No worries! I was pretty much confused myself from the beginning, so I am definitely open to any workflow :) And I do plan to read on one device only as well. My centralized approach was mostly about saving space on the tablet/reader and a possibly easier management and freedom to move to something else in the future, rather than a strict requirement.

I used to have tachyomi on my eink tablet, so this definitely rings a bell, but I thought the only working solution was Suwayomi.

I will look into Mihon and its support of selfhosted solutions then, seems like a nice combination :)

Thanks! Never heard of both, but I will definitely check them out :)

You could just leave it in airplane mode, but not being able to use the internet to pull down books from your Calibre-web server means you may as well just send books via Calibre.

That’s sadly true. I am thinking of waiting for the kindle to die too, but I was looking more at the onyx boox go 6, since I already know I can run whatever I want on there.

Pretty much, apart from that I often add them and only fix if necessary, e.g. they’re not going into series properly.

I see, thanks! Do you mind if I ask you where you can find them with some good metadata? My attempts have been not so good until now…

Interesting, thanks! I agree with you about using specific tools for different purposes. Tbf my kindle is a 2018 model put on airplane mode since 2021, maybe I can do something about Koreader.

About comics/manga, didn’t know about comictagger, it seems very good. So your process here is get comics -> comictagger -> upload to server and kavita, correct?

I am not sure about how lightweight they are (but I guess more than WordPress for sure) but on the federated side of things you have plume (https://joinplu.me/) and writefreely (https://writefreely.org/) that you can selfhost. Not super sure about how much you can customize them.

Thanks for the composerize link, it’s super useful indeed!

Yeah I took a quick look at podman and nope for now 😂 docker compose it is and it’s working wonderfully :)

Yup I read about the folder thing but got stung by it as well ahah

Thank for taking the time to explain, I am almost done with the transition of all my services and I did exactly like you suggested and everything works perfecty! :)

The first jump to Debian was the most intimidating for me learning CLI commands for the first time and not having defaults chosen for me, but it was liberating to finally learn the actual tools and not just learn a GUI abstraction for tools.

I feel it, I am in the process now of transporting everything and I couldn’t agree more. I have a semi-idea of trying nixOS sometime, and I only recently learned about podman existence, is it that different to docker? I read it’s not a 100% replacement, but I guess it depends on the use-cases.

I see Proxmox mentioned a lot, but haven’t had the time to test it out. I will stick with Debian+Docker for now, but if it’s that convenient I might take a look at it one day :)

And you can experiment as much as you want and break stuff.

I really like this part especially

Thank you! And thanks for sharing your experience :)

Nice to know that someone did the same move, and happy that it went well :) did you have anything specific to remove from the CasaOS compose files? (I know they fill it with a lot of stuff useful for their categorization)

This is exactly how I feel! Everything works but I feel there is a lot that was "“forced’” on me that I don’t use, and conversely a lot that is going on 24/7 and I don’t really know how it works.

Archwiki is really an invaluable source of information, I use it regularly even if I never touched Arch.

Nice to know I am not alone! And I only recently started with linux, so I guess it’s not really something that goes away with time 😂

I need to take a look at an immutable OS sooner or later, although I feel I would be annoyed for not being able to modify stuff for my liking (probably I will never be satisfied in any case)

Thanks for the suggestion! Yes I was grabbing everything that casaos didn’t have from linuxserver.io, and read some of their stuff too, but I will be sure to check also dockerrun :) Downtime isn’t a problem since I am the only one using the server for now, and I still have leftovers from a previous setup (stremio, local music)

No worries! I think I got what you meant, just wanted to make sure. I agree with you to separate storage from apps and systems, in this way if something goes wrong with the main drive (I think) I should also be able to restore the system and not lose any downloaded media or data.

Thanks for the detailed answer! :) Indeed, I read that I would be limited in storage size if choosing the internal option. That said I am not sure I will be using more than 4tb in the next months, considering also that I don’t have the need for 4k videos at the moment. Would it be a “waste” to just go for an internal ssd to start, and then upgrade to a larger hdd (external) in the future?

Also, sorry just to clarify, when you say

Make sure you’re not writing logs or anything like that to it, it should be on demand use only

Does downloading media to the drive still counts as a viable thing to do? And I guess the on demand use would be e.g. streaming.

I can confirm Orion blocks Youtube ads (might need to tweak options). As for youtube app, no need to sideload anything, Yattee is on the app store and on testflight for betas (https://github.com/yattee/yattee/wiki/Installation-Instructions)