TeaWithDani

Do you really need 64gb though? Do you want a PCIe in a low wattage, low air circulation mini PC?

Yeah an appliance distro would be a different consideration. For me Ubuntu is really flexible and a great docker host. I feel it’s safer to tinker with since you get those extra layers of containment and sandboxing.

If I was to build an appliance I might also start with Debian, but so far I have used FreeBSD. Works great on my NAS, where I use XigmaNAS. You can transfer a surprisingly lot of skills. Learning what was common to FreeBSD and Linux really helped me with cli.

I’m curious to try making stuff with Ubuntu Core. I think it has potential, but that’s a future deep dive and project. lol

I wonder how viable it would be to do the opposite of quantum. If we remove every at risk feature and strip it down to the basics: no scripts, no multi-user, no public sharing etc…

Project could be pretty easy to maintain indefinitely?

I remember reading earlier this year that the project was essentially “complete” and would only get security updates.

But like he says: “people keep making PRs for new features. Features that I do really think would benefit the project.”

I really struggle with folks’ sense of gratitude sometimes. Like there’s so many people making cool things for us… for free… When they could be doing the same work for money.

But yeah, sucks nobody could really keep the project up and secure. I’m not looking for a fork that will add anything to the project.

I’ll read some of the bug tickets to see what the current state is like. Figured this thing could just work indefinitely without much maintenance… its so simple?

Yeah… I pay money for 2 cores and 4gb RAM. I’d read the fine print on those free services.

Ubuntu’s “reputation” is nonsense. It’s a great distro for servers. Security updates are really fast and using snaps in a server environment is really great. I recommend running things like Docker or Tailscale off snap. They will revert to a previous image if an update fails. Extra stability for a server as you run automatic updates.

Ubuntu will have more recent packages, that doesnt really matter in a server environment. Debian is otherwise fine, I just dislike it’s installer and prefer Ubuntu’s.

Any plans to support FreeBSD in the future? Or mainly focusing on a docker solution?

I have a directory in my home folder for all my different docker containers. I back that up like my other critical files on my NAS, Backup NAS, cloud storage and external drive. The docker compose files I also upload to my local Git so I can version them. Make the git ignore skip everything that isn’t a .yml

If you would want to spin them up again, yeah you could just copy them in a new place, make sure the docker-compose.yml is at the top and docker-compose pull the image, then docker-compose up. If your yml specifies are your configs are ./ , it’ll know to look for them in the same folder as your yml and begin its file paths there. Anything outside your ./ in theory should be read only or be some kind of data off a NAS that is independent from the service.

Just organize your volumes correctly and you can move the docker container anywhere you want.

Fuck yeah! This slaps. Brb while I get my headphones to listen to it again.

We should celebrate these kinds of changes. Like its great that they’ve already achieved so much and not just that, but left behind a group of folks just as committed in the future of the project.

Oh, I’ve been there! lol Yeah, you sometimes don’t expect to have to update an entire stack, not just one thing. Possible the companion app image was just released later and it wasn’t on you either. :P

But yeah, give the cron job a try. I’d be curious to try it out myself! In theory your webinstance shouldn’t cut out unless you click on something the exact moment the container is resetting.

What kind of issues have you had? How did you resolve them?

I haven’t used this tool specifically, but anything involving Youtube is always going to be an uphill battle. In the instance of a video downloader like Channeltube, you frequently need to feed it fresh cookies to make sure Youtube doesn’t flag it as a bot. I assume this is a similar situation.

The requirements also list ‘‘2gb if you restart frequently’’ so there might be a memory leak issue, or the way it’s setup means the RAM usage will increase in perpetuity.

I would just script a task to restart the docker container every hour. Shouldn’t be too much a hassle. I would track its RAM usage over a few days too. See if there’s something fishy happening. Something like Beszel will let you track your docker socket, so usage per container. Preferably left on read only imo.