UnpledgedCatnapTipper

I trust some parts of government to be useful. Like food assistance or healthcare are useful and should be expanded. I don’t trust that politicians will keep the useful parts useful though. Also gotta keep this in mind.

Ok, so that sounds like either a DNS issue or a reverse proxy issue. Did you configure your domain/subdomains to point to the public IP address of where you’re setting things up? Are you using the reverse proxy in the guide or do you already have a reverse proxy and you’re adding ESS domains to it? Did you configure port forwarding on your router?

I have had issues with accessing my locally hosted services via domain name while on the same network. My router doesn’t like to route internal traffic back to its own WAN port. Can you access it from something on a different network (cellular data)?

nono, Fifty Letter Acronyms.

If you want to be able to manage it via a web page instead of config files, nginx proxy manager works well, and can be run via docker/docker compose.

https://nginxproxymanager.com/guide/

It’s not quite as simple as a single docker compose, but the Element Server Suite for hosting a matrix home server (synapse) was fairly simple to get working.

There’s an additional component, and how you deploy it depends on the method you’re deploying things. If you do the Element Server Suite (https://github.com/element-hq/ess-helm) via their instructions, it includes the voice/video component and web client. If you deploy your homeserver in a different way, you should be able to find instructions for Element Call.

Synapse is the Matrix homeserver, it handles everything except for the voice/video call features.

Edit: it doesn’t handle the web client either, but technically you don’t need that for a working setup.

You will need a domain, but they can be had for a couple $ per year.

As for hosting on synology, I don’t know how difficult it is. I used the Element Server Suite on a Debian VM, and aside from some minor issues getting email and automatic room joining working it was pretty simple following their guides.

My best suggestion would be to try enabling web sockets and see if it changes anything. I did find a post for a similar issue that someone was having with a different reverse proxy, but I’m not sure if it’ll be helpful.

https://github.com/NginxProxyManager/nginx-proxy-manager/issues/2099

Does accessing your router page via caddy work when you’re actually on your home network and not accessing it via wireguard? Have you tried a different web browser to rule out your LLM suggested cookie issues entirely?

There is some way to do it using like, group chats and their hosted services, but there is no self hosted server based persistent chat.

Honestly, spinning up the Synapse stack (Matrix) from their Helm documentation wasn’t too difficult. I have not tested the voice chat super thoroughly yet, but the text chat is working great. The hardest part was formatting some of the config files correctly so it would use them properly.
https://github.com/element-hq/ess-helm/tree/main

Self hosting TS6 is as simple as running the file and port forwarding setup on your router. I have not tried using it with anyone else yet, as I was not satisfied with the lack of persistent text chat, but setting it up is pretty easy.

If you’re familiar with Docker they have a Docker compose file example as well.

I got 3 Seagate Exos X16 14 TB drives for only $140 each (refurbished) at the end of 2022. I’ve got them in TrueNAS as a zfs array and they work great.

Mine were the SATA version, which isn’t currently in stock. The SAS version of my drives go for $299 now. The SATA X14 version is $350.

So prices for the same refurbished drives are more than double what they were like 3.5 years ago, so they really are expensive! I paid like $10 per TB, but they’re all $15-25 per TB now! I was looking for drives for a friend who wants to get started self hosting, and I was shocked by how much refurb drives had gone up.

This is all from https://serverpartdeals.com/ by the way, I’m assuming that’s the site you mean too.

I’m struggling a bit. I got the server up and text chat is working great, but the documentation for getting voice calls working is pretty hard to follow.

My searching around has failed to find a more step by step guide for modifying the gigantic sample continuwuity.toml file. It’s so unwieldy, and it feels impossible to know if there are some additional settings that need to be configured that I’m simply missing due to the length of the file.

Any tips, tricks, or guides you’re willing would be appreciated!

Fast storage is relative. It works flawlessly on a budget SATA SSD from like 10 years ago. It would probably have a 1-2 minute load time on a SATA spinning disk, but I have not used a system with a spinning disk boot drive in years.

So I checked the specs, I misremembered. The CPU in the systems I’m using is a Pentium G630 @2.7 GHz with 4gb of ddr3. Benchmarks put that at about double the Celeron N3060 in performance. I’m also booting from an internal SATA SSD.

I think the most limiting factor for you is the live boot, it is pretty much always slower to boot from a live image than from an install.

It’s been the “final” update about 10 times now, and I hope we get at least 10 more.

What hardware are you running this on? I’ve got Ubuntu with KDE running on some ancient Pentium dual core systems from like 2009 or 2010, and it boots to desktop in ~30 seconds or so.

Well nVidia just sells the hardware to the AI companies, so even if the bubble pops, they won’t go bankrupt. They will stop making such obscene amounts of money, but they’re one (also the largest) of the 3 major GPU vendors. Personal computing still would buy from them, as would non-AI datacenters. He wants to keep the bubble going for as long as possible to boost their profits for as long as he can, but as long as people need graphical rendering and parallel compute power, I don’t think nVidia is going anywhere.

Think of them as the guy selling prospectors their tools. They hype everything up and jack up their prices for picks and shovels. When the prospectors don’t find any gold to make their investment back, the shovel guy just goes back to selling shovels at normal rates and prices. Sure, he’s not making as much profit, but he’s still solidly in business.

If you do have automation, that’s another thing you have to set up and manage.

Hosting a CA is a whole additional service to set up, as is enabling trust for said CA on every server you’re running.