I just run it all on a retired laptop. Low power, quiet, plenty of performance. With a NAS next to it, even storage is no issue.

No offense, but this question is what is holding many people back that would otherwise be on the fence or ready to go.

If there were just Mac / Windows / Linux, it would be an easy sell.

But we have Mac / Windows / two million Linux flavors.

It does not matter which one you pick, it is bound to cause questions or issues. And once you’ve chosen a Linux flavor, someone asks you why you chose that desktop and not foobar9000 instead which everyone knows runs much better on your Linux flavor anyway.

I honestly think that Linux’ biggest enemy is Linux. Sure, choice is good, but this is too much. Way too much.

“here” is not a useful descriptor in that sentence.

This image is hilariously unhelpful 😂 but we can work it out.

Nothing spectacular.

Git, Paperless, UniFi Controller, Pihole, Mattermost chat, Immich, Home Assistant, Frigate, Syncthing, Hoarder. Just stuff for myself, my home, and my friends. And 🏴‍☠️

And you?

Valid! I also tinker with selfhosting using Docker containers, didn’t think of firewalls the same way. Thank you.

This is perfectly valid! I to a lot of tinkering with selfhosting using Docker containers, and I have learned a ton from that. I feel a bit silly that I didn’t make the connection with firewalls - just tinkering for fun!

Same. What’s the deal with having elaborate firewall stuff for a normal family home anyway?

If the built in stuff isn’t good enough then 99.9% of households would be compromised a long time ago already.

Are you actually forced to move away from your Windows 10? You could just keep using it. Fuck Microsoft and its lack of support. If it works why change it?

I agree with this thread, but to answer your question I think the point is to tinker with it j “just because”. We’re all in this for fun, not profit.

My old DS916+ is great at the ile services but too weak for computing, so I have a reclaimed business laptop for the services. I could not imagine running anything on the DS.

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Neither my UniFi router/gateway nor the ISP modem offers that.

Between my network and the ISP modem, I habe a UniFi router. That’s the one I tell to send DNS requests to Pihole.

The only way to get around that is by setting e.g. 1.1.1.1 into the local computer’s network settings. My boys aren’t that tech literate - yet.

You are correct - this isn’t a tech issue at its root. But it is one of the arrows in the quiver.

We’re running a grandfathered Google Workspace for the whole family. Parental tools don’t exist in Workspace :'(

Adguard has a clumsy text-based block&unblock method, so it’s tedious to do. And given that we all have several devices, I’d have to (un)block a lot. Which is why Pihole seems more useful at the moment.

If I keep UniFi DHCP then Pihole will not show individual clients, making it hard to put blocks on those individual clients.

In the past, the only solution I found was to let Pihole provide DHCP instead of UniFi.

Simple file copying is easy and smart.

What do you do about databases? I’m guessing you are running some containers that have a database, like paperless and many others.

🤷 They probably think they have a good reason for it.