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• ⚡ Grab Sats with Strike Around the World — Strike is a lightning-powered app that lets you quickly and cheaply grab sats in over 100 countries.
• 🇨🇦 Bitcoin Well — Empowering sovereign ownership with free automatic self-custody 🔒
• 🎉 Boost with Fountain FM — Fountain 1.1 with Nostr support, upgrades, and super simple Strike integration for easy Boosts. You can also Boost from the Web via their site.
• Jellyfin 10.10.0 — This major release brings several new features, improvements, and bugfixes to improve your Jellyfin experience. With our faster release cadence between 10.9.0 and 10.10.0, this release should be far less daunting, so please read on for a quick peek at what's new and some important-to-know breaking changes!
• HA-Firemote: Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, Chromecast, Homatics, NVIDIA Shield, onn., Roku, Xiaomi Mi, and Android TV remote control card for Home Assistant — Firemote is a custom Home Assistant card that is capable of controlling your media devices directly from any Home Assistant dashboard. The Firemote dashboard remotes are designed to look just like your physical remote controls, but they also contain TONS of customization options to choose from!
• TrueNAS 24.10 (Electric Eel) — 24.10 (Electric Eel) brings many new features and improvements to the TrueNAS experience
• mealie Release v2.0.0 — The introduction of Households is one of Mealie's most requested features and a huge technical change. The implementation of it touched 300+ files and 10k+ lines of code.
• Etebase - Your end-to-end encrypted backend — Think Firebase but encrypted in a way that only end-users can access their data.
• Nextcloud - NixOS Wiki
• nixpkgs/nixos/modules/services/web-apps/nextcloud.nix at master · NixOS/nixpkgs
• dumb: Private alternative front-end for Genius. — With the massive daily increase of useless scripts on Genius's web frontend, and having to download megabytes of clutter, dumb tries to make reading lyrics from Genius a pleasant experience, and as lightweight as possible.
• gluetun: VPN client in a thin Docker container for multiple VPN providers, written in Go, and using OpenVPN or Wireguard, DNS over TLS, with a few proxy servers built-in. — Lightweight swiss-knife-like VPN client to multiple VPN service providers
• Jawa — Get the absolute best prices on custom prebuilt PCs and gear, backed by buyer and seller protections that actually matter.

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• ⚡ Grab Sats with Strike Around the World — Strike is a lightning-powered app that lets you quickly and cheaply grab sats in over 36 countries.
• 🎉 Boost with Fountain FM — Fountain 1.0 has a new UI, upgrades, and super simple Strike integration for easy Boosts.
• 🍔 Lunch at SCaLE 🍇, Sat, Mar 16, 2024, 1:30 PM | Meetup — Let's put an official time down on the calendar to get together. The Yardhouse has always been a solid go-to, so sit down and break bread with the Unplugged crew during the lunch break on Saturday!
• SCALE 21x
• Yard House Menu
• SCaLE Chat Room on our Matrix Server — Join our room dedicated to organizing around SCaLE each year.
• Contain your excitement: A deep dive into using Tailscale with Docker — By putting containers directly onto your tailnet (our term for a Tailscale network), you're able to connect these isolated things together no matter the networking topology that stands in your way.
• Tailscale for Docker Container - Chris' Note — The basic idea is to create a tailscale service container, that runs along side the main app container. You then set the main app container to use the tailscale container for networking.
• audiobookshelf-docker-compose.yml — Chris' docker-compose.yml for audiobookshelf that uses a Tailscale service container for networking.
• 2024.2: More voice, more icons, more integrations, more... everything! — In general, contributions to our open-source project have been amazing this month. I’ve never seen so many contributed bug fixes, improvements, and new features in a single release. Like… 21 new integrations! This is, without a doubt, the largest release we’ve ever put out. A big shout-out to everyone who helped! ❤️
• Companion app for iOS 2024.1: CarPlay is here! — CarPlay support now gives Home Assistant users easy access to their devices and areas and the ability to create custom actions.
• home-assistant-assist-desktop — Use Home Assistant Assist on the desktop. Compatible with Windows, MacOS, and Linux
• Plex launches its rental service with some award-winning movies — The new movie rental marketplace from the streaming service gives users 30-day access to premium titles.

