To put it in simpler terms, I’d say that containers virtualise only the operating system rather than the whole underlying machine.

I guess not then.

I recently switched from etesync to a self-hosted solution and didn’t want to install a full Nextcloud on my tiny home server just for that. So I initally tried out radicale as well, but I didn’t like the default user handling (no authentication at all) and the project had been unmaintained until very recently (two weeks ago). I switched to baikal then and I am quite happy with it so far.

Containers are useful for a lot more things than scaling. E.g. portability, ease of setup, dependency separation.

Keepass2Android handles that pretty well. It checks for external changes to the remote database before every local edit. And the desktop nextcloud app notices conflicts as well and can create a second version of the file if there are conflicts. You can then check for the differences with something like keepass-diff. But that should only happen if you change your db without syncing first, so while you are offline or the nextcloud app wasn’t running.

Keepass2Android implements syncing in a way that actually works. I sync through my nextcloud instance. On my laptop it’s just KeepassXC and the nextcloud desktop app, on my mobile (android) devices Keepass2Android. On iOS I think there was Strongbox but I haven’t used it in a long time. I tried using KeepassDX with the nextcloud android app for syncing for a while, but it lead to regular silent sync conflicts including password losses.

I think kavita works fairly well. It doesn’t have an app, but it comes with a built-in OPDS server, so you can just plug the link into any app that supports it and access all your book. For eink devices I recommend koreader. For other devices you may prefer an app with a less confusing UI, but that’s a matter of preference. Alternatively the kavita webclient has a reader as well.

Yep, haven’t tried Jellyfin for audiobooks in a while, but when I did it didn’t work well. Audiobookshelf on the other hand is really really good.

I don’t know how well the Jellyfin app for xbox works, but you can also install Kodi with the jellyfin addon I think. Or share your library via smb and connect to that directly with Kodi.

That sounds like a super inconvenient way of doing it

I’m not aware that progress saving is a default feature of OPDS. There is some work being done in that direction, but I don’t know of any server/app combinations that do that for ebooks. Apart from that, I’m relatively happy with kavita. It comes with a web UI though.

To be honest, I would advise against opening your home network like that at all. A VPN would be much safer. If you use something like Tailscale it would be much easier as well and doesn’t need opening any ports at all.

I recommend going with regular backups and maybe something like docker. Then you just have to restore the config volumes and all the accounts should still be there.

Why do you use SMB instead of just connecting to the different jellyfin servers directly via VPN?

Apart from the dependency stuff, what you need to migrate when you use docker-compose is just a text file and the volumes that hold the data. No full VMs that contain entire systems because all that stuff is just recreated automatically in seconds on the new machine.

Signal notifications work fine without GCM, and even Whatsapp does to an extent

Just put in another disk or create a new partition, encrypt it with LUKS, move your data there, mount it in the place where it was before. You’ll have to SSH into the server and decrypt it after each reboot, but no pne will be able to plug in your disk or change boot parameters and just get in without the encryption password. It won’t protect, however, against an attacker with frequent physical access who can manipulate the system and wait for you to type in the encryption password.

Setting up headscale isn’t too hard. But last time I tried, connecting the clients to it didn’t work properly (on mobile). Since they are using the regular tailscale clients, they don’t have much control over that.

Yes, there are (so far) ways to get around it for more technically skilled people, but you also have to sacrifice some features like the home screen channels (or updates). But you shouldn’t have to do that on a device in that price-segment, and I don’t want to support a product that employs such anti-consumer tactics with my recommendation.

I’ve been using an Nvidia Shield TV Pro for a while, and hardware-wise it’s still amazing. But with the way the OS is going, I can’t recommend it to anyone anymore, not for that price. I basically had to stop updating any of the system stuff so it doesn’t plaster my TV screen with ads.

I think I managed to sync playback position (or maybe it was just played status?) with Antennapod and the NC app at some point, but it seemed slow and unreliable, and I couldn’t use it on my iPad, so I stuck with Pocket Casts for now :(