I worked with windows and their servers for a long, long time. Fully delved into that ecosystem as it was between 2000-2019 or so.

In 2019 i quit the job I had then and went on a short sabbatical, severe burnout. I had played around with knoppix circa 2003, slackware as well, but I didn’t “get it”.

So the image of linux, in my head, were those experiences until 2019, when I took another look. I had a 500gb sata ssd that I was using to test out every distro under the sun, including a relatively successful install of BLFS. For 2 years I had tried all I could get my hands on, until I settled on my distro of choice.

Nuked my nvme, cleaned out almost all windows remnants from my homelab and went balls deep in linux.

So now I am off windows for about 5 years and I feel like I did when I quit smoking. I keep an install around on a spare ssd because I need fusion360 and a few games that only work on windows so I can keep up with the few friends I have.

But home is on my linux installs and every day, I enjoy the shit out of it.

Interesting, @chazwiz, if you ever go the debian way, check the kernel

Same here, sick of holy wars.

That being said, it seems the hardware difference is there, amd 370 is undercooked on debian, unless you use either sid or custom kernels.

A gits dir and a dir called “wd”. Short for working dir.

Its a dumpfest of scripts, tomls, yamls, directories galore. The gits dir is where I keep my cmdb, that one is organized. wd is like a playground where I allow myself not to give a shit

Yup! Considering that cpu, debian will be painful, but ubuntu as a server is asking for trouble. Look for fedora server, for the love of god even an arch server. Do your future self a favor and avoid that grilled roadkill that is ubuntu.

Fedora server comes with cockpit if thsts what you want.

For the 370, fedora works well.

Pinch of salt- i got burned too many times with ubuntu server, I run an extensive homelab and I’m a regular at the burns ward. I loathe ubuntu with the energy of a Wolf-Rayet star.

What?! Theres a huge difference. Ubuntu is hot garbage for server work. How? Wait until you hit a permissions issue with your share and you find that snap did some bullshit, because you have mixed apt and snap packages. The notorious hardcoded snap store backend? Not a fan.

Yeah one might say debian is old packages, but first of all its a nas system, not an internet facing machine or even a main server thst needs a ton of services.

Even then third party software is pretty recent even on debian.

Ubuntu is the wrong choice for any server. Any.

What an irresponsible thing to say, “I’m a moron, jump off the bridge with me”.

Yeah no shit its fine, just until one day we all wake up with “xz” style exploits because “it works bro, stop caring”.

For me its security patches. I frequently lock app versions manually.

I do have an old laptop that uses a fixed release, because it sees infrequent use.

One needs to adjust whats needed per usecase. For me that means daily drivers get semi-rolling or rolling. Where stability is neede/older systems, fixed releases.

Dear mods, watch what you remove from these chats, our freedoms are getting fucked, people should be allowed to be indignant.

That being said i hope the legislators sit on cacti all day every day, those fucking assholes are exempt from this bullshit.

They will take my data out of my cold dead hands. It was a matter of time, sure, but I was actually holding on to hope for this one. I am pissed, dismayed even.

Session, signal, simplex are your friends. If those give up the ghost and bend the knee then we are going back to irc and aliases. Fucking shit!

Best teacher I had was breaking things by installing everything under the sun then trying to fix it. But its time consuming.

I would say go at it yourself, you’ll learn along the way, same as you did with windows. For tips, its hard to say, see if you can get your hands on Sander van Vugt - linux fundamentals. I watched it a few years into my linux journey and it schooled my ass still.

I have moments when I think “I might get banned for this”, this is one of those moments.

You may try to ban vpns but you can not really, people usually find ways around censorship. We are notorious for this stuff, as a species.

Its infuriating to me when people just roll over for the powers that be. They may ban some nodes, others will pop up, those will get banned too and so the cycle of cat and mouse begins.

You can host your own vpn with wireguard. It takes a bit of figuring out, sure, but you can literally do so with a raspberry pi. Stick it in a network of choice and voila.

Oh they may control stuff, but this is not a game that can be won, human repression is a futile effort, it may work for a while, but there is a reason why regimes fall. See the wall of Berlin and so many other examples.

Fret not friend, for hope dies last.

If replayable is what we want, I’d save csgo instead of cs2

I loathe this approach. But for me its more of a hobby and even then, I too am alergic to overt complexity, but saying no maintenance is asking for a security hole to open, sure it can be automated away, but it still takes at least SOME work.

The main reason I dislike this approach is by doing things as simply as possible you delegate the control to the developer of your solution. Its not a one size fits all thing. Some solutions can for sure be turnkey, but most should require some work, because we do this to regain control, not delegate more of it away.

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Excuse me, I’m curious, how does one mess up their search history?

Yeah, my fist step was tuta as well, I ditched them after a month for malbox.org. never looked back

If you want to use clients other than a webmail tuta wont fit your needs. But, to that end, try both, they are both excellent in their own ways, see what suits you.

Ultich, dont take this the wrong way, but thats how you are using systems and thats how you see them. It is your perspective, not everyones perspective.

Computers are not just one thing, one tool. They can be, they are, many times. But for many of us they are hobbies, a thing to tinker and experiment with, thats who you the the pretty UIs from.

I get that ignorance is bliss, but you can not paint the whole ecosystem with the same brush. People are different. Generally yeah, you are right, but it is also a very ignorant way to look at things.

Yes. But its my outlet, its keeping me sane. Looking at the worlds nowadays, this is my happy place. More therapy than anything.

Oh god, where do I start?

3 node proxmox setup:

Net node:

• opnsense (dns, dhcp, edge firewall, wireguard)
• caddy
• ssh hub

Compute node:

• a few game servers
• wiki (kiwix), full copy of wikipedia
• searxng
• docker host (portainer plus 10ish containers)
• forgejo
• testing vms
• a separate zfs mirror

Storage node:

• all drives, zfs + mirror
• proxmox backup server
• home assistant
• immich
• ARR stack
• jellyfin

Oh and a monitoring node made out of a rpi 4b with an nvme hat,running dietpi, prometheus, grafana and homepage (gethomepage.dev)

Thats about it plus automations and stuff, wireguard so I can access it from anywhere. Not separated properly, no network zones, just a few vlans for now, work in progress.