qjkxbmwvz

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[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 3 points 1 month ago

Not just UNIX-like, but actual UNIX.

IIRC there were some UNIX-certified Linux distros out there too, not sure if they're still around.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Only one of them is UNIX.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 2 points 1 month ago

Cool, I recommend it!

I have my public facing reverse proxy point to my public services, and I also have it set up as a "roadwarrior" VPN to my home. So, I can connect my phone via WireGuard to my VPS, and a local DNS resolves my private services to the private IP addresses in my home network (so, I also run a reverse proxy on my server, for internal services).

I also have an off-site backup using this


just a raspberry pi and an HDD at family's, that rsyncs+snapshots over the WireGuard network.

I'm sure I'm not following all the best practices here, but so far so good.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 7 points 1 month ago (3 children)

VPS with a public ip (which just takes all the fun out of selfhosting)

Why do you say this? My VPS only runs a reverse proxy and WireGuard, with all services hosted on my computers at home.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 1 points 1 month ago

Having trouble finding it but I swear my PNY Nvidia GeForce FX 5200 (I think?) circa 2003 came with a Linux 3D desktop/launcher software that sounds like this. (X11 based I guess.)

Not sure if it was bundled with the card, came with the Nvidia drivers, or what...but it worked just fine with Linux at the time (probably Slackware, not positive what I was running then).

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 2 points 1 month ago

Remember that RAID and redundancy is not backup.

Try to 3-2-1, or something similar/better, if you can.

I am fairly sloppy here, and I am also very cheap. I have multiple copies in my home for important stuff (mainly Immich), the in use copy being on SSD and a few backups on spinning rust. I have a raspberry pi with an external HDD at family's place, with a daily rsync+snapshot, for off site backups.

Of course, I've never had a catastrophic failure, so who knows how smooth that would be...

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 2 points 1 month ago

I switched to Technitium and I've been pretty happy. Seems very robust, and as a bonus was easy to use it to stop DNS leaks (each upstream has a static route through a different Mullvad VPN, and since they're queried in parallel, a VPN connection can go down without losing any DNS...maybe this is how pihole would have handled it too though).

And of course, wildcards supported no problem.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Maybe take a look at Outline. (Not affiliated, but I host it for myself.)

I also host KitchenOwl, but mostly just as a grocery list.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 6 points 1 month ago

The dot-com bubble burst, but...well, it got better.

Of course there were some casualties (famously pets.com), but Microsoft, Cisco, Intel, Amazon...yeah they got their clock cleaned at the time, but long term they were pretty successful.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 3 points 1 month ago

For all the problems with tech companies, having a chunk of compensation be in the form of RSUs isn't the worst idea ever. (I know it's not specific to tech companies, but it's generally a very prominent aspect of tech company compensation, Netflix notwithstanding.)

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 38 points 1 month ago

To those asking "who celebrated"...Linux was not always well supported by Flash. The promise of HTML5, with first class Linux support, was very appealing.

https://shallowsky.com/blog/linux/flash-installer-confusion.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3620537

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 6 points 1 month ago

I'm really really glad that I get root on my work computer.

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