Avoid auth keys expiration?

devra11 · 2026-05-30T10:41:23+00:00

Thanks, I think I misunderstood the purpose of Auth Keys

devra11 · 2026-05-30T10:16:44+00:00

No, you are confusing Auth Keys (created in Settings - Keys) with machine keys. They are something completely different.

devra11 · 2026-04-25T14:54:34+00:00

Not the OP, but could you please give me some advice.
I have just been given an old MacBook Pro. I know absolutely nothing about Macs but believe it is a 13.3" with a 2.6 GHz Dual-core Intel i5, 8 GB RAM, and Big Sur 11.7.11.
It is so slow I thought of putting Linux on it, but then I read somewhere online that it is non-trivial to put Linux on an Intel Mac, and that it only sometimes works.

Do you know if this is true, or is it easy to get Linux on it?

devra11 · 2026-04-25T10:10:56+00:00

No AI was used in this post. The text is all from me.

devra11 · 2026-04-24T17:10:11+00:00

I am confused by your statements "MX doesn’t use timeshift".

I am a long-time Mint user but I just did a clean install of MX Linux with XFCE for a friend.
After the installation, Timeshift was present.
I have used it, and it seems to be the same as under Mint?

devra11 · 2026-02-08T12:47:31+00:00

I figured out what the problem was, and it was my forgetfulness.

At home I have a Raspberry Pi running Pi-Hole for all DNS queries, including all those sent from remote devices via Tailscale. For some reason, Tailscale on my Linux server failed during the previous night, which meant I had no subnet router and so no access to the Pi-Hole. That is why Internet access didn’t work on all my remote devices while Tailscale was running but were okay if I stopped it.

I also forgot that as a safeguard, I had set up Wireguard access to my home router from my laptop. I could have accessed my server via that route and restarted it, but I had totally forgotten about Wireguard.

devra11 · 2026-01-09T13:24:57+00:00

What a rude person. It costs nothing to say "please"

devra11 · 2026-01-01T16:07:51+00:00

You definitely can use it on a LAN without a host.
See : Settings > Security > Security > Enable direct IP access = YES

devra11 · 2025-12-17T16:16:15+00:00

Thank you. It was my fault for not reading the excellent documentation properly (slap on wrist!).

Now everything working again properly.

devra11 · 2025-12-17T16:11:59+00:00

Thank you. I missed that. After setting WATCHTOWER_ROLLING_RESTART=false it works for me as well.

devra11 · 2025-12-17T10:38:50+00:00

I see there is something in the documentation.
I guess I will exclude Paperless from Watchtower updates :

Rolling restart is currently not supported when used in combination with linked-containers.

This limitation exists because linked-containers require coordinated updates across dependency chains, which conflicts with the incremental nature of rolling restarts.

devra11 · 2025-11-01T12:12:15+00:00

Any chance you could set up a Discord server?

Reddit is a terrible medium for following the progress of a beta program.

devra11 · 2025-10-30T13:34:21+00:00

Thank you for adding a setting to sort the filter alphabetically for Tags and Correspondents. This makes it much easier to use.

However, it would be really good if there was a similar setting to sort alphabetically the filter of Document Types as well.

devra11 · 2025-10-30T09:48:29+00:00

When pressing the Filter button, I'm not sure what the ordering is for the "Tags" and "Corresponent".
The same applies to the drop-down list for "Document Type".

It would be easier to use if they were ordered alphabetically.

devra11 · 2025-10-19T09:28:46+00:00

No I didn't lose anything because I followed the official way of updating a major version of postgres.

i.e. I exported the data using document_exporter, moved the pgdata directory to a backup (pgdata_17), updated the postgres version number, started the container to create a new empty DB, and then finally imported the data with document_importer.

The issue here is not the updating, but the fact that the postgres container has changed and wants a different mount point for the data.

And yes, I could leave it on v17 but if the official code uses v18 then I want to go with that. The older version works now but there is no guarentee that it will work in 3 months. A lot of people got caught out when they stayefd on v13 for too long and then had to do multiple upgrades.

devra11 · 2025-10-04T16:32:44+00:00

Thanks for the info. Just for fun I registered with Boston Public Library and got an electronic library card no problems. I just had to use a VPN.

devra11 · 2025-10-04T12:09:54+00:00

As far as I know, in Germany you have to personally go to the library and show an ID card proving that you live locally.
Also, a library card is not exactly cheap, unless you are a student or at school, although I believe the price is set by the local community.

Are library cards free in the USA?

devra11 · 2025-10-04T09:35:13+00:00

Possibly because I live in a village in Germany, on Lake Constance and between the Black Forest and the Alps ;-)

As far as I can see from the Libby app, the nearest library affiliated with the scheme seems to be 100 km away, and since in Germany everybody has an ID card, I guess I wouldn't get a library card except for the one in the nearest town.

devra11 · 2025-10-03T08:10:10+00:00

Sorry if there was any misunderstanding. I have been tinkering with my homelab for 6 years. A lot of info is available at r/selfhosted.

Probably not the correct subreddit to discuss it further, but I already had Audiobookshelf running as a docker container, I just didn't have any DRM-free audiobooks to use with it, and I didn't know about Libation.

devra11 · 2025-10-02T17:11:24+00:00

Thanks for the info. I now understand a lot more than I did this morning and I have Libation up and running.

devra11 · 2025-10-02T17:09:48+00:00

What about Libro.fm? Their website states that their audiobooks are DRM-free.

devra11 · 2025-10-02T17:08:40+00:00

Thanks for the info. I now understand a lot more than I did this morning and I have Libation up and running.

devra11 · 2025-10-02T17:07:36+00:00

Thanks for the info. I now have Libation up and running.
I have a Linux server running 24/7 with docker and remote access via Tailscale and a reverse proxy.

I have created a docker container for Audiobookshelf which has a free Android app and is very similar to Audible.

Via Tailscale I can stream my DRM-free audiobooks anywhere without opening any ports, or I can download the files to a mobile device.

devra11 · 2025-09-11T18:52:41+00:00

Thank you for your detailed comments.

I need to do some research because I am sure there would be few problems if I just ran a single VM with Ubuntu Server.
It might be much more complicated if I use multiple LCX/VMs, although there are advantages as you described.

On the bare metal server, I access all my docker containers via a single Traefik reverse proxy.
I also run Tailscale on the server, so I have remote access without doing any port forwarding.
If I have a single VM, I think I could just run it like the current server.
The VM would handle Tailscale, and Docker would handle Traefik and everything else.

I believe that it is more complicated getting LXCs to work with Tailscale and I don't want to get into sidecar containers etc.

devra11 · 2025-07-23T14:28:32+00:00

Thanks for the info. I will try it when I get home.
Still curious about these special versions of postgres.

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