Not sure what you mean by “controlled” given it’s open-source?

Which OS?

On Android, Moon+ Reader is pretty good.

My wife uses the Amazon Kindle app on her Android tablet. You can use it for non-Kindle books by sending an email to a special email address for your Kindle account: https://www.amazon.com/sendtokindle/email.

Calibre is useful for this. It shows an easy to use “send to Kindle” button, and can convert books in ePub, mobi, etc formats to the format that works best in the Kindle app (AZW3).

If you want a web interface for Calibre (eg to run on a home server and download books when you’re away from your computer), Calibre-web works well.

But why deal with separate software like dnscrypt-proxy when AdGuard Home has it built-in?

Throw Unbound on there too as your upstream recursive resolver

If you want to run your own recursive DNS server, why would you run two separate DNS servers?

You don’t even need to worry about an encrypted session to your upstream anymore because your upstream is now your loopback.

Your outbound queries will still be unencrypted, so your ISP can still log them and create an advertising profile based on them. One of the main points of DoH and DoT is to avoid that, so you’ll want them to be encrypted at least until they leave your ISP’s network.

AdGuard Home is a better choice than PiHole since it uses DNS-over-HTTPS by default. There’s also an app called AdGuardHome-Sync to sync settings between multiple instances.

I’d recommend running two DNS servers, and at least one of those separately from the rest of your infrastructure like on a Pi. That way, if you need to pull one of them offline, the internet still works.

And make sure it’s a VPN that supports port forwarding. Sharing is caring.

or just use Usenet.

we are discovering just how bad they are for your health

It turns out that burning a highly flammable carcinogen in your living environment isn’t the best idea.

Oh, I didn’t realise (I don’t use it). Thanks for the info.

Ideally use a VPN with port forwarding (like AirVPN or Mullvad) so you can properly seed :)

I still don’t think that I’ve ever seen a 4k image or video

Have you not watched a recent movie? Modern midrange to high-end TVs have been 4K for a while (eg my 2019 LG OLED is 4K) and it’s pretty common for movies to be released on 4K Blu-ray.

Good 4K looks great. Not the low-bitrate streams from services like Netflix, but the 60Mbps+ streams from Blu-ray remuxes (for example, via Real Debrid or downloaded via usenet) or from Blu-ray disks themselves.

You’ve definitely seen a 4K image. It’s equivalent to 8.3 megapixels, and good cameras have supported at least that resolution for a long time. Even the nearly 15-year-old Samsung Galaxy S2 had an 8MP camera.

It’s using the YouTube API, so that makes sense. The developer likely wants to keep the app focused and reduce the amount of feature creep, hence reusing YouTube’s standard subscription and list systems rather than building their own. That’s also what the majority of users expect - if someone subscribes to a YouTube channel on one device, they’d expect to be subscribed to it on all devices.

It’s a much smaller scale but I use a Coral TPU with CodeProject AI to detect when people or animals are in front of my house. Works well with Blue Iris (NVR software for security cameras). I like it. That’s all the self-hosted AI I’ve got for now.

Protip: Use Conduit instead of Synapse. It’s significantly lighter than Synapse, easier to run, and I guess you can be a cool kid by running something written in Rust. The documentation is even worse though :/ https://conduit.rs/

Oh yeah, that’s a good catch. Hosting their own proxy/CDN in front of OSM should be doable though.

they were causing too much load on OSM’s servers.

They could host their own caching proxy between OSM and their users though.

Also, Home Assistant uses OpenStreetMap and they have more users than Immich does.

Edit: Home Assistant does use OSM data, but they use it via another third-party called CARTO, who at least have a proper site: https://carto.com/basemaps. Tiles come from URLs like https://basemaps.cartocdn.com/rastertiles/voyager/12/657/1580@2x.png

It’s a DRM system called Widevine, that’s currently maintained by Google. It ships in Chromium/Chrome and Firefox as a closed-source binary blob. Firefox asks you before running it, since you may not want to run proprietary code.

You can tell Firefox not to run it, or disable it in the plugins. Instructions are here: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-drm#w_disable-the-google-widevine-cdm-without-uninstalling. Regular videos will still play properly, but videos with DRM will fail to play. Note that practically every paid streaming service uses Widevine DRM, so if you disable it, none of them will work any more.

Plex are likely using it for their free streaming content. I’d guess that they’ve licensed it only for streaming, and need to enforce that users can’t download or record it.

Your own Plex content does not use DRM, so if you’re only using Plex for your own content, it’s fine to deny Widevine from running.

A VPN can also have a faulty config. Everything depends on correct configs :)

Did you try the first app I linked to? I can’t try it since I’m away from my computer for a few days.

My screenshot is from the “Boost” mobile app on Android :) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rubenmayayo.lemmy

What type of data are you looking for? Does http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/network_usage_view.html suit your use case? There’s similar data somewhere in the modern settings app too.

There’s also performance counters for real time data (bytes sent and received): https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/networking/technologies/network-subsystem/net-sub-performance-counters. You can use these in any tool that supports performance counters. There’s an app that comes with Windows called Performance Monitor that can read these counters.