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After having issues with my Raspberry Pi 4, 4GB Pi-Hole last week, I just picked up a 5 to replace it, assuming it was the hardware. Overall the cutover was straight-forwarded, I had done some prep work with packages, configs, etc before cutting anything over, then last night I actually took the jump. Again, for the most part, it was all smooth. Thie biggest headache i ran into was getting the Pi-Hole web interface working with nginx… I have 2 Pi-Hole’s, so i was able to use the nginx from my secondary as a reference, & tried using that for the primary. Just a few hours of “403 Forbidden” errors when trying to browser to the domain.tld/admin. For the hell of it, just trying to keep the …/sites-enabled/ directory clean i deleted the default nginx config… that fixed my issue 😑. So if anyone else (or i) run into this issue again… just make sure the default nginx config file is no longer in place. Magic!

Android Dev.to: What to do with a Surface Duo in 2025: I know i started looking into a newer Android version for my Surface Duo, but don’t think i did anything about it. So now i’m looking into it again. GitHub: Archfx / duo-de: “Surface Duo Dual Experience ( 🍰 AOSP | Android 16 | DUO1 | DUO2 )” Games WCCFTech: Hades 2 Weapons Tier List Guide: I haven’t played Hades 2 yet, but it was something i saved for later reading. Hardware FuriLabs: FLX1s: “The FLX1s from Furi Labs runs a fully optimized Linux system called FuriOS, packing a lightning fast user interface, 3 hardware switches for microphone, camera and modem/gps, and a privacy centric approach like no other.” It’s FOSS: This $550 Linux Phone Has Kill Switches That Protect Your Privacy Yanko Design: This Linux phone with Android app support has three kill switches for complete privacy Hack A Day: Trapped Soul In Time For Halloween: I might have already added this to last week’s post, but i thought it was interesting so i’m adding it (again). Privacy XDA: I tried many Pi-hole tweaks, and here are the 5 that actually made a difference I thought i lost my blocklists for Pi-Hole & came across this when digging into what lists I wanted to put back. I thought it might have some interesting items to look into. “Using well-curated blocklists pays off” “Enabling DNSSEC improved privacy and trust” “Blocking known malware and phishing domains” “Setting up Pi-hole as the network’s only DNS resolver” “Adding a local DNS entry for my home services” Reading through these… i wouldn’t consider these tweaks… they’re just additional features that Pi-Hole has. So maybe not as useful as I was expecting. GitHub: yaelwrites / Big-Ass-Data-Broker-Opt-Out-List: “This list, also known as BADBOOL, was started in September 2017 and was most recently updated on September 30, 2025 to remove CocoFinder, as the Google form included to opt out was removed by Google due to alleged terms of service violations. Once there is a way to opt out, it will be re-added.” Meshtastic Since I’ve been trying to do more with Meshtastic & notifications (ntfy, Gotify, Apprise) & can use just a simple Discord server as the destination, i was planning to checkout these projects that were mentioned in the nyme.sh GitHub: baymesh / rage-against-the-meshine GitHub: axlixr / Meshtastic-to-Discord-bridge GitHub: Kavitate / Meshtastic-Discord-Bot Chicagoland Mesh: MQTT: Mistakes to Avoid GitHub: meshtastic / antenna-reports: “Community-contributed antenna testing reports and evaluations for Meshtastic devices.” Chicagoland Mesh: Setting up MQTT for your node adrelien: How To Host Your Own MQTT For Your Meshtastic Nodes Meshtastic: Local Groups United States Midwest Mesh Mountain Mesh (North GA / East TN) DMV (DC-MD-VA) Mesh Meshtastic Australia: Crash Course MichMesh: Getting Started MichMesh: nstallation and configuration of the Mosquitto MQTT server /r/meshtastic: MQTT etiquette Miscellaneous It’s FOSS: How I am Using Git and Obsidian for Note Version Management: I’m still mainly using Joplin for notes, but do have Obsidian as well. I think I’ve more been using it as a backup for content I keep in DailyTxT. I am still super excited for when DailyTxT 2.0 will be released as well. Nextcloud Forums: How to edit Nextclouds config.php file with a texteditor?: I honestly forget what issue i ran into with my Nextcloud install where i needed to edit the config file, but since I’m running it in a Docker container, i was looking for this info to fix my problem. GitHub: Loosetooth / syncwings: “SyncWings