whysofurious

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[–] whysofurious@sopuli.xyz 3 points 3 months ago

Thanks, that's all I needed to know :)

[–] whysofurious@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Nice, thanks for the details :) Suwayomi usually obtains png as far as I remember, is Kavita able to read anything that Suwayomi gets, without issues or post-processing needed? Sorry for the many questions^^

[–] whysofurious@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

No worries! I was pretty much confused myself from the beginning, so I am definitely open to any workflow :) And I do plan to read on one device only as well. My centralized approach was mostly about saving space on the tablet/reader and a possibly easier management and freedom to move to something else in the future, rather than a strict requirement.

I used to have tachyomi on my eink tablet, so this definitely rings a bell, but I thought the only working solution was Suwayomi.

I will look into Mihon and its support of selfhosted solutions then, seems like a nice combination :)

[–] whysofurious@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 months ago (4 children)

That seems nice, thanks for sharing! I read Kavita has some weird requirements for path organization for it to work correctly, or do I remember wrong? Do you also do metadata editing in Kavita itself?

[–] whysofurious@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 months ago

Thanks so much for sharing and for such a detailed answer! I understand where you are coming from, I don't have a tablet so for me an e-ink reader would not be too much (I work on my laptop most of the day and I don't like reading on the phone, so a device like that is a sweet spot for me).

I tend to mostly read bw manga (webtoons I read it on my laptop usually), but I heard the same about e-ink colored devices (and most generally that you "shouldn't" read bw on colored eink screen).

For the same reason as yours (mandatory calibre for transferring), I am looking at Onyx Boox e-ink devices, which are basically android tablets but with an eink screen. This gives me the freedom to install whatever app or sync I want, limit my exposure with something like nextdns, remove google stuff as much as I can, and things like that.

In the end I guess it's a balance between actual functionality and convenience, if a whole pipeline become too hard to manage than doing some parts manually might actually be better.

[–] whysofurious@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Thanks! Never heard of both, but I will definitely check them out :)

[–] whysofurious@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 months ago
[–] whysofurious@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You could just leave it in airplane mode, but not being able to use the internet to pull down books from your Calibre-web server means you may as well just send books via Calibre.

That's sadly true. I am thinking of waiting for the kindle to die too, but I was looking more at the onyx boox go 6, since I already know I can run whatever I want on there.

Pretty much, apart from that I often add them and only fix if necessary, e.g. they're not going into series properly.

I see, thanks! Do you mind if I ask you where you can find them with some good metadata? My attempts have been not so good until now..

[–] whysofurious@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Interesting, thanks! I agree with you about using specific tools for different purposes. Tbf my kindle is a 2018 model put on airplane mode since 2021, maybe I can do something about Koreader.

About comics/manga, didn't know about comictagger, it seems very good. So your process here is get comics -> comictagger -> upload to server and kavita, correct?

 

I would like to start managing ebooks and manga properly. I don't have many, but I plan on increasing my collection. My requirements are not so strict, I don't mind getting the books/manga myself, but I am also curious about setting up LazyLibrarian at one point, is it worth it? (I already have other *arrs installed on my server). I had similar thoughts about Suwayomi.

My confusion starts from the accessories around all this: Calibre, CalibreWeb/Automated, Komga, Kavita, Audiobookshelf, etc. Does having a Kindle as reading device limits my possibilities to use any of these? Is setting up e.g. both CalibreWeb and Kavita redundant?

I guess my question is how is everyone using these services for their own library :)

 

Hi all! Does anyone have a spare Drunken Slug invite? Would really appreciate it :)

[–] whysofurious@sopuli.xyz 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah I became aware of their stance on SponsorBlock while enabling it in Grayjay. TBH, if they are still giving me a choice, I don't mind what their stance is on this. I (and this is my super personal opinion) much prefer to consciously donate than being served ads or passively contributing to the youtube sponsor hustle.

[–] whysofurious@sopuli.xyz 3 points 3 months ago

Ah true, stupid me I didn't even look at the repo history or commits. Thanks for pointing it out :)

[–] whysofurious@sopuli.xyz 22 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (7 children)

I love dearrow, it's an invaluable tool. I wish grayjay (https://grayjay.app/) will support it in the future.

