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I recently found out Nova was purchased by an analytics company. I don't have any proof or solid reason to think they're up to no good necessarily. But I have zero desire to use something as integral as a launcher that's owned by a company like that.

I moved to Neo Launcher and it's been 95% as good as Nova. The knock is just some fine tunings that Nova had, but I'm not having any issues with Neo.

I see the anybody but GoDaddy thing a lot too. The controversies page on Wikipedia does a decent job at pointing out some of the reasons people dislike them.

Looking at feature set though, I'm in the same boat as you. Part of it is me being lazy though. When my registrations come up for renewal in a few years I'll take a serious look at porkbun.

It's crazy to me just how much praise I got from my mother in law when I would immediately change my newborn's diaper or really do anything my wife had asked when we brought the baby home. I signed up for literally all of this when I got married and we decided to have kids.

What a wild world we live in in which doing the absolute bare minimum to support your significant other and your child is met with praise.

I've had issues doing it from mobile, but on desktop this is what I do:

It sometimes takes a bit to search, but eventually it will and will present you with a link titled dungeonworld@ttrpg.network with a destination of https://lemmy.one/c/dungeonworld@ttrpg.network

And voila. If a community hasn't been subscribed to from your home instance it's my understanding that this is the only reliable way to get it federated. Once you do this search it will show up but no comments or anything come across until someone (e.g. you) actively subscribes to the community.

I did this for dungeonworld so you should see something now, but give it a go for bassment.

Thanks for the .atom tip. I've been messing with Diun to try and keep up on updates but I run so many different things it ends up being useless by the time I get around to wanting to actually do the updates. I'll add the ones I super care about to Miniflux though and see if that's more doable for me

My mission critical services are:

  • Unraid
  • Nextcloud
  • Gitea
  • Nginx Proxy Manager/Caddy
  • Pihole

NPM/Caddy accomplish the same goal (reverse proxy with lets encrypt SSL) but I've had much better performance out of Caddy. Things that require web sockets in NPM are very hit or miss but in Caddy they work without any extra tweaking for me.

As for where to start, it depends on what you want to accomplish. Do you want to replace Google Drive/One Drive/Dropbox etc? Then Nextcloud is a fantastic place to start (coincidentally this is what I started with 5ish years ago.)

I prefer to have Proxmox as my hypervisor and then run whatever I need in VMs (and some VMs run docker containers.) Others prefer to have unRAID on baremetal and use their implementation of docker. There's also TrueNAS SCALE which I haven't looked into.

There's also the world of the seven seas, matey, in which case the *arrs are my absolute necessities.

Ultimately, there are lots of options and it comes down to what you want to do with the hardware you have. I started off with a gaming PC and slowly added hard drives and an LSI card (which gets passed through to my unRAID VM.) But really all you need to get started with messing around is to figure out what you want to do first. The hobby has turned into a labor of love for me lol

I turned my last two gaming PCs into Proxmox hosts and I have a Hetzner vps that will host something eventually.

2010 Gaming PC:

  • Pihole VM (w/ Unbound)
  • Docker teet VM
  • Piwigo
  • Chevereto

Pihole is running on a keepalived vip that acts as my secondary DNS server. Gravity sync keeps it in line with my main Pihole VM (push/pull) and then I have an old rpi also on the same keepalived vip that has gravity sync set up that pulls from the secondary VM

Anything I run as an evaluation or that needs testing also runs here. This machine gets Proxmox updates first as well.

2016 Gaming PC:

  • unRAID VM
  • Pihole VM (w/ Unbound)
  • Nextcloud
  • Nginx Proxy Manager
  • Gitea
  • Dozzle
  • Docker container registry
  • Diun
  • Caddy (moving away from NPM)
  • Photoprism
  • Jellyfin
  • Plex
  • Tautulli
  • Bookstack
  • Heimdall
  • Netbox
  • Unifi Controller
  • Wikijs
  • Paperless-ngx
  • Uptime kuma
  • Gluetun
  • Deluge
  • Homarr
  • Lidarr
  • Miniflux
  • NZBget
  • Radarr
  • Sonarr
  • Readarr

These are split amongst a few VMs depending on criticality and further broken down to needs (VPN, whether or not I can reboot and not affect my wife/kids, network share requirements.

I'm pretty much always tweaking something and having fun with it