Mama told me not to come.
She said, that ain’t the way to have fun.
Nvidia is fine and has been for decades. I used Nvidia exclusively on Linux for ~10 years and it was fine. AMD is a better experience on rolling releases and for keeping up with Linux changes (e.g. Wayland), but Nvidia has always been fine, you just might be stuck on X or obeying something and miss out on some features like having two monitors with different refresh rates (IIRC that was only possible on Wayland).
Could it be correlated to Chinese New Year? I could see a ton of people in China suddenly playing and then not playing if most people get time off at the same time.
Does it happen every year around this time?
Alternative perspective, it could be related to the Great Firewall of a China, perhaps they made some rule adjustments and data came through that doesn’t normally come through.
Oh sure, server grade stuff is cool, but rarely needed for a home lab.
server grade budget.
And probably not server grade requirements.
Also depends on the storage medium (SD? SSD?), assuming there’s no transcoding.
That would require an iGPU, no? Also, I’ve seen issues when hot-swapping where the GPU doesn’t get re-initialized properly. It’s much simpler to just dual boot.
Thanks for the motivation to make sure my backups (which are totally configured properly) are working. :)
Just make a different API prefix that’s secure and subject to change, and once the official clients are updated, deprecate the insecure API (off by default).
That way you preserve backwards compatibility without forcing everyone to be insecure.
The admin could use a CDN and not worry about it, if it’s just static content.
Performance hit should be minimal
Only if you have a second GPU that you can pass through to the VM. Otherwise you’re gonna have a bad time.
Dual boot is the simpler method. A VM is far from simple when it comes to gaming.
Agreed, with the clear exception being PHP, which often requires configuring a web server.
I hadn’t heard of it, and looking into quarkus just reminded me of how complicated the whole Java ecosystem is. Gross.
Hosting Go, Rust, etc stuff is dead simple, but with Java, there’s all this complexity…
Yeah, containers are great! It’s really nice knowing exactly which directories to move if I need to rebalance my services onto other hardware or something.
Most of my services are on my NAS, so I have this setup:
Disaster recovery should be as simple as:
I use specific container versions, so I should get exactly the same setup.
I’m going to be reinstalling my NAS soon (boot drive is getting old), so we’ll see how this process works, though I’ll skip step 1 since I’m keeping the drives.
That really depends on your use case. I use very little transfer because most of my usage is within my LAN. I set up a DNS server (built in to my router) to resolve my domains to my local servers, and all the TLS happens on my local server, so it never goes out to the VPS. So I only need enough transfer for when I’m outside my house.
Here’s my setup:
My devices use my network’s DNS, but if that fails, they fall back to some external DNS and route traffic through the VPS.
VPSs without data caps tend to have worse speeds because they attract people who will use more transfer. I think it’s better to find one with a transfer cap that’s sufficient for your needs, so things stay fast. I use Hetzner, which has generous caps in the EU (20TB across the board) and good enough for me caps in the US (1TB base scales with instance size and can buy extra). Most of my use outside my house is showing something off every now and them, or accessing some small files or uploading something (transfer limits are only for outgoing data).
Docker compose is great! Good luck!
I’ve been moving from docker compose to podman, and I think that’s the better long term plan for me. However, the wins here are pretty marginal, so I don’t recommend it unless you want those marginal wins and everything is already in containers. IMO: Podman > docker compose >>>no containers. Docker compose has way better examples online, so stick with that until you feel like tinkering.
I went with Tuta because it’s my backup if everything else goes wrong. If my house burns down or my VPS shuts down my instance (e.g. billing fail, IP block ban, provider goes under, etc), I don’t want to lose access to my email.
I use a custom domain for it, so if I ever need to, switching to a different provider should be as simple as swapping some domain configs.
It’s relatively inexpensive too at €3/month when paying annually. I wanted two domains (one for personal, one for online stuff) and didn’t need any of the other stuff Proton has, so Tuta worked.
I’m considering Keycloak myself because it’s trusted by security professionals (I think it’s a RedHat project), whereas Authentik is basically a passion project.
Absolutely. I used Tailscale for a bit because I didn’t want to get a VPS (I’m behind CGNAT), but I needed to expose a handful of services and use my own domain name, and I couldn’t figure that out w/ Tailscale. So I bought a cheap VPS and configured WireGuard on it to get into my LAN and I’m much happier.
I’ve been testing out immutable distros, in this case openSUSE Aeon (laptop) and openSUSE MicroOS (server).
I set up Forgejo and runners are working, all in podman. I’m about to take the plunge and convert everything on my NAS to podman, which is in preparation for installing MicroOS on it (upgrade from Leap).
I also installed MicroOS on a VPS, which was a pain because my VPS provider doesn’t have images for it, and I’d have to go through support to get it added. Instead, I found a workaround, which is pretty amazing that it works:
The nice thing is that cloud-init works, so my keys set up in step 1 still work with the new OS. It’s not the most convenient way to set things up, but it’s about the same amount of time as asking them for an ISO.
Anyway, now it’s the relatively time consuming task of moving everything from my other VPS over, but I’ll do it properly this time with podman containers. I had an ulterior motive here as well, I’m moving from x86 to ARM, which reduces cost somewhat and it can also function as a test bed of sorts for ARM versions of things I’m working on.
So far I’m liking it, especially since it forces me to use containers for everything. We’ll see in a month or two how I like maintaining it. It’s supposed to be super low effort, since updates are installed in the background and applied on reboot.
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