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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is ansible worth learning to automate setting up servers?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You will hate Ansible if you are coming from Nix. I went the other way and Nix is 1000x cleaner.

  Being able to actually reverse changes is trivial in Nix, but can be a headache in Ansible. Not to mention the advantages of writing in an actual language and not yaml full of template hacks. I personally don’t see much future for tools like Ansible, there is considerable inertia working in its favor right now and it is absolutely true that it is widely used, but the future of configuration management is for sure more aligned with how Nix works.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Post your Servernames!⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Similar to my scheme:

  laptop = “laptop”
  nas = “nas”
  router = “router”

  Then if there are more than one in each category I use nas-0, nas-1, etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what will be my next server operating system (Fedora Server, Fedora CoreOS, NixOS), your experience and opinion⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have used all three! I started with Server then went to CoreOS running Kubernetes and settled on NixOS which I have been very happy with for about a year now. I run about 25-30 services all using built in modules.

  Regarding security, if you are using well crafted modules on NixOS, there should be good systemd hardening in place. That being said there is no reason you can’t just use containers on NixOS.

  I also find deploying NixOS far superior to butane/ignition used by CoreOS/Fedora. I use nixos-anywhere and can deploy my entire server in a few minutes without manual intervention.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self hosted syncthing relay with keepass, how secure is it?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I use it over Tailscale only and it works perfectly as an alternative.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's Your Preferred Server Monitoring Method?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Prometheus and Altertmanager

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla downsizes as it refocuses on Firefox and AI: Read the memo | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Time to fork it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon Prime Video won't offer Dolby Vision and Atmos on its ad-supported plan | The company is now facing a lawsuit over its decision to charge $3 more for ad-free viewing.⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Meanwhile I get support for both completely ad free with infinite selection on my Jellyfin server… What on earth are these companies thinking, you literally get a superior product by not paying for it. I would gladly pay a small fee per download of DRM free files if that were an option.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m using the recently merged Clevis module for NixOS. There was a recent talk at FOSDEM about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You might be interested in setting up network bound encryption via Clevis and Tang. I use a hidden pi zero in my house acting as a Tang server. It’s great being able to reboot any of my encrypted servers without having to manually unlock disks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Veteran Videogame Analyst: Subscription growth has flattened [in video games]⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Great take, I wish more would see the music industry like this as well.

  I used to pay for Spotify premium then realized that I hardly added more than a handful of new things to my “library” each month. I switched to budgeting the same monthly funds towards building a local library from direct purchases and bandcamp.

  It really depends on your level of consumption of new content whether a subscription service makes sense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How often do you back up?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Every hour via Restic to a local Mino instance on my NAS. Once a day to backblaze B2. Once a week to an offline HDD in my fire safe. Keep in mind the more often you backup the less total time each backup should take to run. If your backup software isn’t too heavy to run and stores backups incrementally, there is little penalty to frequent backups.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's your favorite note-taking application?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I like memos.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Miniflux + News App⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m a Miniflux user as well but prefer the Flux News app: github.com/KevinCFechtel/FluxNews

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should I move to Docker?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Also consider Nix/NixOS, I have used Docker, Kubernetes, LXC and prefer Nix the most. Especially for home use not requiring any scaling.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How many of you actually use the headphone jack on your phone?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to, but recent budget wireless (Earfun, Soundcore, et al.) are getting good enough to compete with wired for me. Having things like multipoint pairing which is obviously not possible with wired is hard to go back from once you get used to it.