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• A Chat about Linus' DATA Recovery w/ Allan Jude - YouTube
• 2023.5: Let's talk! - Home Assistant — What an exciting release we have for you this month! This release is all about voice (well, almost fully), and I’m super excited we can ship you all this truly amazing stuff!
• Installing a local Assist pipeline - Home Assistant — For text-to-speech we have developed Piper. Piper is a fast, local neural text to speech system that sounds great and is optimized for the Raspberry Pi 4. It supports many languages. On a Raspberry Pi, using medium quality models, it can generate 1.6s of voice in a second.
• New Voice Assistant UI — A brand new and exciting menu item can be found in your Settings menu: Voice assistants!
• piper: A fast, local neural text to speech system — A fast, local neural text to speech system that sounds great and is optimized for the Raspberry Pi 4.
• Fisher Garden Overhead View — Photos of Chris' Nerd Garden
• Industrial Linux Mini Pc — Intel Atom CPU Industrial Computer Mini PC With XP/Win 7/Win 10/Linux System Support WiFi/3G/4G/LTE
• qBoxMini DIY IOT Enclosure Plus Kit — Flanged IP65 waterproof enclosure : Sealed, made of high-quality ABS material suitable for indoor and outdoor DIY IOT projects
• TICONN Waterproof Electrical Junction Box IP67 — TICONN electrical waterproof box is made from quality ABS plastic, which offers superb impact resistance and electrical insulation capability. Easy-to-operate door latches are made from 304 Stainless Steel [IP67 GRADE] The electrical
• Automations and Templates — ESPHome — Automations and templates are two very powerful aspects of ESPHome. Automations allow you to perform actions under certain conditions and templates are a way to easily customize everything about your node without having to dive into the full ESPHome C++ API.
• xiaomi-flora — This is a teardown and analysis of the Xiaomi flower/plant monitor (it doesn't seem to have an official name). The analysis is not extremely in-depth because the main goal was to figure out how to use the device without the official app.
• Capacitive Soil Moisture Sensors don't work correctly - YouTube — Fix for v2.0 v1.2 Arduino ESP32 Raspberry Pi.
• prometheus-plex-exporter — Expose library playback, storage, and host metrics in a Prometheus format.
• Dashboard for Days for Plex
• obsidian-livesync
• Introducing Custom OIDC · Tailscale — At Tailscale, we don’t want your users (or us) managing a separate list of usernames and passwords, which is why you must use single sign-on with an identity provider to create and manage your network. Until now, that meant you needed to choose from a handful of trusted identity providers including Google, Okta, GitHub, and Azure AD. Custom OIDC, now in beta (and available for everyone), changes all that.
• Alby: Your Boost companion for the web — Top off Alby with some sats.
• Self-Hosted on the Podcastindex.org — Send a boost right from the Podcast Index web page.

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• I'm sick... Jeff Geerling Channel Update - YouTube
• Shelly Plus H&T - Shelly Cloud — Enhanced with a faster processor, Shelly Plus H&T monitors even the slightest change in the conditions and will help you prevent dryness or mold while maintaining comfortable conditions at the premises.
• Shelly Sensors Guide: Humidity and Temperature — Connecting to WiFi and performing other computations causes the internal temperature of the H&T to rise. All electronic devices generate a little bit of heat, so this fact is unavoidable. The small size of the H&T intensifies this challenge. The part of the H&T that takes temperature measurements is close by and confined within the same case that houses the heat-generating components like the CPU. Shelly engineers devised a way to get around the problem by having the device sleep, then quickly take a measurement before the locally-produced heat can skew the measurement.
• Aqara Wireless Smart Temperature Humidity Sensor — Monitors temperature, humidity, and atmospheric pressure in real time.
• Upcoming Jupiter Broadcasting West Coast Meetups — The west coast road tour is coming. Join us at one of our various meetups!
• Join the West Coast Crew on Matrix — West coast locals, join us in the Matrix!
• Boost the Show — Grab a Podcasting 2.0 compatible app, and send a Boost into the show.

