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Hey all, I'm relatively new to the selfhosting game the most I've done to date is own and maintain a plex server for the last few years, but that mainly handles all of the networking for me so I'd say it doesn't really count.

Recently, due in part to the ongoing controversy with audibles royalty and streaming model I've decided to try my hand at setting up an Audiobookshelf server of my own. For reference I'm running on a machine with Ubuntu 20.04. Ive managed to get Audiobookshelf and nginx running through docker and accessible via the localhost:port, but now I feel like I'm missing some key understandings.

I assume I need to have a domain name through a DNS service like cloudflare in order to make use of it, but I'm not sure what to do after that and the documentation that I have read doesn't outright answer my questions.

Once I have my DNS setup, how do I associate it with my server or point it through the nginx reverse proxy?

I know I'll have to setup a .conf file for nginx at some point and I found the example .conf in the audiobookshelf documentation, but I just feel like I'm missing the step between getting a domain name and establishing the reverse proxy.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks!

It seems that every one I stumble on is Swerfy.

This year's vanilla harvest starting, and with the hot weather, moving fast. This year I'll harvest around 100 pods which I'll process into cured vanilla over the next few months.

It's also the time of year for "tipping", where you go through and break off the growing tips to hopefully induce flowering, which will start as early as October November. I'm going to be rooting and possibly even selling some vine material from the tipping events.

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Let no one accuse me of being a competent artist or comedian.

Right now I have a NAS running 24/7 for some self hosted apps (p2p, *arr...) and as primary storage for my multimedia files.

This NAS has some limitations because it has a low spec hardware and the OS is "propietary", so sometimes I have issues with docker or I miss some random feature that "standard" Linux distros have.

I work in IT and deal with the technology at home sometimes feels like a second job. I'm thinking that maybe I could simplify my home hardware avoiding NAS servers and use only my main desktop running 24/7 . This could give me a lot of flexibility (a standard OS, VMs, standard docker, better hardware, faster file operations because no LAN involved...) and less hardware to deal with.

Does anybody went this way? Any recommendations in favor or against it?

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Hi! I have an Audeze Maxwell. My wireless USB adapter broke. I tried bluetooth, but it only works well with my phone. I tried both a PCI-E bluetooth/wifi adapter and a USB bluetooth/wifi adapter on my desktop, and neither give a good connection. It's ok for listening to music, but like they share on Audeze's website -- although it may kind of work, the quality will be unpleasant.

I'm trying to instead plug a USB cable from my headphones to my computer, and I'm not sure how to get my ARCH LINUX install to recognize the USB.

When I plug in the computer, I got a couple popups. One saying

"USB Device Connected MediaTek Inc. MT6227 phone has been plugged in."

Then another notification that says

"USB Device Removed MediaTek Inc. MT6227 phone has been unplugged."

River tour along the St Lawrence, many options available

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boldt_Castle

Flickr Album A relaxing river cruise along the St Lawrence river, which flows across the US/Canada border takes you to the famous Boldt Castle (NY) of the Thousand Islands. Did this as part of a small trip I had with my mom (as with the last few days and a woodstock post coming up). You can also go on to the island as part of some tours, but we didn't.

The powerhouse for Boldt Castle, which looks like a castle in its own right.

The side of Boldt Castle, with the dove-cote (middle) and a portion of the powerhouse on the right.

One of the five bridge sections (the largest I believe) that span over the St Lawrence River from Canada (right of frame) to the US (left of frame).

Bonus picture of the cutest little house on the river that is so excited to see you!

Took the time to get a replacement and redo it instead of throwing the whole thing out. Sitting in it feels better than ever.

"Astronomers spied the bare black hole using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) — a mega-instrument built by NASA and its partners in part to reveal how galaxies formed during the universe’s first billion years. This new black hole, which is as heavy as 50 million suns and is dubbed QSO1, clashes with the old, provisional account of the galaxy formation process, which did not start with black holes."

In 2021, an audience member asked Kirk at what point conservatives had the green light to use guns on their political opponents, and while Kirk took care to at first “denounce” the question, he went into a longer answer that suggested he didn’t really disagree that much with its premise. Kirk’s sole objection to the idea, he explained, was that it was strategically foolish because it would create a pretext for a Democratic crackdown on the Right. He went on to suggest that the line for when it would be okay to take up arms and hurt people would be “when we exhaust every single one of our state[’s] ability to push back against what’s happening” — in other words, if his movement didn’t succeed through the normal political process. Two years later, he reiterated this, warning listeners that “you have a government that hates you, you have a traitor as the president,” so they should “buy weapons” and carry them around all the time in public in case they have to fight back.

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They shouldn't be able to do that!