atzanteol
@atzanteol@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on MPV: The Ultimate Self-Hosted Media Solution You're Probably Sleeping On 3 days ago:
I’m happy you’re discovering the Linux CLI, but this is pretty ridiculous. mpv, vlc, mplayer, etc. all serve very different uses from jellyfin.
- Comment on how do you explain selfhosting to the non-techies in your life? 1 week ago:
I don’t.
- Comment on How often do you update software on your servers? 1 week ago:
Clearly you don’t know.
- Comment on How often do you update software on your servers? 1 week ago:
If I wanted to run updates frequently I would run arch lmao. Even if I did apt update every day, debian stable doesn’t get that many updates.
You’re not updating for features you’re updating for bug and security fixes. That’s why Debian stable doesn’t have many updates. But the ones they do are typically important.
- Comment on How often do you update software on your servers? 1 week ago:
That’s… Not how it works… Debian is “stable” not “secure”. You use Debian so that is easier to run updates frequently since they’ll be unlikely to break things.
- Comment on How often do you update software on your servers? 1 week ago:
All systems, daily via a single ansible script. That’s apt update, upgrade and reboot if needed (some systems set to only reboot with a separate script so I can handle them separately).
Rarely have any sort of problems.
- Comment on Linkwarden downloaded the whole flipping Internet ... 4 weeks ago:
Sounds like you bookmarked the while flippin’ Internet.
- Comment on What's the real danger of opening ports? 5 weeks ago:
This is an awful analogy…
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
squeezing every last drop of resource form tired old hardware
This is such a myth. 99% of the time your hardware is doing there doing nothing. Even when running “bloated” services.
Nextcloud, for example, uses practically zero cpu and a few tens on mb when sitting around yet people avoid it for “bloat”.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Clearly it was suitable for their purposes at one time?
- Comment on Those who are hosting on bare metal: What is stopping you from using Containers or VM's? What are you self hosting? 1 month ago:
Oh for sure - containers are fantastic. Even if you’re just using them as glorified chroot jails they provide a ton of benefit.
- Comment on Those who are hosting on bare metal: What is stopping you from using Containers or VM's? What are you self hosting? 1 month ago:
Containers run on “bare metal” in exactly the same way other processes on your system do. You can even see them in your process list FFS. They’re just running in different cgroup’s that limit access to resources.
Yes, I’ll die on this hill.
- Comment on What do you think is the best (and cheapest) way to host a new nextcloud instance and website for my local scouts organisation? 1 month ago:
Could last years? Or months? Depends on a lot of factors. Fans may not like running 24x7, memory could fail, etc.
- Comment on What do you think is the best (and cheapest) way to host a new nextcloud instance and website for my local scouts organisation? 1 month ago:
Since it’s a public instance you’d want to be sure to keep it pretty up-to-date with new system patches and the latest stable versions of Nextcloud. If you’re comfortable with automating updates with ansible, k8s, docker-compose, etc. then it’s not a big deal. If you’re ssh’ing to a server to manually update things then it’s going to be a lot of overhead and likely forgotten.
Old hardware may also bring its own issues and you’ll need backups especially since old hardware (especially consumer-grade stuff) can fail very unexpectedly. And providing support for users is a whole… other thing…
I like the idea of starting with the “old laptop in a basement” approach as a way to get things going to see if the service provides benefit then look to migrate to a more stable platform in the future.
- Comment on Experts fired by Trump revive popular climate website 1 month ago:
- Comment on User "threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works" is banning users for downvoting his posts. 1 month ago:
Yeah, I remember dozens of “me too” and “+1” comments after posts people agreed with. It was annoying.
- Comment on Proxmox or Docker? 1 month ago:
“I run an immutable distro, BTW”
- Comment on Proxmox or Docker? 1 month ago:
Proxmox or Docker?
It’s not mutually exclusive? I have a 3-node proxmox config on which I have 3 VMs running as kubenetes nodes to which I deploy containers. I also have some VMs setup for things which either don’t work well as containers or which I simply don’t want as containers (e.g. a couple Windows VMs for doing Windows things).
I understand that running things in a VM provides better security than running them in a container.
Not sure what you mean by this - containers are typically easier to secure as they’re minimalist. But I doubt anyone is using VMs because they think they’re more secure.
- Comment on I created a NixOS Install script for Proxmox 1 month ago:
And I still don’t care. Bad is bad even if a community is doing it.
- Comment on I created a NixOS Install script for Proxmox 1 month ago:
I have a very no-exceptions rule about encouraging people to do a
curl|bashinstall and would just remove that. Provide a link to the script, people can run it if they want. Encouraging the behavior of just directly running scripts off the internet is a bad habit. - Comment on I created a NixOS Install script for Proxmox 1 month ago:
In your Proxmox console, enter the following command: bash -c "$(curl -fsSL raw.githubusercontent.com…)
Do not do this. Never run scripts like this directly without inspecting them first. Do not tell people to run your exciting new script like this. Provide a link to the script and encourage users to inspect it first then run it.
- Comment on Alternative to github pages? 2 months ago:
Same? HTTP/1.1 ran the entire internet for 20 years and is still the majority protocol. It’s fine for a personal website.
- Comment on Alternative to github pages? 2 months ago:
There is zero question about it. It will be absolutely fine for some dude’s static website over a residential internet connection.
- Comment on Alternative to github pages? 2 months ago:
HTTP 1.1 is more than good enough for serving a static website.
- Comment on 18% of people running Nextcloud don't know what database they are using 2 months ago:
Read the comments. Self hosters are little more than users anyway.
- Comment on Proxmox VE Helper-Scripts 2 months ago:
Maybe computers just aren’t for you.
- Comment on Proxmox VE Helper-Scripts 2 months ago:
It’s not just this site though is it? I have been seeing a proliferation of
curl | shellbullshit for some time now. Lots of sites doing it and people are posting those commands in forums, etc. telling others how easy it is to install that shiny piece of software! “But people should know better” I hear you whine, “They should read scripts before executing them.” But we all know people won’t do that. Especially not the sort of people who are arguing in favor of this practice, and certainly not the newbs these are targeted at. - Comment on Proxmox VE Helper-Scripts 2 months ago:
This wasn’t satire?
🤣 🤣
- Comment on Proxmox VE Helper-Scripts 2 months ago:
🤣
OMG this is so dumb.
- Comment on Proxmox VE Helper-Scripts 2 months ago:
Until then, people who have sacrificed enough of their weekend to the linux gods will be pipe internet text into their root consoles
“I’ll do what’s easy even if it’s not good” is a terrible approach to, well, anything. I would expect people in this community to look for guidance on what the best way to do things is. Seems I’m wrong.