johntash

cross-posted from: https://eviltoast.org/post/15723930

Anyone have a recommendation for something that can track shipments, or at least shipping information? Additional inventory features would also be needed.

My wife has a spreadsheet where she keeps track of things she buys from others (usually not big businesses) that may not get shipped for a few weeks/months. I'm looking for something that could replace that spreadsheet with stuff like whether she's paid for the item, if it's been shipped, if it's been received/verified, etc.

I know of Grocy and Homebox that both can do inventory management, but it didn't look like they have support for shipping/tracking numbers out of the box.

There's also Snipe-It which probably could support it, but it was a bit of a complex mess the last time I tried using it for home purposes.

cross-posted from: https://eviltoast.org/post/14412290

I've been really lazy with keeping track of my money over the last few years. I still use personal capital (now empower)'s dashboard, but it's not self-hosted and they can be pretty aggressive with their marketing.

Previously, I was using Beancount + Fava to track all of my money, including investments. Every time I think about updating my ledger and importing the last several years of transactions, it just feels overwhelming and I put it off again.

I'm still a fan of plain-text-accounting, but importing a large number of transactions always feels cumbersome.

I tried Firefly-III briefly, but it didn't support investment tracking. I also saw Ghostfolio for the investment side, but haven't tried it yet and it seems to only do investments.

My wishlist of features is below, are there any self-hosted/oss finance apps that would meet most of these?

• self-hosted
• import via csv at minimum, ideally support for yodly/plaid/some other bank syncing api
• support for regular accounts (checking/savings), credit cards, and investment accounts (stocks, 401k, etc)
• misc. asset tracking like for a car or house
• mobile app or mobile-friendly web view
• local llm support for categorizing transactions and fixing merchant semi-automatically
• multi-user support - not required, but it'd be nice if my partner and I can use the same app but still have our own private accounts too
• tags or some other way to group expenses together (like all expenses related to a trip)
• good reporting
• bonus: support for custom reports/calculations like "If i retired next year, how much money would I have per month?"

Alternatively, what do you all use for this type of thing?

cross-posted from: https://eviltoast.org/post/14241983

I've been thinking of migrating from proxmox to a kubernetes (talos) + kubevirt set up. I recently discovered https://cozystack.io/ which seems like it combines a lot of the things I would have to set up anyway.

Anybody have any experience with it? Curious to hear if it works well or if there are any major caveats/gotchas vs a more DIY setup.

I've been in the process of migrating a lot things back to kubernetes, and I'm debating whether I should have separate private and public clusters.

Some stuff I'll keep out of kubernetes and leave in separate vms, like nextcloud/immich/etc. Basically anything I think would be more likely to have sensitive data in it.

I also have a few public-facing things like public websites, a matrix server, etc.

Right now I'm solving this by having two separate ingress controllers in one cluster - one for private stuff only available over a vpn, and one only available over public ips.

The main concern I'd have is reducing the blast radius if something gets compromised. But I also don't know if I really want to maintain multiple personal clusters. I am using Omni+Talos for kubernetes, so it's not too difficult to maintain two clusters. It would be more inefficient as far as resources go since some of the nodes are baremetal servers and others are only vms. I wouldn't be able to share a large baremetal server anymore, unless I split it into vms.

What are y'all's opinions on whether to keep everything in one cluster or not?

What's everyones recommendations for a self-hosted authentication system?

My requirements are basically something lightweight that can handle logins for both regular users and google. I only have 4-5 total users.

So far, I've looked at and tested:

• Authentik - Seems okay, but also really slow for some reason. I'm also not a fan of the username on one page, password on the next screen flow
• Keycloak - Looks like it might be lighter in resources these days, but definitely complicated to use
• LLDAP - I'd be happy to use it for the ldap backend, but it doesn't solve the whole problem
• Authelia - No web ui, which is fine, but also doesn't support social logins as far as I can tell. I think it would be my choice if it did support oidc
• Zitadel - Sounds promising, but I spent a couple hours troubleshooting it just to get it working. I might go back to it, but I've had the most trouble with it so far and can't even compare the actual config yet

Does anyone have recommendations for centralized backup servers that use the server/client model?

My backups are relatively simple in that I use rsync to pull everything from remote machines to a single server and then run restic on that server to back them up and also copy that backup to cloud storage.

I've been looking at some other software again like Bacula/Bareos/UrBackup and wondering if anyone's currently using one of them or something like it that they like?

Ideally I'm looking for a more user-friendly polished interface for managing backups across multiple servers and desktops/laptops. I'm testing Bareos now, but it'll probably not work out since the web ui doesn't allow adding new jobs/volumes/etc.