somegregariousdude

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Three Docker related questions in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] somegregariousdude@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago

unfortunately, the American data centers that Hetzner has don’t have any capacity for the type of VPS that I’m interested in. what they do offer for those particular data centers is just entirely too expensive for my budget. That’s why I went with one of the European data centers, as even with the upcoming pricing increase, I’ll be able to actually afford my VPS. Plus, having it outside of American jurisdiction makes me much happier.

Three Docker related questions in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] somegregariousdude@piefed.social 1 points 2 days ago

Nope, from the West Coast of the United States. Although, for some odd reason, the server wound up being in Helsinki.

Three Docker related questions in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] somegregariousdude@piefed.social 1 points 2 days ago

OK, on second thought, I might consider go to social and possibly PeerTube as I’ve never been able to find an instance that I can host a channel on successfully. A XMPP/Movim server might be a possibility as well.

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Three Docker related questions (piefed.social)
submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by somegregariousdude@piefed.social to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Hey all, I know the purists might sneer at me for this, but I just spun up a server via Hetzner so I could run Docker in the cloud. Since my ISP uses CGNAT, my only options for hosting services at home are either via Tailscale Funnel or CloudFlare Tunnel. If you remember my previous post about Yattee, that's not available on the public internet, but was meant for my private use only. The idea behind this new project is hosting things I intend for public access. I'm debating if I'm going to use a domain I already own that ends in the .us TLD or if I should wait until I get paid in a couple of days and buy a new one from Pork Bun that doesn't have the .us TLD and all the potential baggage that carries. Three questions come to mind:

  • How practical is running Portainer on my Docker instance? (I've got it installed, but I'm new to Portainer and Docker for the most part.)
  • Other than Friendica, Mastodon, Matrix, PeerTube and PieFed, what's worth running on a Docker instance with 8 VCPUs, 16GB of RAM and around 300GB of storage?
  • Is there a Matrix room for those wishing to discuss self-hosting, especially via Docker?
Using Yattee, Invidious & Tailscale to give Google the finger in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] somegregariousdude@piefed.social 1 points 3 days ago

Yattee Server is just a YT-DLP based back end for Yattee 2.0 (which is currently only available via TestFlight). Yattee 1.0 was actually pulled by the dev from the App Store because it was out of date and broken. Being blind, I can’t tell you the resolution that videos play in, but at least for me they play smoothly with some rare stuttering. From what I can tell, setting things to proxy the videos Directly through Yattee Server leads to a temporary download that lasts for 24 hours, but the playback is slow to start due to the requirement of the download needing to occur first. Once it does play, then the experience is as I described earlier.

Using Yattee, Invidious & Tailscale to give Google the finger in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] somegregariousdude@piefed.social 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

I was having a discussion with a friend of mine from a more conservative part of the country and I happen to mention my set up involving YouTube. The reaction I got from the friend was negative to say the least. He outright accuse me of stealing money from the hands of creators on YouTube by blocking ads and tracking from Google. Am I a little upset at him? Yes, but not enough to end the friendship over something like this.

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Using Yattee, Invidious & Tailscale to give Google the finger (piefed.social)
 

Everyone knows that YouTube is a hot mess when it comes to privacy, and I finally got fed up with having to shell out my hard earned money for YouTube Premium. It wasn't too dificult to find a reasonable solution for my Fedora system... just pop into Gnome Software and install Pipeline. Problem solved there... no tracking, and I only had to deal with the occasional sponsor message in a video. I've also got UBlock Origin, Sponsor Block and Dearrow installed in Fire Fox, so things are solved there too. The problem was my iPhone, and how to work around the ads in YouTube there. Thankfully, a little research lled me to an app/server called Yattee. I found a few guides in their documentation about how to install it (it assumes Docker, but I have Podman on my Fedora system and had to modify some instructions slightly to take SELinux into account), and I successfully got it set up. I did have to connect Yattee to an Invidious instance, but that's quite straightforward to do. Finally, I used Tailscale Serve to create a reverse HTTPS proxy in front of the Yattee server hosted via the Podman instance so I could access the server from the client app on my iPhone regardless of wherever I happen to be. I've tested it out, and despite the client being a beta (v2.x) and the server being fairly new as well, it allows me to enjoy YouTube videos without Google's privacy-invasive BS. Two final notes: 1. The server isn't exposed to the public internet, and is only available over my tailnet. 2. I use a public Invidious instance, but the integration isn't for the actual retrieval of videos (that's handled by the Yattee server, which is YT-DLP based), it's more for search and metadata retrieval. Maybe not a perfect solution, but it does the job I want it to do.