You’re right, but I’d use the word ‘trick’ over the word joke. There is no trick that would pass my scrutiny to be okay at work, that’s why I replied the way I did.

Jokes like one liners or what stand up comedians do are usually more acceptable in my eyes. I have yet to see a joke used for April fools. If you have an example please share and I might do it next year.

In the end, I really don’t care, if the joke/trick lands and no one was upset then take the win. You know your environment and are making it a better place.

Okay, so, You’re going to need to pretend like I’m 5 years old here.

The end goal is for me to give this my email creds, it will then monitor my email and when I get a match it’ll run the API call, right?

However, right now, you don’t want to take usernames and passwords so you generate random emails as an example to show what it COULD do.

If I’m correct it might be a little early to give people access as there’s nothing I can really do. I created an account on your site but there’s nothing there explaining what I’m doing just a couple input boxes with a one word label.

I would use this for email -> matrix but I’d have to self host it. I’m sure others would use it if you had some built in API calls that less techy people could use.

Do you allow users to matched regex from the email and use it the API Call?

In my mind, there’s a big difference between a quick one liner or a silly dad joke than an April fools “joke”.

April fools you try and trick someone into something. Like telling someone their socks are untied. It’s rude to the person who you’re trying to trick and they don’t feel good after. If someone believed you’re rolling back to XP only to be told “haha, JK” it’s almost rude… And these are the “nice” ones. Flipping a website upside down or filling an office with balloons… What?

Jokes should be fun for everyone. April fools is not.

I don’t understand what you’re doing here. I use your website to what?

Monitor my email and when I get one that matches the regex it’ll make an API call?

Or is your website the API endpoint?

The video didn’t help me understand.

I personally don’t think April fools jokes should take place in a professional environment. Between friends and family, sure, as long as they’re harmless but not at work.

This is actually really interesting, I might have to try this.

I currently use a USB stick with a key file on it that I need to plug in on boot. Something like this but it wasn’t that easy for me. https://openterprise.it/2022/07/fedora-unlock-luks-full-disk-encrypted-system-using-usb-stick/

Edit: I wonder if yours will work on my VPS… I’d love to encrypt that.

https://www.ovpn.com/en

BUT, I’m not sure how well it works… While rutorrent says port forwarding is working, and It seems to be from my tests… Checking randomly the only peers I see that connect to me also have ovpn IPs so I’m not sure if I’m actually accessible or not.

I selfhost everything I use, including the *arr stack. I do have a VPS with hetzner.com and they’re pretty good but I wouldn’t personally host torrent or *arr with them. If you want someone else to host I’d suggest doing the research and finding something that works for you. My only experience is 5+ years ago with dediseedbox.com so YMMV if you choose them. They do have a cheap-ish VPS.

I think Docker is the way to go either on a VPS or on your own box. If you like a webUI for it use https://www.portainer.io/.

If you do go with docker be very careful about what ports you expose, you can easily open up everything publicly so be sure to double check and bind almost everything to 127.0.0.1.

If you have any specific questions I’d be happy to help.

If you’re paying for a seedbox you can either get a vps (Linux VM) and do it yourself or just pay for the rutorrent web interface. I use to use dediseedbox.com awhile ago and had no complaints. My suggestion is to just have whatever provider host it so you don’t have to use docker or anything.

If you want to do it yourself, then docker is the way to go and you should probably get a VPN on top of that so your traffic is mixed with other people. A dedicated server or VPS means you get your own IP and it can be linked to you.

This is 100% my opinion too.

I’m annoyed that I supported them and got a lifetime account on sale. At the same time I’m happy that I can take my time testing and moving my family and friends over to something else.

I host pingvin for people to send stuff to me. To send, usually I’ll just move the file into a folder that exposed to Nginx with indexing and send that link. Otherwise I’ll also just use my pingvin instance.

I’ve had no problems with the normal nextcloud apache container for the last couple years. I lock to a major version and let it update itself on the minors until I feel like like changing the yaml to the next major. I’ve gone from 24 to 30 this way without issue.

