Chaotic good, right there.

I’ve been using Rawtherapee since ~2013 and it has its quirks but covers all of my needs.

For panorama/mosaics I’ll process the whole batch of photos in Rawtherapee then do the stitching with Hugin.

The rare times I need to make a spot edit (like removing sensor dirt) I go back to good old Gimp.

Everything is organized in a directory structure by subject/location and date to make it easy to back up and not reliant on a DB or some other software.

It’s not really an integrated solution but it’s simple and works for my low-volume of photos.

I recently setup Guacamole (Web based VNC/RDP/SSH) with totp and was able to close external SSH access. Now everything I run can sit behind a single reverse proxy, no extra ports.

I found WatchYourLan hosed my PiHole logs. Somehow the WYL instance got its hostname associated with ~10 mac addresses on my lan so more than half of my traffic comes from “watchyourlan.local”. FML

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Partly, there is a 4 lane bypass being built there.

A combo of “one more lane will fix it” and “no goes there anyway.”

As a further nail in the coffin, the city is building a bypass through that spot now. Don’t Panic.

I keep each service separate as far as DBs, if something breaks or get a major upgrade I don’t have to worry about other containers.

Namecheap, cheap, easy to use, easy to setup DDNS, helpful support staff. I have heard horror stories of them selling popular domains out from under their owner but none were recent.

I have an a7r that I use with Minolta lenses from the 70s and 80s. With such a short distance to the sensor you can get adapters for everything, old lenses, telescopes, microscopes, etc.

I ran my ssh behind 53 for a while because it’s rarely blocked. A few bots even got it right and figured out it was ssh.

Without being able to set a static ip and forward ports you cant host services and point to them with a domain, like driveway-home.com or something.

But I think cloudflare has a service that lets you connect remotely without needing static ip’s (some one else will know the name). If you were to use that then you can use your laptop to host pretty much anything on the Awesome Selfhosted List.

Device agnosticism. Life is easier when it doesn’t take ONE laptop or phone failure to destroy all your data.

I use LXC for all the reasons most people use Docker, it’s easy to spin up a new service, there are no leftovers when I remove a service, and everything stays separate. What I really like about LXC though is that you can treat containers like VMs, you start it up, attach and install all your software as if it were a real machine. No extra tech to learn.

It’s kinda shitty of them to block the ports that makes up +30 years of what the internet IS. Bell/Rogers want your internet connection to be unidirectional, when you host your own content you don’t consume theirs.

Afaik it’s at the ISP’s digression. Up until I switched, Bell would block ports 21, 22, 53, 80 and 443.

IPv6.

Not even offered in my area 🤡

Good to know, thanks!

It’s to push users into getting commercial accounts.