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Show Notes
Timestamps
(00:24) Happy 2025!
(00:34) Hungry Bogart interview on Linux Prepper origins and background on Medium.
(01:00) Episode Overview
(01:45) Audience Feedback
- What is Matrix and why do we have a Matrix chat. Join it here.
(02:50) Discussion forum now live for the podcast and eventually Living Cartoon Company, my theatrical work.
(03:20) SeaGL Gnu/Linux Conference from October
- Found through Steadfast Self-hosting. Book also on Github
(08:00) There is more to this podcast than just technology in terms of computers. Also relates to making musical instruments, electronics, recipes, DIY, hardware
(09:15) My audience expectations is you want to learn more. You are someone happy to learn more. You will be inspired to take initiative.
- Basic web searches like “Linux Password Manager” to learn.
- Markdown is how this is written for you.
- Bullet Journaling
- Password Managers
Where to Begin
(12:00) Everyone starts hosted. No shame in it. But, when to try selfhosting on your device?
- Encounter a limitation like sharing multi-terabytes of data, when my hosted storage is smaller.
- Get a “homelab” with any old machine.
- Give yourself a reason to learn.
(15:00) Basic services you can experiment with to begin your own homelab of internal devices
- Avahi, mDNS for treating your device as
hostname.localfor printing, Samba and more with zero configuration. - DNS Server, popularly done with Adblockers like Pi-hole and Adguard Home, plus Unbound with a blocklist.
- Sync multiple failovers of these using Orbital Sync for Pi-hole or adguardhome-sync
- My personal preference is Adguard Home alongside Unbound and Adguardhome-sync.
- DHCP Server (requires router access) to use something like the above services to set static routes and DHCP reservations for your devices in a saner manner.
- I personally enjoying setting all of my device IP assignments based on MAC addresses.
Expanding beyond DNS and DHCP
(19:00) Buy a domain yourself using a service like Porkbun.com
- or, try an open source, dynamic dns provider like duckdns.org
(19:30) Reverse Proxy to access your services with valid https, either publicly and/or locally only.
- No more http warnings in the browser.
<-nothing makes friends and family less interested in our service. - No more remembering IP addresses or port numbers.
- Classier than simply using avahi as
hostname.local:$port- avahi still serves as a nice fallback
- Local only https is totally doable thanks to DNS challenges. Your application doesn’t have to be public.
There are tons of reverse proxies to choose from! I don’t want to recommend one over another. Which do you prefer? All of these services are ones your friends and family will use, whether they know it or not.
(22:05) What services do you actually host for your friends and family? Let me know! [email protected]
State of the Podcast
(22:30) Paypal donations accepted (23:00) Podcasting 2.0 support enabled (24:00) Now using studio monitors for reference in better recording and mixing the show.