Your CPU should be perfectly capable of that. I ran Proxmox with some VMs and containers on an i5-2400 with 16GB RAM just fine.
You could run on bare Debian as well but virtualization will give you more flexibility. If you get a Zigbee Dongle or the like, you can pass it through to the VM Home Assistant is running in.
I don’t know MergeFS but usually the recommendation is ZFS.
Cool thread idea! TOR has already been mentioned, a relay seems to be save to run in most of the world.
This thread recently popped up and had some other nice ideas: https://lemmy.ca/post/40649656
Regardless of how you host Nextcloud, what you described is one thing I really like about Nextcloud: the major part of it being synced to several devices. As long as you have a computer with the desktop client that’s on every once in a while, your stuff is saved across different devices.
I’ve had a similar thing happen once btw, deleted the wrong server. It was “just” monitoring data, but I had spent a lot of effort building it properly. I eventually started over it, but knowing the whole thing is gone feels really bad.
Does it? I think it logs you out and after logging in again, you need to provide your encryption key/verify with other device again in order to access the history. Or wdym with breaking?
Ah! I don’t know what exactly these mean, would be interesting to see what Element says what those mean. I don’t think Element actually adds these to your messages etc but I don’t know the protocol enough.
Does IRC have performant voicechat?
Does it? On Android, it never asked me to grant location permission unless I try to share my location to another user. Similar with contacts and calendar, it’s working perfectly fine without them. Where exactly does it link those identifiers and with what?
Thanks a lot for your response! I too was a bit misguided by the way Proxmox presents LXCs but I’m mostly on VMs and haven’t explored LXCs further so far.
What’s your motivation for the switch? Second time in a short while I’ve heard about people migrating to incus.
That sounds so cool! Not using any tracking/nav devices other than my phone but currently my routes just stay local without having any kind of management for them.
Cool to have it ready anyways! Does it federate? You can use all sorts of dev-support groups etc.
Oh, sounds pretty cool, I have never looked into that.
Hell yeah! Still got Pinepods on my to-host list.
Google calendar? In the selfhosting community? Bold statement😄
You can have the best of both worlds - scheduled auto updates on a time that usually works for you.
With growing complexity, there are so many components to update, it’s too easy to miss some in my experience. I don’t have everything automated yet (in fact, most updates aren’t) but I definitely strive towards it.
I think auto update is perfectly fine, just check out what kind of versioning the devs are using and pin the part of the version that will introduce breaking changes.
Did that as well a while ago and generally it’s working pretty good, some services had the possibility to migrate existing accounts to authentik even. But even though it’s been pretty reliable so far I’m hesitant to migrate my more critical services behind another runtime dependency.
Cool! Home Assistant has it and I can imagine Nextcloud as well but those are overkill just for that.
Don’t have a good guide, but in addition on the thing you plan to selfhost yourself you need to decide where it’s supposed to run. In a rented VM from a hoster? There are several ones where you can get a decent VM for a few bucks each month.
Nowadays, Docker (or containers in general) are very popular, as an alternative to directly installing services on the vm. They make many things easier, but it’s another thing to learn about when you’re just starting - fortunately, there’s plenty of guides etc!
You have some options that aren’t in the installer e.g. full disk encryption