This is how most of Worf’s friends learn he has a child.

For those curious like myself

What is Amber?

Amber is a programming language compiled into Bash Script. It was designed with a modern syntax, safety features, type safety and practical functionalities that Bash could not offer.

I ran vanilla Arch on 3 machines for over 15 years, but these days I just use Endeavor. Easy install, sane defaults, and then hands you a fully working and customizable arch. Absolutely love the project.

Blocky.

I mean, by definition, it does. It just involves parsing through the git log and a bunch of unintuitive, archaic commands.

Broke my 'arr stack for a few days while I worked on getting port forwarding from ProtonVPN working in Gluetun, then works on getting a matching dockermod activated in qbittorrent. But it works now! And my whole 'arr stack is attached to the VPN and I have the forwarded port active for my private trackers.

Adding here. Most docker containers support semver pinning! It’s a great balance between automated updates and advoiding breakage.

I’d recommend a solid backup client. This isn’t something you want to find broken when you need it.

Kopia is what I use, and it supports local (LAN) targets, as well as cloud storage if you want 3:2:1 for some or all of your data. Good luck!

Theres a Romm app in ports you can use for this.

I was interested until I saw the crypto stakes to vote on changes baked in.

Similar setup here with a 7900xtx, works great and the 20-30b models are honestly pretty good these days. Magistral, Qwen 3 Coder, GPT-OSS are most of what I use

Good luck! It’s been fantastic for me.

I don’t use aquasuite, I use Linux with Cooler Control. Sorry, I assumed you were also on Linux with the sub.

I use an Aquacomputer Quadro, which has fantastic support.

Yeah, similar sized environments here too, but had good experiences with Ansible. Saw Chef struggle at even smaller scales. And Puppet. And Saltstack. But I’ve also seen all of them succeed too. Like most things it depends on how you run it. Nothing is a perfect solution. But I think Ansible has few game breaking tradeoffs for it’s advantages.

Wow, huge disagree on saltstack and chef being ahead of Ansible. I’ve used all 3 in production (and even Puppet) and watched Ansible absolutely surge onto the scene and displace everyone else in the enterprise space in a scant few years.

Ansible is just so much lower overhead and so much easier to understand and make changes to. It’s dominating the configuration management space for a reason. And nearly all of the self hosted/homelab space is active in Ansible and have tons of well baked playbooks.

What controller?

I’d argue work trees are largely better than submodules in most situations anyhow.

Edit: oh I confused subtrees and worktree.

Windows is a marketing platform masquerading as an Operating System.

Audio mixing, Photoshop, Blender, CAD, etc.

Lots of creative applications.

FWIW, Ploopy is a massive force in the open source hardware game. Mice, trackballs (their specialty), headphones, and lots of other items.