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This is a list of movies I wanted to watch with my girls.  They are just movies that I found age appropriate for them (ages 12 and 13) at the time we started, and movies I liked as a kid too.   Indiana Jones (series) Raiders of the lost Ark Temple of Do...

I built Get My to fill a gap I perceived in the open source world of list apps.  There are tons of them to be certain, but none really fit couple of things I wanted, and my family needed.  Also, I just wanted to make something useful. Quick References Get ...

RocketChat is an open source, self hostable chat application that rivals the likes of Teams and Slack.  It allows administratos incredible power in permissions and role setup, Room / Channel setup and organization, private / public channels, private group di...

Authoritative DNS First, you'll want to have a domain name you've registered, and can change the DNS servers for through your registrar.  Install Technitium I'm going to use two Digital Ocean servers for this. the first will be my primary DNS sever. The s...

Netbird has put out an update with version 0.29.0 of ther amazing open source Wireguard server software that adds a new feature called "Relays".  Here's a link to their release notes on version 0.29.0 https://github.com/netbirdio/netbird/releases/tag/v0.29....

A word about Affine's language when it comes to self-hosting vs "cloud".  It's a bit confusing, but when you set up a self hosted server, and then you see "Enable Cloud Sync" for a workspace, it really means your server, and does not mean the Affine servers....

  What Is It? OpenRPort is an RMM (Remote Machine Management) tool. It's a server based system where you install a client access application on each client machine you want to manage. That client then connects to the server, and becomes accessible in many wa...

What is Coolify Coolify is an application that can be used to deploy applications, databases, and services easily and quickly to your local server, or to remote server hosts.  Think if it as the Application / Service part of a service like Linode, Digital O...

  It's important to keep your Router / Firewall appliances updated to the most recent versions of their firmware in order to maintain good security on your networks.  With OpenWRT, for a long time, this was a tedious process.  You had to get the new firmware,...

Looking for the Open Source Is Awesome Discussion Board? Me too.  RocketChat recently instituted a weird policy about breaking the mobile and desktop client if you allowed your server version to lag by more than a version or so.  This isn't great when they pu...

The Awesome Open Source discussion forum was originally setup using Rocketchat, an open source chat system touted as a replacement for the closed source Slack, Teams, and others.  This ran well for several years, but after some major down time due to upgrades ...

The Awesome Open Source YouTube channel was started in 2019 after I looked for instructional content on running various open source solutions.  I found content, but almost everything I found was either extremely outdated, or just a short 10 minute video ...

Bookstack is an incredibly powerful, open source, self hosted wiki solution.  It's set apart from other wiki solutions by the way it allows you to organize content.  Think of it as your digital library of documentation.  You start with Shelves ( a larger ov...

A viewer asked me how to get this done, and the OpenRPort documentation is a bit light on this. In the current Web UI you can follow these steps to add new users and groups.  NOTE: You don't have to add a new user to add a new group, you can edit an existing ...

  Wazuh is an open source set of tools that we can put to work for us and our clients, helping us make sure that we have as many attack vectors buttoned down as possible, and all of our security systems up to date. Recall that we previously installed Zabbix,...

In this episode, we are covering the combination of two amazing open source projects.  Incus (a fork of the LXD container system) is an incredibly powerful containerization that makes small virtual machines which share the resources of the host OS without sp...

We'll start with a new Incus container (LXC / LXD).  I am starting with an image of a Ubuntu 22.04 (24.04 doesn't seem to be supported by Minarca just yet).  If you are using a Container like Incus / LXD / LXC, then you need to set it up with Nesting = true ...

  Beszel is an incredibly simple, but powerful, system monitoring tool that is ideal for any homelab or small business. It offers automated monitoring updates from client to a centralized server. It shows CPU, RAM, Disk IO, Temperature, and Docker stats (if u...

What is VDO.Ninja? Pronounced 'video ninja'. it's an incredibly powerful real-time video meeting system that will create Peer-to-peer connections when there are only 2 or three people in a call, but utilize a room style connection as the meeting grows. This...

Flarum is a brilliantly built, light-weight, powerful forum software that may just be perfect for your community.  I've used Discourse for years for my Linux Users Group, but have had it crash on me lately several times. I've had to bring it back from an old...