The back buttons didn’t work with Steam Input (and still don’t with the v1’s).

Yep, that would work fine for the first line of defense. Eventually, you can expand it to copy, replicate, or drive swap the onprem backups offsite somewhere (e.g., cloud, office, or family member) if you want to protect your data from site loss (e.g., house fire).

The only thing missing is a good backup.

If you are storing anything important – especially Immich and Vaultwarden data – you should have a good offsite protection strategy. And even the HASS config should be backed up with versioning because rebuilding from scratch could be painful once you get deep into it.

I’ll let others chime in on possible good backup options because I use Veeam and Azure, which really isn’t in the spirit of this community, and I’d be interested in good open source options myself.

Also, RAID (mirroring) is NOT a backup.

Yep this is exactly right. Too many people are unaware that their votes are not anonymous on Lemmy and blocking the public tool only helps the bad guys who already know this. I’ve always thought this was a major weakness in Lemmy but I don’t have a solution myself without some other major drawback.

I think probably votes should be anonymized or batched between servers so that only your instance’s admins can see individual votes and you just have to trust the instances you federate with that they aren’t pulling any shenanigans or otherwise defederate. That’s not an easy problem to solve, but it’s not like it’s not currently possible to manipulate votes with a federated server, it would just be harder to detect. Regardless I think the need for privacy wins here.

The easiest way that doesn’t affect the main network would be to use a travel router. Its WAN IP would be the private IP it gets from the main network (over wireless since that’s your only option). And it would NAT your network onto that IP and then you can do whatever you want on your network.

I’m not sure if that Mikrotik router will do this but it might. You basically need something that can connect to an SSID and use that interface as its WAN interface. The wireless factor here is really limiting your choices. If you had a wired uplink to the main network you could use any router/gateway/firewall you wanted. You could also use an AP in bridge mode to connect to the main network’s SSID and wire it to the WAN port of any router of your choice.

You don’t really need to use VLANs to separate your network from the main network unless you want to share any of the same layer 2 segments (basically wired Ethernet) while keeping it isolated. But it doesn’t really sound like that applies in your scenario. Of course using VLANs within your network would still make sense if that applies (for example, to separate your server traffic from your IoT traffic).

Multiple monitor support would be nice but that’s probably a ways off.

Yep that’s how I have Syncthing set up. All global and local discovery disabled, no firewall ports open on the clients, no broadcasting, no relay servers. Just syncing through a central server which maintains versioning and where the backups run. Works like a charm.

Not that it’s my first recommendation for security reasons, and I would never do this in prod, but you can just add the self-signed cert to the local trusted root CA store and it should work fine. No reg changes needed.

If you do this, put it in the store of the user running the client, not LocalMachine. Then you just need to make sure you connect as something in the cert’s SAN list. An IP might work (don’t know since I never try to put IPs in the SAN list), but just use a hosts entry if you can’t modify local DNS.

Edit: after reading the full OP post (sorry), I don’t think it’s necessarily the self-signed cert. If the browser is connecting with https:// and presenting a basic auth prompt, then https is working. It almost sounds like there is a 301/302 redirect back to http after login. Check the Network tab of the browser’s dev pane (F12) to see what is going on.

I disagree. You should not immediately go and replace the OS as soon as you get it.

Most modifications to the root filesystem persist through updates just fine. You simply need to add the relevant exclusions for your customizations. See the Development and Modding section here.

I have a significant amount of modifications to Steam OS, including an encrypted home partition (while excluding the steamapps subdirectory via bind mount) protected by TPM.

The only time an update breaks anything is if the kernel or initramfs updates, requiring me to re-enter the LUKS password and reenroll a new TPM protector. And this is only because they don’t support Secure Boot, so my PCR selection is limited. And I was on the Beta update channel for a while updating almost weekly without issue.

This is like the epitome of the XY Problem.

https://xyproblem.info/

This was an amazing and informative answer. Thank you.

I’ve been using Droid48 forever. It’s perfect.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.ab.x48

https://github.com/shagr4th/droid48

Use a Chromium browser to inspect the cert.

If anyone knows how to get Firefox to show a bad cert before loading the page, I’d love to know.

Assuming you’re the one adding HSTS, you’ll have to inspect the cert and/or view the content that is getting returned. On desktop Chromium you can type “thisisunsafe” to load a page even with HSTS. Not sure how to do it on mobile FF.

Would seem weird for it to be intercepting your domain’s traffic but not the rest of the internet.

Edit: just noticed you’re not even loading an SSL page. Are you using https in the URL?

Are you getting redirected to their captive portal?

Try this:

http://neverssl.com

If you’re sure you’ve got a DNS entry for the Pihole FQDN pointing at Traefik, open the dev panel in your browser (F12), switch it to the Network tab, and visit the pihole URL.

See if you get anything back and especially take note of the HTTP status codes.

Can you see the router and service in the Traefik dashboard and do they show any errors there?

I think you’re close.

You need to change service: pihole-rtr to service: pihole-svc.

Do I have to redefine all of the same information I did in my Traefik yml but in this separate config.yml?

No, you just need to reference it like you have. Define once, reference many.

No worries for the question. It’s not terribly intuitive.

The configs live on the Traefik server. In my static traefik.yml config I have the following providers section, which adds the file provider in addition to the docker provider which you likely already have:

providers:
  docker:
    endpoint: "unix:///var/run/docker.sock"
    exposedByDefault: false
  file:
    directory: /config
    watch: true

And in the /config folder mapped into the Traefik container I have several files for services external to docker. You can combine them or keep them separate since the watch: true setting tells it to read in all files (and it’s near instant when you create them, no need to restart Traefik).

Here is my homeassistant.yml in that folder (I have a separate VM running HASS outside of Docker/Traefik):

http:
  routers:
    homeassistant-rtr:
      entryPoints:
      - https
      service: homeassistant-svc
      rule: "Host(`home.example.com`)"
      tls:
        certResolver: examplecom-dns

  services:
    homeassistant-svc:
      loadBalancer:
        servers:
          - url: "http://hass1.internal.local:8123"

Hope this helps!

I use the Traefik file provider for this.

https://doc.traefik.io/traefik/providers/file/

It picks up all my .yml configs in the watched folder which define the routers and services external to Docker.