From NextCloud 29 to 31 using Alpine LXC

Not long ago we had some fun upgrading to NextCloud 29. Today I relized 31 is out!! times flies and hence we need to verify if the process has gotten easy or not. For background, I'm using LXC with Alpine from the Proxmox Helper Scripts and something important…

My best photos of 2024

2024 was my first year on this hobby and I started late November. Anyway here are my favorite photos that don't involve my family 😸 💠This last one, while nothing special by itself was one of the first photos I was happy with. Looking back I need to improve…

Upgrading EOL ubuntu systems

Today was another upgrade time. Nothing was out of the ordinary until I reached a node with an EOL ubuntu installed 23.04 (Lunar Lobster) which to my good luck went EOL yesterday! While we will mostly be following the steps from the guide EOLUpgrades I'll document the…

Upgrading Nextcloud 29

I've been running nextcloud 28 for some time now. Mostly because the last time I tried to upgrade it was a nightmare and I had to restore a backup... lucky me I had one to restore. Nextcloud documentation provides a few ways to update, one may even say…

In and out on my self-host journey

As times go by one finds itself testing new software and realizing some apps that used to be useful are not anymore. Outs One of the first things I stopped trying to implement was Single sign-on with Authentik I quickly realized I didn't want to spend the time…

Building a squad admin panel

I help manage a Squad server, mods & admins use Battlemetrics for most of their needs and while Battlemetrics is a very well-thought-out tool is also too generic sometimes. While nothing is fully broken, there are a few things that can be improved. There's a console that allows…