Actually, I do have to install the contacts and calendar apps from time to time but that’s only when I want to use the webUI for them, caldav/carddav has always worked.

E-mail provider

Thinking more about it, If you just want to host and not mess around like I do, I would use your current computer, install Docker on it and see how you like it. Host a example website see if you can get it to work, Try a Minecraft server and see if it works… If that’s not for you then you can try VMs with an entire OS. This will be a lot more overhead but it will also work.

After you know what you like (Docker containers or an entire VM), I’d design what you want to do. Are you going to have a lot of people on your Jellyfin and Minecraft servers? how much RAM, CPU, Storage do they use?

Once you have that information, Look at prices, Do you want one big PC and will it do everything you want? If you need to buy several, maybe it’s better to get a bunch of small ones?

If it’s one big PC then you’re done. Get it, install Docker/VM and go.

If you want to play around or you need to get many PCs, do you want to cluster them so Minecraft server can move to a different PC if that PC fails? then do Swarm or K3s if you’re okay with docker.

If you need to do small PCs, maybe you install Docker normally on each and manage them separately.

In the end it’s totally up to you what you do. I use K8s :)

I’ve never actually used swarm so I could be wrong. However, I was under the impression that Docker swarm is a lot easier to use with a lot more examples for people to deploy their Containers.

With K8s/K3s I find myself translating a lot of docker examples into deployment yamls with Services, Network Policies, PVCs, secrets, etc, etc. It’s just a lot more lines in the .yml files. This also assumes you know that anything that you run in docker you can run in K8s with 1 replica and more is not ideal.

https://docs.docker.com/engine/swarm/

Yeah, so you have more than one PC and they will talk to each other and decide who hosts what.

For example, you host nextcloud and the cluster will decide (unless you tell it differently) it goes to PC1. Then you host Minecraft and the cluster will put it on PC2.

Now, PC2 dies, you unplug it, or generally something bad happens. The cluster will see that Minecraft isn’t running, PC2 is down, and start Minecraft on PC1. The best part, just keep adding cheap computers as you need more compute power. One container (Plex,emby,etc) can not run on two or more computers. If you need to transcoded then you’ll want one with a GPU or a more powerful CPU depending on how many people will use the service.

This all assumes you’re not using local data. Meaning if the Minecraft save and config files are on PC2 and it dies, starting it on PC1 will either not work or be 100% new. There’s other self hosted software to replicate the data to more than one computer or you can have a NAS of some sort.

It’s a bit more advanced but a lot of fun if you enjoy that kind of thing. It allows you to work on your stuff with minimal downtime. Of

I have 3 raspberry PIs, 4 various lenovo tiny PCs all in a kubernetes cluster and it seems I need more RAM than CPU. Storage is on a DIY NAS with 8*8TB disks in a raid 6.

I run bookstack, nextcloud, 2007scape, gitea, synapse, the *are stack, Plex, and a bunch of other things.

If I was just starting out I’d grab a used lenovo tiny or two, set up a docker cluster and play with that. There is software to replicate local storage across nodes that I’ve never touched but I’d try out a few of them also if you don’t want to use a NAS. Worst case, just use local storage and the containers will be locked to that host.

I think Proxmox let’s you run VMs and Containers too if you prefer that route.

lemmyshitpost on lemmy.world currently has a mod from startrek.website. Not sure if that means you can create it but it seems that you can at least be listed as a mod.

Can you explain a bit more? Any resources I can read up on?

From what I’ve read, the keys rotate every 6 seconds so you’ll need to find a reliable, low latency source that will allow you access. Aside from that I haven’t found much in the way of required equipment or providers as everyone is talking about IPTV these days.

Isn’t IPTV shit for sports or really anything popular? I’ve read there’s a tonne of buffering and quality problems… I dont watch sports but I have family and friends looking for a solution and ask me because they’re on my Plex server.

Personally the *arr stack is perfect for what I do. When I want to watch something I’ll scroll through the recently added and pick something.