I use snapshots, once a month an image is made of the entire drive, and I have Duplicati that backs up to cloud. Whatever choice you make tho, remember 3,2,1, and backups are useless unless tested on a regular basis. The test portion always gives me anxiety.

There are a few that I’ve managed to see that specifically deal with selfhosting and homelabs:

• The Proxmox Homelab Bible: The Ultimate Homelab Guide to Virtualization, Self-Hosting, and DIY Cloud Power
• Automating the Homelab with Ansible, Terraform & SaltStack : A Beginner’s Guide to Smart Servers, Raspberry Pi Projects
• The Complete Homelab Bible: Learn how to Build, Automate and Master Personal and Professional IT Labs ; Virtualization, Networking, Storage, Containers, Automation, Security and Real-World

I find reading far better for me, than watching a video tutorial.

It’s ok. A hard left was made a long time ago, so I just went with it. LOL

ThemePark is a docker container that has a multitude of themes for many different applications. To add the theme for Calibre, you’ll access Settings and then Edit Basic Configuration, and insert ‘theme-park.dev’ in the ‘Trusted Hosts’ slot, thusly"

That gives you a more pleasing asthetic to Calibre: theme

ETA: List of supported apps: https://docs.theme-park.dev/themes/sonarr/

I’ll check those out. At the most, I guess I’d have to re-import the books if the db isn’t the right format.

Oh I didn’t mean to infer that it wasn’t valuable. I’m just not sure what I have to say is valuable enough to write down. LOL

Yeah, I settled on Calibre Web, which is not quite as ugly as Calibre Desktop with the themepark addon.

I have a NUC setup that I use when I’m laying in bed reading and enjoying a bowl. For the monitor I use a cheap, portable bluetooth 15", and a cheap bluetooth keyboard, both of which, iirc, cost me less than $75. Maybe you could do something similar with the OpenSuse.

I’ve really always wanted to write a memoir or chronology of sorts. Not that I’m going for Amazon’s best seller list. More so, the process of it. There used to be this guy on Reddit who was autistic (I believe) or some other disability. He is enamored with the weather. He would do weather reports with a fair amount of accuracy, and at the time had garnered the attention of news outlets. He wrote a book about the weather, and published it on Amazon. It was inspiring. Since then, it’s a thought that’s been rattling around in my head.

I’ve seen Journiv before, and in selfhosting blogs. The UI looks very nice. If only I had something of value to write.

‘Dear Dumbass: I told you to put gas in the car while you were down at the barn. Now you’re going to have to get on the gator and tote 5 gallons up from the barn. You never listen to me. Take your coat you moron. It’s 10 degrees outside. estúpido!’

You may never fully understand the positive impact that one person’s genuine interest in a child will make.

It’s refreshing to actually see truth in advertising:

This is a service aimed at hobbyists, and shouldn’t be used for nuclear power station command and control systems.

the opportunity to do things together online is important to me

Respect

It could also be argued that what might have been a loss leader for Valve might just pay off as more and more disgruntled MS users are moving to Linux, and gaming on Linux has exploded despite the 3% market share.

I’m wondering if you could run CrowdSec on the server and manually block the offenders if they are not already in the community blocklists.

block everything you’re not explicitly expecting, move on with your life.

You are vastly underestimating my propensity to obsess. LOL They are blocked, so I got that going for me, which is nice. What is bugging me is the repetitive pattern of once every hour and five minutes. My method is to block everything, then allow on a case by case basis.

Is this for me? Do you want email? Then yes, probably.

Well, you really can’t argue with that logic. LOL

I been using mailo.com for years now. It’s a small EU business that’s been in business for 20 years iirc. Never had an issue. Other than that, I predominately use aliases that forward to my main email address.

OP, just wanted to say that involving your young nephew in constructive computer projects/activities is super cool. You get a Good Noodle star on your chart.

Is suricata listening on an internal subnet interface

Suricata monitors both WAN & LAN. I also use ntopng for traffic analysis.

external interface should not know anything about the internal subnet

All multicast/broadcast are confined to local and are not leaked to the WAN…that I know of. I’m guessing that’s what you are telling me. Again, I do not possess the skills of a seasoned network engineer, which is why I’m consulting with the experts. I just know what I see on my network and investigate/research until I have a broader understanding.