Immich 3.2.0 mit verbesserter Suche

Die neue Version der selbstgehosteten Foto- & Videoverwaltung baut essentielle Funktionen weiter aus.

#Linux #Immich #OpenSource #Selfhosting

linuxnews.de/immich-3-2-0-mit-…

GOODBYE BIG TECH.

At the end of August @arbovm and I decided to move away from US Big Tech. Wanting @fluado to be an EU company while running on US infrastructure felt icky…

OUT: Google Cloud, Cloud Run, GitHub, Supabase Cloud, Firebase
IN: Hetzner, Docker Swarm, Forgejo, self-hosted Supabase DB & Auth.

Full article and table of all 17 infra changes: https://yves.vg/blog/leaving-us-big-tech-in-one-week.html

Feedback welcome :)

#digitalsovereignty #degoogle #devops #selfhosting #forgejo #hetzner #EUTech #europe

Has anyone around here installed Funkwhale with Docker?

I'm trying to install Funkwhale with Docker, and so far it's not working, so I'd like to at least compare the "docker-compose.yml" and the ".env" files to check if I can figure out why mine isn't working.

This is basically the error that comes up, when I try to run the database migrations:

"+ exec funkwhale-manage migrate
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/venv/lib/python3.14/site-packages/django/db/backends/base/base.py", line 279, in ensure_connection
self.connect()
~~~~~~~~~~~~^^
File "/venv/lib/python3.14/site-packages/django/utils/asyncio.py", line 26, in inner
return func(*args, **kwargs)
File "/venv/lib/python3.14/site-packages/django/db/backends/base/base.py", line 256, in connect
self.connection = self.get_new_connection(conn_params)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^"

I'm using this tutorial:

https://docs.funkwhale.audio/stable/administrator/installation/docker.html

#Funkwhale #fediverse #selfhosting #help #docker

Moin! Wer hat Erfahrung mit #Meshtastic? Ich überlege, ins Mesh-Untergrundnetz abzutauchen, unabhängig von Handymast und Provider 😂 Klingt nach Prepper-Hobby, ist aber eigentlich nur konsequent zu Ende gedachtes #FOSS. Nein, mach ich natürlich nicht...

#offgrid #lora #selfhosting #schicksalsjahreeineskaisers

please boost.

i am ready to start providing email addresses to the community.

you may have 1GB mail box storage capacity free of charge.

the system-wide code of conduct is at:

https://solarpunk.au/

if you are interested in a non-free account, please click here:

https://ko-fi.com/comradevidak/tiers

the lowest membership tiers:

- $1.25 per month (2GB storage capacity)
- $15 per year (2GB storage capacity)

#selfhosting #server #email #permacomputing #solarpunk

Bitwarden and KeePassXC aren’t exact matches to 1Password, but they might be close enough. [I’ve heard of them, but I haven’t added them to my Linux distro.]

Both password systems are #FOSS. This is a significant difference relative to #1Password.

#Bitwarden is said to be more convenient than #KeePassXC. It supports cloud syncing, mobile apps, and other ease of use features. KeePassXC is said to offer more fine-grained control, but syncing is manual.

Both systems can be set up on a #selfhosting system, but that is entirely optional.

https://openalternative.co/compare/bitwarden/vs/keepassxc

#askfedi and I’ll check my dedi.

My #gotosocial instance has peered with almost 6k instances 👀 #selfhosting #homelab

Syncthing is encrypted peer-to-peer free open software for sharing files and synchronising folders between several different computers no matter where they are in the world. More info on the website:

🌱 https://syncthing.net

If you're moderately techy you can install via @yunohost at https://apps.yunohost.org/app/syncthing

If you're very techy the full manual documentation is at https://docs.syncthing.net

#SelfHosting #FOSS #Syncing #Encryption #FileSharing

Yesterday I accidentally nuked my music library in #plex after messing around with Linux permissions. I couldn't restore from a backup since I was also making other changes and recording a show on the DVR...

I fixed the error, but now I have to recreate all my playlists 🤦

#selfhosting #fail

Trying to figure out and track SSD health across my servers. Writing down a wear-out value for each drive for now to see the change, because different drives are reporting this value differently. So 95% may mean it is almost dead, or it is almost brand new.

Also, #Samsung NVMe wears out crazily fast.

