If anyone is thinking about having a rooster, though, make sure to also have chickens for it to court and mate with. Because roosters without chickens get crazy and start singing at all sort of inappropriate hours. Not fun waking up at 3 Am to a rooster having a psychotic breakdown because it doesn’t have any social interaction. Or random screams at midnight that don’t let you fall sleep because the poor thing is lonely. Be aware.

Pourquoi pas?

Friendly warning that SD cards are not a backup. Those things die, frequently and without warning. They also bitrot fast. If you value the data being backed up, choose a more stable medium.

Navidrome for service. Dsub2000 on android and feishin on desktop.

There, all your needs covered.

As a plus, dsub also does podcasts and audio books.

A VPS with a reverse proxy connected to your tailnet and a dyndns domain. It would be cheaper than Plex premium, you can use the vps for other stuff, and you have 100% certainty it will never ever show ads.

Significantly bigger, as in x2500 times bigger than cubesats.

Canonical, leading the charge towards enshittification of Linux. Who would’ve guessed this 20 years ago?

For a noob, better something with a webui.

Their CEO supports a company that bombs kids in Gaza. Should I say more? Because there’s more.

I also tried tailscale in a docker container as a subnet handler and realized I was out of my depth. Net engineering is abstract and hard. There’s a reason there are pros making bank just doing that for big corps.

Followed a way simpler setup. Now tailscale runs on the server bare metal and podman handles the routing automatically. I just use the magicDNS address given by tailscale and everything just works as intended. All my services are available, and apps run no issue, no matter where I am as long as I’m connected to tailscale. I will make the setup more complex as I learn more and acquire the need for more features. But so far this has met all my expectations.

Go with pangolin. You can easily host the control layer either on a cheap vps or your own internet exposed server. Same features as tailscale although with a bit more complexity.

Yeah, that is the kind of concern for the service developer or a very opinionated sys admin. For self-hosting, few people will reach the workload where such a decision has any material or measurable impact.

That would be super rad. But it is also the kind of things that only a tiny group of people like us enjoy tinkering with. The average computer user has no interest whatsoever on being a sysadmin. If the service is offered and neatly package, they will use and enjoy it. But Nix manages to be even more user hostile than old package manamegement style.

I was mostly joking, of course. I appreciate the use case. It’s just that 99% of people are spinning new machines once every decade. Having a reproducible setup is something of interest for a very narrow band of system managers.

I truly believe that for those who are spinning new hardware every day and need an ideal setup every time, a system image is far more practical. With much more robust tooling available. I’ve read other replies and for them all, I notice that using Universal Blue to package and deploy a system image would take a tiny fraction of the time it takes just learning Nix basic syntax. It’s so niche it seems almost not worth any of the effort to learn.

And your extraordinary result after all that is… exactly what you would’ve gotten in a few minutes downloading another distro.

You just described SVN. It’s what we used before the invention of git. And is still used today for team projects that use complex file formats, like images, binary blobs, 3d models, that sort of stuff. It will work with any files.

There aren’t less laptops and desktops. Sure, there are more smartphones and tablets, and laptops are being used more than desktops. But desktop, keyboards, laptops, mice, monitors, etc. Manufacturing hasn’t slowed down, it keeps accelerating steadily. IT spending has grown year over year steadily for more than a decade. Last year alone there were more than 240 million desktops shipped, a growth from the previous year. The AI bubble caused a spike in PC production that had been previously declining slowly.

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Gitnux

The problem is that on Linux it competes with bash and dozens of way better terminals.

We have swarm migration season. Picture thousands of paper wasp all flying through open wide savannas in stereotypical black clouds of murder. There’s no staying away. If they come, you wait.

Curiously, in my country we are taught that for wasps and hornets you must stay silent and wait still until they leave. Like dealing with a blind predator.