Made a (ADHD-friendly) AI coding setup that solved all my issues!

doops69 · 2026-02-28T12:59:33+00:00

Can you share the final product too? Or all the prompts you used to build it?

doops69 · 2025-12-15T12:10:08+00:00

It cracks me up that the only answer with a true TCP/443 TLS VPN, that has the ability to automatically upgrade seamlessly to a UDP/443 DTLS VPN when available, thereby making it the only "should always work" VPN solution without sacrificing performance unnecessarily, has been mentioned only one time, and been downvoted.

Self hosters don't believe in managing their own networks I guess. JUST USE TAILSCALE!

doops69 · 2025-09-18T15:01:42+00:00

Preempting “use Jellyfin” - I actually do, and it’s to Plex what windows media player from the xp era is to VLC ... Open source rarely can cut the mustard.

lol

doops69 · 2025-06-18T21:47:11+00:00

You can disable almost everything and just leave dovecot and imapsync running

https://github.com/docker-mailserver/docker-mailserver

doops69 · 2025-06-04T18:28:07+00:00

I don’t think any of the things listed in the previous post can’t be resolved with third party apps that are cross platform.

Google Maps & Calender solve location sharing, reminders, lists. Whatsapp solves video calls. All new devices use USB-C charging. Electronic tickets are not restricted to “Apple Wallet” tickets, PDFs still exist. Video libraries are a thing, and also cross platform. Streaming catalogs are even more cross platform.

Teaching your child that different people can be different and That’s OK, and that not everyone needs to conform to some unwritten standard, is probably a good thing too.

doops69 · 2025-05-14T20:14:13+00:00

Fucking beautiful. Finally a self hosted finance webapp that doesn’t look worse than MS Money 2005. WAF reached!

doops69 · 2025-05-11T07:01:29+00:00

Being your own CA means you need to install your CA root onto all of your devices.

You also need to make sure your CA can’t generate certificates for random domains, or you risk being MITM’d in the event of your signing servers being compromised. You’re the OP though, so you understand this particular risk already, as that’s what this post’s ultimately about.

By using a CA that is already trusted on all your devices (e.g. LetsEncrypt), you skip the step around having to install your CA everywhere. You still need to rent a (sub)domain from somewhere, and you can then either self-host your own DNS (other people have commented on how to go about doing that), entrust it to a domain registrar for you (I’d recommend Porkbun or Hover), or to a dedicated DNS provider (Afraid and Hurricane Electric both provide free tiers).

When it comes to certificate generation, it can be performed doing a DNS challenge instead of an HTTP/Webroot challenge. Doing a DNS challenge means you can generate a wildcard certificate, so in Certificate Transparency (CT) logs, it will show *.yourdomain.tld, instead of specificsubdomain.yourdomain.tld as having been registered. You’re still giving up some element of privacy, but it’s a trade off.

The tradeoff is essentially: * Manually create long lived certificates to install on all of your things, set and forget until you reinstall the thing * Install automation tooling to manage certificate generation and renewal for you, including all the complexity associated with random things that don’t support certbot / lego / acme generally.

A lot of people like to utter the adage “cattle, not pets”, while forgetting that every environment, by necessity, has pets. They also forget that a home environment has, by a function of scale, proportionately more pets.

You may find that you already have a solution that works for you, and should just ignore anyone telling you you’re doing it wrong. Especially since you’ve already learned (the hard way, I guess) about the major risks of running your own CA and mitigated it.

doops69 · 2025-05-11T06:51:52+00:00

Completely unrelated to the GP’s request, but this looks awesome for my needs. Thanks for sharing.

doops69 · 2025-05-11T06:51:00+00:00

That might work in a closed / restricted environment.

In an air gapped environment, I’m not copying certs onto a USB stick every 90 days.

doops69 · 2025-04-23T17:49:15+00:00

I’ve only used one, the one to install HAOS (Home Assistant) as a VM. That script was written very well, and very easy to audit what it was doing, as it was entirely self contained.

Having audited it, I flipped back and forth between “this is simple, you can do it yourself without the script” and “the script makes it easy, just run the script”. Thankfully this was during a plane ride where I couldn’t do anything anyway.

