Fair point ! Yeah sure if you host a blog online it doesn’t make sense… But if you only self-host your services for family and some friends and access them over VPN, a local CA is actually a privacy respecting choice.

Hosting something on the web (specially self-hosted) without the propre software and hardware is a bad idea in the first place anyway !

I also believe it’s possible to set up HTTPS encryption without a domain name, but it might result in that “we can’t verify the authenticity of this website” warning in web browsers due to using a self-signed certificate.

Just create your own rootCA and IntermediateCA and sign your certificate with those, put the CA in your trust store of your system and get rid of this self-signed warning on every device and happily access all your service via: *.home.lab or whater ever local domain pleases you.

In addition to that, without a secure connection you’re stuck with HTTP/1.1

That’s not entirely true. A lot of requests, even with https, are send over HTTP/1.1. And this is kinda mind blowing that in 2025 we still rely on something so old and insecure…

Same goes with SMS and the old SS7 protocol from 1970… 2FA SMS is probably the most insecure way to get access to your bank account or what ever service promotes 2FA sms login.

A blocky road ahead of you ! It will take some time, don’t try to speed up the process ! Remember the first time you started Windows on a computer ? It wasn’t easy at all ^^’ but now most people know how to start and use a Windows system.

Linux is great, linux is freedom and customization but linux is also a hell of another level of complexity.

It really takes 5min tops ! But only if you know what you are doing. Immich is not an easy compose stack for beginners. There’s also all the other stuff you have to take care off (backup? Behind proxy? Share with people outside your lan? …).

Having the compose stack up and running is just the first step ^^ but once you get the hang off, it’s fun and really cool stuff floating arround (navidrome, pihole, home assistant, newpipe, vaultwarden, jellyfin…)

It takes some time to get comfortable but don’t give up, it’s worth it !

There’s also a link on the official website without all the crapware but it’s very well hidden… I found JDownloader really bad and the UX/UI not very user friendly and looks shady…

Too bad there isn’t any IDM alternative for linux, and that’s also why I stopped DDL and wen’t back to torrenting on private trackers… There isn’t any simple download manager that looks sleek, feels good and doesn’t put your system at risk !

I read that somewhere from a github repository maybe even in Navidrome’s pull requests or Issues maybe?

I think the argument was that in directory structure you always have to think where you have to put your files and sometimes a file can be at 2 different places at the same time and I do agree to some degree, that’s why I use both :) !

Yeah… Newer genration are into “put everything in 1 big messed up directory and find all you needs by tags” structure.

I get the gist, but calling directory structure evil is kinda extreme. It allows to structure your thoughts and if somehow your metadata is corrupted, you still have a directory structure.

I work on both front for compatibility issues but nothing beats a well thought directory structure!!

What application do you use on your phone to mount samba shares (Android)? I know Amaze can mount those but they are not easily accessible by other applications.

Not sure this is what you are looking for but navidrome has smart playlists, which is a small configuration file you can add to your navidrome and will automagically create a playlist in your navidrome based on your config.

Can’t exectly remember how or where but I had some chmod 777 -R going on on my setup on the wrong directory and everything seemed fucked up !

Was easier to fresh install instead of hunting some permission issue… Learned from that experience and still learning something new with perms on Linux !

Was going to say the same ! Such a cutsy nice little mini-rack/server setup !

Still fighting my spaghetti setup with cables sprouting everywhere.

You can already do that (somehow) with tags and libraries. There’s a plugin for that.

But yeah this looks less complicated to setup and maintain !

but you’ll lose the ability to mount them on Windows if you do that.

One viable solution to that, is to mount that drive as SMB share, best of the two worlds !

fix(frontend/location): preserve parent location when using “Create and Add another”

That’s a nice QOL improvement, nice ! Good job !!

Tech literates people tend to be more aware, but people who don’t even know what OS means/is…

I’m the only person in my family that has some IT knowledge and believe it or not, everyone in my family things that way… While swipping, scrolling, posting on GAFAMs and publicly exposing all their life ^^. In my friends circle it’s the same… Those who don’t know what an OS is respond the same way.

So it’s mostly the lack of knowledge of what privacy is, in the digital world… Because in real life most people put curtains behind their windows, so people won’t snoop on your hidden secrets.

BTW, I ran Freelancer (old Microsoft space game !) and I was impressed how well it worked and ran on lutris and all the magic arround it.

Nowadays, people get the habit that everything works out of the box, they just have to “press, swipe, click, that’s it”. Technology litteracy is taking a big hit on newer generation, while being flooded with some kind of “Artificial Intelligence” to do their homework… 😮‍💨

Actually, there are ways for home customers to replace their XGS-PON to use your own hardware (Orange, Free, SFR…) And some other cool stuff and very helpful info at lafibre.info forum !

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My god how many times have I been through this… Living with debloated phone, hardened browser, VPN, Linux, sure isn’t easy every day :/// !

I totally agree, It shouldn’t be soo hard to value your own data/privacy and sometimes it feels like I’m fighting the wind.

Thanks for the insight !