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https://docs.libre.space/en/stable/operation/it-infrastructure-operations.html (archive)

Most notably:

• Cloud (for some things): Nextcloud
• Forum: Discourse
• E-mail (some domains): mailu
• Conference planning: Indico
• Short URLs: YOURLS (Although I’ve set up Shlink at home and it’s a lot better)
• Websites: Wordpress
• Status page: Cachet
• ELN: elabftw
• Inventory management: Inventree

employees and how you are managing that

We use gitlab.com in general, so we also use it for support tickets if that’s what you mean 🤔

Not OP, but at least for me when I tried it:

There was no way to use or even just mount and migrate my existing storage (btrfs+LVM). LVM wasn’t even installed, and when I tried to install it, I got an error saying that apt was disabled on the system, which means I was basically locked out of doing anything more than what they allow you to do on your own hardware.

It seems like it’s technically open source, but having all the vendor lock-in features and lack of control of a proprietary solution

The only use case seems for it to be used as a black box appliance:

• on a new system
• with empty hard drives
• only with ZFS
• without having any control on your own system, except enabling samba etc and maybe installing the predefined Docker containers that they allow you from the web interface

I knew it is supposed to be only an appliance, but with how much people recommended it, I didn’t thing it would be this closed of a system; I think I’ve read about people doing more things with even just their Synology hardware

TL;DR:

Price:

“Under $100”:

After [the preorder], it will go up to $99.

Battery is not rechargeable:

And what happens when the battery runs out? You just send the ring back to be recycled.

Runtime:

The integrated battery will power the device for 12–14 total hours of recording. The designers estimate that to be roughly two years of usage if you record 10 to 20 short voice notes per day.

• “Roughly two years” = lets say that’s 20 months
• 12 hours = 43.200 seconds = 72 seconds/day
• “10-20 short voice notes” = 3.6-7.2 seconds per note

Features:

• Records only while pressing the button

• The recording is converted to text and fed into a large language model (LLM) that runs locally on your device to take actions. The speech-to-text process and LLM operate in the open source Pebble app, and no data from your notes is sent to the Internet. However, there is an optional online backup service for your recordings.

• A model small enough to run on your phone has to focus on specific functionality rather than doing everything like a big cloud-based AI

• • Create or add to notes
  • Set reminder
  • Create alarm
  • Create timer
  • Play/pause/skip music track (via button press)

• also designed to be hacking-friendly. The audio and transcribed text is yours […] You can route it to a different app via a webhook, and the LLM supports model context protocol (MCP), so you can add new functionality that also runs locally. The AI model will also be released as an open source project.

Yes, it’s pretty good! I’m a DevOps engineer, and have experience with Ansible, Docker, etc, but I just couldn’t find time to deploy services the best way that I wanted™ for my personal server

So, even though it e.g. doesn’t even use Docker, yunohost really helped me start using the many services I wanted/needed, which otherwise might take e.g. a few hours to a couple of days for each of them to research and configure

So I have one “production” yunohost server, one “testing” yunohost server to test services that I don’t know if I’ll use yet (and I wouldn’t want them to interfere with production e.g. by using too many resources)

and one server without yunohost for mailu, Docker, traefik, etc, which I can use to deploy services the correct way™ as I figure out the services that I really use and find the time to migrate them one-by-one

Even when using yunohost, there are so many things to do after deploying a service (e.g. DNS, configure the server and client software), so it has been really useful to save time when deploying and configuring.

I think it gets you ~80% there, makes self-hosting accessible to everyone, and helps democratize the Internet a bit 💚 It’s more important to have many people setting up e.g. Immich or Nextcloud for their family photos, than only a few Linux people being able to learn how to do it perfectly (Docker/kubernetes high availability, reverse proxies, etc) and have everyone else to need to resort to using centralized services