Relay for Reddit app stays as one of the few remaining third party apps for Reddit and they are forced to go to a subscription model but the cost of such a subscription is related to how many API calls per user are done.

This screenshot was taken from the yet working patched Sync for Reddit app.

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    Relay has a reason to charge a monthly fee, and sync does not.

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      A developer wanting to get something in return for their work is a reason. It’s also an option for the user. Sync offers a one time payment for Ad Free and for their “Plus” features. It also has the option for a monthly subscription.

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        135$ for the full app… sync is like the star citizen of lemmy apps

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          I have a rooted device with AdAway and that is backed up by Adguard Home running on my network so I can use Sync without ads at no costs. And I uninstalled it after a few days. Now that Infinity (now called Eternity) released, there will be no looking back to it from me. I even will prefer Jerboa over Sync when Jerboa gets default comment sorting. Sync is really over-rated in my opinion.

          I’ve tried every lemmy client but only Jerboa, Eternity, and Voyager remain on my phone right now.

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            Thanks for the tip, I’ll have to check eternity out. Any advice for the pihole, I’ve been thinking of getting one of them

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              If you only want to run pihole or adguard home for ads then just buy a used Pi3 on eBay for $15-$30 and follow the instructions on pi-hole.net

              But if you want to get into selfhosting other things, and it’s highly likely you will go down that rabbit hole, it’s addictive, then I would recommend starting with a used ThinkCentre M93p from eBay for $80-$120. Install OpenMediaVault on it, get your feet wet setting up a few services with docker. Some of the more popular services selfhosters run are: pihole, airsonic, nextcloud, paperless-ngx, immich, sonarr, lidarr… I could go on, but I don’t want to overwhelm you. If you are interested in the other things, take a look at this extensive list of selfhostable services, and sub to the selfhosting sublems. The selfhosting communities are pretty active and friendly here on Lemmy.

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                Id suggest Proxmox as a great starter, some amazing scripts out there, supports some GPUs passed through to containers and VMs with tweaks

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                  Why do you say that? I’m interested in your opinion because I disagree. To be clear, I think proxmox is great, I just don’t feel it’s for the beginner.

                  My take on proxmox is that it’s great if you have actual server grade hardware that can handle multiple VMs and/or you want to do clustering. Neither of which I feel, a beginner would be attempting. I don’t even consider it for myself as I run on two SFFs PCs and I would see no benefit setting up proxmox > OMV instead of just installing OMV directly on them. Now if at some point I add more SFF PCS and want to cluster them or alternatively decide that I want to get rid of having multiple SFF PCs and run one singular, more powerful server, then I would see a benefit from proxmox… but not as it stands.

                  My take on the various options are this:

                  Tipi, Umbrel, CasaOS, YunoHost - Meant for average users that don’t want to spend any time on setup. Very easy to use, but also extremely limited walled gardens.

                  UnRaid - Much less limited then the above, but does force use of their UI often and in many cases is less efficient and frustrating if not downright incapable of accomplishing certain things. Meant for beginners that rely on UI.

                  OpenMediaVault - Basically Debian with an webadmin panel and the most common server services ready to install pre-configured with the most common + secure settings. So for beginners they can use the UI to setup shares and schedule jobs and containers and anything else really, but if they want to learn how to do things in the terminal then it doesn’t get in the way; I like that it gives you the freedom to do anything you want with it.

                  TrueNAS Scale - Great option if scaling out with additional hardware and your main concern is data storage. But I feel that unless you’re a member of datahoarder and have larger drive pools, this isn’t the best choice either. It does sometimes lock you into the GUI too, at least when I tried it earlier in their releases. Maybe that has changed now, but they wanted to force the UI with a lot of docker container setup which I found annoying.

                  So given this, I recommend OpenMediaVault to most selfhosters, beginners and more advanced users alike, as it gives the most freedom aside from configuring everything yourself on something like Ubuntu Server/openSuse/Debian/(pick your favorite flavor). I think Proxmox is great for the applications I mentioned initially (VMs on performant hardware, or clustering of multiple machines), but I just don’t see any benefit of it for a beginner nor if you are only going to have one or two lower powered machine like SBCs or SFF PCs.

                  But like I said, I’m interested in your opinion on why you would recommend it to a beginner. Or how you feel about my takes on these options.

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                    Proxmox Helper Scripts are an easy way to get a homelab setup, I’ve found its as complex as you want it to be:

                    https://tteck.github.io/Proxmox/

                    Easy to make a ZFS pool and share that to a container / VM. Pass-through a GPU to a VM / Container for transcoding. Plenty of tutorials online for these features.

                    I’m running some old hardware on my setup currently, 64gb ddr4 x99 platform with no issues and planning on moving to a more recent Intel consumer platform.

                    OMV can be run in a VM / Container on proxmox, but I find that’s redundant for a single node when using ZFS.

                    I feel the small hump in initial configuration of proxmox is worth the payoff for long-term expandability.

                    Saying so my views may be skewed as I migrated from w10 pro to proxmox, I’ve delt with some issues (from my lack of understanding of the platform), had some complete rebuilds of containers and am still dealing with the pains of having upgraded to the unstable channel; trying to migrate back to the stable channel.

                    All proxmox aside I’m planning on moving everything over to nixos after having it installed on my desktop and laptop for a few weeks now.