#SSD #DriveHealth #Storage #HomeLab #SelfHosted #SelfHosting #SelfHost.

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A table listing SSD drives with two columns labeled August 27 and September 14. Each drive has a wear-out value written in each dated column.

A quick remark: we noticed professional companies are not allowed private repositories on Codeberg, but that's necessary for us to operate currently.

For now we pulled our repos and are considering self-hosting forgejo. Will unfortunately take some time, we also need to clean up some repos from internal data before we can make them public.

We're working on it!

#codeberg #forgejo #selfhosting #pwr2

🐧 Le mystère du jour : une vidéo qui refuse de jouer... mais seulement dans UN navigateur. Coupable improbable : Chrome ✅, Firefox ✅, mobile ✅... Vivaldi ❌ 🕵️

Spoiler : ce n'était ni Mastodon, ni PeerTube, ni NPM. Le vrai coupable ? Des codecs propriétaires Flatpak qui ont fait des siennes après une mise à jour. 🎬💥

Enquête complète (avec fausses pistes et vrai bug CORS trouvé en chemin) 👉 https://wiki.blablalinux.be/fr/video-illisible-vivaldi-mastodon-peertube

#SelfHosting #Mastodon #PeerTube #Linux #Homelab #FOSS

I really dislike Discord but all the people I know use it.

I feel like I have to in order to stay in touch with people I care about but the more I use it and with how often it breaks on #Linux I am pretty much fed up with it.

Any #selfhosting people out there want to tell me what they use?

Should I try to install a #Jitsimeet server on my #nas or what?

Looking for anyone who has successfully installed Proxmox on an HP ProLiant DL380 G6 with a Smart Array P411 controller. I have tried Proxmox 7, 8, and 9. Most attempts end in a black screen or kernel panic. Debian itself also fails to detect the RAID 0 logical drive. I have tried both the older CCISS driver and the modern HPSA driver with no luck. Ubuntu installs without issues and sees the array fine, but I do not want Ubuntu running bare metal. I chose Proxmox because the original ESXi install is full of security vulnerabilities and ongoing problems, and I need something better supported. Has anyone got Proxmox working on this exact hardware, or found a reliable way to make the P411 visible during install?

PS. unfortunately I cannot update the firmware right now and since it is not mine and it is for the place that are work in, this is the test hardware that they gave me to try proxmox and see if it's better than EXSI or not.
#Proxmox #ProxmoxVE #HPProLiant #DL380G6 #SmartArray #P411 #Homelab #SelfHosting #Linux #Virtualization

The XMPP Newsletter for August 2026 is out!

Read about the latest updates in the #XMPP universe and our #standards!

https://xmpp.org/2026/09/the-xmpp-newsletter-august-2026/

Enjoy reading! ☕

#jabber #chat #interoperability #SelfHosting #rtc #opensource #decentralization #federation #messaging #newsletter #xep

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The XMPP Newsletter banner with the XMPP logo and a letter symbol on the side.

(Linux news in previous posts)

FOSS NEWS

Elon Musk's X Tried to Kill Nitter. The Project Just Said It’s Coming Back:
https://feed.itsfoss.com/link/24361/17441795/nitter-returns-after-legal-troubles
(FOSS alt frontends are basically unkillable (if they have enough contributors). Not even a billion dollar corp can shut down a community project. See the Invidious case, when YouTube sent them an email threating them with legal action 3 years ago. The project is still active, with a few functional instances.)

GIMP 3.2.6 released with faster font loading, Wacom barrel rotation:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/09/gimp-3-2-6-wacom-rotation-input

Kdenlive 26.08.1 Releases: Stability Fixes, FFmpeg Modernization, and Crash Patches:
https://www.linuxcompatible.org/story/kdenlive-26081-releases-stability-fixes-ffmpeg-modernization-and-crash-patches/

Shotcut 26.9 Video Editor Beta Brings UI Improvements, Better Audio Quality:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Shotcut-26.9-Beta

BleachBit 6.0.4 offers faster scanning, improves Linux cleaners:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/09/bleachbit-6-0-4-update

Cryptomator Hub 2.0 adds user management and emergency access:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2026/9/cryptomator-hub-2-0-adds-user-management-and-emergency-access/

