shertson

shertson, 6 months ago

Laptop and Workstation run Fedora. Servers run Proxmox.

Can’t say that there is anything new and exciting. Big change for me has been that I have accepted flatpacks. I’ve gotten to the point where I don’t care about being a purist, don’t care about customizing and theming everything. I just want to use my computer.

shertson, 7 months ago

I keep my books in AudioBookShelf and use the android app to download to my phone. But, AudioBookShelf doesn’t work on Android Auto, so I use Voice to play the books in my car. They can share storage which makes it nice.

shertson, 9 months ago

Memos looks pretty good with the MoeMemos app. Although it doesn’t look like video/audio is supported.

shertson, 9 months ago

Does Obsidian support audio/video?

shertson, 9 months ago

I use Joplin for keeping various notes and would rather not combine it with my journal.

I’m looking for something like DayOne or billthefarmers Diary app that is easy to use from mobile, but then has a selfhosted website I can use to go back and review/relive/edit the experiences.

shertson, 9 months ago

I’m trying this out. Installed both on phone and laptop last night.

shertson, 9 months ago

I use Monica. The journal function is meh and a pain to use from phone. Otherwise I love it. When I meet new people through my friend group, I add them so I can remember details about them for next time we meet.

shertson, 9 months ago

dotfiles please. Would love your xresources

shertson, 9 months ago

If that is the case, then you should be very happy to leave Linux for a proprietary OS that Nvidia works on and properly supports.

shertson, 10 months ago

Nicely done!

shertson, 10 months ago

Great stuff! How about WindowMaker?

shertson, 10 months ago

Odd, I don’t see it.

shertson, 10 months ago

I don’t hate Discord, but I do hate that they seem to require my phone number. I tried joining Discord over a year ago. Upon first log in they claimed that there was suspicious activity that required me to verify the account by giving them my phone number. This was from a computer, I never even visited the site on my phone let alone use the mobile app. I gave up and forgot about until a few months ago and decided to try again. They still wanted my phone number, email wasn’t good enough. I contacted their support email and was told that there was no other option but to provide a phone number and that they couldn’t override it. So I told them to delete my account and that I would never use their service. It took two weeks for them to do it.

There are very few situations in which an app needs my phone number in my eyes. And a chat application is not one of them. Just like I refused to use the official Reddit app because it wanted access to my contacts and location. I am not a super privacy nut, but the whole hog approach of gathering my info is not acceptable. I would rather pay for the service. I would have paid for Reddit if they had gone that route rather than dropping 3rd Party apps. Instead I’m on Lemmy.

So fucking hell yes, this again.

There are alternatives to Discord.

shertson, 10 months ago

I understand the ease for choosing phone numbers. I would love it if they gave me another option to validate.

For a community like Lemmy, I would prefer that they choose a different chat system, one that doesn’t require me to validate with a phone number. Matrix is an option and doesn’t require phone numbers.

shertson, 10 months ago

I did try on phone, laptop, and desktop. I didn’t try with another email. Perhaps the channel required it, but since I was only trying to join Discord for that one channel, it wasn’t worth pursuing further. I sought and got support for my issue in other places.

shertson, 10 months ago

• It’s a Wonderful Life
• The Day the Earth Stood Still
• Roman Holiday

shertson, 10 months ago

This is one of my all time favorites. I had more empathy for Gort than any other character, so I think I might be a bit off. Don’t judge me.

shertson, 10 months ago

This going on my to read list. I love crappy pulp stories. Thanks for sharing!

shertson, 10 months ago

This is the first I’ve heard of Kroki. A quick glance at their site and wow! So many options for markup. I’ll be trying this out for sure

shertson, 10 months ago

In all honesty, it is a hodge podge. Some are in my dokuwiki, some are plain text, some are markdown, some in my phone, lots on scraps of paper. Just about the time I get it all in one place I scrap my systems and start over.

shertson, 10 months ago

A good start would be to implement quarter tiling by dragging window to screen corner, like half tiling is done by dragging to screen edge.

I have a 3840x2160 monitor specifically so that I can have four windows open at the best size for their content (email, document, web browse, and terminal) and can avoid the use of workspaces and see everything at once. Having to manually resize and place windows is a pain.

shertson, 10 months ago

I have tried it. It resizes windows weirdly. I haven’t dug through the settings for it, so it could be fixable. No matter how I resize my terminal, it always snaps to smaller than a quarter of the screen. Thunderbird seems to always resize bigger than a quarter of the screen. It’s still better than nothing, but I’d love for it to be built in.

shertson, 10 months ago

I haven’t seen this paperwm. I’ll have to check it out.

shertson, 10 months ago

What email archive software do you use? I’ve often thought about spinning up an IMAP server locally that doesn’t send/receive but allows me to copy all my old mail to it. I have a dozen or more email accounts across different providers and would want each kept separate in the archive. They also span 15+ years.

shertson, 10 months ago

gpodder.net selfhosted.

github.com/gpodder/mygpo

shertson, 10 months ago

I have it running on Yunohost. Point and click to try it out before moving to a container and just never got around to doing it in a container.

shertson, 11 months ago

Distrowatch has an RSS feed, but it is a whole bunch of different distros. Otherwise check on the home pages of the desired distros to see if they publish a feed.

Edit: distrowatch.com/news/dwd.xml

shertson, 11 months ago

If there are drivers available for download, use Windows or another computer to save to a USB drive, then install them in Linux. It’s been a long time since I’ve had to do that.

shertson, 11 months ago

It’s been a while since I have had to do it, but it is possible to download all the deb/rpm packages to the USB drive under windows. It’ll be a manual process to identify which will be required.

