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  • I've been using the developer beta of WatchOS 10 and it's been fine.

  • Which web server software do you recommend?
  • I use NGINX because it's what I'm familiar with. If I was starting again, I would probably use Caddy.

  • What are your most used selfhosted services?
  • Using 'hours of use' as the metric, it would be Plex. The ones I use every day are Libreddit, TT-RSS, Huginn and Reddit-RSS - and my own journalling app and pocket clone.

  • [Abandoned all hope] Trying to self-hosting a mail server, but port 25 is blocked by my ISP
  • Try a delivery test to an Outlook / Exchange server. I'll be amazed if it goes through.

  • What are some good games for having a "backseat driver?"
  • And episode 1 is currently free on Steam!

  • What is your favourite book?
  • Such a fantastic book. It's one of the few that I will read again and again.

  • How to best share your instance
  • I 100% agree here. Each instance should focus on a single topic. It makes no practical sense that there are multiple identical communities across different servers.

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  • Same. Like, I'm relatively confident in the systems I have running, but not so confident that I'd trust them with my most important passwords.

  • Welcome to /c/lemon, the home of Lemon for Lemmy 🍋
  • Hi! Count me in as a beta tester. I'm willing to suffer!

  • Where's everybody from?
  • The Detectorists is incredible. It's my go to comfort watch.

  • Where's everybody from?
  • East Yorkshire.

  • Is there a good guide on how to access services from outside my network?
  • PiVPN is great. Works on just as well on a standard server with Ubuntu.

  • Is a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 enough?
  • All true. And RPIs aren't even cheap anymore. It's much more cost effective to buy a refurbished lease PC and get the extra processing power, expandability & reliable storage. I run everything on a HP elitedesk and it didn't cost much over £150.

  • The UK Is a Hot Country. It’s Time to Build Like It
  • I've never understood why we don't build more houses from timber.

  • Sunday chat
  • Out of interest, did you get a reasonable scrap price?

    I was talking to someone the other day that said they got nearly £1k for theirs. Last time I scrapped anything (years and years ago) I had to pay them to take it away because scrap prices were so low.

  • Cormac McCarthy, American novelist of the stark and dark, dies at 89
  • I read an amusing anecdote about him this morning:

    When he was awarded the $236,000 MacArthur “genius” grant in 1981, he carried on cutting his own hair and preparing meals on a hot-plate. And he only ever signed 250 copies of his Pulitzer Prize-winning 2006 novel The Road, all of which he gave to his youngest son John. When the boy turns 18, McCarthy said, “he can sell them and go to Las Vegas or whatever”.

    I enjoyed The Road. Couldn't get on with any of his others though.

  • Having trouble deploying Lemmy? Try my new script! Get up and running in minutes!
  • I'm relatively competent installing server software, but the Lemmy instructions completely flummoxed me. Their docker instructions just don't work.

    I ended up using the ansible docker scripts and filling out the blanks because I'm unfamiliar with ansible.

    If this is as good as it sounds, you're doing everyone a massive favour.

  • What are YOU self-hosting?
  • First I've heard of Boolwyrm. Looks neat!

  • Pocket alternative
  • Wallabag is what most people recommend, but I couldn't get on with it.