Firefox redesign will arrive in v157 release:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/09/firefox-nova-redesign-coming-september

Ladybird web browser gains video playback, JS debugging, and downloads that pause & resume:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2026/9/ladybird-web-browser-gains-video-playback-js-debugging-and-downloads-that-pause-and-resume/

Zen Browser 1.22.1b Ships With Cross-Device Sync and Shareable Workspace Links:
https://www.linuxcompatible.org/story/zen-browser-1221b-ships-with-crossdevice-sync-and-shareable-workspace-links/

Ente Photos introduces encrypted library sharing and faster on-device machine learning:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2026/9/ente-photos-introduces-encrypted-library-sharing-and-faster-on-device-machine-learning/

Privacy-focused email aliasing service addy.io now blocks email tracking pixels by default:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2026/9/privacy-focused-email-aliasing-service-addy-io-now-blocks-email-tracking-pixels-by-default/

OpenVPN 2.7.7 Released with Various Improvements, Bug and Security Fixes:
https://9to5linux.com/openvpn-2-7-7-released-with-various-improvements-bug-and-security-fixes

Immich 3.2 debuts new search API, cluster groups, workflows' expansion, and much more:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2026/9/immich-3-2-debuts-new-search-api-cluster-groups-workflows-expansion-and-much-more/

Jellyfin 12.0 adds major books and comics support, faster browsing, and FFmpeg 8.1:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2026/9/jellyfin-12-0-adds-major-books-and-comics-support-faster-browsing-and-ffmpeg-8-1/

(more FOSS news in comments)

#WeeklyNews #OpenSource #FOSSNews #FOSS #OpenSourceNews #News #Nitter #GIMP #Kdenlive #Shotcut #BleachBit #Cryptomator #Firefox #Ladybird #ZenBrowser #EntePhotos #AddyIO #OpenVPN #Immich #Jellyfin #Browser #SelfHosting #FosseryTech

@KurtKettlerJunior Selber hosten ist super, aber das Backup sollte man nicht vergessen. Wenn SD-Karte oder SSD ausfällt, sind sonst im dümmsten Fall auch die Daten weg.

Genau deshalb gibt es BackupPilot auch für ARM64 und damit für den Raspberry Pi.

https://git.onesystems.ch/BackupPilot/App

#SelfHosting #RaspberryPi #Backup #Proxmox #ProxmoxBackupServer #ARM64 #BackupPilot

I used the new #immich compose builder[1] released to make some changes to my existing instance:

-upgrading the underlying DBs: not so scary (done before)
-running the container as non-root: little scary (never done that before)
-moving the docker volume to a bind volume: quite scary (wait it works?)
In the end, all good! 🚀

#selfhosted #selfhosting
[1] https://immich.app/docker-compose-builder

I finished the initial setup of a local server and am now starting to move my websites onto it. If you notice any connection issues with my sites, please be patient; everything should stabilize as the migration completes over the next week. #SelfHosting

envelope sieve scripts have never worked for me...I clearly don't understand how it works.

I always try to use it and just end up using header :contains "From" "email@here.com"

#email #selfhosting #homelab

Spun up a fresh Hetzner instance from an old snapshot last week, no login screen, just a UEFI shell staring back at me.

New Hetzner hardware only boots UEFI now, no legacy BIOS fallback, and my snapshot's disk never had an EFI partition. The server type I originally ran got marked "Limited availability", so redeploying the same box wasn't an option.

Fixed it from the rescue system: shrank the filesystem live, carved an EFI partition out of the freed space, chrooted in, lost an evening to CentOS 7's dead repos.

Mid-fdisk I said yes to wiping the ext4 signature by reflex. Caught it before writing. You get to make that mistake exactly once.

The site is uasource.com, me and my dad's old Counter-Strike: Source project from when I was a teenager coding mods for it. Almost lost the only working copy of it to a partition table.

Still don't get why Hetzner doesn't warn you before a restore.

Full write-up: https://dol.ch/blog/hetzner-snapshot-wont-boot-uefi-fix

#Hetzner #UEFI #Linux #Sysadmin #SelfHosting #CentOS #Fediverse

More loggia work.
💚

#HomeLab #SelfHosted #SelfHosting #HomeAssistant

