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With the release of the Netflix series adapting Bardugo's Grishaverse (side note, I kinda hate "verse" terms) to the screen, I had been reading a lot of praise for the world and the written series, in particular the Six of Crows duology. Sure enough, popular review sites seem to back that hype up. It is very well reviewed.

After trudging my way through the Shadow & Bone trilogy, I thought I would finally get to the payoff: Six of Crows, pretty much universally praised fantasy heist book with a great cast of characters. What's not to love?

Well... A lot, I found out. I acknowledge that I'm probably just not the right audience for this, I guess. I know it's targeted at YA, but the praise is so universal, even my like-aged fantasy reading nerd friends recommended it. But it fell so short of expectations for me.

Now, I didn't hate it. I've read worse. And there's definitely things I liked about the book, and Bardugo's world. But not nearly enough to like as much as everyone else seems to.

I constantly found it very difficult to believe, even in a world of fantastical magic, that a group of 15 to 18 year olds had the breadth and depth of skills and knowledge the main cast do. And found myself constantly asking in the second half of the book how this palace could possibly be described as impregnable as it had been when the crew seemed to pretty much have the run of the place.

The timings of the flashbacks were jarring to me, the romances were shallow and unbelievable, and for probably half of the chapters I asked myself, "did we really need to change character POVs for this?"

I ultimately landed on a 2.75/5 - still above average, but a far cry from the consensus. Ultimately I was disappointed that this was a teen drama with a flimsy heist backdrop rather than a heist with background romance.

Check your emails. If you have not gotten one, you are not affected. If you do have one, read it carefully because what info got leaked is different for different people.

Use case: I want to make a kind of maintenance list of things that need to be done. Every week, every month, every quarter, every half year, you get the idea. Clean out the dishwasher filters, clean out the washer filters, car is due for oil change, etc.

I could just use any number calendar apps like google and stuff but I enjoy self-hosting my own stuff and owning as much of my own data as possible. Plus I am just having fun exploring FOSS software.

So, does anyone have a suggestion for a self-hosted app—probably a calendar—that can send me a reminder when events approach?

Cheers!

Edited to add, thanks for all the suggestions so far everyone. To be clear, I am specifically interested in self hosted software if only for the exploring and learning experience, but also for practical reasons such as ease of access from multiple devices as well as access for both me and my partner.

My partner and I enjoy worldbuilding and we like bringing our world to different systems and seeing how our world looks and acts through the lens of that system.

For simplicity sake, imagine a typical fantasy setting. Elves, dwarves, orcs, magic, yadda. What would be your system of choice for playing in it?

If you don't like your standard fantasy, obviously this question is not directed at you.

Bonus points if you tell me what you like about your chosen setting in relation to a fantasy setting.

I know that this is an oversimplification but the process made me chuckle.

Hey all. I'm hosting a Docmost server for myself and some friends. Now, before everyone shouts "VPN!" at me, I specifically want help with this problem. Think of it as a learning experience.

The problem I have is that the Docmost server is accessible over internet and everyone can log on and use it, it's working fine. But when I try to access over LAN, it won't let me log in and I am 99% sure it's related to SSL certs over LAN from what I've read.

Here's the point I've gotten to with my own reading on this and I'm just stumped now:

I've got an UNRAID server hosted at 192.186.1.80 - on this server, there's a number of services running in docker containers. One of these services is Nginx Proxy Manager and it handles all my reverse proxying. This is all working correctly.

I could not for the life of me get Docmost working as a docker container on UNRAID, so instead I spun up a VM and installed it on there. That's hosted at 192.168.1.85 and NPM points to it when you try to access from docmost.example.com - that's all dandy.

Then, I installed Adguard Home in a docker container on my UNRAID server. I pointed my router at Adguard as a DNS server, and it seems to me that it's working fine. Internet's not broken and Adguard Home is reporting queries and blocks and all that good stuff. So that's all still working as it should, as far as I'm aware.

So, in Adguard Home I make a DNS Rewrite entry. I tell it to point docmost.example.com to 192.168.1.80, where NPM should be listening for traffic and reverse proxy me to the Docmost server... at least I thought that's what should happen, but actually nothing happens. I get a connection timed out error.

I'm still pretty new to a lot of this stuff and have tried to figure out a lot of things on my own, but at this point I feel stuck. Does anyone have advice or tips on how I can get this domain to resolve locally with certs?

I can provide more info if needed.

Cheers all!

Edited 19 April 2025 to add: Thanks for all the tips and suggestions everyone. I'm not 100% sure I fully wrap my head around what was going on here, but I did end up getting something working. I am going to continue looking into alternative solutions if only for educational purposes.

For anyone in future land who stumbles on this looking for help with a similar issue...

I'm not 100% sure what did end up fixing the issue, but I'll remark on some things I did here. Check my comments in threads below to see troubleshooting steps and advice from others.

This bit is specific to Docmost itself, but I ended up switching the APP_URL variable from https to http. This change allowed me to login to Docmost over LAN using the IP:Port of the service itself, though my browser was of course warning me that the connection was not secure.

It may be just because I restarted my PC between tries, but upon trying it again tonight, the domain resolved when I entered it into my browser... but the issue now was that it was just going to the UNRAID login page rather than getting proxied by Nginx (which as a reminder, runs in a container on UNRAID system).

So I decided to spin up a different Nginx Proxy Manager container running in a VM on a different local IP, and pointed my Adguard Home DNS rewrite entry to that IP instead of the UNRAID system. Once I configured the NPM at that IP to proxy the address to Docmost's IP:Port, voila! It worked! My friends were able to access Docmost at docmost.example.com and I was also able to access it at the same URL on my local network, and we were using the service simultaneously without issue.