it may be “focused” on audio books, but works really well for everything

Huh…didn’t know that. It has a great looking UI.

Released in 2012 (Product Spec). It certainly has potential, but as you say, it will consume more power than something more modern. There are things you can do to tame the beast. You might even adopt something that I’ve been doing, and that is shutting down the server before I retire for the evening. I am the only user, so it’s just sitting there eating up electricity while I sleep. I also have no midnight, mass Linux ISOs downloading, so there’s that. Good news tho, RAM will be pretty cheap.

I went and looked it up yesterday. The protocol itself seems very fascinating, and the fact that there is a handful of governments that have adopted the Matrix protocol seems huge. I’ve always thought it was a chat platform and that’s not really my bag, so I never investigated. Hell, I don’t even FaceTime anyone except my lady friend, but for those who do use that channel of communications, it seems like it would be the ticket.

So, for the clueless (me), what is Matrix. I hear people talk about it. Is it a chat platform, forum platform like Lemmy, or other. Might as well ask the stupid questions.

Could be something everyone is blocking in their browsers. I know I use arkenfox. No joy with LibreWolf or Waterfox. I did pull it up in Opera, and it worked ok. I didn’t browse any further than the front page. I only use Opera for paying bills as Firefox, LibreWolf, and Waterfox are set up to block a lot of excess crap, and my utilities love their bullshit webpage candy.

Nice job dude!

Growing up we had dialup. Around 2009 we got 1.5mbps down, something like 300kbps up

Ahhh, the ‘good old days’. Now days I have a business account with Spectrum. 1 gbps down/50 mbps up which is great for uploading and downloading large architectural drawings, but otherwise, it seems excessive.

Dozzle is cool! I need to upgrade I see.

An old school BBS like we used to do on dialup. Personally, Anna’s Archive seems a bit ‘hot’ right now and not because of popularity with users.

I’ve never explored the Matrix. Reddit use to be the only ‘social media’ type outlet that I frequented, and now Lemmy. Total Accounts: 2,222,678. That seems significant.

Application error: a client-side exception has occurred while loading www.storyden.org (see the browser console for more information).

Just my experience. Like I said, the only thing I use it for is to watch a tutorial without endless, unskippable ads just to find out the tut is trash.

Still learning on this journey of self hosting

No worries mate. I bet if we all posted some of the boners even seasoned selfhosters have pulled, it would make a hilarious book for nerds and geeks. Sometimes I think, ‘gosh I sure am glad there wasn’t anyone around to see that!’

The thing about these front ends is that Google will eventually get around to blocking your IP. After many unsuccessful attempts that got ban hammered after a week or so, I finally got it to work. I piped it through Cloudflare Tunnels/Zero Trust. Haven’t had an issue. My deployment was the Invideous with companion app. The Companion app has been complaining about being unhealthy for ages now, but it keeps right on ticking. I don’t watch a huge number of YT videos. Usually my consumption is a tutorial here or there.

Similar to Invideous, et al. You Tube front end.

You can dettach your headers with --header.

I did not know this. That would seem, abiding by your system, to be more secure. I will have to investigate.

Thanks for sharing.

convert them to qr codes,

Never crossed my mind, but that’s a good idea. Might have to implement that on my next rotation.

Users won’t actually leave Discord. I emphasized ‘some’ in the opening paragraph because the announcement states that the vast majority of existing users won’t be impacted (¹the platform already has enough usage information to reliably identify their age).

¹We already know who you are LOL

For the backup disks I want full disk encryption

I encrypt everything.

I have a repository set up with all my keys for all my encrypted drives. The keys get rar’d with a strong, known, 50 character password, and the filenames encrypted so no one can just open the rar file and gaze at the keys.

• drive_xxxxx1_2_14_26.rar
• drive_xxxxx2_2_14_26.rar
• drive_xxxxx3_2_14_26.rar

These get backed up in a 3,2,1 schema, and also to thumb drives stored in secure places. I also rotate the passwords on a regular basis, so the process starts all over again.

• Check keys: sudo cryptsetup luksDump /dev/sdX
• Add new key: sudo cryptsetup luksAddKey /dev/sdX
• Delete old key: sudo cryptsetup luksRemoveKey /dev/sdX
• Verify keys: sudo cryptsetup luksDump /dev/sdX

The headers are not secret. Anyone with physical, read access to the device can run luksDump. It reveals algorithm, key derivation parameters, number of keys, but not the passphrase or master key.

As far as ‘best practice’, that will be determined by subsequent replies to your post. LOL That’s just how I do it.

Cosmos

Bravo! I deployed it on a test server just to how it was. Nice UI, great features as I remember. Seemed like a solid product. It’s got a well stocked app store.