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This Week in Self-Hosted (4 October 2024)

Self-hosted news, updates, launches, and a spotlight on Streamyfin - a simple and user-friendly Jellyfin mobile client

This Week in Self-Hosted (4 October 2024)
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This Week in Self-Hosted

It was a busy week in self-hosted adjacent software as Borg, the popular backup platform, added support for rclone in a recent beta release. The change enables 70+ cloud storage providers for users looking for an easy way to back up their data and upload it to the cloud.

On the mobile front, Mozilla released the first beta of their Thunderbird client for Android this week. Built on the popular K-9 Mail app the company acquired in 2022, the beta is the first step in transitioning the platform to the Thunderbird branding while bringing some design and functionality improvements along the way.

If you missed it, I opened selfh.st's annual self-hosted user survey for responses last week. The survey consists of 35-40 questions and shouldn't take long to complete. Responses will be open until next Friday.

2024 Self-Host User Survey
An annual survey for measuring self-hosting behaviors and preferences across various topics
selfh.stEthan Sholly

Happy selfh.st/ing!

In the News

Home Assistant Connect ZBT-1 issue and replacement
Through extensive testing, we’ve found a fault, but we’re setting up a replacement program.
Home AssistantAndy Gill
Reaffirming our commitment to free
Today Cloudflare reaffirms its commitment to offering a robust Free service tier that continues to improve. We share why Free is a cornerstone of our business strategy, and how it contributes to building a better Internet.
The Cloudflare BlogNitin Rao
Help Us Test the Thunderbird for Android Beta! - The Thunderbird Blog
The wait is over! Download and learn how to help us test the Thunderbird for Android beta for the upcoming regular release.
The Thunderbird BlogMonica Ayhens-Madon
Mastodon Announces Fediverse Discovery Providers - We Distribute
Mastodon Engineering has announced a new network-wide effort to create a framework for service providers offering a variety of capabilities.
We DistributeSean Tilley

Software Updates

New Software

Breaking Changes

Latest Directory Apps

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Community Content

Common Misconceptions of the AGPL · Danb Blog
Before getting into this post i want to make it clear I’m not a legal expert in any way and the following post is based upon my interpretations from spending a lot of time looking at software licenses.
Danb Blog
Installing Jellyfin as a Podman Quadlet
Jellyfin is everyone’s favourite open-source multimedia player. This guide goes over how to install it as a Podman Quadlet. This assumes you already have Podman setup for Quadlets. Follow this guide to setup Podman for Quadlets. Create the container First, create and edit sudo nvim ~/containers/jellyfin.container, if you don’t use Neovim, replace nvim with whichever text editor you prefer. Paste the follwing. Replace {USER} with your user, {PUID} with the value of id {USER} -u, {PGID} with the value of id {USER} -g, and change your time zone accordingly.
Eric ThomasEric Thomas
Home Assistant turns 11 years old
The Open Home is maturing like fine wine, with Home Assistant reaching 11 years old and showing no signs of slowing.
Building the Open HomePaulus Schoutsen

More From selfh.st

2024 Self-Host User Survey
An annual survey for measuring self-hosting behaviors and preferences across various topics
selfh.stEthan Sholly
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Content Spotlight: Streamyfin

Meet Streamyfin, a simple and user-friendly open-source Jellyfin client for mobile devices. Streamyfin sets itself apart from other Jellyfin clients with a modern interface and robust feature set that includes skipping intros/credits, Trickplay images, transcoded downloads, picture-in-picture, background audio streaming, experimental Chromecast support, and more on the way. The developers also collaborated with the JellySearch team to leverage its capabilities for improved and optimized search within the app.

Streamyfin can be installed from the App Store on iOS and Google Play or manually via the repository's releases on Android. The team is also currently facilitating a new app icon contest on the project's Discord server for anyone looking to get in on the action.

Screenshots from the project's repository featuring the library, download, and media item screens against a dark background.

Links: GitHub, Google Play, App Store

What I'm Watching

What I'm Listening To

No Google October
Ditching Google Search for an entire month! We reveal the tool that’s helping us break free. Plus, a special guest shares his home lab to data center journey. And, Chris raves about the ultimate Jellyfin client (and confesses to an accidental network camera purchase).
Self-HostedJupiter Broadcasting
Rock Around the Underclock
Martin introduces tools for overclocking and underclocking GPUs, Alan has been discovering new music with the joy of Python, and Mark has a new audiobook server.
Linux Matters

Command Line Corner: Ctrl + T

Use Ctrl + T to quickly swap the last two characters before the cursor (most helpful for quickly correcting accidental suod or sl occurrences):

/$ suod_
/$ sudo_

Click here to view an archive of commands shared in previous newsletters.

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