Honest noob question. I currently connect to my self hosted server using Twingate. How would this be different? can you give me an Eli5 what a reverse proxy manager would make my setup better?

The thing with tailscale is that its just a VPN connection – from my understanding. Why not just self host your own VPN server?

Backups?

Yeah Good point. the storage is the most expensive part. I did find these SSDs at a good price and with high reviews on Amazon which would cost $356 for 4 before taxes (a little better that 480€, but not by much).

Edit: Another thought would be to use the sata hat on the pi and get some sort of adapter to work with the platter drives but that would just add in the complexity and would likely require a PC power supply for the drives which would also add costs.

What part would be too expensive?

Pi 5, SATA hat, 4 SSDs and you would be good.

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2024/radxas-sata-hat-makes-compact-pi-5-nas

You and also use crypmator to encrypt your notes inncase google ai starts reading them.

How many and what kind of accesories do you have plugged into it?

Reminds me of that XKCD comic

I personally have been trying to setup a music library just for my ipod classic, and no matter what I do I keep finding duplicate songs. I also plan to self host my music library to access from my phone when I don’t have my ipod, but first I want to get rid of dupes which makes this so frustrating.

What are the biggest usenets?

Dammit, I was completely asleep. I meant if there was a Lemmy alternative

Is there a data Lemmy alternative?

Edit: don’t post if you just woke up

Well, you know when you get around my age, technology gets confusing

Don’t refuse… Just casually forget

Depending on the business, some actually charge less if you are upfront on paying cash

So a bit of a long story.

Went camping over the weekend. Dude pulls in with a travel trailed and f150 truck. Dude leaves in a second car, but lights stay on. Dude didn’t come back til next day and of course battery dead.

This dude had no idea how to even open the hood of his pickup truck and was having a hard time looking in the owners manual for 10 minutes trying to figure out how to open. I never had a F150, but I still walked over and showed him how to open the hood. Then offered more help but he said we was good, and then saw him look and touch the engine with his finger for 20 minutes. I walked over and asked him what was wrong, to his response of confusion that his “truck broke” but he had no idea why (battery dead). I explained that I saw his truck lights on yesterday after he left and that his battery was dead, and he said “but this isn’t an electric car”… He finally understood from another good Samaritan with junper cables what had happened and we both helped him get his truck started. I asked him how long he had this truck, and he said he’s had it for a couple of years since new and always gave him problems, and I swear I am not making this up, one of those was that he ran out of gas.

All this to say that no matter how easy something might be for some, there will always be an idiot who can’t even manage that.

We need this in the US

Like he said, it buys you months or YEARS

Oh wow, didn’t notice it. Just turned it on and it looks amazeballs