is self-hosted software that lets you sync files between multiple devices and manage them easily through a web-based file manager. Supports multiple users on a single server.” /r/SelfHosted: Syncthing Homepage Widget https://docs.syncthing.net/dev/rest.html Pi-Hole Discourse: Pihole 6 (upgraded from v5) fails regulary seems to related to sqlite3 error Pi-Hole Discourse: Is it possible to have 2x DHCP servers with Pi-Hole + Gravity Sync?: Trying to see how to setup DHCP on a second Pi-Hole since I’m having problems with my primary & tired of my network pretty much getting taken out when primary Pi-Hole has problems. Unraid: Redundant PiHole DHCP setup ! Self-Host Weekly (10 October 2025)), by Ethan Sholly Akash Rajpurohit: Beszel — Lightweight self-hosted server monitoring for your homelab: I’m still trying to settle on a way to get alerts about servers or containers being down, so I will look into Bezel. GitHub: dockpeek / dockpeek: “Easily access your Docker container web interfaces and keep them up to date — across all your hosts.” For the same reasoning as above, looking for a good way to monitor Docker containers. GitHub: jeffcaldwellca / mkcertWeb: “Web based user interface for mkcert CLI internal CA” This might be one I saved before. I’m currently using the EFF’s Certbot smallstep’s Step CA Server for certificate management & automatic renewals. That has been going extremely well, but still like to keep an eye out for alternatives. GitHub: adanowitz / HASSL: “Home Assistant Simple Scripting Language” I’ve been digging into HomeAssistant more, so planning to check this out. GitHub: jtaylortech / journalot: “Minimal journaling CLI for developers. Git-backed, terminal-native, zero friction. Just type journal and start writing.” Anything mentioned as a “journal” gets my attention, even though I’m extremely happy with DailyTxT. Which I’m now seeing has it’s 2.0 release out… will definitely be taking advantage of that. GitHub: jasonyang-ee / MMMF: “Max Money Market Funds Calculator” GitHub: perstarkse / minne: “Minne, a read-it-later & personal knowledge management solution” GitHub: NeoHuncho / vikunja-voice-assistant: “Simplify your Vikunja task creation using Home voice assistant” GitHub: LoredCast / filewizard: “File Converter, OCR, Transcription & TTS WebUI” GitHub: volantvm / flint: “Lightweight tool for managing linux virtual machines” GitHub: effcaldwellca / mkcertWeb: “Web based user interface for mkcert CLI internal CA”

GitHub: caronc / apprise I took a look at this a few years back, but didn’t really dig too much into it. Now that I was playing around with Gotify alongside ntfy.sh, I thought it would be worth looking into Apprise again, so i don’t need to keep adding blocks for Gotify & ntfy to any scripts where I was leveraging them. Config File: ~/.config/apprise/config.yaml # https://github.com/caronc/apprise/wiki/config_yaml # Host: LenovoM710q # Path: /home/smc/.config/apprise/config.yaml # Define your Groups # groups: # - friends: # Multiple Group Assignments; reuse of a tag causes existing assignment # to stack on the previous value. # TeamA, Friends = user1, user3 # TeamB, Friends = user2, user4 # Our global tags to associate with all of the URLs we define # tag: urls: # One-liner (no colon at the end); just the url as you'd expect it: # - ntfys://ntfy.domain.home/topic1-General # topic1, topic2, topic3 # different topic names so i don't have to go looking them up. # - gotifys://gotify.domain.home/appToken # [Discord](https://github.com/caronc/apprise/wiki/Notify_discord): # - discord://webhook_id/webhook_token # - discord://avatar@webhook_id/webhook_token # https://discord.com/api/webhooks/#########/a1b2c3d4 # id: ######### # token: a1b2c3d4 - discord://#########/a1b2c3d4 # [Gotify](https://github.com/caronc/apprise/wiki/Notify_gotify): # - gotifys://gotify.domain.home/$token # - gotifys://gotify.domain.home/$token?priority=$severity # Applications: # - Server 1: Token1 # - Server 2: Token2 # - Server 3: Token3 - gotifys://gotify.domain.home/appToken # [Home Assistant](https://github.com/caronc/apprise/wiki/Notify_homeassistant): # - hassios://homeassistant.domain.home/?accesstoken # - hassios://user@homeassistant.domain.home/accesstoken # - hassios://user:password@homeassistant.domain.home:443/accesstoken # - hassios://homeassistant.domain.home/optional/path/accesstoken - hassios://homeassistant.domain.home?appKey # [Mastodon](https://github.com/caronc/apprise/wiki/Notify_mastodon): # - mastodons://access_key@hostname # - mastodons://access_key@hostname/@user # - mastodons://access_key@hostname/@user1/@user2/@userN # [MQTT](https://github.com/caronc/apprise/wiki/Notify_mqtt): # - mqtts://mqtt.domain.home/$topic # - mqtts://user@mqtt.domain.home/topic # - mqtts://user:pass@mqtt.domain.home:9883/topic # - mqtts://mqtt.domain.home:8883/mqttTopic # 20250928: SMc: Having issues with this one. # [Nextcloud](https://github.com/caronc/apprise/wiki/Notify_nextcloud): # - nclouds://adminuser:pass@nextcloud.domain.home/User # - nclouds://adminuser:pass@nextcloud.domain.home/User1/User2/UserN # [Nextcloud Talk](https://github.com/caronc/apprise/wiki/Notify_nextcloudtalk): # - nctalks://user:pass@nextcloud.domain.home/RoomId # - nctalks://user:pass@nextcloud.domain.home/RoomId1/RoomId2/RoomIdN - nctalks://AppriseUser:passkey@nextcloud.domain.home/string # [ntfy](https://github.com/caronc/apprise/wiki/Notify_ntfy): # Topics: topic1, topic2 # - ntfys://ntfy.domain.home/$topic/ # - ntfys://ntfy.domain.home/$topic/ - ntfys://ntfy.domain.home/topic # [Signal API](https://github.com/caronc/apprise/wiki/Notify_signal): # - signals://signal-api.domain.home:443/FromPhoneNo # - signals://signal-api.domain.home:443/FromPhoneNo/ToPhoneNo # - signals://signal-api.domain.home:443/FromPhoneNo/ToPhoneNo1/ToPhoneNo2/ToPhoneNoN/ - signals://signal-api.domain.home:443/phoneNo/phoneNo # [Telegram](https://github.com/caronc/apprise/wiki/Notify_telegram): # Alphr: [How to Find a Chat ID in Telegram](https://www.alphr.com/find-chat-id-telegram/) # - tgrams://bottoken/ChatID # - tgrams://bottoken/ChatID1/ChatID2/ChatIDN - tgram://ID:key/chatID # Message to my Telegram handle # - tgram://ID:key/-100group # Message to the group. - tgram://ID:key/-100group:1/ # Message to "General" topic in group. # - tgram://ID:key/-100group:8/ # Message to "Testing" topic in group.

🍎 Apple Lifehacker: 10 Apple Shortcut Hacks Every iPhone User Should Know Extend your Action Button’s capabilities: Shortcuts: Multi-shortcut Action Button Use News Report AI to get your news right in Notes: Shortcuts: News Report AI Save X video clips with this shortcut: Shorcuts: X Downloader Expand your song repertoire with MusicBot: Shorcuts: 🤖 MusicBot Save Current Location will log where you are: Shorcuts: Save Current Location Low Battery Announcement will save you from a dead phone: Shorcuts: Low Battery Announcement Shazam & Save listens for what’s playing: “You’ll find it in the Gallery tab of the Shortcuts app.” Personalize your post-morning-alarm routine Get a battery warning when leaving the house Run specific actions in your car /r/Apple: Forcing the iPad 6th Gen Past iPadOS 17 (upRa1n) - Channel Ramble Invidious (nadeko.net): Forcing the iPad 6th Gen PAST iPadOS 17 (upRa1n) YouTube: Forcing the iPad 6th Gen PAST iPadOS 17 (upRa1n) GitHub: Zer0xDev / upRa1n: “Tethered dualboot/restore iOS 18 on iPad 6 (Wifi / Cellular)” 🎮 Games Gizmodo: Activists Install Arcade Game Mocking Trump on the National Mall. You Can Play It in Your Browser Right Now Gizmodo: Someone Created a Version of ‘Elden Ring’ That Runs on a PS1 Gizmodo: The Best You Can Do in the Strait of Hormuz Simulation Game Is Mess Up as Little as Possible Eden: “Eden is a free and opensource (FOSS) Switch 1 emulator, derived from Yuzu and Sudachi - started by developer Camille LaVey. It’s written in C++ with portability in mind, with builds for Windows, Linux, macOS, Android, FreeBSD and more.” 🖥️🔐 IT Security Hack Read: 9-Year-Old Dirty Frag Vulnerability Enables Root Access on Linux Systems IT’s FOSS: Dirty Frag is a New Linux Exploit That Grants Root, and There’s No Proper Patch Yet SC Media: New Linux privilege escalation flaw ‘Fragnesia’ disclosed; PoC available GitHub: v12-security / pocs: Fragnesia Project Zero: A 0-click exploit chain for the Pixel 10: When a Door Closes, a Window Opens Project Zero: A 0-click exploit chain for the Pixel 9 Part 1: Decoding Dolby 🐧 Linux Hack a Day: A Cyberdeck That Runs Linux…in An Altoids Tin IT’s FOSS: Linux is Getting a Kill Switch! Nerds.xyz: MX Linux 25.2 Beta 1 brings new text installer and important fixes SparkyLinux: Sparky 8.3 SparkyLinux: “SparkyLinux is a GNU/Linux distribution based on the Debian GNU/Linux operating system. Sparky is a fast, lightweight and fully customizable operating system which offers several versions for different use cases.” nixCraft: How to add cron job entry for acme.sh nixCraft: A Bash Script to Read All Command Line Arguments into an Array: Simplify Argument Handling nixCraft: