Hi all,

I am running proxmox on a mini PC with a handful of services in my stack. I also run NPM in an LXC to reach my services through my domain name (service.domain.tld).

For my Arr related stuff, I use Usenet, and everything runs through a VPN.

I have three services which are public. Jellyfin, Seer and BookOrbit (for syncing Kobos).

Currently I have no security besides the built in login managers from the services, but I am considering setting up Authentik. I know I’m asking for trouble with my current set up.

I have elderly and extremely tech averse family members who live in two countries other than me, so tech support can be a challenge.

A lot of people suggest running a VPN, but it would be difficult for my family and I don’t know how to make it work syncing our Kobos with BookOrbit.

I’ve also seen some posts about tunneling to a VPS somewhere and users can connect to the VPS without a VPN.

I feel this question has been asked several times, and I tried searching here and on the internet in general, but my knowledge is not good enough to use the right terms and to get something that is idiot proof.

Any suggestions on best practices or links to guides you recommend would be much appreciated. Also, what EU based affordable VPS would you recommend?

  • surewhynotlem@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 hours ago

    I hate our kobos. The app is shit. Total waste of money.

    But this gives me hope. I’m going to play with this.

    • PerogiBoi@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      16 minutes ago

      I love my kobo precisely because there’s a huge community behind KOreader. Lots of YouTube tutorials, lots of flexibility. My kobo kept dying at like 50% battery and I just assumed it was a bad battery. Turns out NickelOS was trying to cache a book infinitely in the background so the battery calibration was wildly off because it never properly achieved a sleep state when powered down.

      I left it sitting for a year and a half. Charged it for a full day to balance the cells, copy pasted the files needed for KOreader, changed a config file so that NickelOS would not cache items in hidden folders, and then threw all my epubs onto a hidden folder called “. books” and boom.

      New life in my kobo. I use it daily now. Battery is accurate to 20% (then it sorta doesnt turn back on but whatever). Fair warning though because KOreader is so expansive that its a rabbit hole. UI takes getting used to but the customizability is huge and it runs more efficiently without bloat and you can even use LocalSend to wirelessly push epubs from any device that can run LocalSend to the Kobo so you never have to plug it in again.

      I sync book progress from my Xteink X4 pro to my Kobo Clara HD using KOSync and have my own little KOSync instance running on my homelab (but you can just use the public instances if you want).