The biggest thing I fought with since getting started has been audio. First figuring out how to make an Elgato device cooperate (not exactly the most linux-friendly company to say the least), then setting up virtual sinks and routing everything appropriately, and finally getting my mic to not sound like actual garbage.
Frustrating as hell and a very long process to get all of that working out, but definitely learned a lot from it.
Mostly ereader integration from what I can tell at the moment. ABS handles epubs and such pretty well at this point.
There is this that popped up the other day, but I haven’t looked into it at all to see if it’s vibecoded or not: https://github.com/fccview/degoog
Man this list is depressing. Good to have handy though. Sad to see SearXNG and a few others on here.
I don’t have the full details, but I saw some mentions in that Booklore reddit thread about CWA’s dev ignoring major issues in favor of new features and such, something like that. I admittedly didn’t really do much research into that nor the tool itself, but Komga’s Kobo support seems better, so I just went with it.
I literally just got this all set up and was about to hook up my wife’s kobo to it, good timing for this to come out so I don’t waste any more of our time with this slop. What a shitshow.
I just spun up Komga instead last night (I was going to set up CWA but I’ve heard sketchy things about their lead dev that don’t leave me optimistic). Very easy to get up and running, pretty basic but it seems to work well and does exactly what it needs to do. I was a bit hesitant since it seemed geared toward comics, but it’s handling regular ebooks just fine.
I’ve been mostly happy with SearXNG but customization is a pain point of it for sure, so this looks really promising. Definitely gonna be keeping an eye on this one
It’s kind of funny, I initially tried Authentik and ran into issues getting it working, so I went with Authelia instead, but eventually went back to try Authentik again because I wanted to customize the CSS and felt I was outgrowing Authelia, and it just worked. Not sure what I was doing wrong the first time, but oh well.
I will say though the latest release has a major bug where worker instances are eating up db connections to the point where the entire thing crashes, so while I’ve generally been happy with it, definitely need to do some careful research before blindly upgrading.
Absolutely nightmare to set up, especially with OIDC, but once it was finally up it was such a night and day difference from Nextcloud. Worth setting up for sure
Definitely time to find an alternative. What the actual fuck is this
If you have a VPS, consider setting up either Headscale or Netbird if you don’t want to use any of Tailscale’s built-in auth methods (with all necessary security precautions taken of course). If that’s not an option I’d suggest going back to Wireguard for sure.
This is the move. When I installed CachyOS (a year ago today actually), I set up a dual boot - figured it’d be good to have the “backup plan” instead of jumping right into it. I found myself going back a few times for various odds and ends. Over time I found I’d been flipping back to it less and less, I think the last time I actually used it was for a stupid gacha game that I finally put down for good.
Finally got to the point where I just nuked the windows partition to free up some space. and looking back I really only kept it around in the early days because I didn’t feel confident yet. (Though I do wish I had the forethought to arrange the partitions in a logical way because I couldn’t actually extend my cachyos partition to the left, so I just opted to add it to the btrfs pool instead, it works I guess).
I need to figure this out for my wife, she got one recently and I’ve been dabbling with different services but haven’t hooked the thing up to anything yet. Right now I’ve got Shelfmark and Booklore running which seem like they’ll do the job just fine, but need to explore some more
I route my Invidious containers through Gluetun and it usually works fine. Occasionally I need to restart the stack to change the IP but for the most part it works great.
Doesn’t seem like OIDC made it into the new release, weird. Unless I missed something in the documentation. It’s been working fine on the preview branch for ages.
You know I didn’t even realize I said this and I’m gonna start using this one LMFAO
Interesting, seems like this has been around for a while but I haven’t heard of it until now. With how much Discord’s shitting the fan and becoming (well, always has been) a privacy nightmare, this seems worth a try. The alternatives out there either need time to mature (Stoat) or don’t really fill the same role (Matrix).
Mixing disks is the #1 reason I went with unraid over any other option.
Pangolin with an Authentik login required. Jellyfin’s set up with OIDC too but that’s more for convenience than security (especially since password auth doesn’t seem possible to disable, so it’s just hidden with CSS which does jack shit for security).
I’m paranoid so I only expose 3 services total without Pangolin/Authentik in front of them: Authentik itself, headscale, and navidrome’s rest endpoint (the last one skeeves me a bit but it’s mandatory for it to work remotely in the situations I want it, like a web player on work machines). Anything else I personally need remote access to, I can get through tailscale - Pangolin for me covers friends and family usage and a few niche situations.
Willingly giving Microsoft money in 2026 is insane tbh