How to copy permissions from one file to another on Linux nixCraft: sttr – Awesome Linux & Unix tool for transformation of the string nixCraft: lnav – Awesome terminal log file viewer for Linux and Unix nixCraft: Shell script to set up an LXD / Incus (Linux Containers) lab for testing purpose nixCraft: How to control the SSH multiplexing with the control commands IT’s FOSS: Yazi is the Terminal-based File Manager I Didn’t Know I Needed GitHub: sxyazi / yazi: “💥 Blazing fast terminal file manager written in Rust, based on async I/O.” Yazi: “⚡️ Blazing fast terminal file manager written in Rust, based on async I/O.” IT’s FOSS: Can You Run LLMs Locally Without a GPU? I Tested 8 Models on Linux How-To Geek: 2 beginner Linux distros that don’t force you to use the terminal Zorin OS: “A Windows-like, GUI-driven beginner’s distro that simply works” Nobara Project: “A multimedia-focused distro that also simply works” Make Use Of: 6 Linux distros that were huge once, but barely matter now Mandrake Linux Caldera OpenLinux Yellow Dog Linux Knoppix CentOS Pop!_OS How-To Geek: 9 essential command pipelines that simplify everyday Linux grep | less : Filter data and page the results tail | grep: Extract relevant live data from a log file history | grep: Quick access to commands you’ve run before sort | uniq: Simple summary info from structured data df | tee: Get disk space reports on screen and in a file echo | xargs: Copy a file to multiple directories curl | jq: Process data retrieved from a web API du -sh * | sort -h: Find your biggest files and directories date | md5sum: The quickest way to generate a decent password IT’s FOSS: Fedora Hummingbird Debuts As a Super Hardened Linux Distro Project Hummingbird: “minimal, hardened, and secure container images” 🎥📺 Media Make Use Of: I replaced my Kindle with a Boox and got everything Amazon refuses to offer Boox 🗣️ Social Networking NERDS.xyz: Ditto wants to bring back the weird customizable internet people actually loved Ditto: “Your content. Your vibe. Your rules.” ❔ Miscellaneous ADT camera access outside their service? FreshRSS with FeedBurner & other kinds of feeds? IT’s FOSS: This $85 PCB is Giving Old Google Home Mini Devices a Second Life Crowd Supply: MiciMike Home Mini Drop-In PCB How-To Geek: 5 Bluetooth ESP32 projects for this weekend (May 15 - 17) Home Assistant Bluetooth proxies ESP32-based presence detection A Bluetooth system monitor for your PC ESP32 Bluetooth receiver or speaker 3D-printed Stream Deck alternative macropad Make Use Of: Excel already has a built-in web scraper, this is what I use it for Make Use Of: I tracked my life in Excel for 3 months—I’m never using a journaling app again OneDrive: Daily Journal 2026 - Updated How-To Geek: 5 Pi Zero 2W projects you can do in a weekend A retro gaming console A DIY weather station A wireless print server A tiny home server Low power doesn’t mean useless How-To Geek: 3 money-saving free, open-source apps to try this weekend (May 15-17) Handbrake Upscayl Ollama selh.st: Self-Host Weekly (15 May 2026), by Ethan Sholly. GitHub: V4bel / dirtyfrag Bambu Lab Blog: Setting the record straight on Cloud Access and Community Jeff Geerling: Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract GitHub: lahirumaramba / rocky: “Rocky: Your Own Personal Eridanian Buddy” Invidious (chocolatemoo53.com): I Built “Rocky” from Project Hail Mary using a Raspberry Pi and Local LLM YouTube: I Built “Rocky” from Project Hail Mary using a Raspberry Pi and Local LLM The Verge: Homebridge 2.0 is here, and it speaks Matter: “The open-source Apple HomeKit bridge is adding Matter, allowing it to support Alexa, Google Home, Home Assistant — and robot vacuums.” GitHub: FreshRSS / FreshRSS: “A free, self-hostable news aggregator…” I just started running this a few days ago, so I’m looking into the release notes. FreshRSS 1.29.0 GitHub: homarr-labs / homarr: “A modern and easy to use dashboard. 40+ integrations. 20K+ icons built in. Authentication out of the box. No YAML, drag and drop configuration.” Each time i see new releases for other home \ dashboard services, i like to take a look & see if i should start trying them out again. v1.61.0 GitHub: home-assistant / core: “🏡 Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first.” 2026.5.0 GitHub: karakeep-app / karakeep: “A self-hostable bookmark-everything app (links, notes and images) with AI-based automatic tagging and full text search” 0.32.0 GitHub: edde746 / plezy: “Modern cross-platform Plex & Jellyfin client built with Flutter” Plezy: " A beautiful client for Plex & Jellyfin. Stream your media library with HDR, Dolby Vision, offline downloads, and a gorgeous experience across all your devices." 