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OpenAstra is a space game I am creating. The basic idea stems from years of playing Hades Star, then Dark Nebula, and realizing that such an effort of game should be Open Source and self-hostable.

No, Open Astra absolutely is not a clone of Hades/Dark Nebula, mechanics are different and so the overall experience. But it is open source (as both in libre and free) and is born from me having some free time.

The game is in early stages of planning and development. After some six months of me playing around with new techs (new for me), I am getting to the point where there might be something to share and try to create some interest.

I have no intention of monetizing this in any way. I believe that your hobby should not be your job and that doing things for fun needs to take the monetization away.

Maybe in the future there might be opportunity for donations, to cover costs, but at this time there is no cost to cover, so.

I will post here updates on development and hopefully also discussions in a future, when more than just myself will be involved.

There is also a website, see URL on top, but at this time do not expect much there. I have also created OpenAstra on Codeberg, but currently the source code is only on my (public) Forjeio instance. I will move to codeberg in some bear future when I will have a reasonably solid starting point

Hi all, i am quite an old fart, so i just recently got excited about self hosting an AI, some LLM...

What i want to do is:

• chat with it
• eventually integrate it into other services, where needed

I read about OLLAMA, but it's all unclear to me.

Where do i start, preferably with containers (but "bare metal") is also fine?

(i already have a linux server rig with all the good stuff on it, from immich to forjeio to the arrs and more, reverse proxy, Wireguard and the works, i am looking for input on AI/LLM, what to self host and such, not general selfhosting hints)

Hi fellow sailor!

i pay (i know, i know) for Spotify Premium and i would like to progressively build my self-hosted music collection leveraging the fact that i am a paying customer and i would hate if the pull songs under my rug over time.

Any good self-hostable approach here? Ideally, the flow would be:

• I listen to spotify on my mobile devices, add songs to playlists and such
• my self-host setup syncs those playlists … and download the songs using my paid for premium account from spotify itself
• Doesn’t really needs to be web-based, i can access my server anbd run anything CLI based or even plain old GUI (linux).

I don’t want fake solutions that use Google Music or Deezer to download, i pay spotify and expect somehow to be able to download 320Kbps music from it.

The overall process can be manual, but better automated.

I already have lidarr, but it’s basically impossible to download the same music from it, at least not the music i listen to.

A viable workaround could be something that builds by spotify playlists using what music i have downloaded with lidarr, maybe notifying me what is missing…

(note: this is a cross post, i originally posted in selfhosters, but tought might be more fitting here)

EDIT: it seems i found a solution. Using Spotizerr let's you download music using spotify directly. I have setup it, linked to spitify (and not to Deezer, to be sure) and it seems that's downloading hi-res OGG files directly from spotify! Will write a wiki page on how i did it later on.

EDIT 2: here is my wiki page on the subject: https://wiki.gardiol.org/doku.php?id=services%3Aspotizerr

Hi fellow selfhosters!

i pay (i know, i know) for Spotify Premium and i would like to progressively build my self-hosted music collection leveraging the fact that i am a paying customer and i would hate if the pull songs under my rug over time.

Any good self-hostable approach here? Ideally, the flow would be:

• I listen to spotify on my mobile devices, add songs to playlists and such
• my self-host setup syncs those playlists
• ... and download the songs using my paid for premium account from spotify itself
• Doean't really needs to be web-based, i can access my server anbd run anything CLI based or even plain old GUI (linux).

I don't want fake solutions that use Google Music or Deezer to download, i pay spotify and expect somehow to be able to download 320Kbps music from it.

The overall process can be manual, but better automated.

I already have lidarr, but it's basically impossible to download the same music from it, at least not the music i listen to.

A viable workaround could be something that builds by spotify playlists using what music i have downloaded with lidarr, maybe notifying me what is missing...

EDIT: somebody pointed out this is against Spotify TOS. Anyway i found a solution using Spotizerr, which is a self-hosted web app that does exactly what i was looking for. You still need a paid spotify account unless you want to download low-res from Deezer.

As the title says, conduwuit has been forked as Tuwunnel which is labelled as the "successor with stable governance".

Love open source! Glad to see real matrix server alternatives keep pushing.

Will switch to it as soon as available. Will be, of course, 100% upgradeable from conduwuit.

With all the latest bad news from Xiaomi, where to go to buy a new phone with an unlockable bootloader today?

I used to buy Samsung, then moved to xiaomi, now what?

Unlock the boatloader is a basic requirement for me as at the very minimum I want root and preferably lineageos down the road.

Following a suggestion i saw last day on a post here i have installed AList (https://alist.nn.ci/) and... guys it rocks!

It is file manager, both browser and WbDAV based. It can be configured with a ton of storages, so you can merge local and remote shares in the same place... You can use LDAP, OIDC and local authentication... WebDAV just works without hassle or fuss...

