OIDC was requested quite a few times. I finally understood the point when I started using it for my selfhosted apps lol. It can be very convenient.
Yeah, but I could also use a shortener. It's more ergonomic, easier to use, edit etc. Different tools exist for a reason.
While I agree on principle, we're not always using big-name websites. The argument falls short for some-local-blog.com, there's no security improvement on clicking that link as opposed to shortener.tld/blog-link. I'd say we should trust the source of the link instead of the link itself. Link shortening can be useful if you want long links to look nice when sharing, or simply for personal use so that you don't need to remember long links to access an internal resource. Or just for personal websites. I can link my CV at https://domain.tld/cv instead of the full PDF file path, for example.
I was already using Vaultwarden for the server, just switched to Keyguard on Android and Desktop. Works perfectly.
There seems to be an open PR for a browser extension as well. Hope that's merged soon.
Self-Hoster 🏡
- Fleet: 2–3 devices · 5–10 TB
- Motivation: Independence from Big Tech & subscriptions, Fun / the hobby itself, Customization & full control
- My MVPs: Jellyfin, Forgejo, Navidrome, Syncthing, Chhoto URL
(Also, Immich is another MVP.)
Even though I avoid everything Microslop and Adobe like the plague, I think it's a good thing overall. There are many who would like to use Linux, but can't due to their work needing Office 365 or Adobe Creative Suite. If someone manages to make the latter work in Linux somehow, a large number of people will be enticed to switch to Linux.
Thanks. Filtering does not cover expiry, but it does cover shortlinks, longlinks, and notes. Making expiry work will make the filtering inefficient for little benefit, since the expiry times are stored as UNIX timestamps in the database.
Obligatory just search it bro.
But anyway, I guess everyone starts somewhere. So I'll try my best to give you a summary. I'll try to make it super simple. Sorry if it comes off as condescending, that's not my intention. Also, I'm not an expert by any means when it comes to networking. So please correct me if I make a mistake.
You first need to know what VPNs are. If you're thinking about stuff like ProtonVPN, then yes they are VPN, but we mean it in a broader sense. VPNs are simply tunnels in a network that make it looks like the traffic is coming from somewhere where it's not actually coming from. Imagine you're a kid, and your parents had an argument. Now you're stuck repeating one parent's words to another. That's a VPN. Your government doesn't want you to be able to interact with some site, VPNs can basically send you that data through somewhere else, which your government isn't blocking. That's the use for the commercial VPNs.
But the other use, which is more relevant to this discussion, is simply being able to connect to a remote machine. Let's say you want to access your home PC when traveling. You're definitely not on the same network, but VPNs can create a tunnel which will let you act like you're in the same network. It'll essentially repeat/proxy whatever data/command you want to the remote machine, and vice versa.
The industry standard for VPNs is wireguard. It's meant to be ultra lightweight, super fast, and super secure. It's now part of the Linux kernel, so basically available on most machines by default. While it's not hard to setup, it's not easy either. You need to manage your credentials, make sure that there are ports open so that the machines can reach each other, etc. It can get pretty complicated pretty quickly if you're stuck behind a CGNAT.
Tailscale attempts to simplify that process. It uses wireguard-go (a userspace implementation of wireguard written in Go) under the hood to make these connections, but it takes care of the problems mentioned above automatically. So you have an account with them (the free tier is probably fine, or you can self-host using headscale), and you can simply start connecting devices and each device can talk to the other one as if they're on the same network. Tailscale essentially creates wireguard tunnels between each pair of devices, and manages all the networking quirks.
It's by no means unique. There are services like Nebula, Netmaker etc. that attempt to do the same. Tailscale is just a good implementation of this idea. It also has apps for nearly every device you may want to use. Hope that cleared things up for you.
For most "normal" setups, no. Networks, environment variables, volumes, permissions etc. map pretty much one-to-one.
If you're using compose, you can even keep your setup mostly unchanged and use podman compose. Although, I would recommend learning a bit about quadlets and using them instead. There's a tool called podlet that can help you translate your docker commands to quadlets, although it's not complete and does miss some features. The annoying thing can be some QoL tooling that exists for docker compose that doesn't for quadlets e.g. automatic restart for changed quadlet files. I wrote some scripts for most of these situations. I will probably release them at some point after I make sure that they don't rely on any specific properties of my setup. But you can easily write them for yourself if you know some shell scripting.
For docker run commands, you can mostly get away with changing it to podman run.
Yes, my sister uses Gnome, and I'm basically her IT support. I just don't see any reason for switching. It's too limiting for me.
I also used it for a month or two on my own machine before I switched back.
I've been using KDE for about a decade now. It's polished, and works well. Plus, it's also highly customizable, so I've never had a reason to switch.