From d14b59dcbec01f1a65714c36448e82ea8af63dd6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ada Isopods Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2026 12:10:50 -0600 Subject: rearranging some stuff in preparation for a new deployment workflow --- uses/servy586/index.php | 17 +++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'uses/servy586') diff --git a/uses/servy586/index.php b/uses/servy586/index.php index 899752e..b0b39f6 100644 --- a/uses/servy586/index.php +++ b/uses/servy586/index.php @@ -115,7 +115,7 @@

OS - TrueNAS Scale

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I could probably recreate my elaborate configuration on like, baseline debian or something, but I don't want to. Between four ZFS pools, virtual machines, a slightly convoluted system of SMB shares, and various other services, the slick web GUI TrueNAS provides makes everything far more convenient. Its configuration export feature was also very handy when migrating to the new machine.

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I could probably recreate my elaborate configuration on like, baseline debian or something, but I don't want to. Between four ZFS pools, virtual machines, a slightly convoluted system of file shares, and various other services, the slick web GUI TrueNAS provides makes everything far more convenient. Its configuration export feature was also very handy when migrating to the new machine.

It's got some idiosyncracies to it, but in general TrueNAS smooths out the experience of running this server enough that I'm doing a lot of things I probably couldn't be bothered to otherwise.

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Tailscale

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A "mesh VPN", whatever that means. In practice, Tailscale lets me connect to any of my devices from any other as though they're sharing a local LAN. You know, the thing VPNs are actually for. Half the stuff on this server is only worth running because Tailscale lets me access it away from my house LAN, especially now that I'm routinely bringing a computer outside the house with me for school.

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FreshRSS

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I ended up with this because I elected to ditch Nextcloud in the process of migrating hosting providers, and this was the first RSS reader that I managed to get working post cloud provider migration. I swear, it's like the RSS 2.0 spec states that your self-hosted RSS reader has to have installation instructions that don't work.

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This used to be on the cloud server, but then a "turn your shit off NOW until you can update" level vuln was discovered in every PHP version released in the past 14 years and I could think of no undertaking more nightmarish than trying to manually set this thing up again. Fortunately, since the last time I deployed an RSS reader I had set up Tailscale on my TrueNAS box, so I could just put it there and both mitigate the vulnerability and offload my self-hosted RSS reader curse to the machines in one fell swoop. Nice!

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I've yet to find an RSS reader with a user experience I like, but this one is tolerable enough that I don't think "I should really find a replacement for this" every time I use it like I did when I was using Whatever Nextcloud Has™, plus it supports a couple common APIs so I can replace the frontend if I decide I hate it.

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Speaking of which, I'm currently using a mobile app called Capy Reader to access this on my phone since the mobile web UI kind of sucks.

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