2.0.0 GitHub: oyeolamilekan/appshots: “A free, open-source tool to create stunning, high-converting screenshots for the Apple App Store and Google Play Store in minutes. Design professional app previews with an intuitive drag-and-drop editor.” AppShots Editor Aviato: “All your videos, images, audio, and text. A self-hosted media server that handles it all. Extensible with plugins, webhooks, and API.” Just curious to see other options to Plex or Jellyfin. GitHub: jonymaster / catalogIT: “A Web App to track Hardware and Software in an IT Team” GitHub: adinhodovic / compass: “A landing page for your services, dashboards, and documents, discovered automatically from sources such as Docker, Kubernetes, and Tailscale.” Compass GitHub: aicrafted / compote: “Compose Templater - UI for create, validate and manage docker compose based infrastructures” CompoTe: “Manage your self-hosted environments. Switch between cloud clusters, local development boxes, or home lab deployments.” App Store: DimDash: “A native iPadOS/iOS kiosk app for Home Assistant, Grafana, Dashy, Homarr, Glance, Node-RED, Flame, and any dashboard URL. Built for wall panels that should stay useful without jailbreaks, MDM, or browser hacks.” Nick Renard: DimDash GitHub: pablitofernandez / FamilyNido: “Self-hosted PWA for a single household — shared calendar, chores, meals, school agenda, health records and a family wall. .NET 10 + Angular 21. Pair-programmed with Claude Code Opus 4.7.” GitHub: PyroghostX / ForgottenMovies: “App built to remind users about media they requested but never watched. Requires Plex, Tautulli and Seerr.” GitHub: doctor-io / homeio: “Homeio is a self-hosted server manager with a desktop-style UI. It is designed as an alternative to other home server managers (CasaOS, Umbrel, Portainer), focused on a modern interface, realtime system visibility, and app lifecycle operations.” GitHub: parkejunior / jellycc-cli: “A CLI to ensure Jellyfin Direct Play compatibility.” “A smart CLI that diagnoses, audits, repairs, standardizes, and optimizes your media to ensure Direct Play on Jellyfin.” GitHub: open-noodle / gallery: “High performance self-hosted photo and video management solution.” Noodle Gallery: “Noodle Gallery is a self-hosted photo and video platform with AI-powered search, face recognition, shared family spaces, and cloud storage — all under your control.” Patilla Forgejo: Piruetas: “A minimalist, self-hosted diary and journaling web app. https://piruet.app” Piruetas: “A minimalist journal. Beautiful, private, yours.” GitHub: solyto / solyto: “Free, privacy-oriented, no bullshit. Just manage your stuff with ease.” “solyto is a free, private, all-in-one personal management app — covering your todos, contacts, calendar, notes, news, music and book library in one place, with one login, and one coherent interface. No annoying AI features, no tracking, no subscriptions, no bullshit. Use it on the web, install it as a PWA, or self-host it entirely on your own infrastructure. Built out of frustration with bloated tools, fragmented self-hosted stacks, and services that keep adding things you never asked for.” solyto GitHub: 0xchasercat / flint: “Lightweight tool for managing linux virtual machines” “A single <11MB binary with a modern Web UI, CLI, and API for KVM.” GitHub: nanocoai / nanoclaw: “A lightweight alternative to OpenClaw that runs in containers for security. Connects to WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, Discord, Gmail and other messaging apps,, has memory, scheduled jobs, and runs directly on Anthropic’s Agents SDK” NanoClaw: “Your personal AI agent. Secure. Lightweight. Yours. The official website for NanoClaw, the secure personal AI agent. NanoClaw runs securely in containers, built to be understood and customized for your own needs.” Invidious (nadeko.net): Lawrence Systems: Stop Putting Everything in Discord & Reddit: Use Forums Instead Invidious (chocolatemoo53.com: Stop Putting Everything in Discord & Reddit: Use Forums Instead YouTube: Stop Putting Everything in Discord & Reddit: Use Forums Instead Invidious (nadeko.net): New Self-Hosted Apps You NEED to Try [April 2026] Invidious (chocolatemoo53.com: New Self-Hosted Apps You NEED to Try [April 2026] YouTube: [New Self-Hosted Apps You NEED to Try [April 2026]] Invidious (nadeko.net): Dockhand: A Smarter, Safer Docker Manager Invidious (chocolatemoo53.com: Dockhand: A Smarter, Safer Docker Manager YouTube: Dockhand: A Smarter, Safer Docker Manager

