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2 months agoI’m hoping that Fluxer will be an easier option for my friends once the mobile apps are a bit more polished. I tried to get them to Matrix, but the experience just wasn’t quite smooth enough.
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Terf island isn’t much better
Parent companies shouldn’t be a thing. If a company buys another company, it should be fully integrated, and all branding should be legally required to reflect the new ownership.
10·3 months agoI have basically ideal hair for laser so I can’t speak to that aspect, but I have been on hrt for almost 7 years. My body hair has definitely thinned out and grows slower, and requires less frequent removal. It didn’t affect my facial hair nearly as much.
What I’m hearing is energy vampires
Check with your laser tech! Mine have preferred me to be fully shaved, but some very short stubble is acceptable. The laser works on the follicles, not the hair that’s above your skin, so you generally don’t need any length.
2·5 months agoI’m using Zoho to host my emails for my custom domain (I pay like $15 per year or something). I do have DKIM, SPF, and DMARC configured, as they’re not hard to configure, as they’re literally just a couple of DNS entries.
Moving to another provider would just be a matter of changing these DNS entries along with your MX record to point at your new provider.
I run a variety of self hosted things via my domain on a dynamic IP. I just have dynamic dns set up to check my current public IP periodically, and update the dns entry if it changes.
I use Memos. It doesn’t use a flat file structure, but it does just use a SQLite database file. You can open it in any SQLite browser to read your notes, or copy it somewhere for backups.
You’re welcome!
I use https://nginxproxymanager.com/ for my reverse proxy. It doesn’t exactly integrate with ESS, but it’s not super challenging to set up proxy hosts for the domains (you can specify multiple domain names in one Proxy Host if they all point to the same host/port).
I find it nice because I can manage it via a web portal, but it’s on my home LAN. Depending on how you access your VPS this might be less convenient than using one of the other options, but I don’t have much experience with the others.
I set up Let’s Encrypt certs to automatically renew for the Matrix domains, pointed them all at the ESS host server and port, and then enabled Websockets Support. That last bit is critical, or things will simply not work correctly, especially calls.
Also, the way to include additional config files tripped me up like crazy for a good few hours, and then how to format them tripped me up for even longer, for options they don’t have examples for (like automatically joining any new accounts to a room, for example).
If you’ve got specific options you’re trying to set, I’m happy to help if I can. The documentation is atrocious for this bit, so if you’re not a kubernetes pro (I am definitely not) it is confusing!
Alright that gives me a good idea what your working with.
I am running it along side some other projects, so I already had a reverse proxy set up, so I didn’t look closely at the other parts of the guide in that section.
If you want to be able to use this server for other hosting in the future, you may want to set up a reverse proxy. I can give some advice about that if you’re interested!
In your case, if the only thing you ever want to host on this box is Matrix, you don’t need a reverse proxy. You should be able to do the steps here and it should result in a working deployment.
It looks like that should give you a tls.yaml file, which you need to include when issuing the helm command to deploy everything. This one:
helm upgrade --install --namespace "ess" ess oci://ghcr.io/element-hq/ess-helm/matrix-stack -f ~/ess-config-values/hostnames.yaml <optional additional values files to pass> --waitYou need to make sure that in the <optional> section, you include:
-f ~/ess-config-values/tls.yamlSo your command would be this, if you have no additional yaml files, and if you do, simply put “-f path/to/file” at the end, right before the “–wait”:
helm upgrade --install --namespace "ess" ess oci://ghcr.io/element-hq/ess-helm/matrix-stack -f ~/ess-config-values/hostnames.yaml -f ~/ess-config-values/tls.yaml --wait
Ok, so that sounds like either a DNS issue or a reverse proxy issue. Did you configure your domain/subdomains to point to the public IP address of where you’re setting things up? Are you using the reverse proxy in the guide or do you already have a reverse proxy and you’re adding ESS domains to it? Did you configure port forwarding on your router?
I have had issues with accessing my locally hosted services via domain name while on the same network. My router doesn’t like to route internal traffic back to its own WAN port. Can you access it from something on a different network (cellular data)?
nono, Fifty Letter Acronyms.
If you want to be able to manage it via a web page instead of config files, nginx proxy manager works well, and can be run via docker/docker compose.
It’s not quite as simple as a single docker compose, but the Element Server Suite for hosting a matrix home server (synapse) was fairly simple to get working.
There’s an additional component, and how you deploy it depends on the method you’re deploying things. If you do the Element Server Suite (https://github.com/element-hq/ess-helm) via their instructions, it includes the voice/video component and web client. If you deploy your homeserver in a different way, you should be able to find instructions for Element Call.
Synapse is the Matrix homeserver, it handles everything except for the voice/video call features.
Edit: it doesn’t handle the web client either, but technically you don’t need that for a working setup.
I don’t know what your definition of budget friendly is, but I recently got a Flashforge Creator 5 pro. I’ve got around 30 print hours on it so far, and it’s been fantastic so far. I have it in LAN only mode and have been using Orca slicer. Compared with my old Ender 3, it’s an absolute joy to work with!