Can it connect to the VPNs simultaneously though? I don’t have it, but from what I see it can have configurations from multiple vpns but only one can be up at a time.

I am running tailscale to access my homelab and my exit node and I use wireguard protonVPN connection for that exit node. It involved messing with nftables, check this for more info. In theory, you could do the same with two wireguard connections. One connection in and one as an exit. Maybe easier solution would be having these on separate machines/vms. Having the exit vpn on the openWRT as default for all connections and then the connection in on a separate container or vm, and it would exit through the router. I am not sure but I think the wireguard then naturally exits trough the router (gateway).

I think you would be fine just installing the apps in TrueNAS. You can have snapshots, you can have remote backup with e.g. StorJ and updating is so easy. I was also doing stuff manually but eventually found out that it’s not worth it. And realistically I won’t stop using TrueNAS anytime soon.

WHAT?

Its your right of course. I think, though, that internet is often amplifying even the tiniest negative things while forgeting all good stuff (not limited to TrueNAS). I hate such culture, especially when the people (not you, in general) then go and use stuff like Twitter and similar. I mean how is it that people witch hunt this incredible free product they are getting, no strings attached and at the same time doom scroll tik tok or use WhatsApp or have windows or mac… You get the gist. I wish internet echo chambered also the positive stuff… I’ll stop rambling, sigh, sorry…

As started in other comments, TrueNAS is staying open source, only the build system is going closed source because some company was ripping them off and removing license. But the OS system itself can’t go closed source because of the gpl license.

So no need to move away if you like it.

I bough old FUJITSU Desktop (ESPRIMO D757/E90+) its ~2017 has 4 pcie. I bough cheap 3 ethernet NICs and 1 wi-fi on a maketplace/bazar and installed openWRT. Actually I installed proxmox and openWRT in a VM so that I can use that computer for other networking stuff like AdGuard, Tailscale, etc… Btw if you do this be careful which wifi you buy, not everything is easy to setup on OpenWRT.

That would be awesome! Anyway good luck and have fun developing it, it’s interesting project 😊

You might want to check Ente Auth. Not sure how many checkboxes it ticks for you but I know people are quite happy with it.

Nice, and interesting. I would reconsider the name though. Its hitting way too close to google. I know that was the intention, but I think you will be in google’s shadow because of it.

Fedora just works for me in every case except NAS where I have TrueNAS, so Fedora it is and I installed it even to couple of people and they also like it.

I will teach you a trick. Login with e.g. github. Create a tailnet. Create new user invite link, use it yourself - you can setup login with passkey to this second user. Promote to admin. Leave with your github user. Voila you have an account and tailnet with only passkey, no big brother oauth or anything.

Exactly what I came here to say, paperless app already have a scanner no need to fiddle with file sync and stuff 😊

I would look into PiHole vs AdGuard home. Lots of people are locked in on PiHole, but they never tried the other and AdGuard is currently more user friendly and easier to use than PiHole. Not starting a flame war here, everyone will have different view, just look at PiHole vs Adguard home and make your own decision (or try both).

I have about 15 trueNAS apps only 2 of them are custom (endurain and molly socket). They are containers but very low effort handled mostly by the system. I also have 3 LXC. And 2 VMs (home assistant and openWRT). I spend only few minutes a week on maintenance. And then I tinker for several hours a week, testing new apps or enhancing current ones configs.

Neat, I didn’t know about quadlets, never used podman. Seems like a fun new thing to learn 😀 thanks

What is your setup? I have TrueNAS and there I use the apps that are easy to install (and the catalog is not small) and maintain. Basically from time to time I just come and update (one button click). I have networking separate and I had issues with Tailscale for some time, but there I had only 4 services in total, all docker containers and all except the Tailscale straight forward and easy to update. Now I even moved those. One as a custom app to TrueNAS and the rest to proxmox LXC - and that solved my tailscale issue as well. And I am having a good time. But my rule of thumb - before I install anything I ask myself if I REALLY need this, because otherwise I would end up with like a jillion services that are cool, but not really that useful or practical.

I think what I would recommend to you, find platform like TrueNAS, where lots of things is prepared for you and don’t bother too much with the custom stuff if you don’t enjoy. Also I can recommend having a test rig or VM so that you can always try first, if its easy to install and stable to use. There were occasions when I was trying stuff and it was just bothersome, I had to hack stuff and I was glad in the end I didn’t “pollute” my main server with it.

Containers are amazing. But they may not be for everything. It also depends what you mean by containers. In this case I think you mean only docker containers. They are amazing, I love them but they are not the silver bullet. But then if you also think about LXC those two types can cover like 99 % of homelab usecases.

Yeah, I think you either have to use their “external library” feature, which makes immich basically just an image viewer or you have to let immich handle everything but then the filesystem settings are very limited. Sadly there is nothing in between. I opted for the second option. I have the basic storage template (with folders for years, months and days) and I think that is ok by me, but I really wish I could also perma edit the photos. Fyi you can still do operations on your images on the filesystem (not renaming or moving though), you just have to refresh metadata and thumbnails for that photo (or video) in immich. I was doing that for the image or video rotations. Its still not very practical to do that, but that is at least something.

Yeah, I mean its still good, but I wish I could just say “apply permanently” and have it on the filesystem without having to tinker…