You give up some control, but you gotta check out https://www.pikapods.com/

On a per-app basis, the price can’t be beat, especially at this level of convenience. I host exactly uptime kuma and beszel on there. The owners are also super responsive to things like adding more env vars.

I wonder if Tailscale has ever really been a performance bottleneck for homelabbers

I’m switching off cloudflare for my domain/cdn services to Bunny soon :)

Tailscale just works too well for me and I don’t detect too many enshittification markers yet. But I check in on netbird like monthly now lol

It really stinks that nowadays whenever I find a cool project that achieves exactly what I’m looking for or a solves a problem I didn’t know I had, I have to temper my excitement and look for markers of heavy AI usage (commits, reading md files, the writing and graphical style). it’s really taking the wind out of the hobby, I think. Hopefully it’s mostly just a phase

Those last two bullets would be huge. I have a personal tailnet and another for my org. Switching between them is just annoying enough that I might even pay for that feature.

I always get so close to just setting up wireguard and being done with it. I barely ever change the devices on my tailnet, anyway.

I do have a couple friends on my tailnet to give access to some stuff, so that might be annoying to migrate. That and Tailscale handling all the other networking stuff I might not even know about like cgnat.

ntfy never really had good push to iOS, in my experience. The only way I could keep my private channels consistently working was to use the PWA and specifically not sign into it (otherwise, my login token would expire and break things).

I gave up and switched to pushover and as long as I’m somewhat cognizant about what i’m including in the notifications, I’ve been pretty happy.

I’d love for something self hostable to get as good as pushover on iOS

Here’s my “low complexity, medium effort, full legal, full quality” solution:

Start actually buying your music. I go down the list in descending order of convenience:

• Bandcamp
• Qobuz
• Apple iTunes (not Apple Music)
• Physical CDs (for ripping)

Tag all your music with Picard (or wrtag if you only buy full releases, there’s a GH issue for other cases) or beets. Picard is the simplest and most feature complete right now and has a nice GUI. Then upload your tagged music to your Navidrome.

Then use a tool like

• https://github.com/WilliamNT/tunesynctool
• https://github.com/blastbeng/spotisub (check my fork for a better functioning version) These will match songs from your spotify playlists to songs in your subsonic-compatible server (which Navidrome is) and recreate your spotify playlists using the music it finds in your Navidrome. These syncing tooks can have misses and you may need to do some log-digging or issue-opening to find out why, but I’ve gotten them working fairly decent and plan on doing some work to improve them some day.

It’s a nice, fully legal, fully self-hosted stack. Not NEARLY as convenient as having them auto-ripped for you from youtube, but like you said, there are quality and metadata concerns when ripping from youtube.