selh.st: Self-Host Weekly (3 October 2025), by Ethan Sholly (https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-hub25-autumn/) HomeAssistant: Portainer GitHub: booklore-app / booklore: “BookLore is a self-hosted app for managing and reading books & comics (PDF, EPUB, CBZ) with metadata editing, OPDS, reading progress, and multi-user support.” GitHub: home-assistant / core: “🏡 Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first.” GitHub: immich-app / immich: “High performance self-hosted photo and video management solution.” GitHub: nextcloud / richdocuments: “📑 Collabora Online for Nextcloud” GitHub: nextcloud / spreed: “🗨️ Nextcloud Talk – chat, video & audio calls for Nextcloud” GitHub: iib0011 / omni-tools: “Self-hosted collection of powerful web-based tools for everyday tasks. No ads, no tracking, just fast, accessible utilities right from your browser!” GitHub: rommapp / romm: “A beautiful, powerful, self-hosted rom manager and player.” GitHub: Sync-in / server: “Sync-in Server · Secure, open-source platform for file storage, sharing, collaboration, and syncing.” GitHub: LukeGus / Termix: “Termix is a web-based server management platform with SSH terminal, tunneling, and file editing capabilities.” GitHub: wizarrrr / wizarr: “Wizarr is an advanced user invitation and management system for Jellyfin, Plex, Emby etc.” GitHub: darthnorse / dockmon: “DockMon - Modern Docker container monitoring with auto-restart and alerts” GitHub: epichfallen / ImmichSafe: “The Ultimate Companion for Your Immich Server” GitHub: raygan / mam-audiofinder: “a messy vibe-coded tool to download audiobooks from MyAnonymouse using qBittorrent, and import them to an Audiobookshelf library” Play Store: (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zfredesign.myapplicationdump): “Oceanwaves is an advanced Android app that acts as a Jellyfin music client. It combines seamless playback, rich metadata, and smart recommendations.” GitHub: danblock97 / z3st-habits: “Fun, friendly and informative habit tracking, create groups, compete with friends. Accountability but made fun” GitHub: Reaparr / Reaparr: “Plex downloader that brings content from any server to yours!” YouTube: DB Tech: HomeHub - Your Family’s Private, Self-Hosted Home Organization Center YouTube: VirtualizationHowto: The First Services I Always Spin Up in Any Home Lab YouTube: Everything Smart Home: Everything New In Home Assistant 2025.10! YouTube: Veronica Explains: Using rsync for backups, because it’s not shiny and new

Linux It’s FOSS: How I Configure Polybar to Customize My Linux Desktop: “Polybar is a standout choice among these alternatives. It’s a fast, highly customizable status bar that not only looks great but is also easy to configure.” polybar: “A fast and easy to use tool for creating status bars” Ubuntu Touch on rabbit r1: I still had a spare r1 sitting around & happen to see that Ubuntu Touch supports it, so after some troubleshooting, i was finally able to get Ubuntu Touch running on my r1. I may end up writing a specific post about this because i ran onto some issues (probably of my own making) & also some other things that might not have been on me, so others may have the same issue. telegra.ph: Ubuntu Touch Installation on rabbit r1 - a detailed Guide GitHub: RabbitHoleEscapeR1 / r1_escape Rabbit R1 Flash Tool Friendly Elec: NanoPi R5C: I have had this for ages & never did anything with it… trying to actuall get some kind of use for it. Friendly Elect Wiki: NanoPi R5C Out-of-date version of Ubuntu on a ThinkPad, so just going to start that off clean…: Lenovo Support: How to boot from a USB Drive - ThinkPad: F12 at boot. Meshtastic Heltec: WiFi LoRa 32(V4), ESP32S3 + SX1262 LoRa Node, Meshtastic and LoRaWAN Compatible: I have a v3, so i figured I would look into the v4 to see if i should upgrade, or just get it as an additional node to use. Privacy GitHub: yaelwrites / Big-Ass-Data-Broker-Opt-Out-List Miscellaneous Hack a Day: Trapped Soul In Time For Halloween ntfy: Example: Private instance: Looking into how i can configure users \ credentials for certain ntfy topics. I’m still running ntfy & Gotify, so just trying to see which i like more. I’ve been meaning to check if i should see about running Apprise to make using both services a little easier, but haven’t gotten to it yet. Self-Host Weekly (26 September 2025) GitHub: silverbulletmd / silverbullet: “An open source personal productivity platform built on Markdown, turbo charged with the scripting power of Lua” GitHub: SluberskiHomeLab / ditdashdot: “DitDashDot is a simple, clean, and easy-to-configure services dashboard designed specifically for homelabs. Built with React.js and containerized with Docker, it provides a central hub to view and manage your homelab services.” GitHub: LoredCast / filewizard: “File Converter, OCR, Transcription & TTS WebUI” GitHub: cassandra / home-information: “Home Information - Your home, your data, organized.” Saw this one on reddit too GitHub: surajverma / homehub: “A lightweight, no-login, self-hosted family utility for your home.” GitHub: rippleFCL / meshmon: “Distributed monitoring ting” GitHub: alexanderwanyoike / the0: “Open Source Algorithmic Trading Platform” GitHub: BookHeaven / BookHeaven.Server: “Official BookHeaven Server web app to manage your ebook library.” GitHub: jofoerster / habitsync: “Modern Habit Tracker featuring synchronization and challenges with friends” selfh.st: Optimal Plex Settings for Privacy-Conscious Users YouTube: Techno Tim Ultimate Plex Dashboard | Monitor All the Things YouTube: Christian Lempa: Self-hosted automation for EVERYTHING! // n8n Tutorial

Meshtastic I spent the weekend trying to change my Nebra Helium Miner to me a Meshtastic node, but ran into a few issues. The LoRa radio used in the Helium miner does not work with Meshtastic, so I removed the Bluetooth USB adapter to free a port, then connected my Heltec WiFi LoRa 32(V3), ESP32S3 + SX1262 LoRa Node, Meshtastic and LoRaWAN Compatible board there instead. I reflashed a microSD Card with Raspbian (Ubuntu Server wasn’t booting for me) to use with the included Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3+, which had the hardware on the connected boards working (mainly just cared if the USB ports & Ethernet port worked). I spent a few hours between meshtastic & meshtasticd & while I got meshtastic working fine, i could not get meshtasticd to see the Heltec board. I gave up on that for now, & just left use of meshtastic CLI & configured the board with the Meshtastic app. So, will see how this plays out moving forward… i was trying to get it setup so that I could be managing the Heltec board right from the CM3+, but in the end i still needed to use the app for the config. selfh.st: Self-Host Weekly (19 September 2025), by Ethan Sholly GitHub: operacle / checkcle: “CheckCle is a self-hosted, open-source monitoring platform for seamless, real-time full-stack systems, applications, and infrastructure. It provides real-time uptime monitoring, distributed checks, incident tracking, and alerts. All deployable anywhere.” GitHub: razchiriac / tunnel-chat: “Ephemeral peer-to-peer tunnel chat from the terminal” GitHub: polius / VAULT: “Securely encrypt and decrypt your files directly in your browser.” GitHub: DialmasterOrg / Youtarr: “An application to automate downloading of Youtube videos for Plex” GitHub: carbonatedWaterOrg / yt-dlp-co2: “It’s a modern web interface for yt-dlp with real-time progress tracking and multiple pretty cool themes.” GitHub: nikunjsingh93 / react-glass-keep: “Glass Keep is Keep Notes alternative using Glass design. Made in React + Tailwind” GitHub: jeffcaldwellca / mkcertWe: “Web based user interface for mkcert CLI internal CA” GitHub: omarmir / nanote: “Lightweight, self-hosted note-taking application with filesystem-based storage so you maintain 100% portability of your notes.” GitHub: Ipmake / NevuForPlex: “Nevu is a complete redesign of Plex’s UI using the plex media server API.” GitHub: spacebarchat/ spacebarchat: “📬 Spacebar is a free open source selfhostable discord compatible communication platform”

IT Security Signal: Introducing Signal Secure Backups: I probably would have found this more useful when i still used Android & it was still possible to use Signal for all SMS, but still nice that it will be an option. Hacking \ Pentration Testing I picked up The Phantom from Rabbit Labs while at DEFCON & after seeing there was an upgrade to the Ghost ESP firmware, I saw that there were a few other options to flash as well. I was specifically looking to compare Ghost ESP & Bruce firmware: Mobile Hacker: Exploring Marauder, Bruce, and Ghost ESP on Cheap Yellow Display /r/FlipperZero: Is Ghost esp the new and better wifi deauth app to use? Rabbit Labs has a web app you can use to flash different versions: Flasher.site ...

