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smiletolerantly

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  • How many containers are you all running?

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  • Zero.

    About 35 NixOS VMs though, each running either a single service (e.g. Paperless) or a suite (Sonarr and so on plus NZBGet, VPN,...).

    There's additionally a couple of client VMs. All of those distribute over 3 Proxmox hosts accessing the same iSCSI target for VM storage.

    SSL and WireGuard are terminated at a physical firewall box running OpnSense, so with very few exceptions, the VMs do not handle any complicated network setup.

    A lot of those VMs have zero state, those that do have backup of just that state automated to the NAS (simply via rsync) and from there everything is backed up again through borg to an external storage box.

    In the stateless case, deploying a new VM is a single command; in the stateful case, same command, wait for it to come up, SSH in (keys are part of the VM images), run restore-<whatever>.

    On an average day, I spend 0 minutes managing the homelab.

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    Sonarr and the codecs/formats...what am I missing?

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  • You (sadly) need to group all quality profiles into a single one, and then handle quality through a custom format. Example from my setup:

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    Getting worn out with all these docker images and CLI hosted apps

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  • NixOS for the win! Define your system and services, run a single command, get a reproducible, Proxmox-compatible VM out of it. Nixpkgs has basically every service you'd ever want to selfhost.

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    Getting worn out with all these docker images and CLI hosted apps

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  • Lost me at LLMs. My Nix config is over 20k lines long at this point, neatly split into more than a hundred modules and managing 8 physical machines and 30+ VMs. I love it.

    But every time I've tried to use an LLM for nix, it has failed spectacularly.

  • This New Android Smartphone Is For Everyone Who Misses the Blackberry

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  • You can, without root even! Take a look at uad-ng (universal android debloater). Comes with a community-curated list which sorts APKs into 5 tiers from "recommended to uninstall" to "yeah don't, your phone needs this to boot". Apps disabled through this do not come back after updates.

    Removed 140+ apps from my Xiaomi, 120+ from my GFs Samsung S24, and 90+ from my brothers Motorola Edge something.

  • Microsoft Outlook Outage Leaves Users Without Email; Tech Company Working On Resolving Issue

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  • Called their support. They were super nice, and then told me that if I still had access to my 2fa, I could simply add a second mail in my account without needing access to the first one.

    Made total sense when stopping to think about it for a second 😄

  • It do be like that

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  • Or TUI.

  • Microsoft Outlook Outage Leaves Users Without Email; Tech Company Working On Resolving Issue

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  • Oh, yeah. Wasn't actually worried of the mails themselves (multiple devices which have all of them, plus a daily borgbackup offsite), it was just knowing that I NEED to fix this, now, because email is unfortunately kinda important.

    Fun conundrum: had my personal mail as the only contact at my server provider. Requested a KVM for rescue. "Thank you for your request! We'll email you the link to your KVM access!" Gahhh.

  • The Death of Software Development

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  • Lmao. Lmfao, even.

    Here, I'm gonna save you some time and summarize the article for you:

    • everyone is talking about how good LLMs are [citation missing], but they're missing the point!
    • because really, we're already so much further ahead! There be magic tools out there!
    • wait, you want to know which ones? Uuuuh sorry, the people building then are keeping them a secret...
    • ...because they are just THAT FRIGHTENINGLY GOOD! [citation missing]
    • seriously, I used one of them to build a 30k/month product in 2 hours with zero coding!
    • I mean... A subset at least. Oh I also did not do any review, so no idea just how badly fucked it is. Ah, and I guess the price tag comes from the existing reputation and legal guarantees provided by the original tool, which obviously I also couldn't replicate.
    • but worry not! I'm sure I'd be able to build the full tool in DAYS!
    • I won't though. Even though it could TOTALLY make me 30k per month per user. Totally.
    • instead, I'll PROVE to you JUST HOW GOOD these SECRET TOOLS are! Checkout this GitHub repo!
    • ...ah, no, sorry, I misspoke. I'll obviously NOT be using the secret, but TOTALLY REAL [citation missing] tools that this entire article is about. For some reason. They're totally real though bro. Trust me bro. I'm sure one more data-center will fix it bro. Just need to prompt right bro. Like bro, people don't realize how gooooooood LLMs are bro. I swear bro. My prompts are so good I need to keep them secret because it's SCARY bro. Bro.

    Ahem. Maybe I editorialized a tiny bit. Not much though, trust me bro.

  • Microsoft Outlook Outage Leaves Users Without Email; Tech Company Working On Resolving Issue

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  • Same. But also, I'll never forget the adrenaline when I actually legitimately fucked up once. Was a sweaty 2 hours of recovery.

  • Mo Validation Mo Problems

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  • Nice, I was able to send an email to that.

  • Developer Claims Photoshop Installers Now Work on Linux Using Wine

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  • No-one is forcing you to install Adobe software. Stop crying about other people liking choices.

  • continuwuity vs tuwunel: where to go from conduwuit? (Update: probably continuwuity.)

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  • Sorry, unfortunately can't help you there. My matrix server is not federated, I remember back then I created an account on matrix.org specifically to read these. But maybe they got deleted in the meantime?

    Anyways, I have been really happy with continuwuity, to the point that up until now, I haven't even looked at tuwunel again. The maintainers of continuwuity seem really nice and engaged, and both from a usage and stability point of view, as well as for the actually surprisingly fast release cycle, I have no complaints. I found and fixed a bug a couple weeks ago, and the dev process was also very friendly and relaxed.

    In short: while I don't know how things are on the tuwunel side, I'm very happy to have gone with continuwuity and have high hopes for the future of the project.

  • Have you ever tried to "acquire" a taste? (Ie. spent time eating/imbibing something you didn't like at first to start to enjoy it.)

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  • Campari

  • Music Assistant 2.7 - Taking over the airwaves

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  • FWIW, I've been using Music Assistant with my Sonos speakers without issue.

    HOWEVER, I'm using MA as part of Home Assistant, and have the speakers configured through HA, not MA. MA just sees the speakers as HA Media Players. That works really well.

  • If you had to replace the floppy disk save symbol in software with a new symbol for saving what would you choose and why?

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  • Let's be real, when some shitty company (MS) gets around to it, it will be: ☁️⬆️

  • Binge Watching

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  • Yep. They changed her pretty drastically from the way she is in the books (which was probably a good idea), but way, WAY overcorrected. I also don't really like the actor for the role, but that is secondary.

  • Binge Watching

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  • Fair. Don't take this as pressure to watch this. But for what it's worth, "Harry Potter but horny" is exactly what I grew tired of after S1, and they drop that hook pretty thoroughly.

    S2-5 is more like "there's no such thing as a chosen one. We're all just fucked up in different ways, and the only way to get meaningful change done is if we try to be better, together - regardless of if we ever manage to grow past that damage".

    Except Alice. Fuck Alice, she never not sucks.

  • Binge Watching

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  • The Magicians? Do yourself a favor and continue on (well... Depending on where you stopped, I guess.) To me, Season 1 is a difficult sell. It's all over the place, and some of the characters are... Not super likeable, ahem. Season 2 gets much better, and season 3+ are my favorite seasons of television, ever.