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If you know anything about Linux’s history, you’ll remember it all started with Linus Torvalds posting to the Minix Usenet group on August 25, 1991, that he was working on “a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won’t be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones.” We know that the “hobby” operating system today is Linux, and except for PCs and Macs, it pretty much runs the world.

Did you ever wonder, though, how it went from being one person’s project to being a group effort? I knew most of the story because I’d been using Linux since 1993. But I thought I’d ask Linus, and some of the early Linux developers.

Did a quick search it seems that it’s called Shatner light. Very cool.

Even when it’s running Windows, you’re free to install Linux whenever you want. When that’s no longer true is when it stops being a PC imo

An app to manage your Arr stack from your phone for iOS and Android.

You could use obtanium, which is on fdroid.

How does this compare to Jellyseer?

Hello all,

I figured that a chunk of the selfhost community is using Caddy, so decided to post my query here. I am a novice in Caddy, so I might be saying some incorrect terms.

Some information - The router and the host running Caddy, are different machines - The router page is running HTTP, but I am accessing it via HTTPS through Caddy - Caddy is running via Docker.

I have a couple of services running on a host, so I access them via Caddy’s reverse proxy. Now I am also trying to access my router login via the same reverse proxy. This is what the router entry in the caddyfile looks like

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{
    local_certs
}
login.router.lan {
	reverse_proxy 192.168.1.1:80
}
.
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With this entry, I can access the login page. However, when I enter the password, I feel like it’s attempting to login but then it just comes back to the original login page. When I access it directly, the login is successful. I also have Pihole running and the Pihole login process works fine. So I suspect that the router login page is expecting some extra information from Caddy to forward it to the login page.

After some searching online and some LLM wrangling, I figured it’s some cookie issue or my login page is expecting a certain host.

What should I add to my Caddyfile so that the login redirect works?

Semi related, you can check the validity of Caddy entries into the caddyfile:

• sudo caddy fmt --overwrite /etc/caddy/Caddyfile
• caddy validate --config /etc/caddy/Caddyfile

Where /etc/caddy/Caddyfile points to your caddyfile.

I have tried this, but unfortunately, it did not work. I have tried this suite of commands

login.router.lan {
    reverse_proxy 192.168.1.1:80 {
        # Preserve original host and scheme
        header_up Host {upstream_hostport}
        header_up X-Forwarded-Proto {http.request.scheme}
        header_up X-Forwarded-Host {http.request.host}
        header_up X-Forwarded-For {http.request.remote.host}

        # Keep cookies intact
        header_up Cookie {http.request.header.Cookie}
        header_down Set-Cookie {http.response.header.Set-Cookie}

        # Preserve Origin/Referer for CSRF tokens
        header_up Origin https://{http.request.host}
        header_up Referer https://{http.request.host}{http.request.uri.path}
    }
}

Info: My caddy uses HTTPS but the router login page is HTTP. Not sure if this is relevant.

I’d definitely skip this in favor of something consumer-grade. You can find used Dell Optiplexes all over the place cheap and stick a large drive inside/outside of it and use it for a couple of years.

A big old server is just going to drain your wallet on both power and parts with equal or worse performance and a lot more complexity for what 99% of home users will use it for.

It sounds like your main goal is probably a media server and an Optiplex will give you an i5 or i7 with QuickSync which works excellent for processing video. RAID isnt really necessary here because you can just download more Linux ISOs if these one are lost, though it can be great later if you buy a bunch more drives and expand into other areas where data is less replaceable.

Can’t say on access behind CG-NAT, as I haven’t ever dealt with it, but Tailscale might work as a free third-party option though that’s just a guess.

The rule of thumb with servers is * Performance * Reliability * Power usage * Noise * Size

The trick is to remember you don’t actually need much performance. A home server isn’t generally a powerful machine. What matters is that it is always there.

A raspberry pi would actually make a wonderful server. It’s power efficient, small and quiet, with enough grunt to do most jobs. Unfortunately, it falls down on reliability. Arm servers seem more prone to issues than x64 servers. Pis also seems particularly crash prone. Crashing every 3-6 months isn’t an issue for most pi usages. When it’s running your smart home, it’s a pain in the arse.

I eventually settled on a intel NUC system. It’s a proper computer (no HDD on usb etc), with a very low power draw. It also seems particularly stable. Mine has done several years at this point, without a crash.

Bigger servers are only needed when you have too much demand for a low powered option, or need specialist capabilities ²⁴⁄₇. Very few home labbers will need one, in practice.

It’s also worth noting that you can slave a powerful, but power hungry system, to a smaller, efficient one. Only power it on when a highly demanding task requires sorting.

Are 22TB Exos derives around 400+ monies (double the price from a year ago). 6TB are only half that? Idk even where to look for prices bcs stock is weird.

Yeah, these are dark times, evey gen things get worse instead of advancements ppl can use.

Still, keep in mind that those “nice” SAS drives are still slow & might have been in operation for 12 years.

on the plus side, when the my butt bubble pops, hardware will be soooooo cheap

do NOT open SMB to the internet. You will get crypto’d in minutes. Just a warning for any newbs coming here.

yup. I was using my old desktop as a server. Thankfully though, it has 32GB RAM and a 8 core CPU.