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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ISP won't set up static IP - Services keep going down⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Proxy through a VPS, or use dynamic DNS if you don’t mind occasionally waiting for TTL expiration when your address suddenly changes. You can set it to 1 minute and that often works these days (it didn’t always).

  Will your ISP give you a static IPv6 block? It’s v4 that’s scarce, but if it’s just for your own stuff and you aren’t worried about users on old v4 networks, it’s fine to just use pure v6.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's your weirdest or most unique self-hosted use case and solution?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There might be other buses ahead of the one you are on, en route to that stop. You really want the phone GPS and sometimes the bus number, to figure out where you are on the route.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's your weirdest or most unique self-hosted use case and solution?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It doesn’t seem so technically difficult if you can get the transit data. The phone GPS supplies your current location for the bus version, or alternatively you can just identify the most recent stop you saw. San Francisco has around 1000 city buses (I looked that up a while back) and you can put fairly precise coordinates, bus number, and route number of a bus into 4 or 5 bytes. So the complete locations of all the buses is around 20K which is less data than the javascript bloat that nextbus.com sends on every new visit. You do want the route maps (from transit agency) and street maps (openstreetmap) but overall it’s not huge.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's your weirdest or most unique self-hosted use case and solution?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Another idea I haven’t pursued: something that monitors the schedules of local transit (BART trains, and buses) so I can check their ETA’s and locations from a phone browser. There are existing apps and sites for this but they unfortunately suck. They always answer “when will the next bus/train arrive at stop XYZ” which is almost never what I want to know.

  What I want is usually either “I’m on the #123 bus RIGHT NOW and want to get off at XYZ, how many more stops do I wait?”, or else either “my friend is on BART and just passed station X, when will she get to station Y where I’m supposed to meet her?”. Anyone implementing anything like that, please take it into account. The transit agencies usually have API’s to get the relevant data.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's your weirdest or most unique self-hosted use case and solution?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t implement this because it stopped being needed, but a text to print converter for my hearing impaired and non-techie elderly mom. Basically an email gateway running on VPS so if she got an email or text from a family member, a raspberry pi in her bedroom would immediately print out the message on a receipt printer where she would see it. I was going to use a cheap thermal printer but another family member objected (I guess reasonably) to the toxic crap in thermal paper, so I found someone selling a cheap impact receipt printer on craigslist. Nothing much actually happened with this, but I liked the idea.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨from the information i've seen, if you're waiting to buy a computer, do it soon. prices are going to skyrocket in 2027 and 2028. especially ram.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  By the end of June 2026? Old news.