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  • JoeCoT@fedia.iotoLinux@lemmy.ml•when you upgrade an OS, do you clean install or upgrade?
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    7 months ago

    It depends on how many versions I am away from the latest, and how much I’ve messed with the distro.

    Usually I stay on an Ubuntu LTS and upgrade from LTS to LTS when that upgrade path is ready. I upgraded from 20.04 to 22.04 this way.

    But this time I wanted Pipewire in 24.04, and didn’t want to wait for a 22.04 to 24.04 upgrade to be ready. I’m using a bluetooth headset and Pulseaudio is pretty terrible at switching headset profiles. Between not wanting to upgrade an upgraded install, and having messed with Pulseaudio quite a bit trying to get it working, I went ahead and clean installed 24.04 and moved some configs over.

  • JoeCoT@fedia.iotoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•Docker - what use is it?
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    10 months ago

    I don’t know of a good way to route other application’s traffic through the VPN container with them being in docker containers, unless you use some intermediary setup. That’s why I have socks proxies routed through the VPN, so I can selectively put traffic through it. If the app supports a socks proxy you could do it that way. At the least you could use Proxychains to do so if the program does TCP networking.

  • JoeCoT@fedia.iotoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•Docker - what use is it?
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    10 months ago

    So it’s always going to be used for technical things, but not necessarily development things. I use it for both.

    For my home server setup I have docker setup like this:

    1. A VPN docker container
    2. A transmission (bittorrent client) container, using the VPN’s network
    3. An nginx (web server) container, which provides access to the transmission container
    4. A 3proxy socks proxy container, using the VPN’s network
    5. A tor client container
    6. A 3proxy socks proxy container, using the tor container’s network

    Usually it’s pretty hard to say “these specific programs and only these should run over my VPN”. Docker makes that easy. I can just attach containers to the same network as my VPN container, and their traffic will all go over the VPN. And then with my socks proxies I can selectively put my browser traffic over either the VPN or Tor, using extensions like FoxyProxy. I watch wrestling through my vpn because it’s cheaper overseas and has better streaming options, so I have those specific sites set to route through my VPN socks proxy. And I have all onion links set to go through my Tor proxy.