Yeah the first run experience really needs to be tweaked so it’s a normal window.

Gotcha, in that case maybe a container? You can use a bind mount to link a folder on the host to inside the container. You could use docker/podman or LXC.

It can be anything you want.

How you change it depends on the specific server you’re using, I use SFTPGo for a webdav server and when I create a new user it just asks where the data should go.

Does rclone support the cloud service?

Software RAID is generally better in every way, also no hardware to fail.

Keep multiple reliable (and tested) backups, if something fails restore a backup.

Don’t rely on any storage, RAID or anything else to be recoverable when something goes wrong.

Backrest is also great, just a nice webUI for Restic.

Yeah it seems this is not really meant for full self-hosting, it might be better to find another option to use.

Sure:

• Proxmox backs up all my VMs/CTs nightly to the proxmox backup server I run as a VM with an external HDD attached to it. This keeps around 30 versions with a retention policy so I can go back pretty far if needed. These are full bootable images and include everything.

• Restic (using Backrest to manage it), runs on any VMs/CTs with critical data, and backs up to Backblaze B2 every night as well, this is a more limited choice of the critical files that I’d need. Similar retention policy as the proxmox backup.

With both I try and do some full restores every month or two and test things out.

If you really want better sleep quality probably a better way is stop using stuff with screens like an hour or so before bed. It’s not really the blue light that is the issue, it’s the endless content keeping our mind active.

Give your brain time to rest and relax!

Sounds like you’re just running the back end, and it’s using the public front end linked to your local back end by default.

If you want to use port 12470 it says that is https so you’d need to type that in instead of http in your browser.

If you wanted to run the whole thing locally, it mentions disabling CORS, and then you’d probably need to set up the web front end: https://github.com/Stremio/stremio-web

I use watchtower to auto update everything.

Anything that needs a specific version for compatibility (Postgres mostly) is pinned to the major release.

Stuff occasionally breaks, but I have backups for that reason (if you don’t, set that up now before anything else, they should be running daily at least and you should have 2 types of backup minimum).

FolderSync is a good alternative, more battery friendly too!

Yes there’s always a chance corruption can happen from a hard power off, always keep reliable backups.

I would go with a managed Nextcloud provider, it’s such a pain to manage self hosting Nextcloud specifically.

Be extra vigilant with your backups though, free stuff always has a higher chance of weird stuff happening, once they just removed my VPS after my trial ended and told me to re-create it.

They could be away and not checking on things until they get back.

Or potentially their github account was taken over somehow.

Dynamic DNS is free generally, for example if you put your domain on Cloudflare or another DNS host with an API that is supported you can just update the A records automatically on IP change.

There isn’t one.

You can combine several other services though, such as Matrix for chat, Mumble or Teamspeak for voice, and OBS + BroadcastBox for game streaming.

Have you tried wiping the phone and being careful about what apps you install?

The camera specifically says it was accessed by the camera app which seems perfectly normal. The microphone being unknown is odd.

You can’t get notifications while offline, so that sounds more like a bug of some kind in an app you have installed maybe?