Last few years we have been booking vacations when we have big race events, to put 1 and 1 together and save money. So 1 year in advance (that’s when ironmans registrations opens up).

Back when we where only traveling, usually from Feb/march for august. Go get best deals and low tickets.

Agreed and big thumbs up for Gentoo. Our distro never gets enough love!

I want to go directly to the source, i mean, if i want to resolve, for example www.polito.it, i want to ask “it”, then “polito.it”… This is what Unbound should be doing.

Instead, i can resolve it:

server /etc # dig it @127.0.0.1

; <<>> DiG 9.16.48 <<>> it @127.0.0.1
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 59860
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 1232
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;it.                            IN      A

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
it.                     3194    IN      SOA     dns.nic.it. hostmaster.nic.it. 2024062114 10800 900 604800 3600

;; Query time: 0 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)
;; WHEN: Fri Jun 21 14:50:06 CEST 2024
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 86

Instead i cannot resolve polito.it:

server /etc # dig polito.it @127.0.0.1

; <<>> DiG 9.16.48 <<>> polito.it @127.0.0.1
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 60832
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 1232
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;polito.it.                     IN      A

;; Query time: 1180 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)
;; WHEN: Fri Jun 21 14:50:40 CEST 2024
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 38

Nothing appears in the logs. It resolve fine using 8.8.8.8 as upstream DNS.

I have followed this guide, but still no way. “it” is resolved, but “polito.it” does not resolve, for example.

Yes!

What if your home network goes down while you are away for a week and you cannot get it back online?

Not a risk I am willing to take, so a backup server would be required.

I I agree with everybody else saying that the email server should not be self-hosted. But I have a specific exception to this rule, which I was keen to try, but I never did this or take this with a pinch of salt.

I do self-host on my services, but at the moment I keep myself hosted email on a public server, not on my home server.

Since I am using a tunnel to access my services from outside, my home server is actually using my public server ip. moving my email self-hosting to my home server would not actually change the front facing IP address of that email server, and no harm would be done to my mail server.

But is it really worth it? Probably not. Since I would still need some kind of backup email server out on the internet for the rare situations where my home server is cut from the internet due to power outage or ISP being down.

You want full reliability for your email server. So your home connection without UPS or backup connection isn’t going to cut the cheese fully.

So, I would suggest you don’t self-host your email on your home server. You can still self-host your email, but on a public server. Be aware, though, that is a difficult task which will require lots of effort and many months to get it done right and accepted everywhere.

This looks very cool, will definitely give it a try. Thank you

I started with an ancient redhat, moved to Linux From Scratches, landed in Gentoo 25+ years ago and never hopped anywere else since…

Ffmpeg guys, ffmpeg first king… And VLC golden second.

I did, on top post.

Not really what I call open source. Long topic, not OT to discuss here…

Tried the demo, nice, but still mostly a note taking app. Seems easy to selfhost

Organization, sorting, categorization… Indeed a TXT can do the job, but why limiting to that…

I already use silverbullet for general notes… But looking for something more targeted and specifically meant for diary tasks.

Not really, I am not looking to a note taking app but a diary kind of app, quite different use case. Similar, but different feature set.

Already using silverbulled.md, but I want something more diary style and less just note taking (granted, just is an understatement for silverbullet)

Looks very promising, but its not self hosted? Looks more like an app / local webapp?

I find Joplin cluncky and kinda slow. Also, it’s storage is not plain MD even if the files are called .md

Been running raid1 on USB for over a decade. Avoid chaeap USB stuff, get foot brand USB boxes and preferably a JBOD multi-disk enclosure, since they tend to be the best quality.

Never had a disconnect.

Beware to properly label your driver tough, as Linux software raid (I use that) tend to hiccup on boot if the kernel reassign USB devices after a reboot.

Many people suggest immich or photoptism, but those are not the correct tools for this use case. Piwigo us great, but in my esperience slow and clunky. Lychee is great tough and probably the correct answer to op.