Have you tried the release Finamp or beta? Beta is a much different beast and I love it

I couldn’t find it for some reason. I’ve messaged you directly, maybe that works?

I think you’d have gotten a better reception on !linuxmemes@lemmy.world :)

It’s Foss has been pretty mid for a while, maybe ever?

Unless you have fiber from your ISP you need a modem to translate from the TV or phone cable to Ethernet.

I’m not a fan of openWRT. I’d recommend you go look at NUC-style x86 mini PCs with multiple network ports instead and install OPNsense. I find the web interface much more intuitive than LuCI

Oh, whooshed myself

Especially in an enterprise environment where plenty of people use first.lastname@company

That sounds pretty negative. What about “Explainer of Meme Coins”?

Self hosted networking! Legitimately one of my favourite topics

You won’t get around the requirement of a publicly reachable endpoint. That can either be a small server with a public ip or dynamic DNS to your home with port forwarding for the VPN.

A classic option is OpenVPN. You can run it on Port 443 in TCP mode and while it won’t be performant, it has a better chance of bypassing most simple blocks

Other than that I’m a fan of completely decentralized mesh VPNs.

The one I use and am most familiar with is Yggdrasil. Connections can be established over TCP, TLS or QUIC on any port you want.
I’ve written a somewhat lengthy comment under this post. One advantage to Yggdrasil would be its existing public network. If you can firewall of your home lab to the point where joining the public network doesn’t expose a security risk to your local network, you could use that to transport your traffic instead of having your own public node or port forwarding.

The same post also mentions Anywherelan, it’s intended to have better NAT handling out of the box by using community nodes.

Then there’s also EasyTier mentioned at the bottom, it is a Chinese project and those tend to have good censorship resistance.

Finally I’ll mention Nebula, it requires at least one coordination server but might also be an option

You can limit your speed in the dev console of most browsers

Sure

The new army commander is Mykhailo Drapatyi, Syrskyi is being removed

For anyone who hasn’t yet, do make sure to go through the default conversion settings in Calibre and turn off all the resizing. Title image resizing is a separate option turn that off as well.
If you use Koreader or modern enough devices it’s probably fine to default to epub3 instead of epub2 as well.

That must be new. I guess if you need one or two monitors I can send you that file

I paid for a membership when they started restricting the comparison tool a few months ago.

I don’t know about a central database, But rtings.com offers ICC file downloads in their reviews.

You can get other pre built PCs

Oh cool, I somehow missed that in the docs

Yes, but AFAIK that’s only for local multicast discovery. If you have a server listening for connections somewhere, those aren’t password protected and anyone can connect to them unless you restrict the accepted keys.

I’ve never heard of this, but looks pretty cool. I use Yggdrasil in my homelab and on the surface this looks pretty similar in that both are decentralized mesh VPNs. The goals are somewhat different though and I think that shows in some choices the projects made.

Just reading through the docs of AWL it looks pretty good. They use libp2p for transport encryption and NAT traversal. libp2p itself is a spinoff from the IPFS project and pretty widely used. Compared to that Yggdrasil does not have any NAT traversal built in, instead every node is capable of relaying traffic and it will find the best route through the network.

The bootstrapping in AWL relies on community nodes, though you can host your own. Yggdrasil similarly has public peers if you want to participate in the official network, but you can just not configure those and use one or two of your own publicly reachable servers to build a separate network. That’s how I have mine configured, with a VPS and another public server being the primary relay nodes.

In AWL you must explicitly allow other peers to connect to you. That’s pretty good, otherwise you could just reach any other server on the network. Yggdrasil has similar functionality in that you can specify which public keys can connect to the server, but defaults to allow any member so potentially less secure than AWL.
Edit: Yggdrasil allows you to set a password to connect to your nodes

I’d be curious to know which ip ranges AWL uses for its address scheme. I could only find reference to 10.66.0.2 for the public test server. Yggdrasil used ipv6 addresses in the 0200::/7 range, that’s technically reserved by IETF but has been deprecated since 2004. With this you’re certain to not have conflicts, the usual ipv6 local range is fc00::/7

For other interesting projects also Nebula. It is completely self hosted but not decentralized. You need one or more special nodes called “lighthouses” which are used for the initial handshake between nodes. This has some advantages like ACLs for different nodes.

Another fully decentralized project I’ve looked at but never tried is EasyTier. I think last time I checked it did not have any ipv6 support

Imo the best app for Jellyfin i Finamp, make sure to use the beta release for the updated UI and general huge improvements. It’s been in the works for a while and works great as a daily driver.

Jellyfin can use a bunch of sources to get metadata for music, some by default others by installing a plugin, but it’s much more hit-and-miss than movies or series. That’s just due to how much more music there is and how relatively worse metadata for music generally is.
Personally, I add a few albums at a time and make sure the metadata is correct using kid3.

Maintainability is probably similar between the two options. Jellyfin obviously can handle other media as well so if you need something to watch movies that would result in less maintenance needed overall.

I used to run Navidrome for a bit, but soon after the Finamp beta started so I didn’t feel the need to go with the broader app selection of Subsonic.