And please don’t understand this the wrong way.

Ibis seems like a really cool project but with it being roughly half a year old me and many other people here simply have never heard of it before.

Including even a single short sentence describing what Ibis is in this and future posts helps us find projects that we care about more easily.

And we obviously care about Rust projects, otherwise none of us would be here.

Ibis is a federated online encyclopedia similar to Wikipedia.

This should be the first sentence of the post body.

Why not set up backups for the Proxmox VM and be done with it?

Also makes it easy to add offsite backups via the Proxmox Backup Server in the future.

Cushy is an experimental Graphical User Interface (GUI) crate for the Rust programming language. It features a reactive data model and aims to enable easily creating responsive, efficient user interfaces. To enable easy cross-platform development, Cushy uses its own collection of consistently-styled Widgets.

Typst

You can use their online web-editor (similar to OverLeaf for LaTeX) or download the open-source engine and run it locally (there are extensions available for many text editors).

Compared to LaTeX I find it much more comfortable to work with. It comes with sane, modern defaults and doesn’t need any plugins just to generate a (localized) bibliography or include links.

Since Typst is very young compared to LaTeX I’m sure that there are numerous docs / workflows that can’t be reproduced at the moment but if you don’t need some special feature I’d recommend giving it a shot.

The development of Piper is being driven by the Home Assistant Project. That probably makes it one of the larger OSS TTS projects. Hope may not be lost yet ;)

I started out with WireGuard. As you said its a little finicky to get the config to work but after that it was great.

As long as it was just my devices this was fine and simple but as soon as you expand this service to family members or friends (including not-so-technical people) it gets too annoying to manually deal with the configs.

And that’s where Tailscale / Headscale comes in to save the day because now your workload as the admin is reduced to pointing their apps to the right server and having them enter their username and password.

Getting the configs to work with my personal devices was already a little finicky but doing that for not-so-technical family members was starting to be a bit too much work for me.

I’m hoping that Headscale will cut that down to pointing their app at the server and having them enter their username and password.

Was running Wireguard and am now in the process of changing over to Tailscale (Headscale).

It uses Wireguard for the actual connections but manages all the wireguard configs for you.

Cool to see support for the QOI format in a popular software package.

Nextcloud is just a web service. How he or anyone can access it is not determined by nextcloud but by the routers, firewalls, vpns and potentially reverse proxies that are routing the traffic to nextcloud.

With the proper configuration of all traffic handling services it will not be possible to access anything other than the intended endpoint i.e. nextcloud.

Within nextcloud any user can only access their own files plus anything that is explicitly shared to them.

Even more important is the quality of the standard toolchain. It comes with nearly everything you will ever need and makes development and reproducibility much much easier than the toolchains encountered with other languages.

Take the compiler error messages for example. Cargo is a breeze against the dependency complications when working with make. Or how many packages come with useful rustdock pages on docs.rs.

Might not fit into your plans but if you run Proxmox you can easily backup to an offsite computer (or VM) running Proxmox Backup Server (PBS).

From their website:

By supporting incremental, fully deduplicated backups, Proxmox Backup Server significantly reduces network load and saves valuable storage space. With strong encryption and methods of ensuring data integrity, you can feel safe when backing up data, even to targets which are not fully trusted.