Paddy66

joined 9 months ago
[–] Paddy66@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

Does anyone know if it's possible to run VR games on Linux? I'd love t ditch Windows for the gaming pc....

[–] Paddy66@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

My non-profit the Rebel Tech Alliance is working on a series of blog posts that will look at self hosting for begginners. If you sign up for the blog you'll get them when they're published:

https://blog.rebeltechalliance.org/

Or our main website is at https://www.rebeltechalliance.org/

But really what I've got going (if you exclude Transmission) is the simplest stuff. Jellyfin, Calibre and Syncthing are just 'click and install' - they are all self contained so they don't need all that Docker stuff. I suggest just tinkering with them.

[–] Paddy66@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Also running Calibre, Syncthing, Transmission and Filen. all on Linux Mint.

I can't cope with TUI-only OS's - the command stuff makes no sense to me at all. I've learned some of it, and am trying to get Nextcloud running in Docker behind Nginx Proxy Manager, but I can't work out DDNS yet so.... 😂

I was keen on Proxmox or Yunohost, but put off by the fact that they totally replace the OS. I'd be more comfortable with something that runs on the OS, like Docker does.

[–] Paddy66@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago

Thank you for your help!

We have fixed it - the problem was that I had already set up DNS records so that Tuta could send emails using our website domain. This was blocking the proper set up of mailgun/transactional emails.

So we worked out how to set up emails for the business separately using the SMPT email server of our web hosting provider - et voila! Email set up works!

 

Has anyone here managed to set up the email for their Ghost blog, that you hosted using Pikapods? We're using Mailgun, but cannot get it all to work.

I've been trying for ages - no luck. First we're trying to just get it to be able to send the email invite for a new staff member. won't do that. Haven't even got to the bulk emails yet (though I have inputted the Mailgun API key to Ghost).

[–] Paddy66@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

If only. Most people I know have never heard of F-Droid... Only privacy-savvy people have.

[–] Paddy66@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago

I'd be more worried about having to send gov ID docs - more creepy control by Google.

[–] Paddy66@lemmy.ml 16 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Contact your representative. And here's F-droid's article about it (including how to find your representative at the end of the article): https://f-droid.org/en/2025/09/29/google-developer-registration-decree.html

[–] Paddy66@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 months ago

This is pretty good value https://www.gmktec.com/products/nucbox-g3-plus-enhanced-performance-mini-pc-with-intel-n150-processor

I bought one for self hosting and flashed it with Linux.

[–] Paddy66@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If I install ddclient on my mini-pc is that what you mean by having a server with ddclient?

My Asus router is not shown in their docs as supported - does that matter?

Also - can I just keep using my current domain name registrar, and not use Cloudflare?

[–] Paddy66@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 months ago

That doesn't seem to be appropriate for a specific domain. Unless I'm reading it wrong.

We need to expose the Ghost blog on a specific subdomain of the domain we own ( blog.ourdomain.org )

doesn't Tailscale Funnel assign a funky domain name rather than let you use your own?

[–] Paddy66@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Hi, I'm using Docker - one container for Ghost and one for Nginx Proxy Manager.

I've decided to go with DDNS but am having trouble choosing a reliable free provider. I've seen Dynu.com recommended but that is not available in the dropdown list of servers in my router's section on DDNS. Is that relevant?

Or would I just ignore the router settings and set it up some other way?

 

hi everyone,

I was just about to self-host a Ghost blog but then was warned that my ISP might change my external IP address at any time, so I would need to pay for a static IP address.

Is that true?

(I'd not seen much about that in stuff I've looked up so far about self hosting)

 

I've joined Lemmy.ml. Someone sent me a link to a video posted on Feddit.nl - I thought I could log in and upvote/comment using my Lemmy.ml credentials. Wrong!

Why is this? Sorry for my ignorance, I'm relatively new to the fediverse. But I thought that they were all federated so you can interact with all instances??!

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