come on, setting up your own DNS is not difficult at all. For my home network, it’s running in a Raspberry Pi, but before that I ran it locally on my desktop. There’s no way I’d spend 15$ a year to resolve internal addresses.

Sure, you have to be careful with the TLD you choose, but I believe that if the ICANN were to create the .lan TLD, it would be all over the internet first.

I think needing a VPN to access the internal network is a good practice. And if you’re going to be used a VPN anyway, I don’t see why you wouldn’t use a “fake” TLD like .lan for internal stuff, after all it’s just simple DNS rules.

not OP, but feedly is quite privacy invasive. the content you read is very valuable data, self hosting keeps your reading interests private.

XMPP was there before Matrix and will be there after Matrix dies when the venture capitalists behind Element funding decide to move the money somewhere else.

Matrix is not an “open source project”. It’s a VC funded company.

every comment you make is just supporting that you shouldn’t be trying to self-host an instance. you lack all the knowledge necessary to do so.

if you’re really stubborn about it, your best bet would be paying someone with the proper knowledge to do it for you.

This applies only to their hosted solutions, doesn’t it?

Shouldn’t be relevant for self-hosters.

go with Hugo + a theme Avoid WordPress, static sites have a lot of advantages.

I’d rather use a real OS, thank you

it’s the same guy but it’s not from the same site. that website doesn’t have a VPS comparison.

yes, pretty much this.

Bandcamp and Qobuz sell high quality FLACs.

Other way to do it is subscribing to Tidal HiFi tier and using tidal downloaded to legally download FLACs with your account. But this supports artists less than actually buying from them in Bandcamp.

reworking the whole library, I had 1.5 TB of mp3s, but they were super messy organized. Sure, I could have gone through organizing it but still mp3s suck.

So I’m starting over with a FLAC only music library. I use Navidrome on a local server and with a Subsonic client on my phone I can choose to download certain songs or playlists to use when I’m away.

CD quality FLACs are the minimum for me. They are nineties technology and still most digital music isn’t even close to that. I find it hilarious how Spotify is still serving mp3s.

not OP but it’s painfully slow when you have a large collection of bookmarks.

this requires a Firefox account so not fully self-hosted. In the README they tell this is for security reasons, but I’d just like to run this locally on my home network, so not much of a compromise there.

That’s quite sad because otherwise this would be perfect.