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~johano

Noswaith dda, ~tetris!

This is an interesting post, and something I've given tiny amounts of thought to in the past... once I got into having a home server and self-hosting things, the next thought was "what else can I tinker around with?" I don't think I'll jump in *just* yet, but if/when I do, what you wrote will be a good reference!

Or who knows, maybe I'll start messing around with software defined radio and revive my younger habit of listening to shortwave broadcasts...

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~tetris wrote (thread):

Bore da, ~johano!

I started out the same way. It was first me trying to get Nextcloud working so I could move away from Google (spoiler: Nextcloud is more of a backup thing now, as my SO finds nextcloud slow, and so she still uses Google Fotos for most things).

Then I struggled a lot in getting an HTTPS Let's Encrypt certificate running on my home server without a public IP4 address (Spoiler: do an ssh reverse proxy to a machine that has a public IP, and forward only your port 80 so that the certificates are still installed on your home server).

And then I disappeared down this rabbit hole :-)

I'm currently dabbling in open source drone programs, converting an old Parrot Bebop drone into an automated device I can control with my Pi. I'm at stage one currently: getting the damn Arducopter firmware on to the damn drone, and communicating with it via Mission Control. The calibration is the next step, and it's way more fiddly then the original firmware. Speaking of radios, I might have to erect something serious keep the drone connected....

Messing around is fun!