rimu@piefed.social

TUXEDO OS will use Btrfs by default, rather than EXT4. This will be paired with a SUSE-developed Snapper to take automatic snapshots after package updates, enabling easy rollback.

That is very appealing. I went with OpenSuse recently because I wanted BTRFS and Snapper but then had to suffer through the godawful Yast all the time. With Tuxedo you get apt instead.

Good question.

A GUI will be easier to get into - you can use a gui file browser app to learn the layout of the file system, you can use a GUI text editor to change config files, that sort of thing. It’ll mean you can do a few basic things intuitively which will be less intimidating. So from a maintaining momentum and morale point of view it might be best to have a GUI initially even though you have to learn all the cli stuff eventually anyway and you’ll most likely be running a headless server on real hardware eventually.

Self-hosting is a very individual journey - everyone wants different things and finds they own way to meet their own requirements. So there isn’t really one guide that covers everything.

Anyway, as a general road map:

1. Create a Virtual Machine on your PC. Install Linux inside the VM.

2. Play around in the VM to learn Linux basics. When you break the OS you can just wipe the VM and reinstall.

3. In the VM, try some docker containers until you’re comfortable-ish with docker.

4. Maybe try Yunohost in the VM. You might find Yunohost saves you a lot of time and hassle.

5. Get hardware suitable for your goals.

6. Install Linux, configure networking and docker containers on real hardware.

Replying to this post with an AI slop comment takes some balls, mate

No obvious signs, nope. It wasn’t until I started using it in earnest that I got suspicious and then when trying to work on the code it became very clear.

Well, yeah. There are lots of reasons. But basic self-interest is something we can all agree on.

I made the mistake of installing Starling recently, not realizing how it was made. I contributed a PR to it, write a few issues describing the bugs, and since then there’s been absolutely no activity from the creator.

That’s fine, they are under no obligation to work for free. But I wouldn’t have installed it if I knew it was abandonware.

You could use apache to create a webdav share. I bet there’s a pre built container for it.

Webdav is really underrated, imo.

[They] use disciplined rule-following and punitive authoritarian beliefs as a socially acceptable way to express their hostility.

I’m rollicking through Return to Castle Wolfenstein. Die Nazis, die.

$5 on steam, works on Linux.

I’d hook up https://easydmarc.com/ for a couple of months to monitor deliverability, just while you’re bedding it in.

In the Homarr docs, there is this: https://homarr.dev/docs/widgets/iframe/

Towards the end there is a link to https://github.com/diogovalentte/homarr-iframes which contains many examples of some content formatted nicely to fit within Homarr iframes and a docker container you can use to make a url that the iframe widget can consume. They used Go which is only a little harder than Python to read.

Seems like this one - https://github.com/diogovalentte/homarr-iframes/tree/main/src/sources/changedetectionio - makes a request to a JSON api, for example.

Fair enough - I got it working recently but it was the hardest self-hosting install I’ve done. No way most people would succeed. Email is 50(?) years of questionable design decisions piled on top of each other so it’s become a whole world of weird stuff. Doing email should be it’s own tech specialty, like ‘devops’ or ‘db admin’ is. There’s enough depth to it.

There are a ton of email providers who are not Google, though. e.g. https://proton.me/mail. You don’t need to run it on your own hardware.

No, those are for promoting communities.

How long would it take to type in a bootloader?

Yes, you’re right.

The person who is using that character found a way around that somehow! So the next release doesn’t try to restrict it anymore.

https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/commit/40f6472f8ea8d2542d0c073c0aa893e4273e4c23

I have built functionality into PieFed that detects AI posts and comments.

This poster is AI for sure. He’s done one or two real comments, for camouflage, but the rest are A-grade slop.

And it’s lying about it. That’s kinda creepy.

Does this mean that it won’t be supported on OpenWRT for much longer?

No, they’re really good about supporting old routers for as long as possible. For many years the best router to use with OpenWRT was this one from 2002 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linksys_WRT54G_series

I wonder if the surplus goods that would have been sent to USA will instead flood other markets and bring down prices there.