And now everyone who is salty about it repeats: If you don’t pay for it you are the product.

Tbh, their product is much better than the alternatives, especially for non English cases and we selfhost it anyway for aged now. Which works perfectly well and remains free and open - source.

Yeah. And Netbird/Pangolin go a long way these days.

Have a look at Layer7,btw. They are more than decent and you can easily install Proxmox on them as a Hypervisor.

Just a theory: There is a good chance that your provider does CG-NAT and that was the issue with OpenVPN. These would persist with wireguard,sadly, unless you solve them properly. (Which can be tricky). But just for the book: Running an Wireguard Container behind your router and have a port forwarded to it is an option. (But still needs CG NAT adressed)

Thaft leaves you with a few options:

• Cloudflare: Imho a bad idea - it’s evil, it’s monopolistic and while it’s “an easy way” it has its technical downsides. As you said a domain is still required.

• Use a small VPS and run a wireguard tunnel and maybe pangolin as a reverse proxy on it.It has the benefit of being very flexible and once configured is fairly stable and it puts the security part outside your network. But it costs money unless you maybe make it work on oracle’s free tier. I would still recommend using a cheap domain,though)

• As others have mentioned: Tailscale/Zerotier/Netbird absolutely are an option if it’s just for you. But they get nasty if it’s for more people or larger deployments with tailscale and while netbird is far better it’s less common and does require a domain as well. (Which,again,is not a bad idea to have)

Yeah, and Eich is the a***e behind brave…

Netbox,especially when combinded with Plugins is so incredibly good and might,that’s it’s almost funny how good it is. What I do Plugin wise:

• Documents: not implemented yet by me,but one could store manuals,etc. directly within netbox.

• Lifecycle and Inventory: While it’s not as good as snipe-it (tbh, inventory is imho one of the worst plugins) it does the job for my small deployment

• Slurp it to scan automatically

• QR Code for obvious reasons

• Floorplan as well

Of course that sounds overkill for a small deployment, but I simply forget too many things after a few months otherwise and it’s something my family (wife is in IT and far more qualified than me) would need if something happens to me,so a proper documentation would be essential for that as well.

Just saying:

There are alternatives for LE,not for all things, but for a lot. Afaik not all of them do follow suit.

For a lot of technical things that need to keep stable I use ASA these days. While PETG and PCTG (I mainly use PCTG these days instead of PETG) are cheaper and a little bit easier to print, I have found PETG to be too UV suspectible over time - unless there are additives in it- and I had some parts printed in PETG and exposed to the sun indoors (exposed spot close to the window,but under pressure,like your desk leg) loose strength. While ASA is more expensive and a little bit more difficult to print, but there are versions who are extremely easy to print these days. (But get a proper exhaust / filtering solution) and I simply want things to “work” for a long time. ("Do it right once*-mentality probably) The mixture of the mechanical strain and UV+ temperature seems to be the issue and ASA tolerantes that better.

For laundry detergents PETG should be no issue, wouldn’t use PLA,though. DO.NOT.USE.FDM.PRINTED materials for anything that touches your food unless you have done a lot of research. Don’t trust the" no issues" fanboys.

3. That’s ASA. Most definitly. If you need more structural strength use something with CF. If that isn’t enough maybe PC/PBT CF - but that is overkill…

To be honest: For that money I would rather go for another 50- 100$ if you can somehow afford them and consider a centauri carbon 1.

They are decent, work out of the box, now offer a open source firmware and you are set to print basicay everything beside automatic multicolor (which might or might not come…very likely not ). But they are good for all technical filaments, they are fully endclosed,etc.

Don’t get a refurbished printer. Never.

And stay away from Bambu unless you are aware of the walled garden.

As the original link has been taken down and your advice is still very valid just one point I wanted to add: This is valid UNLESS it’s from someone whom you know well enough that they tell you the truth and knows what they are doing - in that case it can be a good idea to buy a used printer from someone who knows what they are doing and who has ironed out the teething problems some machines have and can provide advice if something goes wrong.

I was luckily enough to do something similar (with my CNC-machine,though. Standard MPCNC,but the friend I got them from is a pro - he designs his own mainboards and stuff - and would have been able to fix some issues myself without him/would have become frustrated) once and was able to help out a friend this way - he got a nice, highly modified but working very well Anycubic (back then one of the most reliable models…) and I got money for the next machine.

Otherwise: your advice is very valid. I also fucked up in that regard once.

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Yeah,Netbox is also my main solution, combined with forgejo repo.

Works very well.

Stinky is an understatement - ABS is literally toxic (enough that a longer print can kill a small bird in the room) and while ASA is toxic as well, it is less so.

Nevertheless both require a good exhaust/filter solution.

Funny enough it was quite the opposite for me I had horrible experiences with eSun(and still have them when I open a role that is still orginally packed from my storage) and switched to Sunlu/Jayo and did not have to many issues (as in: Two. Once a order was massively delayed (not their, something went wrong at the parcel service), the other time a role was not correctly packed (in one of the triple packs) and they send another three role package.

Print wise they are by far the most printed filament for us and we got through upper double digits by now.

For PLA: SUNLU/Jayo(same company) for standard stuff Polymaker for special stuff

PCTG: Extrudr

ASA: Black Forest Filaments(if in Europe), Extrudr, Spectrum

Avoid PETG and use the even better PCTG.

Jayo is literally SUNLU,btw.

Same here - using it on various Nvidia based machines without any issues.

So far that’s not working to much,but development is fast it seems

Basically a book downloader that connects to various sources, mainly Annas archive, and then hands the downloads over to CWA(or booklore). While still heavily under development it works.

https://github.com/OrwellianEpilogue/ephemera

Calibre Web Automated and Ephemera. But looking to switch to Booklore some day,just haven’t had the time.