I’m not trying to be unhelpful. My advice would be to steer into the terminal. Bite the bullet. I use arch and alpine for my servers but Fedora would be fine (but SELinux can be a pain with bund mounts)
Probably just go with Fedora with btrfs for snaps. It has lots of support and is a common choice for servers
Wireguard (or tailscale) would be best here.
Set up wireguard in a docker container and then forward the port to wireguard, the default container on docker hub is fairly straightforward and you can always ask me for help if you need :).
However, If you are using ipv4, you need to make sure that you’re not behind a CG-NAT (If you think you might be, call your ISP and tell them you have security cameras that need to get out or something like that).
You could also try tailscale which is built using wireguard with nat-busting features and a bit easier to configure (I dont personally use it as wireguard is sufficient for me).
After that Caddy + DNSMasq will simply allow you to map different URLs to IP addresses
dnsmasq
my_computer -> 192.168.1.64http://dokuwiki.my_computer -> http://my_computer:8080http://dokuwiki.192.168.1.64 -> http://192.168.1.64:8080Caddy and DNSmasq are superfluous, if you’ve got a good memory or bookmarks, you don’t really need them.
VPN back into home is a lot more important. You definitely do not want to be forwarding ports to services you are running, because if you don’t know what you’re doing this could pose a network security risk.
Use the VPN as the entry point, as it’s secure. I also recommend running the VPN in a docker / podman container on an old laptop dedicated just to that, simply to keep it as isolated as you can.
Down the line you could also look into VLan If your router supports that.
I personally would not bother with SSL If you’re just going to be providing access to trusted users who already have access to your home network.
If you are looking to host things, just pay for a digital droplet for $7 a month, It’s much simpler, You still get to configure everything but you don’t expose your network to a security risk.
If you’re just going to VPN in to your home network, I’ve found caddy to be the simplest.
I think this combined with the solution provided in this comment Will be the most robust approach and solve all your problems.
That’s what I would do
I enjoyed Graphene but I had to go back to stock pixel because it was noticeably slower.
I don’t know why and I don’t know if that is still the case.
Everything worked flawlessly though, very impressive. If ever I buy a new phone I will be using it again. The only limitation, for me, was performance.
However, I try to use my laptop for everything I do, just gym/job and the dreaded occasional phone call.
Mobile offline sync is a lost cause. The dev environment, even on Android, is so hostile you’ll never get a good experience.
Joplin comes close, but it’s still extremely unreliable and I’ve had many dropped notes. It also takes hours to sync a large corpus.
I wrote my own web app using Axum and flask that I use. Check out dokuwiki as well.
Oh good to know.
It used to be awful but I’m glad to hear it’s improving.
Maybe snapdrop?
When I was obsd I did FTP and rsync for everything. Syncthing had dinner performance issues for me.
Maybe Seafile but I had a bad time with that.
From memory MTP is pretty flaky and quite slow.
ADB push is pretty good but at that stage rsync is just as easy.
Put SSH in the phone and you can do it all from the computer too.
To be fair, wireguard is pretty painless.
Absolutely that’s what the internet was made for!
But family photos keep a bit more secure, Particularly if it’s syncing directly from your phone, I take a lot of explicit photos of my wife, but also code that I’m writing on my computer, or the kids playing, etc.
Dokuwiki + wireguard would be different but satisfy since if those needs, try it out of you have time.
Quartz or mkdocs
Vikings and org-mode.
Org-mode does not have an API but I’ve separated out multiple files and synced via git to moderate success with my gf. No API but maybe with gitea and orgize you could do something?
They both kind of suck in their own way.
If you want to things to run at startup and you’re not on systemd, rootless docker is probably easier.
Otherwise podman is mostly fine but be careful of native overlay if you’re not on BTRFS, this causes some pretty long build times.
Honestly, Switch to a basic Linux distro and use docker directly.
I ran TrueNAS for a while and it’s just too complex and janky. I dropped back to void (for ZFS) and have a directory of compose files for radar/sonar, jellyfish, mediawiki, Lemmy etc.
Honestly, I’ve had little trouble. The Gentoo Wiki and Void Handbook have a lot of overlap with OpenRC and musl, respectively.
While the documentation could be improved, the overall experience has been quite good and very stable.