The physical connectors are the same as in Jamma Arcade cabinets and can be found cheaply on AliExpress

To work on bad plugins I cobbled up an extender

My hearing is slowly coming back. Time to sooth my soul with good music uwu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kbga0fe5iMg

We are currently using Part-DB and Snipe-IT to manage our stock of components and equipment.

What I really need is some sort of project management / issue tracking, to get my raging ADHD under control.
I've been getting by with lots of folders, text files and spreadsheets and I'm loosing track.

Any suggestions?
Needs to be self-hosted web based, have sub-projects / dependencies, a way to attach files and information, and an overview

The services are running on a lean VPS (think 8€/month), along side the odd game server. I've reached a point where I can't test in production anymore

So let's use kvm/libvirt to run test systems

The monitor of shame.

I messed up my local server's network interface by forgetting to install the bridge utils package before putting a bridge on the interface

Now I got a VM running with KVM/libvirt, that accesses my LAN with a bridge on the physical NIC, so I can do simple port forwarding to ssh on the VM, so that Ryn can access it from outside with his key and tunnel into the server, so we can try the project management apps 🥴

Do any of you use any dynamic DNS services?

I chose dynv6.com. Got it working with with ddclient after a lot of fiddling around, running on my local server. The firmware of my router (FritzBox) tripped over itself with this service provider

≈ 1/α subscribers, nice 👀

Ryn and I have been looking into project management systems.

The requirements we were able to spell out without having any prior experience with any such system are:

Hard:
  * open source
  * self-hosted
  * dockerized
  * projects can depend on other projects
  * wiki functionality
  * a way to store files e.g. pdfs directly in the system
  * a good project overview

Soft:
  * work items can depend on other work items
  * depency graph for both projects and work items

Nice to have:
  * visualization of the project dependency graph
  * APIs
  * plugin interface
  * issue tracker
  * git integration
  * easy backups

I gonna summarize our findings here:

Taiga

+ initial release in 2014, last release Oct 10th 2025.
It's been around and is actively being developed.
- "self hosted" page entry brings you to a pricing site: 20€ / month
+ it IS open source though:
https://github.com/taigaio/taiga-docker
* backend is written with Django
- agile development focused (Kanban/Scrum)
- projects overview page too minimalistic. No status, no progress indication, no grouping
- no sub-projects and dependencies. Neither between projects nor work items
- no dark theme?
* backups: need to write a short noscript

OpenProject

+ self-hosting options advertised right there on the official website
+ docker images and rpm/deb packages available
+ open source (GPLv3) community edition
* written in Ruby
* developed by the OpenProject GmbH
+ initial release in 2012, last release 13th Nov 2025.
It's been around and is actively being developed.
- premium features show up in the community version
+ REST, Webhooks, APIs: HATEOAS API v3, BCF API v2.1
+ a mobile app is in development
+ gitlab and github integration
* backups:
+ a simple command with the non-dockerized version
- a bit of a hassle with the dockerized version. Need to write a noscript
* Gantt

Projects can have sub-projects. But it's only One-to-Many relationships, a strict tree structure. A project cannot be a dependency of several others.

There is also no way to group projects together. There is also no graphical overview of project dependencies.