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Greetings, internet strangers. I just got a Martin Jerry Tasmota smart switch and would like to connect it to OpenHab or something similar. I have ruled out HomeAssistant because their docker image doesn’t have plugin support and I need to run it on an existing Debian 12 server. I know a little bit about mqtt but not much. If anyone could tell me how or recommend a guide to configuring a Tasmota switch with OpenHab or similar with a mqtt broker that would be great. Thanks.

Edit: typo

Hi. I am currently pirating on a dedicated server (Debian 12) running i2p, jellyfin, qBittorrent-nox, and a vpn. I tried mullvad for a bit but need to get air VPN set up now. My current setup to actually get content to jellyfin is this:

1. Try to find it on i2p, if there skip to step 4
2. SSH into server and turn on vpn + qBittorrent
3. Torrent Linux ISOs
4. SSH again and copy the file into jellyfin (really space inefficient, would love a solution to this in particular without shitloads of symlinks.)
5. Rename files to work with jellyfin
6. Login to jellyfin and refresh libraries
7. If Linux ISO not on i2p, cross seed

Obviously this sucks. I know *arr would help, but I don’t know how to set up a VPN to not interfere with jellyfin connections to outside of LAN.

How would you go about automating this? Do you think I am a complete idiot going about it all wrong? (I know I do) Have any of you found a solution to vpns interfering with jellyfin?

Hello, fellow internet users. I am currently using Debian but would like a distro to try the new Gnome on. I have been using Debian for a while and I love the stability, but would like newer packages. I also, for no rational reason, would like to be able to use the default package manager exclusively. I used Fedora before and liked it more than Debian (apart from that it felt vaguely Windowsey) but I would like to distance myself from the whole red hat thing. What distro do you think I should get?

I am looking at getting a fp4. (Pretty seriously, I am typing this on an older phone because I listed my newer phone on eBay to switch) I want a good, privacy focused operating system to run on it and was wondering what you all run and what your experiences have been. My main concerns are:

1. Support - I don’t want my operating system maintained by just 1 or 2 random people on github.

2. Features - I want the basic stuff to work but am concerned about the fingerprint sensor and cameras.

3. Privacy - I want something ideally completely degoogled.

4. Stability - I don’t know much about android but I use Debian lts if that tells you anything about the kind of update schedule I want.

I know this is a lot to ask of an os but do you have any recommendations?

Hi. I have been downloading Debian images through i2p, but because of the limited selection of Debian isos available on i2p I decided to get Mullvad to download them on the clear web (and add them to i2p of course.) I use a dedicated server for i2p, jellyfin, and nginx. When I added Mullvad and qBittorrent, Mullvad started proxying connections for nginx, breaking it. Does anyone know how to make Mullvad only proxy qBittorrent and nothing else, or at least not proxy nginx?

I have tried adding the 5 ish pids for nginx to the mullvad split tunnel, but even then it doesn’t work. The only option I can think of right now is to either run mullvad and qbit in one docker container or run nginx on a separate machine. I have no idea how to do the docker thing and don’t want to buy new stuff for this. Are there any other options or does anyone know how to do the docker thing?

Hi. I recently had some issues with my lemmy client which made me accidentally post the exact same thing here twice. The posts were about privacy on my school issued computer. I could have made it more clear, but I wanted privacy from the companies that make their spyware not from the school that owns the computer. Anyway, as of now one post has more than 40 upvotes and less than 5 down. The other has 10 up and 5 down as well as significantly less helpful and more critical comments. My hypothesis is whether the early comments were helpful or critical determined what other people said. I am curios to see what everyone thinks of this.

Hi. My school just started issuing devices last year, and they have this Lightspeed spyware on them. Last year I was able to remove it by booting into Linux from a flash drive and moving the files to a separate drive and then back at the end of the year. This year I have heard from sources that they have ways of detecting someone booting from Linux so I am hesitant to do that option. My only other idea is to buy an old laptop off eBay that looks like it and install Linux on it. I could probably get one for about 50€. Does anyone have any cheaper ideas?

Oh also talking to IT isn’t an option.

Hi. My school just started issuing devices last year, and they have this Lightspeed spyware on them. Last year I was able to remove it by booting into Linux from a flash drive and moving the files to a separate drive and then back at the end of the year. This year I have heard from sources that they have ways of detecting someone booting from Linux so I am hesitant to do that option. My only other idea is to buy an old laptop off eBay that looks like it and install Linux on it. I could probably get one for about 50€. Does anyone have any cheaper ideas?

Oh also talking to IT isn’t an option.

Does anyone know how /e/os compares to graphene os for privacy? I am thinking of getting a murena fairphone which comes with /e/os but supports custom OSs and am leaning towards graphene, but don't know much about e.

Hello, I am trying to set up i2p on my dedicated server. I had it set up but it seems to have broke recently after messing with some other services on the server (don't ask I honestly don't remember what I changed.) I uninstalled and reinstalled i2p+, and configured it in ~/.i2p/clients.config.d/00... to listen on 192.168.1.1/24 and restarted the router. After that didn't work I tried creating an ssh tunnel to it to access it as localhost, but that didn't load and ssh returned the error "channel 3: open failed: connect failed: Connection refused." If anyone knows anything about setting up a dedicated i2p router on LAN, please help.

Edit - Found this in the logs: 2023/08/02 10:32:58 | INFO | Unable to bind the Router Console to any address on port 7657

Edit 2 - Update: Upon reinstalling i2p+ completely, I was able to get in with an ssh tunnel. Now I will try to open it up to the network and document my changes here in case anyone else runs into the same problem.

Edit 3 - Update: I realized that I am stupid. I was putting the wrong ip in the configuration files in clients.config.d because I thought it was the ip of allowed clients not the ip that it is reachable by. Once I also changed the settings in ~/.i2p/router.config it would redirect to an https version which wouldn't load. I added routerconsole.redirectToHTTPS=false in router.config and it loaded an http page. Next I need to allow lan connections on so I can use it as a dedicated router.

Hi, I was originally going to post this in a piracy community, but I think it fits better here. I didn’t see anything in the rules about piracy, but I apologize if it (talking about it rather) isn’t allowed here. Anyway, I mostly use foss for better privacy, but I want to be able to fire up the occasional game. I haven’t played any proprietary games for a while, but would like to. I want to know how piracy impacts privacy. I imagine not having to phone home every 2min for drm would allow me to run offline, but I may want to play with friends or something, and was wondering generally what you all recommend for gaming.

Obligatory info about my setup: CPU: Ryzen 5000 GPU: Nvidia 3000 ] OS: Debian 12 DE: Gnome (whatever version ships with deb 12) Whatever it’s called: x11

I also have a dedicated server if pi-hole blacklists exist for this.

Another note: I apologize if this is considered the promotion of proprietary software, but I am more looking for tips on minimizing the risks of proprietary software rather than trying to promote it. For what it’s worth, I always try to convince my friends to switch to GNU+Linux as well as other foss.

TLDR: How can I game privately on debian 12?

Thank you in advance for any responses.

Hi, I posted this recently in a separate piracy community but I didn't realize that this one became the main one. I want to configure sonarr to work with i2p torrents and only torrent over i2p. qBittorrent seems to be the only foss torrent client with both i2p and sonarr support, but I can't get i2p set up with it. Does anyone here know how to set up i2p with qB or any other clients I could use? Please include detail, I am an idiot.