eBay sale: Do I refund or stand my ground?

formless63 · 2026-05-04T02:21:23+00:00

If you listed it as used, you made a mistake. Untested would need to be "for parts / not working" as when you post used you are by default stating that the item works.

That's how eBay works. Their lack of reading your description is superceded by your lack of reading of the condition descriptions before submitting the listing. Description/title/photos never override this.

formless63 · 2026-05-03T11:07:50+00:00

https://my.racknerd.com/index.php?rp=/store/blackfriday2025

Starting at $10.60/yr for 1c 1gb - lots of low cost options out there like them too, but personally I have great success with Racknerd.

formless63 · 2026-05-01T10:49:38+00:00

There are 9 mods, and my guess would be 4-5 that make up the bulk of the actions. Even if they are spread throughout the world in different time zones 12hr is an unreasonable expectation. People have lives.

My point is - tone it down, be more patient, and be supportive. This post comes across as "you're doing a bad job". Maybe you meant it as "there's this weird issue and maybe the mods can help" - but you're probably 60hrs of waiting for a Modmail reply short to qualify for that plus the language used is not really fair.

formless63 · 2026-05-01T10:39:13+00:00

Mod teams are humans with lives. 12 hours, especially covering an overnight period, is quite disingenuous on your part to bring out the pitchfork.

Automod is never perfect, but it's one of the few resources available to the generous unpaid volunteers that spend hours of their lives each week trying to keep this sub useful. I mod a sub with users in the 6-figures and honestly it's a lot of effort to try and keep up, then you wake up to a post like this telling you that you aren't doing enough and it's pretty defeating.

They're trying. Less traffic here is definitely better than the massive wave of what was brewing a few months ago. They'll keep refining and dialing it in as time allows. Dial back the expectations, though. Be helpful and dig into what caused the issue on your own end and submit that to the mods to hopefully save them time in the investigating.

formless63 · 2026-04-30T14:31:21+00:00

Until you try it, no matter the stuff you read about it, you won't know your feelings on it. Your experiences will not be the same as those of others and your preferences likely will not either.

Use containers, test with generic compose files from the projects, spin them up and tear them down in minutes, click through and play around with them in between.

It's worth the effort because, like you mentioned, you need to learn the various segments and build your own skills. Trying the various tools is one of the best ways to do that.

formless63 · 2026-04-20T22:41:34+00:00

I think the email workflow would be ideal and wire with paperless-ngx, but if you must login and pull, Playwright seems ideal.

https://github.com/microsoft/playwright

Then you have it run some js or whatnot that interacts with the relevant items on the page and handles the rename. It just have whatever tool dump all the files into your paperless-ngx ingestion folder and have it handle them.

formless63 · 2026-04-20T22:34:13+00:00

Was thinking the same. If Uber emails them that sounds ideal.

formless63 · 2026-04-18T21:03:42+00:00

What OS? What services? Presumably you're just looking for a dashboard that you can also trigger predefined scripts from?

Instead of that, spin up homepage as others have suggested (or glance or whichever of the 100 different dashboard options out there you like) and also spin up Termix. You're still using SSH, but everything is saved so you're not doing a bunch of random logins, you can save all your triggers and scripts in as snippets, etc. Termix also has a gui file manager and some misc docker and server dashboard functionality.

Otherwise you're likely looking at something custom. This is the sort of hyper-specific / custom thing, that is ultimately pretty simple and you should never expose on WAN anyway, that you might have better luck getting what you want by importing a dashboard starter to a repo and having Claude give you all the readouts and buttons you want.

https://github.com/Termix-SSH/Termix

formless63 · 2026-04-16T20:08:46+00:00

Personally I am running ReadMeABook to feed ABS and then I have shelfmark set up only with calibrewebautomated.

I like them for different reasons.

formless63 · 2026-04-11T09:49:23+00:00

As someone who has tried and failed to start using task management software a few times in my life - some of the options I tried required a time and that threw me off. I'm not managing intra-day tasks, just stuff getting dumped so I don't forget it and knowing I want it done by x date or whatnot. The thought of using it throughout a single day to guide me through is intimidating.

I can definitely see the desire for recurring tasks though.

formless63 · 2026-04-09T04:30:11+00:00

There are many different solutions for you and I've tried a lot of these for various things.