Edit: there is a fork the YouTube source with dearrow support, but not official. https://github.com/netux/grayjay-source-youtube

 

Edit: Thanks to everyone who commented and helped with suggestions! I moved to Debian + Docker compose only and everything went well and it's working perfectly!

TLDR: want to get rid of casaos from my home server and learn everything on my own from the beginning, am I crazy for wanting to wipe everything and reinstall the entire system?

Hi all! A few weeks ago I got a mini-pc (Beelink S12pro), a secondary internal sata ssd (thanks to those who helped me with the choice), and I slowly set up my server with quite a few services (the *arrs, jellyfin, immich, navidrome, gotify, uptime-kuma etc.) using casaos as overlay for everything (with Debian 12 as base and tailscale to access it outside my home). I like casaos interface, and it really helped me a lot in smoothing the process of approaching docker and managing a personal server.

However, I am starting to feel a bit restricted by casaos: almost immediately I was bypassing the 1-button install and customize the container to my liking, also if I need to change something deeper I always need to check if casaos has its own way of handling things. Plus, I don't really like the frequent connections to the app store (and I couldn't figure out how to change the interval), or the fact that everything casaos does is done as root, which also forced me to run some containers as root user. My server isn't exposed to the internet so I can be less worried, but I would like to know more about permissions and stuff without being forced to just run everything as root.

Removing casaos is apparently quite easy with an uninstall script, you can also keep your containers intact, however it will leave behind a lot of the dependencies installed and modification made through the install script, apparently.

I don't think these modifications will not be useful to me, but I would like to have a system when I know what I did, what is opened/installed/activated and what is not, and by just uninstalling casaos I will not have that. Note that I am also not against UIs, I think I will install dockge for easier managment of containers, but I would like the process to be learn->setup->use ui, and not the other way around.

Am I crazy for thinking about reinstalling the entire system and start from scratch? I have backups of everything: container data folders, compose files, various media. TBH, in one week of use there are not many things that are absolutely vital, moreover, most of the media are in the secondary drive which will be left untouched. Worst case scenario, I can also avoid restoring backups (except for the arrs which were the more time-consuming to set up).

In my mind these are the pros and cons

Pros: install stuff as needed and learn what does what, without having a script automagically doing that for me, probably gaining a deeper dive into docker/compose. No overlay, no mandatory root things, possibly less maintenance?

Cons: having to set things up again (system users, ssh access, tailscale, automount usb drives, mount points for the sata drive), possibly some container stuff will not just work by re-importing from a backup?

Does the selfhosted community have some advices or opinion on this? Maybe there are also easier ways I am missing, being kind of new to all this. Thanks in advance for any answer!

 

Hi all,

Quite excited for my first post here and for being able to join the club :)

I recently bought a Beelink Mini S12 Pro and put Debian on it. I did use yunohost for over a year and I experimented with basic nginx, fail2ban etc. on a vps but I can't call myself an expert around these things. For this reason I installed casa-os to ease my way into docker (maybe in the future I will do everything DIY, I do like the idea). I put everything behind tailscale to be able to access the server outside my home.

My idea is to have a media server (radarr and sonarr for movies and tv shows, plus navidrome for my music collection) and some other niceties like audiobookshelf and maybe immich. I still need to learn most things about the arr stack, transcoding and such, so I don't have any rush.

However, for all these things, I definitely need a larger drive, since the mini pc comes with a 512gb internal ssd.

The S12 also has a 2.5" drive bay (SATA3), but should I go for an internal drive or an external one connected via USB?

Things I am worried about the internal solution is mostly temperatures, everything is so clumped in there and I read some stories about faulty hardware basically heating the sata ssd to death after a while. On the other hand, usb connection is maybe less "stable"? I don't know. Also, if I go with SATA drive, should I go for ssd or hdd? I don't have too much budget to invest right now, so cost is somewhat a limit at the moment.

Seeking any advice here and happy to hear more expert people opinion on this, thanks! :)

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