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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • Ahhh i gotcha, so basically it forwards traffic through the pi so that you can send traffic through tailscale on devices that don’t support it? Sounds like a cool idea tbh

    Good on ya for the tailscale/syncthing though, off-site backups are super important! If Jellyfin supported federation you could merge your library and your parents library and have it all accessible through each of your local instances. Maybe one day they’ll add it, i think it would be a killer feature.

    Glad the write-up helped though, it should at least help you move towards single instances (at least for immich) since you can just backup on tailscale via the dns entry!


  • Glad to help, yes that is a perfect example of how you could use this to your benefit. Much easier to just tell people to enable VPN (tailscale) and navigate to an easy to remember URL.

    I’m somewhere in the middle, I do cybersecurity professionally so i work a lot with technical stuff but my hobbies are much deeper in it so theres a lot of stuff i don’t know. But, thanks to these communities i was able to learn how to do a lot of things and have now levelled up into doing the research on my own and trying to give back :)

    In your dream scenario, is that each family member would be hosting immich/jellyfin on their pi zero? Or is the pi zero somehow routing traffic for them back to your server for jellyfin and immich?















  • So i don’t know what kit you have or what it came with but here’s everything I would use:

    Equipment:

    • Star San (make sure everything is sanitized, also don’t rinse this stuff out – “don’t fear the foam”)
    • Airlock (and bung)
    • Fermenter (I like big mouth bubblers, but your kit should have come with something)
    • A spoon

    Ingredients:

    • Honey (I do 3lbs per gal)
    • Water (I use store bought water, because I’m paranoid lol)
    • If you’re using fresh fruit, pectic enzyme (this helps break down haze in the mead from the fruit)
    • Fermaid-O (this is the nutrients)
    • Wine Tanin (optional, for aging)
    • Yeast (you can get some cheap yeast on Amazon – I used Red Star “Cote Des Blancs” for my strawberry mead, but your kit probably came with this)

    Watch some YouTube videos to get a feel for the process. I enjoy City Stead Brewing, they have tons of recipes and helpful tips. Also, if you’re gonna bottle and stuff you’ll need wine bottles, a siphon and bottling wand, corks, and a corker. You can bottle in swing-top bottles, but I haven’t had good luck with those (apparently they’re not great for long term storage >.>)

    Like i said though, for your first mead it’s probably best to KISS. I appreciate being able to get a feel for the process and then experimenting later on. I’ve only made two meads, but have made wine and a LOT of beer in the past – so if you have more questions just lmk!


  • 👋 fellow homebrewer (do we have a homebrew community here yet?)

    My advice: your first mead is probably gonna be more of a learning experience. Go to costco and buy a big bottle of honey (3lbs), mix it with a gallon of water, and some nutrients.

    Most cost effective way to try it out without blowing a ton of money. My first mead was terrible, and i spent a ton of money on good local honey.

    My second mead i spent even more on better honey and strawberries, to apply everything i learned. Came out amazing