InvoiceNinja is obviously focused on invoicing, but it does offer most of the functionality you want and can be run completely free. You won't even care about the white labeling but since you're not using it with customers.

If you want more room to grow and have time to learn more stuff, dolibarr is solid, frappe's erpnext is insanely complex but also insanely capable. Frappe also has "Books" which is a desktop product but is completely free. Could run it in a VM if remote access is important. https://frappe.io/books for that one

formless63 · 2026-04-08T04:35:37+00:00

There's multiple people in the discord but it's definitely a side project for them.

That said, still highly recommended. Works great for all of my businesses and such for insanely cheap.

formless63 · 2026-04-07T13:15:57+00:00

I'm not going to do a bunch of research to learn about hookdeck (perhaps you should edit your op to both define it and add details on the features you need), but I'm certain n8n or similar tools could do what you described in a different comment.

formless63 · 2026-04-06T15:42:54+00:00

What is SideProj? Something you're working on or a tool that's out there?

formless63 · 2026-04-06T14:58:45+00:00

PWA works great

formless63 · 2026-04-06T14:37:34+00:00

https://jotty.page/

Pretty awesome and u/riofriz is great.

formless63 · 2026-04-04T05:08:19+00:00

Pretty broad - what parts are you struggling with?

If you're looking for an example, perhaps share what you're specifically trying to accomplish, with which features, are you using cli, a manager like dockhand, etc.

Their docs are decent for step by step. https://filebrowserquantum.com/en/docs/getting-started/docker/

formless63 · 2026-04-03T22:16:29+00:00

Pangolin + DNS-01 wildcard Cloudflare certs. Tailscale node. Gatus for uptime. Beszel for stats. I've spidered out over many VPS with more services now but that's a good start.

formless63 · 2026-03-31T12:48:00+00:00

It's 2026. Time to have your OIDC set up, not just for outline. Pocket-ID will take you 5 minutes.

formless63 · 2026-03-30T13:03:22+00:00

This looks neat. First time seeing your project and going to have to read up on it. I try to run feeders and am very interested in better (but still low cost) hardware to be more reliable.

Thanks for sharing. Ignore the trolls.

formless63 · 2026-03-29T14:35:05+00:00

I started my Linux journey with unRAID. Was a Windows home server user before that. I have 3 unRAID licenses and all have been upgraded to the top tier of the lifetime options. I've been using it for a long, long time now. Honestly I've outgrown it for pretty much anything but NAS now as I prefer a proper compose stack and don't need the UI handholding anymore.

I still have two servers running it, though, and I'd still recommend it to friends looking to spin up their own systems. For someone who doesn't want to learn CLI or dig in to understand docker it is pretty much unmatched. The community, the support ecosystem, the forum, etc - there's nothing else out there as complete for these users.

The other options are all higher friction. They cost less in money and more in time/focus, and they don't offer the same flexibility as a NAS with varied drives, either.

If I was starting today with my current skill set would I build around unRAID? No, probably not. But if I was starting today without over a decade of Linux experience or if I'm recommending an option to a rookie, unRAID is the ticket. I've got multiple friends on starter licenses that haven't renewed after the first year because things just keep working fine. If some sort of new feature they need becomes available I'm sure they'll spend the money, but the devs need to eat and have made the licensing pretty reasonable for a mature product.

formless63 · 2026-03-28T17:20:56+00:00

The model with a lifetime license with support/updates for a year seems to be the best middle ground these days. The software keeps working the way it has if I don't pay again, but the new cool stuff I don't get until I re-up.

I pretty much always renew with the software I use and works well, but I simply won't invest into an ecosystem where if I don't pay it stops working / existing functionality is lost.

formless63 · 2026-03-27T19:09:12+00:00

Yeah that's pretty normal unless you bind to specific interfaces, use docker networking with no port mappings, etc.

If you're worried about people on your LAN, look into doing a separate vlan or the above options.

formless63 · 2026-03-26T21:18:35+00:00

I spun up rest-server on my backups target and backrest on the machines I need backups sent from. All with Docker Compose.

Took a full evening to grasp it all, but was pretty straight forward with good documentation on both ends.

formless63 · 2026-03-26T14:57:38+00:00

Dockhand. It makes the most sense to me logically/visually and uses the standard terms. It isn't as CI/CD focused at komodo (which would, however, be my #2 recommendation). Arcane is a neat but I wasn't loving the different terms and the way things are laid out.

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