And Brent's tale of giving the gift of Jellyfin.

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• homebridge — Homebridge is a lightweight NodeJS server you can run on your home network that emulates the iOS HomeKit API. It supports Plugins, which are community-contributed modules that provide a basic bridge from HomeKit to various 3rd-party APIs provided by manufacturers of "smart home" devices.
• HomeKit - Home Assistant — The HomeKit integration allows you to make your Home Assistant entities available in Apple HomeKit, so they can be controlled from Apple’s Home app and Siri; even if those devices do not natively support HomeKit.
• How to Easily Program NFC Tags with Your iPhone — The best part is that you can do many things with an NFC tag. Basically, the sky is the limit – and if you can program it, you can use an NFC tag to automate it.
• Apple TV - Home Assistant — The Apple TV integration allows you to control an Apple TV (any generation).
• Infuse 7 on the App Store — Ignite your video content with Infuse – the beautiful way to watch almost any video format on your iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, and Mac. No need to convert files! Infuse is optimized for macOS 12, with powerful streaming options, Trakt sync, and unmatched AirPlay & subtitle support. Gorgeous interface. Precise controls. And silky-smooth playback.
• Docker - Perfect Media Server
• Dozzle — Dozzle is a real-time log viewer for docker containers.
• ChrisLAS Birthday Party Hang and Chow Meetup — Join us at the studio up in Arlington for a hang and chow. Attendees are encouraged to bring their favorite dish or at least an appetite.

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• Amazon price tracker
• Google study on disk temps — A 2007 study by Google showed the reverse to be true. Hard drives with average temperatures below 27 °C had a failure rate worse than hard drives with the highest reported average temperature of 50 °C, and a failure rate at least twice as high as the optimum temperature range of 37 °C to 46 °C.
• New Hard Drive Rituals — It is for these reasons that I now religiously do not commit any data to a drive until it has undergone at least one full cycle using a tool called badblocks
• selfhostedshow/infra: Infrastructure as Code
• Using 'sun' as condition fails to allow automation to trigger. — I've been using the Automation UI from the web to create the automation's and so for the conditoin I selected "Sun" and then 'after sunset' and 'before sunrise' but the automation stopped working. I had to use a 'state' condition and use 'sun.sun' and use the state 'below_horizon'
• NFS Auto Mount with systemd — Network mount units automatically acquire After dependencies on remote-fs-pre.target, network.target and network-online.target, and gain a Before dependency on remote-fs.target unless nofail mount option is set.
• Auto-mounting network file systems with systemd
• 30mm On-Metal NFC Tag – CloudFree — These blank 30mm circular NFC tags can be written to and read from using the Home Assistant app on NFC-compatible phones.
• ESXi on Raspberry Pi — Getting ESXi up and running on one of the Pis was relatively easy but there are a few gotchas.
• ESXi Arm Edition - Download
• Some history behind getting ESXi-Arm onto the Pi
• Archivy is a self-hosted knowledge repository that allows you to safely preserve useful content that contributes to your knowledge bank. — Archivy is a self-hosted knowledge repository that allows you to safely preserve useful content that contributes to your knowledge bank.
• How fast are your disks? Find out the open source way, with fio — The most reliable way to test disks is down-and-dirty, on the command line.

