Networking

Two spare Pis sitting around. Already running AdGuard, so Pi-hole was off the table. I wanted something actually useful. I’ve been paying $10/month for Obsidian Sync. The vault lives on my hardware anyway — it felt like paying rent on my own stuff. The alternative: run CouchDB on a Pi, point the Self-hosted LiveSync plugin at it, and use Tailscale to make the Pi reachable from anywhere without port forwarding or a public IP. E2E encrypted, zero ongoing cost, fully under my control. ...

I ordered a TRMNL X e-ink display to put on my desk. It’s a 7.5" e-paper panel that polls a server for images and refreshes on a schedule. TRMNL has a cloud service, but I’m not paying a subscription for a display I can host myself — and BYOS (Bring Your Own Server) mode is the whole reason I bought the X model over the cheaper ones. The device hasn’t arrived yet. The server is already running. ...