u/CestleFromage

Hi everyone! I just wanted to plug my personal blog in which I mostly just write about my thoughts and experiences, linux, selfhosting and homelabbing, and all that kind of stuff. Here is one of my posts, https://cheztervargas.xyz/blog/the-website, where I talk about the redesigns that my website has gone through.

Actually, that's also the focus I wanted to share with you all. The fact that my website is built with basic html/css/js with a c++ http server I coded manually to fetch my posts from my own files and the reaction button on each post. I'm really proud of my work and hope that some of you would go and take a look though I am not really that keen on promoting my blog a lot because I'm a bit shy when it comes to attention, but I was just really really proud of this that made me want to share it with the public.

P.S. I also realized that my writing on this particular post was a bit unpolished so go easy on me pls and thanks!

because I started writing about 2 weeks ago and I've 6 blogs published and I really enjoyed the writing part but now I am stressing out on promoting my posts to my socials because making pubmats or taking photos isn't really my forte, and I kinda just wanna let people stumble upon my website randomly, plus my philosophy is to not make it become corporate or just doing it for the money and se optimization so I am against putting "click this link to read more" in my posts or making it sound like I'm just doing it for traffic. All I want to connect with my audience and create a tight-knit community.

My predicament is kind of specific, and idk how many people have done this because I always see selfhosting videos running on old laptops but never the laptop or main pc they use day to day.

So context. My entire selfhosted stack runs on my personal laptop. I have no budget for a dedicated server, nor a NAS right now. I also use Cloudflare Tunnel and Caddy with Crowdsec to publicly put out my services instead of the usual Tailscale that most would recommend.

It works well, but I’ve been thinking about two related problems:

1. Local file access without going through the public internet

I want to be able to fetch and push files from my phone to my laptop without the traffic leaving the network. My idea was of course, exposing individual ports say for immich and webdav and removing their subdomains from public access. But that brings me to problem number 2.

2. The laptop moves

When I’m home, “local network” makes sense. But I take my laptop everywhere. Coffee shops, libraries, different networks, different IPs. Obviously having an exposed port on a public network is a huge risk. So this makes me wonder how others think about the distinction between “local” and “remote” access when your server is literally in your bag.

The common answer I see is obviously still Tailscale, and I get that it’s genuinely good. But I’d rather not require a VPN client on every device I access things from. I’m already comfortable with everything going through Cloudflare Tunnel for remote access.

I’m curious if anyone else is running in a similar setup and how you think about it. Not really looking for “just get a dedicated server” because I know, but also, if Tailscale is really the only answer, then I’ll just have to consider it again.

TL;DR: My laptop is also my server and I bring it everywhere, basically. How do I handle local access when “local” changes constantly?

TL;DR: I would just like to know if the two Kenobi movies (not the show) are canon and if there are other media I am missing on my watchlist?

Hello everyone! I'm not sure if this is the right sub to ask but I am looking for opinions on my watchlist and if there are films or shows that I am missing to really have a grasp of the complete story and lore of the star wars universe.

I was a fan since I was a kid but I've only ever watched the main movies 1 to 7 and some random episodes of SW Rebels, so now that I've got a bit more free time in life, I figured to binge watch the whole thing. I am planning to watch everything from the start in release order:

So far I have completed:

Star Wars: A New Hope (Episode IV) (1977)
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (Episode V) (1980)
Star Wars: Return of the Jedi (Episode VI) (1983)
Star Wars: The Phantom Menace (Episode I) (1999)
Star Wars: Attack of the Clones (Episode II) (2002)
Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith (Episode III) (2005)
Star Wars: The Clone Wars (movie, 2008)

And these are what's left:

Star Wars: The Clone Wars (series, 2008) - currently s1ep4
Star Wars Rebels (2014)
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Episode VII) (2015)
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)
Star Wars: The Last Jedi (Episode VIII) (2017)
Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)
Star Wars Resistance (2018)
The Mandalorian (2019)
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (Episode IX) (2019)
The Book of Boba Fett (2021)
Star Wars: The Bad Batch (2021)
Obi-Wan Kenobi (2022)
Andor (2022)
Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi (2022)
Ahsoka (2023)
Star Wars: Tales of the Empire (2024)
The Acolyte (2024)
Skeleton Crew (2024)
Star Wars: Tales of the Underworld (2025)
Star Wars: Maul – Shadow Lord (2026)
Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu (2026)

The actual reason I am asking is that while searching, I found 2 other Kenobi related films from 2022 and was wondering if those are important and should be added to my list and if so, am I missing anything else on that matter? And some of these shows like the SW Resistance show don't look canon to me from the cover art or maybe I'm being too harsh and am judging the book by its cover

For immediate context, my laptop's internal mic is broken hence I am only using my earphone mic or anything plugged in the 3.5mm jack for everything input related. However, I do use my earphones on other devices so the laptop reverts back to the internal mic when I unplug this and I have to manually set it again to use the earphone mic via pactl set-source-port.

It would've been easier to just change mics manually in apps, say for example discord, where you can pick the input and output in the in-app settings, but they are both detected under the same source, alsa_input.pci-0000_05_00.6.analog-stereo.monitor or Ryzen HD Audio Controller Analog Stereo. I do have a 51-default-mic-port.conf which contains the following:

monitor.alsa.rules = [
  {
    matches = [
      { node.name = "alsa_input.pci-0000_05_00.6.analog-stereo" }
    ]
    actions = {
      update-props = {
        audio.volume = 0.67
        device.default-input-port = "analog-input-headset-mic"
      }
    }
  }
]

although this only seems to work when I reboot my laptop while the 3.5mm is plugged in. So, ideally, I would like to know if there is a way to just separate the two ports to different sources entirely or disabling the analog-input-internal-mic port permanently since its already broken anyway.

In additional context, I am on Fedora 44 with a minimal install and a custom OS/DE setup.

For context, my laptop's internal mic is broken at the hardware level so I've been trying to force my system to always use my 3.5mm headset mic instead. I've got a WirePlumber rule set up in ~/.config/wireplumber/wireplumber.conf.d/ that sets device.default-input-port = "analog-input-headset-mic" and it works fine when my earphones are plugged in at all times.

The problem is both mics share the same ALSA node and driver so I can't just disable the internal mic without disabling the headset mic too. Normally this isn't really that big of a deal, but I just want the internal mic entirely disabled like you can do in Windows Device Manager so that I can use my earphones elsewhere without having to manually set pactl to the headset mic again the next time I plug it in.

So yeah, is there a way to disable this specific mic only rather than the whole node?

For context, I am mostly leaning towards a minimalist setup using niri + noctalia but I figured in the niri docs that its easier to wire up stuff with the gnome desktop portal and so I was planning to lean more towards gnome apps for easier integration but I also see a lot of people saying that kde is good especially with dolphin and plm, idk I’m kind of conflicted right now and was hoping some of you would convince me why gnome hehaha

I’m trying to copy my files from my internal storage onto an external hard drive as backup but I noticed that the transfer speed is notably slow as the average speed is just around 12 MiB/s and sometimes it drops to <1 MiB/s. I am doing so via Dolphin but I also tried the terminal which just had the same performance. From time to time Dolphin also stops responding and freezes. Is this a common occurrence with the difference in the file systems or am I missing something else?

Hear me out on this one first before the "just don't dual boot" comments roll in.

As my circumstances have it, I only have one storage slot on my laptop so I don't really have much of a choice. But my plan is to shrink the Windows partition, install Fedora, and use Linux as my daily driver for basically everything I can. I only intend to keep Windows as a fallback for apps like safe exam browsers or specific work related software that has absolutely zero workarounds on Linux.

I've already read up on the common issues like fast startup and secure boot, and the occasional Windows updates breaking the Linux bootloader. But the main question is: given that setup, how bad is the risk really? Is there anything I'm missing that I should sort out before committing?