Timestamps

(00:24 ) Happy 2025!

(00:34 ) Hungry Bogart interview on Linux Prepper origins and background on Medium.

(01:00 ) Episode Overview

(01:45 ) Audience Feedback

• What is Matrix and why do we have a Matrix chat. Join it here.

(02:50 ) Discussion forum now live for the podcast and eventually Living Cartoon Company, my theatrical work.

(03:20 ) SeaGL Gnu/Linux Conference from October

• Found through Steadfast Self-hosting. Book also on Github
  

(08:00 ) There is more to this podcast than just technology in terms of computers. Also relates to making musical instruments, electronics, recipes, DIY, hardware

(09:15 ) My audience expectations is you want to learn more. You are someone happy to learn more. You will be inspired to take initiative.

• Basic web searches like “Linux Password Manager” to learn.


• Markdown is how this is written for you.


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  Bullet Journaling
  


• Password Managers

Where to Begin

(12:00 ) Everyone starts hosted. No shame in it. But, when to try selfhosting on your device?

• Encounter a limitation like sharing multi-terabytes of data, when my hosted storage is smaller.


• Get a “homelab” with any old machine.


• Give yourself a reason to learn.

(15:00 ) Basic services you can experiment with to begin your own homelab of internal devices

• Avahi, mDNS for treating your device as hostname.local for printing, Samba and more with zero configuration.
  
  
  
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    Edit avahi-daemon.conf with whatever stand-in hostname you want
    
  
  
  
  


• DNS Server, popularly done with Adblockers like Pi-hole and Adguard Home, plus Unbound with a blocklist.
  
  
  
  • Sync multiple failovers of these using Orbital Sync for Pi-hole or adguardhome-sync
    
  
  
  • My personal preference is Adguard Home alongside Unbound and Adguardhome-sync.
  
  
  
  


• DHCP Server (requires router access) to use something like the above services to set static routes and DHCP reservations for your devices in a saner manner.


• I personally enjoying setting all of my device IP assignments based on MAC addresses.

Expanding beyond DNS and DHCP

(19:00 ) Buy a domain yourself using a service like Porkbun.com

• or, try an open source, dynamic dns provider like duckdns.org

(19:30 ) Reverse Proxy to access your services with valid https, either publicly and/or locally only.

• No more http warnings in the browser. <- nothing makes friends and family less interested in our service.


• No more remembering IP addresses or port numbers.


• Classier than simply using avahi as hostname.local:$port
  
  
  
  • avahi still serves as a nice fallback
  
  
  
  


• Local only https is totally doable thanks to DNS challenges. Your application doesn’t have to be public.

There are tons of reverse proxies to choose from! I don’t want to recommend one over another. Which do you prefer? All of these services are ones your friends and family will use, whether they know it or not.

(22:05 ) What services do you actually host for your friends and family? Let me know! podcast@james.network

State of the Podcast

(22:30 ) Paypal donations accepted
(23:00 ) Podcasting 2.0 support enabled
(24:00 ) Now using studio monitors for reference in better recording and mixing the show.