Moreover it's a chinese project and i got rolling over more than once trying to decypher the pseudo-english documentation.

Very easy to install too..

As usual, here is my wiki page: https://wiki.gardiol.org/doku.php?id=services%3Aalist

I host a minecraft bedrock server user by the family to play, from ps4 and android.

Adding a windows client, do i need to pay again to play? I mean, the price of the windows Minecraft client is... Unbeliable. And we already purchased the android client and the ps4 client...

I tried to look around for a cracked windows client but with no luck.

Is it possible? Anybody running a cracked Minecraft client on windows? No need for online play except connect to our self hosted server ...

Hi! I want to selfhost a minecraft server for my kid and hjs friends. I havent played minecraft in quite a few years ...

Where do I start to self host one?

I am already seflhosting lost of stuff from 'Arrs to Jellyfin and Immich and more, so I am not asking on how to do it technically, but where to look for and what to host for a proper Minecraft server!

Edit: choosed to setup this https://github.com/itzg/docker-minecraft-bedrock-server and so far, super smooth and easy peasy!

Hi fellow self-hoster.

Almost one year ago i did experiment with Immich and found, at the time, that it was not up to pair to what i was expecting from it. Basically my use case was slightly different from the Immich user experience.

After all this time i decided to give it another go and i am amazed! It has grown a lot, it now has all the features i need and where lacking at the time.

So, in just a few hours i set it up and configured my external libraries, backup, storage template and OIDC authentication with authelia. All works.

Great kudos to the devs which are doing an amazing work.

I have documented all the steps of the process with the link on top of this post, hope it can be useful for someone.

I have a remote VPS that acts as a wireguard server (keys omitted):

[Interface]
Address = 10.0.0.2/24
[Peer] # self host server
AllowedIPs = 10.0.0.1/32

(The VPS is configured to be a router from the wg0 to it's WAN via nft masquerading)

And i have another server, my self-host server, which connects to the VPS trough wireguard because it uses wireguard tunnel as a port-forwarder with some nft glue on the VPS side to "port forward" my 443 port:

[Interface]
Address = 10.0.0.1/24
[Peer]
AllowedIPs = 10.0.0.2/24

(omitted the nft glue)

My self-hosted server default route goes trough my home ISP and that must remain the case.

Now, on the self-host server i have one specific user that i need to route trough the wireguard tunnel for it's outgoing traffic, because i need to make sure it's traffic seems to originate from the VPS.

The way i usually handle this is with a couple of nft commands to create a user-specific routing table and assign a different default route to it (uid=1070):

 ip rule add uidrange  1070-1070 lookup 1070
ip route add default via 192.168.0.1 dev eno1 table 1070

(this is the case, and works, to use eno1 as default gateway for user 1070. Traceroute 8.8.8.8 will show user 1070 going trough eno1, while any other user going trough the default gateway)

If i try the same using the wg0 interface, it doesn't work.

 ip rule add uidrange  1070-1070 lookup 1070
ip route add default via 10.0.0.2 dev wg0 table 1070

This doesnt work, wireguard refuses to allow packets trough with an error like:

ping 8.8.8.8
From 10.0.0.1 icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable                                            
ping: sendmsg: Required key not available 

I tried to change my self-host server AllowedIps like this:

[Interface]
Address = 10.0.0.1/24
[Peer]
AllowedIPs = 10.0.0.2/24, 0.0.0.0/0

and it works! User 1070 can route trough wireguard. BUT... now this works just too much... because all my self-host server traffic goes trough the wg0, which is not what i want.

So i tried to disable the WireGuard messing with routing tables:

[Interface]
Address = 10.0.0.1/24
Table = off
[Peer]
AllowedIPs = 10.0.0.2/24, 0.0.0.0/0

and manually added the routes for user 1070 like above (repeat for clarity):

 ip rule add uidrange  1070-1070 lookup 1070
ip route add default via 10.0.0.2 dev wg0 table 1070

The default route now doesnt get replaced, but now, without any error, the packers for user 1070 just don't get routed. ping 8.8.8.8 for user 1070 just hangs

I am at a loss.... Any suggestions?

(edits for clarity and a few small errors)

Hi all.

I have been hosting my mail (not "self" like at home, but hosting on a rented server on the 'net) for the last 20 years going the old good way of postfix+dovecot+OpenDKIM/DMARC/SpamAssassin and all the glue and bells.

Having the opportunity to rethink the entire approach (which works fine, but its pretty cumbersome and complex to replicate) i was looking at Stalwart mail server which looks promising and nice, being written in rust following modern principles and such.

Asking to anybody who has been using Stalwart, is it good? Does it deliver being a solid mail server?

Asking to people hosting it's own mail, is there a better solution out there?

Asking to people commenting against hosting a mail server, please refrain from doing so, as i'have been doing that with success for the past 20 years that's what i will be keep doing for the foreseeable future as well.