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  • That all sounds pretty cooll! Some of that is outside the scope of what I would need; but would still say quite a cool setup.

    For anything custom on my setup I have repos on my git server that is easily pulled down when I decide to nuke my systems and start fresh. Which doesn’t happen for years at a time.

    And even then on my main rig, I have all of my data separated to other disks. And backed up to my NAS if I deem it critical.


  • That’s part of the beauty of Linux; power of option. Don’t like the way something is done; do it another way. Don’t like the tool, find a new tool.

    While I think NixOS is quite cool, absolutely no hate here, I find it isn’t the right tool for me.

    For my NAS, I only have it mounted to devices that are on network. For my laptop, I have other ways of accessing it. Mainly from my laptop, I have no need for the NAS as the NAS is primarily used by other services hosted on network, and from there I can access the web front end for much of it. So with a simple VPN connection I can access everything.


  • If rocking KDE with Arch, use KDE Partition Manager to manage mount points. I mean, I still edit my fstab. And it’s super easy to do anyways.

    As an Arch user for multiple years, I did pick up NixOS on a spre machine to toy around with for the learning experience; I can say, I do not like that design choice to be fully config based. It was more pain for initial setup. And for my usecase where I am constantly making changes, it didn’t make sense for me to use.







  • Entertaining, sometimes.

    Useful, not really.

    It is very click-baitybas many others have said. I can’t expect them to be the most knowledgeable on everything (or anything…) But watching their Linux videos they’ve been releasing have been nothing shy of facepalm after facepalm. Sure, there are a few useful nuggets of info in there but I wouldn’t take anything they say aa gospel.

    Its for entertainment purposes and not for in-depth information.

    I can get behind them exposing Linux to new users through their channel. But they could do it better.




  • Currently I have one Docker host. I want to split my containers across 2 hosts. Both just small form factor PCs. (Lenovo, forget the exact model. But each have 16gb of DDR4 and an i5. One is 8th gen, and the other I have to double check. The one I haven’t setup yet has an Nvidia card of sorts. I want to offload media services onto that one.)

    Anyways, on to the breakdown:

    Containers:

    • Technitium (DNS)
    • DNSWeaver (DNS from Labels)
    • Caddy (with custom plugins Caddy-Docker-Proxy mainly)
    • WG-Easy (Wireguard VPN)
    • DDNS container
    • Authentik (SSO Provider)
    • Signal-CLI
    • Molly Socket
    • Multiple Docker Socket Proxy containers
    • SearXNG
    • Uptime Kuma
    • Vaultwarden
    • WUD
    • Speedtest Tracker
    • Dozzle
    • Forgejo
    • FMD (Find my device)
    • Bookstack
    • Syncthing
    • Vikunja (Kanban board)
    • Navidrome
    • Maloja
    • Audiomuse
    • Doku
    • Jellyfin
    • FreshRSS
    • Nextcloud
    • beets
    • Komga
    • Lyrica (with some custom scripting to search my music for matching LRC files)
    • Homepage
    • Ntfy

    Next up I want to add Autokuma. However, I am going to split these containers onto another machine yet.