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What's happening on your servers? Any interesting news things you tried?

I didn't do anyone other than updating Mastodon (native deployment) lately due to a lack of time. Reading so much about Immich caused me to consider trying it in parallel to Nextcloud but I'm not sure if I want to have everything twice.

Not quite homelab, but I'm about to install Linux Mint on my mom's laptop and that had me thinking about creating an off-site backup in her place again since she has a fiber connection. I'm still not sure about the potential design though, but currently my only backup is in the same rack as the live stuff.

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[–] ABetterTomorrow@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I was going to read into these. What benefits do you see in headscale?

[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 day ago

Mainly that they can't enshittify because they're already open. Tailscale is great right now, and free, but who knows in 5 years

[–] lucullus@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 day ago

I run headscale on my VPS. The tailscale clients are already open source, though by default they connect to the companies servers for coordinating the net. Headscale is open source and replaces the companies servers with your own. Best to not rely on some corporate service, which could cease to exist or be enshittiefied.