Linux Found my Cosmo Communicator & Gemini, so I was looking into seeing how i could repurpose \ use them… UBports Forum: Cosmo Communicator Open Embedded Software Foundation (OESF) Forum: Ubports for Cosmo Ubuntu Touch: Cosmo Communicator: “The Planet Computers Cosmo Communicator is not supported by the current Ubuntu Touch release.” So maybe i won’t be installing Ubuntu Touch… Planet Computers Support: Linux for Cosmo At least able to install the last(?) available Android version for the Cosmo Communicator: GitHub: shymega / cosmo-v25-android-fw-ota Open Embedded Software Foundation (OESF) Forum: Full installation guide KDE Plasma on Cosmo Communicator Kali: Kali Linux for the Gemini PDA While looking into UBports for my Gemini or Cosmo Communicator, I saw that UBports is supported for the rabbit r1 & thought i might give that a try. I have Android running on mine, but UBports might be a bit more useful \ usable. At the very least it will just be fun to test out. Meshtastic \ LoRa GitHub: meshtastic / device-ui: Map Tile Starter-Kit: “This folder contains a basic set of map tiles in different styles for Meshtastic UI enabled devices with SD card support. Each zip file includes zoom levels 1 - 6 of Earth’s surface, so whereever you are you’ll be able to zoom out and see in what country’s location you’ve been beamed to.” Now that I actually looked into how to get the maps working on my LILYGO T-Deck Plus, I started to get what I needed for my device. I have a 128GB SD card, so plenty of room for maps \ etc on there. I used map-tile-downloader to pull down some tiles, but I may have done something wrong because it’s not actually being displayed on my device. I’m seeing if the tiles I downloaded from the below Reddit post will work any better. -/r/Meshtastic: Meshtastic 2.6 Map Tiles with higher zoom levels selfh.st: Self-Host Weekly (5 September 2025), by Ethan Sholly GitHub: LukeGus \ Termix GitHub: dannybouwers \ trala GitHub: StegoBrg \ Ambys GitHub: bijomaru78 \ eccm GitHub: adembc \ lazyssh GitHub: bartvantuijn \ noton GitHub: arsfeld \ reel GitHub: Secrover \ Secrover GitHub: lminlone \ repliqate

Hardware Framework: Currently just using a Pi for general usage, but have my gaming PC for more intense work. But after seeing a few people at DEFCON with Framework laptops, i wanted to look at this again. Especially now that they have a graphics module with the Framework 16 laptop. Linux (Android, Ubuntu) I came across my Planet Gemini device while cleaning, & figured I’d see if there’s anything I can do to revive it. Planet Computers: Linux Flashing Guide There are also details for Has details for Android, Debian, Kali, & SailfishOS. postmarketOS: Planet Computers Gemini PDA (planet-geminipda I think I saw Ubuntu Touch mentioned as compatible too. selfh.st: Self-Host Weekly (29 August 2025) Projects from selfh.st that i want to look into. GitHub: KSJaay / Lunalytics: “🚀 Open source monitoring tool built with Node.js” GitHub: BookHeaven / BookHeaven.Server: “Official BookHeaven Server web app to manage your ebook library.” GitHub: HarborGuard / HarborGuard: “Modern container security scanning platform with multi-tool integration.” GitHub: Adewagold / nginx-server-manager: “A modern, web-based nginx management platform for effortless site deployment, SSL certificate management, and file operations” GitHub: sbcrumb / remediarr: “Jellyseerr Auto delete on issue report” GitHub: lminlone / repliqate: “A modular Docker container backup solution” GitHub: LoganRickert / warpdeck.app: “A modern, responsive React-based dashboard application for organizing and managing web links with a beautiful, customizable interface.” GitHub: fccview / cronmaster: “Cron management made easy” GitHub: SubleXBle / Fail2Ban-Report: “Web-based dashboard for Fail2Ban log filtering and blocklist control” selfh.st: Command Line Corner