For anyone following this #selfhosting thread, I am already in love with Immich:

• Trivial integration with Authentik for OAuth SSO
• hierarchical albums
• Effortless launching as an app on TrueNAS
• tagging
• Customizable share links. (E.g. if I want the public link to my album to be /s/Christmas2025, I can do that)

It does not upload folders (ente did that trivially), but I still like it.

Ente is about privacy. Since your password acts as an e2e encryption key, they can’t support SSO. They can’t do server-side ML like OCR or facial recognition. The only way to do ML stuff with Ente is a desktop app or a mobile app (running on your desktop or phone’s CPU!)

Immich does not do the e2e stuff at all, which gives you all the server-side benefits.

If you lose your Ente encryption key, you have lost all your photos, even though you still have the data. Immich is just files on a disk and a Postgres database. Easier to backup and restore.
#photos

Amusing. I wrestled and wrestled several evenings this week and finally got #ente installed #selfhosted. Much like #JellyFin before it, as soon as I got working with it I disliked it. I"m going to shut it down and try #immich.

The two deal breakers for me were:

• No tags. Ente literally doesn't let you tag photos. It has facial recognition and "favourites." But no tags.
• No hierarchy. I don't understand how someone puts 60,000 photos into a series of albums that have no hierarchy. No folders, no nested albums. Just a straight, flat topology of albums.

JellyFin was like that with video. No way to organize MY way. Only their way or the highway.

#selfhosting

Six of my 194 backups came back failed. Retry did nothing.

I had just published an article about pulling 2 TB out of Glacier Deep Archive for 15 dollars flat rate, so I assumed flat rate has limits after all.

It does. Just not that one.

CloudFront refuses to serve a file over 50 GB in one GET. Mine were 250 to 350 GB, because years ago I decided one big archive is easier to move around than many small ones, and I did not think one step further.

The way around it is in the AWS docs. One curl per 40 GB chunk with a Range header, then cat the parts back together. Worked first time, 250 GB in about an hour.

AWS is still not switched off, by the way. Not because of AWS. The disks in my NAS have ten years of runtime on them and HDD prices right now are out of control.

Wrote it up with the script:
https://www.dol.ch/en/blog/cloudfront-50gb-limit-en/

#AWS #CloudFront #S3 #Backup #Bash #SelfHosting #Homelab #Blog

I'm looking for some self-hosted, opensource, service help. I need to monitor a bunch of the services I'm running around the house and the only dashboard I've come across is kuma. It looks like what I need, but I like to shop around before choosing.

Does any self-hosters here have suggestions?

https://uptimekuma.co

#selfhosting #homelab #opensource

It has been a while since I wrote a proper long guide about something I actually love doing.

In September 2025 I wrote up how to run Mastodon on Kubernetes. That blog is gone, the guide survives only in the Web Archive. A text about backups that exists as somebody else's copy. At least it stayed on topic.

So I rewrote all of it against Mastodon 4.6.

The part I got wrong the first time was the most important one: Postgres as a Deployment with a PVC next to it.
Kubernetes sends SIGTERM, Postgres reads that as a smart shutdown and waits for every client to disconnect. Sidekiq never does. Thirty seconds later, SIGKILL and a crash recovery.

CloudNativePG and continuous WAL archiving now, RPO down from 24 hours to minutes. Still no Helm, everything by hand, because I want to understand what runs.

My own instance came off Kubernetes in March, purely on cost. This is the config as it last ran.

https://www.dol.ch/en/blog/mastodon-4-6-kubernetes-en/

#Kubernetes #PostgreSQL #CloudNativePG #SelfHosting #DevOps #Mastodon #Blog #Fediverse

please boost.

https://solarpunk.au/

been running this 45 TB disk array for some time now.

the intention behind it was to provide services to the community.

i was thinking, what sort of services do you want to see or use?

some ideas:

- IRC
- gemini/gopher, there are some forum softwares
- neocities instance

i'd like there to be some way to share this disk space in a useful way.

#selfhosting #permacomputing #solarpunk