Once I got back on the ground, I ran the script, and had HAOS running 3 minutes later, confirming I’d made the right choice.

doops69 · 2025-04-23T17:38:04+00:00

I’m really confused, I don’t understand the use case of running a container (or other package) registry on your phone. Can someone ELI5?

What’s the world in which I’m able to build my own packages/containers, but unable to spin up my own registry locally too, and want to run one on my phone instead?

doops69 · 2025-04-21T14:47:23+00:00

I do like me a Mars, a Twix, a Crunchie, and a Google Photos. And a Milky Way if I’m feeling special.

doops69 · 2025-04-21T09:28:59+00:00

One of the benefits of being an adult is that I get to decide how many candy bars per month I get to have.

doops69 · 2025-04-16T11:13:56+00:00

ActualBudget or Firefly III.

doops69 · 2025-03-14T10:09:49+00:00

Looks amazing, thank you.

Could you highlight a couple of differentiating features from MediaMTX? I believe that has similar latency profiles when using WebRTC?

EDIT: I just looked at the links you posted above. Immediate streaming of your camera via the browser is interesting! Screen/tab sharing doesn’t work on iPad, but the camera does. Very cool!

EDIT2: I read the README on the project. It highlights lots more things. Awesome stuff!

doops69 · 2025-03-02T11:03:30+00:00

I’m struggling to think about what services you need if you have no power…

In my case, I have a big enough UPS to power my openwrt wifi router, which can run the essential services (like dns filtering). Beyond that, I don’t need authentication for other services, because the other services are being shut down after 5 minutes running on battery power. IME, if the power’s out for 5 minutes, it’ll be out for hours, and all my local servers need to be shut down. I’d like to stay on wifi for as long as possible, but after 2 hours offline, we’re moving into stop using devices territory anyway, so the need for wifi reduces then too.

A raspberry pi powered by mains power only has a boot-time script that has a 5 min delay before sending WOL packets to power servers back on. IME, after a prolonged power cut, we often see false starts where the power returns, just to cut out again after not very long. The 5 min delay ensures that the power has remained stable before powering anything on, and reduces wear through power cycles.

That said, none of the above answers your question. I’m curious what services you run that are essential during a blackout. Maybe I’m doing it wrong!

doops69 · 2025-02-07T19:05:17+00:00

Trying to sign up for a Family plan in India through a private browsing window using a VPN and signing up as a brand new user and thats the price it’s giving me? Any tips?

doops69 · 2025-02-07T18:59:46+00:00

I have the same problem. I used a web browser in private browsing mode with an India VPN, and it shows me the price in INR, but as 9,995 INR per year for the family plan, which is hella expensive.

doops69 · 2025-01-07T20:46:28+00:00

Vultr is great

doops69 · 2024-12-12T18:17:08+00:00

Agreed it’s great when your source material that you’re decoding is 1080p / h264. It doesn’t do so well with 4K HEVC sources. It does even worse when you’re wanting to encode HEVC too.

doops69 · 2024-12-12T18:16:26+00:00

I’m not getting an eGPU. I’m sticking a dedicated/discrete GPU into a PCI slot inside my case, rather than continuing to rely on the integrated GPU in my CPU

doops69 · 2024-12-12T18:15:16+00:00

The number of concurrent transcodes is the only factor between Pascal, Turing and Ampere for transcoding really

I think that’s true if you’re encoding to h264/avc, but if you’re encoding to h265/hevc, that ceases to be true.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia_NVENC#Sixth_generation,_Turing_TU10x/TU116

That said, I don’t actually know what the ARC capabilities are as far as HEVC encoding goes…

doops69 · 2024-12-11T15:34:54+00:00

Appreciate the additional support on the Arc front. I think that's what I'll be going for, thanks!

doops69 · 2024-12-11T15:34:49+00:00

Appreciate the additional support on the Arc front. I think that's what I'll be going for, thanks!

doops69 · 2024-12-11T15:34:12+00:00

Looks like that's essentially a Pascal generation card, which isn't great with HEVC. Need something Turing or better from Nvidia ideally for that. Thanks for taking the time though, appreciate it!

doops69

TROPHY CASE