w33k in g33k: November 14, 2025

Android

• Lichtmetzger Design & Technik: Rooting the Unihertz Titan 2 and installing Magisk
  • I was just looking for how to enable developer mode for the device (must have been tapping the wrong “Build Number” field) & one of the first results was about getting root & Magisk installed. I don’t plan for this to be my daily driver phone, but may end up doing the root \ Magisk for fun.

Privacy

• EFF: The Legal Case Against Ring’s Face Recognition Feature

Self-Hosting

• Likely do to something I did… I had some issues with one of my “servers” running a few Docker containers, storing their data on an external drive. Long-story-short, I wiped the drive forgetting I had other containers saving data there too (Nextcloud was what had the issue but Immich & DailyTxT were on there too).
  • After getting Nextcloud setup again (I honestly forget what issue I had in the first place that made me start that one from scratch), I ended up doing the same for Immich & restored a backup I had for DailyTxT.
• Another issue I had (might have been related to above) was my Portainer service on the same host lost my compose files. I don’t believe it was storing data on the external drive that I wiped, but I guess that would explain the issue.
  • I ended up having to use docker inspect to find what information I could, combine that with the recommended docker-compose files, & got that all up & running again. Of course now I’ve made sure I save those compose files more often & in multiple places.
  • This is why I started looking into Komodo, because I believe I read that it should be able to backup the compose files, & manage multiple hosts. I never really got that part of Portainer setup.
  • So for now, I am slowly deploying out Komodo to see if I want to replace Portainer with it. Right now I’m just trying to see how I can get Komodo to create stacks on a remote host, but that is running rootless Docker, & as soon as I figure that out, I will start moving more management there. And also double checking all my backups to make sure that when i make a mistake & lose something again, it won’t be that big of a deal 🙃
• To not have to worry about losing notes in one container, I am testing a few out again to see which other(s) I might want to run alongside Nextcloud Notes. I’ve saved a few over the last few months, so just grabbed some of those to run.
  • flatnotes
  • Glass Keep: I was already running this & just plan for it to be little notes, not posts I make here or more involved things.
  • Joplin: Again, was already running this but wasn’t using it for site posts, which has been the main focus of Nextcloud notes for me recently.
  • Many Notes
  • Note Mark
• It’s not necessarily for note taking, but I think SelfH.st mentioned Journiv last week, so I’m trying that out alongside DailyTxT just as another backup.

selh.st: Self-Host Weekly #145: Agentic, by Ethan Sholly

• It looks like Ethan has a lot of things I’ll be looking into this weekend…
• Ars Technica: Google will let Android power users bypass upcoming sideloading restrictions
• GitHub: henrygd / beszel: “Lightweight server monitoring hub with historical data, docker stats, and alerts.”
• GitHub: fccview / cronmaster: “Cron management made easy”
• GitHub: damongolding / immich-kiosk: “Highly configurable slideshows for displaying Immich assets on browsers and devices.”
  • I always mix up if my Frameo frame is using this or ImmichFrame: “An awesome way to display your photos as a digital photo frame”. So it does look like it’s actually ImmichFrame I am using there. I am still running the Kiosk for whatever reason as well…
• GitHub: rcourtman / Pulse: “A responsive monitoring platform for Proxmox VE, PBS, and Docker with real-time metrics across nodes and containers”
  • I am still getting settled with Komodo, but still wanted to checkout other monitoring \ dashboard services.
• GitHub: rommapp / romm: “A beautiful, powerful, self-hosted rom manager and player.”
  • Eventually after putting this on my weekly list repeatedly, I will remember \ get to trying this out.
• GitHub: bscott / subtrackr: “Self-hosted Subscription Tracker”
  • Over the last week or two I was having to setup my Nextcloud instance from scratch, which was where I had a lot of my financial \ bill calendar entries, so just thought something dedicated might be worth looking at, just-in-case.
• GitHub: mvfc / backvault: “Docker container to backup Bitwarden/Vaultwarden vaults to password protected json files”
  • Right now I just have a scheduled script that is backing up my Vaultwarden directory, so this might be a better option.
• GitHub: sbcrumb / chronarr: “Comprehensive date and chronology management for Radarr and Sonarr”
  • I haven’t really been using my Radarr or Sonarr, but may still take a look at this to get into them again.
• GitHub: kikootwo / LibraryDownloadarr: “LibraryDownloadarr is a modern, self-hosted web application that provides a beautiful interface for downloading media from your Plex Media Server.”
  • I am trying to get Jellyfin working in more places (issues on my AppleTV’s), but i am still currently using Plex quite a bit.
• GitHub: getmydia / mydia: “Your personal media companion, built with Phoenix LiveView”
  • I saved this since it was noted as a Radarr or Sonarr alternative.
• GitHub: icbestCA / giftmanager: “Gift ideas manager for families.”
  • This jumped out just because of the time of year, so wanted to look into it.
• GitHub: mayanayza / netvisor: “Automatically discover and visually document network infrastructure.”
  • I wanted to look into this instead of trying to document my network in Draw.io or just a spreadsheet…
• GitHub: fscorrupt / Posterizarr: “🖼️ Automated poster maker for Plex/Jellyfin/Emby.”
  • I have some libraries & other content that might benefit from a tool like this.