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refreeze , 29 days ago to Technology in Raspberry Pi launches its IPO

If you don't need the GPIO then buy a small form factor office PC like a Dell Optiplex Micro or a Lenovo/HP equivalent. They cost about the same on the used market, are more performant without the ARM headache and use only marginally more power (maybe 5-10w more at idle).

refreeze , 1 month ago to Selfhosted in Self-hosted YouTube frontend with some additional features

Invidious?

refreeze , 2 months ago to Selfhosted in Is ansible worth learning to automate setting up servers?

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.

refreeze , 2 months ago to Selfhosted in Post your Servernames!

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.

refreeze , 2 months ago to Privacy in [Solved] Looking for a privacy oriented fitness tracker

Bangle.js watch is probably the closest thing, but I'm not sure how good it is compared to Garmin.

refreeze , 2 months ago to Selfhosted in what will be my next server operating system (Fedora Server, Fedora CoreOS, NixOS), your experience and opinion

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.

refreeze , 3 months ago to Privacy in YouTube is severely rate limiting Invidious instances

I'm having some issues with my private instance that is used solely by myself and not even exposed to the internet.

refreeze , 3 months ago to Selfhosted in Self hosted syncthing relay with keepass, how secure is it?

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

refreeze , 4 months ago to Technology in HP is in the rent-a-printer business now

I think it is a combination of the required precision, liquid ink vs solid filament and the difficulty of handing paper vs simply moving a print bed on a 3d printer.

refreeze , 4 months ago to linuxmemes in "But my friend runs a PinePhone as a daily driver"

How is your battery life?

refreeze , 4 months ago to Selfhosted in What's Your Preferred Server Monitoring Method?

Prometheus and Altertmanager

refreeze , 4 months ago to Memes in Normal people at the pool

Its referencing how much she uses her private jet.

refreeze , 4 months ago to Technology in Mozilla downsizes as it refocuses on Firefox and AI: Read the memo | TechCrunch

Time to fork it.

refreeze , 4 months ago to Technology in 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.

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.

refreeze , 5 months ago to linuxmemes in Ansible casually administering hundreds or thousands of devices

Yeah, it took a while getting deep into ansible hell for me to see the light.