Yes, it’s explained in the documentation.

E.g.:

SAMBA_GLOBAL_CONFIG_bind_SPACE_interfaces_SPACE_only: yes

maps to:

[global]
bind interfaces only = yes

This way you don’t need to provide any extra configuration file.

If you want to keep up with friends/family, you can do a chat group on any of the many messengers. Or even use an RCS/iMessage group. You don’t need a full-blown social media thingy for this.

They just get rid of a bunch of so-called “fact checkers” deciding for you which posts you’re allowed to see and which get banned/hidden/deleted. It’s not the end of the world. You can still block people. You can still decide NOT to read posts.

There’s dockurr/samba which is also pretty easy to setup, but doesn’t allow much deviation from the defaults.

You’ll find it a much more encouraging and rewarding experience if you connect with people instead

And you’ll find that a lot of your so-called “friends” won’t include you in any activities if it means they have to contact you separately via other means.

# https://github.com/ServerContainers/samba

services:
  server:
    image: ghcr.io/servercontainers/samba:latest
    restart: unless-stopped
    network_mode: host
    environment:
      TZ: Europe/London
      MODEL: MacSamba
      SAMBA_GLOBAL_STANZA: "vfs objects = acl_xattr catia fruit streams_xattr; fruit:nfs_aces = no; inherit permissions = yes; fruit:model = MacSamba; fruit:posix_rename = yes; fruit:veto_appledouble = no; fruit:wipe_intentionally_left_blank_rfork = yes; fruit:delete_empty_adfiles = yes; fruit:metadata = stream"
      SAMBA_GLOBAL_CONFIG_load_SPACE_printers: no
      SAMBA_GLOBAL_CONFIG_printing: bsd
      SAMBA_GLOBAL_CONFIG_printcap_SPACE_name: /dev/null
      SAMBA_GLOBAL_CONFIG_disable_SPACE_spoolss: yes
      SAMBA_GLOBAL_CONFIG_min_SPACE_protocol: SMB2
      SAMBA_GLOBAL_CONFIG_bind_SPACE_interfaces_SPACE_only: yes
      SAMBA_GLOBAL_CONFIG_interfaces: lo eth0
      SAMBA_CONF_SERVER_STRING: Docker Host Samba
      #SAMBA_CONF_LOG_LEVEL: 3
      ACCOUNT_shareuser: mypassword
      UID_shareuser: 1000
      # avahi seems to introduce issues with the share
      # "The operation can't be completed because the original item for "xxx" can't be found."
      AVAHI_DISABLE: true
      WSDD2_DISABLE: true
      #NETBIOS_DISABLE: true
      SAMBA_VOLUME_CONFIG_myshare: "[myshare]; path=/shares/myshare; valid users = shareuser; guest ok = no; read only = no; browseable = yes"
    volumes:
      - /path/to/myshare:/shares/myshare

Just make sure you don’t have any local SMB server running on the host. And if you need multiple different shares, these all need to go into the same container or you need to define different ports if you use multiple containers.

why bother with the aliases

Because once some service “loses” (or sells) your email and you start getting spam, it’s pretty easy to burn that specific email address and change it to something else with that specific service and the spam will stop.

I thought the thing will lower your phone into the box so that the battery doesn’t take your whole room with it when it eventually explodes during charging…

Yeah, Synology and NFSv4 is a bit hit or miss if you don’t use a Kerberos server. I’ve experimented with that back in 2018 to no avail: https://blog.mbirth.uk/2018/01/05/synology-nfsv4-with-id-mapping.html

I don’t know anything about Neptune, but a Fediverse-version of TikTok is Loops.video.

Well, it’s not a protocol, Subsonic is an app that became pretty famous in the MP3 era and had a nice API for which various clients were developed.

The source code was Open Source in the early days which was forked into e.g. AirSonic, MadSonic, LibreSonic.

Those projects are dormant for a few years now. That’s why new ones have emerged that simulate the same API so all the client apps can still be used with them.

EDIT: Looks like these are projects that support the Subsonic API and are still in active development:

• Funkwhale (also: federated)
• Navidrome
• Gonic
• Airsonic-Advanced
• LMS
• Astiga
• Nextcloud/ownCloud Music
• SupySonic (headless server)

Ah, so alternative implementations. I’ve still got a license for the original Subsonic, but that hasn’t been updated in years by now.

Subsonic? Is this still a thing?

new generation of devs

The new generation of devs sadly has a lot of people that only can type what they want to achieve into ChatGPT and blindly copy whatever code snippet it comes up with. But they can’t develop. Nor do they understand code written by others. They’re the reason things like NodeJS’s is-even package exists.

The brown paper-bag thing with alcohol in public. I mean, everybody and their dog knows what’s in there, right?

And the fact that people ask if you need help if you decide to NOT take the car but instead walk the 5 minutes to somewhere.