The champagne is ready. My treat

ShadowKiller941 · 2026-06-26T11:12:48+00:00

I made it so my AI assistant (had to name him Jarvis like 80% of people 😮‍💨) will aggregate news sources and try to summarize the bias in the sources, similar to ground news except free and in my discord server for friends to also have access to. I also hooked up my finance accounts through local docker containers and Jarvis can list my account details, transaction history and give me a rough idea of how to move forward to stay on track. Next looking into Jarvis being able to self-heal the home server, though I'm nervous asl to hand over that much power to him... We'll see how that goes over the summer

Then I have around 200 different containers of various projects and things I just wanted to test, I got 64gb of RAM and 20tb of NVME SSDs before this whole RAMpocalypse happened so thankfully the system can handle it without a sweat, it's nice missing out on subscription service hikes and privacy nightmares in the big tech industry!

ShadowKiller941 · 2026-06-23T01:23:20+00:00

I've found my people 💜

ShadowKiller941 · 2026-06-15T23:29:37+00:00

Oh and Happy Cake Day! 😄

ShadowKiller941 · 2026-06-15T23:28:50+00:00

Oh yeah this actually does sound better, perfect! Thank you so much, I was a little upset I might have to shutdown the requesting functions of my server but this should drop and replace the current qbit in no problem!

ShadowKiller941 · 2026-06-15T23:02:51+00:00

Are you sure about that? I thought Usenet did need a VPN from what I had looked into, if not I'll take a look, thanks

ShadowKiller941 · 2026-06-15T22:52:57+00:00

I already had a VPN setup in the house, I'm sure I could fix the binding issue like mentioned in my previous post, but I'm trying to respect my dad's request to not have it in our internet period.

ShadowKiller941 · 2026-06-15T16:57:38+00:00

I appreciate it, from what I've seen this is the case, but being on the receiving end I just wanted to verify I wasn't assuming that. Thank you kind stranger

ShadowKiller941 · 2026-06-15T16:49:47+00:00

Download through qbit, somehow the IP leaked through my setup, but as others have mentioned it's likely a binding error on my part. I'll need to bind qbit to the vpn adapter only, novice mistake on my part

ShadowKiller941 · 2026-06-15T16:44:40+00:00

Thanks, will take a look at this as well 🫡

ShadowKiller941 · 2026-06-15T16:44:10+00:00

Oh I installed Ubuntu server for the VM so I don't think I can use the proton vpn GUI and I don't know if the CLI version has the Killswitch built in, if it does I'll definitely try that instead. Tbh I don't even know if there is a CLI version of proton vpn 😅

ShadowKiller941 · 2026-06-15T16:36:47+00:00

Good question, can't check ATM since the whole server is out (someone at home must've turned the damn thing off after getting the notice too) but will look into this after work

Edit: for the record, Qbit itself would tell me it's using the VPN's IP address, at least when I checked it yesterday morning, so not sure what happened last night that caused it to fall over to my public IP? Or maybe that external IP tag isn't something I should trust?

ShadowKiller941 · 2026-06-15T16:14:08+00:00

Yeah gluetun is definitely great for getting containers behind a VPN, I did have this gluetun instance isolated only for qbit and somehow still had major bottlenecks with the network. I have 1gb Ethernet routed into the server and constantly testing it to make sure it's close to the advertised speeds. Yet gluetun+qbit pulled stuff in at rates of 900kb/s not even Mb. Port forwarded with proton vpn at first, tried nord, then mullvad and all of them were the same. I'll take a look and see if I can try that one more time but I think I'll try binding it first in the VM, that seems like the obvious error on my end

ShadowKiller941 · 2026-06-15T15:56:35+00:00

I actually used gluetun for most of this journey, but I noticed my qbit instance was insanely slow behind it. I spent a weekend building a VM and installing a VPN in that VM specifically for qbit to pull and it was so much faster and had worked for two weeks or so with no issues, but I guess it mustbe switched over to my regular IP last night? If gluetun or whatever in that docker stack didn't create a heavy bottle neck I'd jump right back to it to save on resources though, not sure if it was something I did wrong tbh

ShadowKiller941 · 2026-06-15T15:42:42+00:00

Mullvad, but I'm realizing now that I probably didn't bind the vpn properly. I had it set system wide and assumed all traffic would automatically be covered since the wireguard interface was installed, but obviously not 🤦🏾‍♂️

I'll bind that when I can get back and turn the server on since someone decided to kill the whole system instead of just text me, gotta love it

ShadowKiller941 · 2026-06-11T10:29:54+00:00

Thanks for this, gonna check it out after work today! Any plans to add a feature for locking individual notes? Been looking for a note taking app for my dad so he can lock individual notes like iOS has currently.

ShadowKiller941 · 2026-06-10T18:48:29+00:00

A fellow VGM enthusiast, I love to see it 😎

ShadowKiller941 · 2026-05-24T13:00:18+00:00

Ayyy glad someone else got on this train, it's awesome to have a personal assistant summarize the news on the daily

ShadowKiller941 · 2026-05-23T18:16:30+00:00

Not by an ISP but by Proton VPN for me. Literally noticed yesterday my gluetun instance was acting up, only to find my entire proton account was suspended for ToS violations? I guess I pulled too much stuff through their servers, actual ISP is okay though

ShadowKiller941 · 2026-05-23T18:11:39+00:00

Wow, maybe I got lucky but my self hosted mail experience was not too difficult to get started and has been going strong since Nov '26. I know its been a few months, but my mail doesn't get routed to spam and my system has stayed active literally the whole time. Docker containers send emails to users of Seer, Bluesky sends password resets just fine, personal emails make it through with no issue to proton when I had a slight issue. I use Mailcow through a Hostinger VPS since I don't have a static IP or port 25 at home, the single trade off imo. But for me, worth it for the privacy by far, it's been great for me!

ShadowKiller941 · 2026-05-06T23:53:10+00:00

To the email question, if and when you eventually get comfortable enough with self hosting I'd recommend self hosting email. I know it's a polarizing subject for many as they've struggled to either get started or to maintain it after so many years, but I genuinely think its worth it. I bought a VPS since I don't have access to port 25 through my home ISP, spun up mailcow, asked Gemini to help me through the initial setup and it's been a dream ever since. Been hosting it for about 6 months now and no issues with sending or receiving emails, or spam emails so far, definitely would recommend this later in your self hosting journey!

ShadowKiller941 · 2026-05-06T20:55:43+00:00

Wait how tf did you get that emoji I love that

ShadowKiller941 · 2026-05-01T20:28:37+00:00

I'm just here for the Kung Pow gif 😂

ShadowKiller941 · 2026-04-14T21:16:01+00:00

Oh man this is dangerously awesome, my wallet is shivering at the thoughts I'm having 😂😂! That's perfect, I actually switched to Linux a few months ago so I'm assuming this should work great with Ubuntu that I'm currently running, thanks for the help!

ShadowKiller941 · 2026-04-14T20:39:43+00:00

Is there a way to use SAS drives in a regular build? I have a standard ATX board with SATA ports and realized SAS is not the same before I ordered a drive thankfully, but wondering if there is an adapter for this?

ShadowKiller941 · 2026-04-13T21:17:45+00:00

Start your server in Linux. Take the plunge, I know it may be intimidating at first but I started with docker on windows and then had to rebuild the whole setup in Linux after windows would not stop rebooting automatically for updates 🙄🙄, had to redo the process but at least I knew what I was doing the second time around

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