I have self hosted for years using Authentik and have 50 + services. Postiz has been one of the most challenging to spin up and maintain. The documentation is not up to date, the software is constantly changing and I had to tweak lots to get it to work. Even now, it seems to crash after a few days and haven’t had the chance to investigate. All these posts I set up didn’t go through and now if I turn it back on, it’ll release them all in one go before I can get in to stop it, or have to revert to a fresh install…

The vast majority of services and not like this so don’t get disheartened! Try some other ones first them come back to this when more experienced. I recommend Bento PDF, ConvertX, outline wiki, vikunja and immich (if you have the storage space).

At first, try to stick to software on Authentik’s guides (https://integrations.goauthentik.io/). Once you do a few OIDC and forward proxy services you’ll get the hang of it.

When I get a chance I’ll share my docker compose SSO settings and authentik redirect uri that worked for me with the caveat that the software crashes for some reason.

We’re all fine with piracy because of enshittification and the spread of shows/films across too many services. Happily paid for Netflix when it was good but it slowly got worse and worse. If there was one fairly priced single (maybe max across 3) source(s), I’d switch back.

In terms of stream vs arr’s. Quality of video and sound matters to us but not for everything we watch. I actually use Stremio with Debrid for most items, especially my family choosing what to watch. When I want top quality I will use my arr stack. When stremio fails I’ll use my arr stack. For TV shows we watch regularly we use the arr stack, partly to remind us when they’re released. For TV shows we regularly re-watch I use the arr stack.

GDS is one area the government has done really well.

South Africa’s sports minister has said his nation was “being made to look like fools” after its football team was delayed travelling to Mexico ahead of the World Cup due to visa issues.

Gayton McKenzie demanded an explanation from South Africa’s football association (Safa) as to why this had happened, adding: “Action must be taken against those responsible for this mess.”

Safa admitted the team had “experienced challenges regarding visas for some players and officials” but did not give further details.

McKenzie later confirmed all the players had received permission to travel and would be leaving for the international tournament on Monday.

National broadcaster SABC described what happened as an “administrative bungle”.

The team, nicknamed Bafana Bafana, are due to face Jamaica in a friendly in Mexico on Friday.

They will then play in the World Cup opening match against Mexico, which is co-hosting the competition alongside the US and Canada, on 11 June.

“This Safa travel & visa debacle is embarrassing & grossly unfair towards the players & coaching staff,” McKenzie had written on X earlier on Sunday.

Shortly after the minister’s comments, a brief statement from Safa said it was “working around the clock to ensure that the team travels to Mexico City as soon as possible ahead of the opening match”.

Efforts were made on Sunday to get the team US visas, according to South African news site TimesLive.

The Bafana Bafana squad and staff need permission to enter the US as they play their second World Cup game against the Czech Republic in Atlanta, in the US state of Georgia.

The government’s international relations department was also involved.

It seems that the efforts paid off, with McKenzie saying on Sunday evening that a chartered flight would be leaving on Monday with all the players onboard.

However visas had not yet been secured for the “assistant coach, team doctor, head of security and one analyst”, he said.

South Africa is one of 10 African nations taking part in the expanded 48-team World Cup.

The game against Jamaica will be Bafana Bafana’s last chance to get ready for the tournament, which they last appeared at when South Africa hosted the finals in 2010.

Their final home match on Friday - a 0-0 draw against Nicaragua that included a missed South African penalty - was described in some reports as “disappointing” and extended their winless run to four games.

I can’t seem to login to the root user on two different mariadb databases to make those changes so must be doing something wrong

Awesome idea then, I’ll have to kook into it.

Just to clarify for my simple brain - vps1 has just 80/443 open, vps2 just has a wireguard port open (51825 or whichever). Vps2 has no domain pointing to it’s public IP, vps has your domain pointing to it. Vps1 and home server have wireguard configs pointing to the vps2 public IP, so punch through automatically. Is that all correct?

I think I have the same setup but with vps1 + 2 combined but that means it’s public IP is easily found by the domain (one includes a public business website) and has WG ports open (although my understanding is this in itself is not an issue as WG gives no reply)

Have you opened an SSH port on both vps1 and vps2 for backup or happy to rely on wireguard? Thinking about it, you could open up the port on the vps but use the providers firewall to block the port - if needed can login to their site, open the port and then SSH in - would this work? They have KVMs for emergencies but just trying to think of worst case scenarios.

Exactly this. I did mine a few months ago and was one point off being officially diagnosed. In the follow with the doctor (who luckily is a great guy and my GP who I’ve known for a few years now) it would seem my masking and steps I learned to mitigate the issue were the reason I didn’t make it.

For one example, out of many, I couldn’t say I routinely lose things like my keys - I talked openly about my natural tendancy to but because I had mitigated it, it was not impacting my life. My keys, walker etc, always go straight in a certain pot as soon as im home, my computer stuff goes into one place, which even though it’s a mess of a pile, means I can find them, my phone is always left pocket and keys/wallet right pocket, and before leaving anywhere I have learned to naturally tap them (by the way, the amount of times Ive shat myself because ive been on a call when leaving them tapped my now empty left pocket before realising is insane!).

Luckily, he is willing to try the medication regardless and said to retry the diagnosis in 6 months.

Good point, Romm can integrate well with MuOS, Playnite and other client side software you and others can install onto their actual devices. I’ve used Playnite on my devices to manage the emulator side and download the ROMs from the ROMs server.

In theory, you could also try a sunshine server and moonshine client to steam the games from you’re server but guessing it would only work well over a local network, not over the internet to friends

It’s great to have options! Never heard of this one so will check it out too. That’s part of the fun isn’t it haha

Check out Romm. Not every romm can be streamed but think it meets your needs.

I have a mix of Debian and Ubuntu servers. I’ll update manually anyway but for future cases, would unattended-upgrades set to security upgrades run daily be enough to stop this type of issue?