Ah right. Docker seems to have gained more ground than LXC if its the first time I come across it. I hadn’t realised they were similar, especially after I discovered that people are running docker in LXC …

What i read here is concerning. Non that i was getting into the swing of drocker … :-( Is LXC the future then?

Ok, I hadn’t realised that the helper script installs docker. I thought LXC was an alternative to docker.

Regarding the VM option, I did think of doing just that but read a lot about it using too many resources with frigate and LXC seems to be more efficient option when it comes to resources

OK, I should have been clearer. With “community LXC repository on github” I actually meant that I used the LXC scripts. It did go through a few questions at the start but nothing relating to storage and camera setup.

That is brilliant. Thanks. I haven’t read this all yet looks like what I need.

Immich and Radicale definitely recommended. I’ve still got paperless-ng and plan to move to paperless-ngx as soon as I find the time. I’ve also got firefly-iii which is a big revolution to how I manage personal finance. Even my 17 old son has got into it … He couldn’t understand where all his hard earnings were going.

Looks like I have two options for Proxmox + Frigate:

a) full VM via a QEMU VM that then has Frigate as app container (Frigate website is not recommending this approach from what I understand)

b) Virtual environment (VE) thgrough the “Proxmox Container Toolkit” where Frigate is as a system container (i.e. docker container directly in the Proxmox environment, which eliminates the VM overhead. See here: https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/pve-admin-guide.html#chapter_pct

Looks like someone has got it up and running in the PCT environment https://www.homeautomationguy.io/blog/running-frigate-on-proxmox

Also, I need to get my hands on a Micro desktop with a PCIe slot so that I can stick the Coral unit in it. Any thoughts for cheap solutions on eBay?

But setting up a VPN on a VPS is not really going to do much for privacy is it? It wouldn’t take much to work out who is renting the VPS and the VPS has no incentive to hold back any info if a they were issued a search warrant.

Feels like it becoming more and more challenging living on the Internet without leaving breadcrumbs all over the place.

Although some appear to not be maintained anymore

Awesome Privacy looks goog. Need to explore.

The problem with many of these apps is that when you go looking for them on fdroid they are not there. Example in the above list is YouTube Revanced.

GrapheneOS can make a difference here I would say. As long as a you don’t fill it with loads of crappy socials apps. These are the real killers.

Sound like a great journey you have taken. Well done. I did more or less the same transition, except iPhone bit , and using the same apps you use. This difference is that it took me 10 years to complete this journey in full but that reflect my age more than anything else. Gen X

I think vTiger community efition is still open source?

Really helpful, thank.

Let me get this straight. Ur saying that on the laptop I have two instances, one for me and one for my wife and they both sync to nas instance. I have syncthing installed via apt on my Debian laptop. How do u get two instances going?

I just find nextcloud bloated for my use case.

I think hoarder must ne similari to wallabag which i use solely for preserving content I like. I use floccus plus WebDAV for bookmarks saving because floccus is avaible for android too. So bookmarks are the same on all my devices. Sounds like linkwarden does both but I can’t find android app which is a killer for me. Waljabag also is available for android where idomost of my reading.

I was also very surprised to see Sweden back this. The Swedes have started changing dramatically since Russian invasion of Ucrain. Neutral for decades now in NATO.