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• Introducing SWAG - Secure Web-server And Gateway — SWAG is a rebirth of our letsencrypt docker image, a full fledged web server and reverse proxy that includes Nginx, Php7, Certbot (Let's Encrypt client) and Fail2ban.
• Lychee v4 - Albums
• Alex's docker-compose file with Traefik lables
• Traefik, The Cloud Native Edge Router — Simplify networking complexity while designing, deploying, and operating applications.
• 0.115: B-Day release! - Home Assistant — There's a party goin' on right here 🕺 A dedication to last throughout the years 🥳 So bring your good times, and your laughter too 😂 We gonna celebrate our party with you 🎁 It's a celebration! 🎉
• One more thing… - Home Assistant — Home Assistant Companion is a new application for Mac to control your Home Assistant instance, exposing your Mac sensors to Home Assistant and to receive notifications.
• Add card by entities — Are you a bit overwhelmed by all the different types of cards Lovelace has? You can now just select the entities you want to use for a card, and have Lovelace suggest a card for you.
• Hard Drive S.M.A.R.T Monitoring, Historical Trends & Real World Failure Thresholds — WebUI for smartd S.M.A.R.T monitoring
• linuxserver/docker-scrutiny
• Scrutiny - A SMART Hard Drive Monitoring tool
• CloudFree — Providing tinkerers with the cloud-free gadgets they need.
• Outdoor Grade NFC tags — Outdoor Grade NFC tags
• GitHub - IronicBadger/infra: 99.9% less leaked credentials — 99.9% less leaked credentials
• Traefik v2 and external services like Home Assistant and Blue Iris — How do I use Traefik to route traffic for services that aren't containers or published via another service discovery backend? In the case of this post it's Home Assistant and Blue Iris. Two critical services in my LAN that run on dedicated hardware.
• Secret Management with docker-compose and Ansible Vault — Secret management with docker-compose doesn't have to be an enigma.

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• Lychee: A great looking and easy-to-use photo-manager — Lychee is a free photo-management tool, which runs on your server or web-space.
• Syncthing — Syncthing is a continuous file synchronization program. It synchronizes files between two or more computers in real time, safely protected from prying eyes. Your data is your data alone and you deserve to choose where it is stored, whether it is shared with some third party, and how it's transmitted over the internet.
• Syncthing | Security
• Syncthing Discovery Server
• Syncthing Relay Server
• Introducer Configuration
• CloudFree Smart Plug – Runs Tasmota — This product runs Tasmota, which requires some technical skill to set up. The Tasmota project will not provide technical support.
• Raspberry Pi Power Monitor — This project is an extremely affordable, yet highly capable “build-your-own” energy monitoring solution. With up to six total inputs, you can monitor many different consumption and production sources.
• blog.ktz.me - Send a Pushover notification from Linux — How can you make a Linux system notify your phone when it reboots?
• Apprise - One notification library to rule them all — Apprise allows you to send a notification to almost all of the most popular notification services available to us today such as: Telegram, Discord, Slack, Amazon SNS, Gotify, etc.

Plus Wendell's home-rolled presence detection rig, some 3D printing chat, and more.

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• sshuttle — Where transparent proxy meets VPN meets ssh
• Fractal Design — Fractal Design is a leading designer and manufacturer of premium PC hardware including cases, cooling, power supplies and accessories.
• Tinkercad — Tinkercad is a free, easy-to-use app for 3D design, electronics, and coding. It's used by teachers, kids, hobbyists, and designers to imagine, design, and make anything!
• Fusion 360 — Integrated CAD, CAM, and CAE software.
• Pocket Rotary Cellphone — The 3D-printed case contains an ATmega2560V microcontroller and an Adafruit FONA 3G cell module, while a flexible mono eInk display adorns the outside.
• ASRock > DeskMini A300 Series
• LanCache.NET — Download your games once and serve them out to many people at your LAN.
• Level1Techs Forums
• Bluetooth Presence Detection for Home Automation — You might be here because you heard me mention my Bluetooth presence detection setup on the new SelfHosted podcast, or possibly because you want to subject yourself to an internet-of-things setup in your own home while desperately trying to escape the consequential corporate surveillance as a result of that action (soft chuckles for everyone). Let’s talk about what it is, why you might want it, and how you can minimize the downsides.