I’m a big fan of options my dude. Checked it out. Looks very interesting. I do like these video caps you guys include in your instructions. Being a very visual person, it helps out a lot. It is bookmarked in my projects folder.

Just call me Mr. BuzzKill. LOL I learned that there is a fork at https://watchtower.devcdn.net/. Deployed it yesterday, and for the first round of updates, everything went as it should. No runs, no drips, no errors. Time will tell.

am I helping an amazon echo transcribe whatever it is surreptitiously listening to?

I’ve always wondered where the hell they scrape all that audio from. I mean, it’s random shit.

The computer I’m typing on has 96 gb ram. Most of my equipment is ancient in terms of PCs. This one I build about 14 years ago, and I fully stocked it with the cutting edge tech of the day. My intent was to build a LTS PC, as it were. LOL Back then, SLI was the thing, but I’ve upgraded the GPU. I have some old stuff in the parts bin tho, but it’s ancient as well.

Day 1. It seems to work:

time="2025-07-01T17:28:21Z" level=info msg="Found new netdata/netdata:edge image (7cbd870f51b0)"
time="2025-07-01T17:28:42Z" level=info msg="Found new influxdb:2 image (b4355848b856)"
time="2025-07-01T17:28:54Z" level=info msg="Found new ghcr.io/karakeep-app/karakeep:latest image (c5fcb1a653c6)"
time="2025-07-01T17:29:03Z" level=info msg="Found new redis:latest image (ed3a2af6d0d4)"
time="2025-07-01T17:29:04Z" level=info msg="Stopping /CADVISOR-REDIS (84a28cf8904d) with SIGTERM"
time="2025-07-01T17:29:06Z" level=info msg="Stopping /ROOT-INFLUXDB2-1 (a14e51a1b7db) with SIGTERM"
time="2025-07-01T17:29:07Z" level=info msg="Stopping /NETDATA (bde1241c0073) with SIGTERM"
time="2025-07-01T17:29:09Z" level=info msg="Creating /NETDATA"
time="2025-07-01T17:29:09Z" level=info msg="Creating /ROOT-INFLUXDB2-1"
time="2025-07-01T17:29:10Z" level=info msg="Creating /CADVISOR-REDIS"
time="2025-07-01T17:29:10Z" level=info msg="Session done" Failed=0 Scanned=38 Updated=4 notify=no

I’ve seen captchas for years before the recent influx of AI. It’s the way I go about obfuscating network activities that the site security cannot determine if I am a bot on not. There is a Captcha Buster extension for Firefox. If the captcha is ‘Pick the three busses from these blurry, pixelated set of pictures’ then I can solve those easily. It’s when the captcha is a full page of a motorcycle and you have to check all the relevant pieces, then on to the next full picture, that chap me. So you click Captcha Buddy and it ‘listens’ to the audio portion of the captcha, then solves it. It’s not 100% on all types of captchas, but it 90% of the time it works every time. It’s interesting to me that after a while, you start to notice patterns in the captcha images. For instance if the directions are ‘Pick the fire hydrants’, there will be at least 5 you have to pick. Crosswalks are the same way too.

I’d much rather have to do captchas than have my jimmy out in the ether traffic. Anecdotal, but Stack Overflow doesn’t trigger a captcha for me. All I get is the cookie popup.

If you gave it a good push you could start marketing self-contained home server boxes as a mainstream product,

When Microsoft released Windows Home Server, I felt for sure that would ignite the flame. Yeah, it’s windows, but in the right direction I thought as far as home servers go. I’ve always felt that every home should have a server of some type. We have so much digital data now that has replaced the filing cabinet full of birth certificates, deeds to properties, financial documents, pictures, media, etc. that not having one seems to me to be a bad idea.

I think if a home server package were simple enough even a cave man could do it, and it got the average non-tech person over the hump of scary computer tech they don’t know, it would become a common appliance in homes and not the exception.

Cups gives you everything except the automating. Push come to shove, it’s a reasonable fall back. There is also WUD which does include automation.

Perhaps I should clarify. The project ‘appears’ to have been abandoned or is no longer being maintained. I don’t want to go starting shit that doesn’t need starting.

https://github.com/containrrr/watchtower/discussions/1993

It’s on the list.

Thanks, I’ll give it a go

time="2025-06-30T17:27:53Z" level=info msg="Watchtower 2.3.2"
time="2025-06-30T17:27:53Z" level=info msg="Using no notifications"
time="2025-06-30T17:27:53Z" level=info msg="Checking all containers (except explicitly disabled with label)"
time="2025-06-30T17:27:53Z" level=info msg="Scheduling first run: 2025-07-01 17:27:53 +0000 UTC"
time="2025-06-30T17:27:53Z" level=info msg="Note that the first check will be performed in 23 hours, 59 minutes, 59 seconds"

We’ll see.

I’m sure I’d dig it. Alas, my seizure condition now won’t let me play moving graphics games. It can/does induce a seizure, which chaps my ass something fierce because there are a lot of kick ass games I’d like to try. Those graphics on Vintage Story look very nice.

OP, you bring back memories. I had an absolute blast running my server. Now, I had mine set up on a baremetal VPS with some balls because I was running a lot of add-ons and shaders. Good luck with your project. Minecraft, to me, is a bit more than just a game when you get into the guts of it.

https://i.imgur.com/CjFbFuM.png

https://i.imgur.com/mNBJC51.png

https://i.imgur.com/JMZLm5t.png

Well, I’m not one to get all uppity about nomenclature. Home lab, home server, self host, what ever. I call the room all my toys are in, ‘The Lab’. It has musical instruments, keyboard controllers, servers, computers, electronics, et al. So ‘The Lab’ seemed to fit.

He’s so stacked that he knows, when he goes back to his mobile home, that’s when its Back to the lab again yo

I look at it like this:

• I don’t absolutely trust the security of my server. Sure, it hasn’t had a breach…yet, but that possibility is inevitable, given the amount of bots that keep trying to get in by the minute. It’s secure, yes, but is it secure enough to entrust the keys to my bank account, my business ventures, et al? IF somebody got the key to my Lemmy account, it would be bothersome, but not cataclysmic since all online accounts are silo’d with only a couple that are linked.
• Bitwarden spent a lot of time and money building a large infrastructure that is, imho, far more secure than my little server. Bitwarden has a pretty good track record. They have had some vulnerabilities, even as recent as '23 but these have been remediated.
• Confirmation bias…I’ve been using Bitwarden for untold years now and have never had an issue, other than the recent UI theming schema that was so castigated by users that they offered a way to switch back.

While hosting my own password manager would fit right in with the rest of my selfhosting, I think sometimes it’s better to defer to more secure options when dealing with highly sensitive data.

Don’t try to make sense of it. Just think ‘Oh yeah, it’s that oooold guy’ and nod sympathetically.

I say that because that’s how I use the three:

Readeck: Read it later Karakeep: Data preservation Linkwarden: Important links like business accounts, online accounts, etc.

That works too.

There is no real reason why you can’t use Linkwarden for data preservation. I tend to keep things separate. Read it later articles go in Readeck, data I want to save goes in Karakeep, and important bookmarks like online accounts, business links, etc go in Linkwarden. They are pretty much interchangeable, it’s just my wonky way of keeping everthing separated.

It’s definitely a solid replacement for Raindrop.io.