over HTTPS and port 80 for automatically renewing Let's Encrypt certificates.
Otherwise, being behind a router that either doens't allow port forwarding, or just doesn't work well, or being behind CGNAT, may require the use of some sort of tunnels to route inbound traffic using outbound connections. This can also be useful even in the above case, when multiple systems need to be reachable on port 80.
Cloudflare redirects port 80 to 443, to upgrade HTTP connections to HTTPS. That means ACME HTTP-01 challenges to renew Let's Encrypt certificates need to be routed to the relevant port (80 or 32080) based on the request path; see Let's Encrypt via tunnel.
Google Chrome has been my daily driver for a really long time; so long, in fact, that all I remember was the initial frustration when it first came out without a release for the GNU/Linux platforms. I don't remember why, or even whether, I was so eager to jump ship, and at this point I can only guess that the old ship was the one I'm preparing to jump back to: Firefox.
It seems on-line life has gotten a wee bit more comp-lic-ated that it was back in 2008, when smartphone apps were a new thing, YouTube had only 720p video, and Spotify was brand new...