You can use a raspberry pi with a GSM HAT

here is a super in depth blog that I used for reference when implementing this. https://projects-raspberry.com/call-text-using-raspberry-pi-gsm-module/

I have a very different GSM module that goes directly on the pi.

If you are interested in alternatives, there is frp https://github.com/fatedier/frp

i moved to sftpGO instead and am quite happy

OP is talking about solutions that include certain features out of the box in an easy to use package.

Rolling out a conglomorate of those features that you’ve manually set up and ducktaped together by hand is irrelevant. That approach was already possible for many decades.

Dokploy has a web ui with a list of services where you click install and it installs them for you. You can set it up to do the exact same job as OMV but also way less or way more, depending on what you want and need. (by just clicking install on the existing templates, or by entering a custom docker compose if you want to run a nieche service)

So I’d argue dokploy is a perfect substitution (or more like superset) for OMV, but OMV could never substitude dokploy.

free foss alternative, look at OMV

lol no. I used this one for a month and no.

It works but it has the most convoluted GUI possible. No backup system at all iirc. And running arbitrary containers was a nightmare that is not even integrated with the GUI.

I settled on https://dokploy.com/

The closest to your dream is probably https://hexos.com/

It is closed source, but build on top of open source…

They (for now) have a one time purchase license, no subscription.

It has buddy backups. Can run on any normal x86 pc / server (you have to bring your own and install hexos to it). And has a nice and simple GUI for deploying services easily.

I never personally used it. I just have it on my radar. For me, the not so easy but fully free (cost) and open source way works reasonably well. I run my homelab with dokploy.

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How did the cat turn out?

https://printer.getpolymorph.org/

FUTO (popularly associated with Immich and Louis Rossman) received some backlash for subverting third-party donor guidelines in the conducting of its grant program

selfh.st should recieve some backlash for subverting the reason for the FUTO backlash in this summary.

The guidelines fuckery is just the decor. The main part of the whole cake is: FUTO platforms a guy that calls himself a fascist and talks racist gibberish.

Just a heads up, I havent looked into it for a year, but back then CJK input was completely non functional on wayland.

Ok apparently there has been progress.

https://archive.fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-6533-status-of-cjk-input-system-in-wayland/

At the beginning of this year it was working, even if a bit buggy, according to this talk. The talk also provides a good overview of all the subsystems involved.

I don’t have a good memory, because it was about 15-10 years ago.

I remember one time where the dist upgrade finished, but after a reboot most apps would crash with core dumps and I wasn’t able to use apt for anything.

One time I did the dist upgrade too late and the repos were gone. It would have probably worked by manually pointing at the archive, but I was a newbie back then.

One time I had some ppa for work, that blocked the upgrade and I would have to completely remove it, but there was no version for the new release yet, even though I needed (also for work) a feature from some tool that was updated in the new release. So I was stuck between having one or the other but not both.

But like I said, it’s all cloudy.

Not really answering your question, but what you describe is exactly why I switched to arch and have been rocking the same install for over a decade.

It’s uNsTaBLe - I keep getting updates and things keep changing and rarely something needs my intervention to keep working. But it keeps working. And I can install viber from AUR without thinking.

Before that I was on Debian and then Ubuntu and then Kubuntu - and dist-upgrades were a much worse, weekend-destroying, rage-inducing pain than doing light weekly maintaining of my arch install.

dokploy on a plain debian server with auto updates is my goto setup for simplicity

secondhand used mini pc + some refurbished harddrives

host something that you really need and will use

For your personal use, you don’t need an enterprise setting. It’s just a simple compose file that you run.

You can host a registry in pull through mode, so you still have all the images you use locally, but if it’s not in your registry yet, it pulls it from docker hub or whatever.

The only pain point is that a single registry can’t do both. So if you want to push your own docker images AND have a “cache” of stuff from docker hub, you need to run two registries in two different modes.

I have just this (which ironically won’t work now cause docker hub is down)

services:
  registry:
    restart: always
    image: registry:2
    ports:
      - 5000:5000
    dns:
      - 9.9.9.9
      - 1.1.1.1
    volumes:
      - ../files/auth/registry.password:/auth/registry.password
      - registry-data:/var/lib/registry
    environment:
      REGISTRY_STORAGE_DELETE_ENABLED: true
      REGISTRY_HEALTH_STORAGEDRIVER_ENABLED: false
      REGISTRY_HTTP_SECRET: ${REGISTRY_HTTP_SECRET}
      REGISTRY_AUTH: htpasswd
      REGISTRY_AUTH_HTPASSWD_REALM: Registry Realm
      REGISTRY_AUTH_HTPASSWD_PATH: /auth/registry.password
      # REGISTRY_PROXY_REMOTEURL: "https://registry-1.docker.io/"

volumes:
  registry-data:

I don’t even remember how and when I set it up. I think it might be this: https://github.com/distribution/distribution/releases/tag/v2.0.0

Recently somebody has created a frontend, which I bookmarked but didn’t bother to set up: https://github.com/Joxit/docker-registry-ui

You guys don’t selfhost a registry?

Throw Cinnamon or KDE Plasma on Arch

Yeah no. I’ve been on arch for a decade and no way in hell is it user friendly for normal people.

Like for example - Explain to your aunt or uncle how to deal with pacnew files and that you have to do that on a regular basis. They’ll look at you like you’re some weirdo punching yourself in the genitals.