drhoopoe

@drhoopoe@lemmy.sdf.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Any non-tech-background self-hosters?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m a college professor in the humanities (religious studies, history). Got into linux about 5 years back, partly because it comports better with my lefty politics than the alternatives, but also just because I’ve long been a closet computer nerd. I currently run a couple of proxmox servers on old optiplexes I grabbed off ebay. Full *arr stack with jellyfin on docker, a Tails VM for TOR stuff, NAS (omv on a vm), some other dockerized stuff: linkding, radicale, alexandrite (a self-hosted lemmy client, which I’m currently writing this on), various backup utilities.

  It’s basically just a hobby for me, though the switch to linux has also totally changed my academic workflow, e.g. I do all my writing in nvim + latex now, use syncthing to sync my home desktop, laptops, and office computer, etc. I dig divesting myself from corporate computing to the greatest extent possible, appreciate the privacy benefits, and generally just enjoy the community-driven spirit of the whole thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to avoid "things going wrong" and immutable distros?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mostly use debian + docker or alpine + docker for this kind of thing (usually running as VMs on a proxmox server). Both are utterly reliable in my experience, though I’ve been tending more often toward alpine these days, because it’s just so light and simple. I haven’t tried any of the immutable systems, in the general spirit of why fix what’s not broken. I don’t even bother with snapshotting either, though that’s mostly because I use some of the proxmox tools for backing up the VMs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This place is nice. What does it mean?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a fantastic response. Thanks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Any self-hosted alternative to Readwise?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  With that minimal self-hosted version, do you know if you can log into it using the firefox extension on linux? The only client they mention is the iOS one.