You might be better off finding CD images for the package repository and installing packages from there.

shertson, 11 months ago

This is good idea too. Find a live CD that your adapter works with. Once you do, install that distribution.

shertson, 11 months ago

I’ll add my voice to the chorus and recommend Proxmox. I’ve never tried xcp-ng; it looks nice and I’m interested, but Proxmox has worked well for me.

shertson, 11 months ago

Yeah, I’ve been running Fedora since the first Fedora Core release. Only ever had an issue once, back on FC4 but was easily fixed. My current laptop is 8 years old and is solid. Only issue is rotating it causes airplane mode to turn on, so I don’t rotate it.

shertson, 11 months ago

Mine in in the mail. Got the shipping notification last night. So excited! I didn’t the past year saving up for it. I’m glad to see that everything works out of the box with Fedora.

shertson, 11 months ago

And if you’re replacing one, you could possibly pull the ram and SSD from it to use in the frame work.

shertson, 11 months ago

Funny, I seriously considered getting one over the past year, but the past couple of months I’ve been reading all kinds of complaints about them. Seems there is a problem with consistent quality.

shertson, 11 months ago

My useless advice: Do it in phases as you learn.

• Start off with Yunohost. It is simple to get started and works pretty well. Try different apps to see what you like and what might be worth using for real. Just make sure that you keep in mind this is more of a “proof of concept” for testing things. Unless you plan to purchase another mini pc later.
• When you feel like you have out grown it and want to start learning more about things, you can move to something like Proxmox. This allows you to create virtual machines and play with containers (docker/lxc). If you plan well, you can back up your Yunohost data and configs to another drive, wipe Yunohost install and replace it with Proxmox. Then install a VM running Yunohost and restore your data and configs you previously backed up.
• Then you can start playing with lxc containers and docker containers.
• If you can get a second machine with multiple drives, install TrueNAS or OMV. Use that to store all of your data on NFS drive that you mount from your Proxmox VMs and containers.

Years ago I used to run a linux server with everything installed under Apache virtual directories and fought the constant upgrade cycle. Life got in the way and I gave up on it until the pandemic slowed life down enough for me to start playing again. So I went the Yunhost route on an old Mac Mini. I now have a 3 node Proxmox cluster with Yunhost in a VM (with a dozen apps running on it) and another 15-20 containers running under either lxc or docker. I eventually purchased a cheap NAS device for data storage so that I could make use of the Proxmox fail over capabilities.

If your mini pc has the capability for two drives, install the OS on one and store data on the other (unless/until you get a second pc/NAS).

shertson, 1 year ago

As others have mentioned, there are two things required. A space to document information, and a separate secure space for password/secretes.

Personally I use Joplin and BitWarden. I used to use DokuWIki and KeepassXC.

shertson, 1 year ago

• Matrix Synapse
• Paperless-ngx
• MediaTracker
• Lychee
• Immich
• AudioBookShelf
• Baikal
• Monica
• Nextcloud
• Calibre-web
• Piwigo
• Pinry
• Prosody
• Shaarli
• Wallabag
• mygpodder
• Peertube
• Mealie
• Mastodon
• Firefox sync
• Seafile
• Dokuwiki
• The Lounge
• Redmine
• Gitea
• Castopod
• Portainer

This assortment is run under a combination of Proxmox LXC containers, docker containers, and Yunohost. Mostly I use it to play around, but most are heavily used by my wife and I. I’m planning to rebuild everything and making things more “official”. Looking to convert from a “lab” to actually making it “production” with solid failure routes and backups. I am looking to move anything currently under Yunohost to docker/lxc and to start making use of podman. Recently saw CosmOS and think it might be a good alternative to portainer.

Hardware:

• Node 1: Lenovo m93p tiny with 16GB RAM and 250GB SSD - Proxmox
• Node 2: Lenovo m93p tiny with 16GB RAM and 250GB SSD - Proxmox
• Node 3: Gigabyte Brix with 16GB RAM and 500GB Sata SSD, 128GB m.2 SSD - Proxmox
• Node 4: Trigkey Green G3 with 16GB RAM and 1TB Sata SSD - Proxmox
• TPLink managed switch
• TerraMaster 2-bay NAS with 2x 2TB HD (NFS host for containers)
• Synology ds220j NAS with 2x 8TB HD (backup of home desktops, laptops, cell phones, and lab systems)

shertson, 1 year ago

LOL

No, just a hobby. Been playing around for about a year. It started small with an old mac mini and Yunohost. Then I decided to play with Proxmox and bought a used m93p. Then I read about Proxmox clusters, so I got another m93p. I was going to use the mac mini in the cluster, but it was getting too slow, so I bought the Brix. Then I decided to migrate the Yunohost setup over to a VM in Proxmox. Then I figured I should learn a bit about docker. And it spiraled.

I spend maybe 10-12 hours a month on installation and configuration. I spend way more time using it. A couple of weeks ago I spent about 15 hours over the weekend importing/uploading my audiobooks into AudioBookShelf. Last year I spent several weekends getting my Calibre library in shape and moving it to the web.

I figure this is a much cheaper and safer hobby than drinking.

shertson, 1 year ago

I am thinking about it, but it is unlikely. I have a Samsung Galaxy s6 lite that works ‘fine’. I really can’t justify the expense of the Pixel tablet at this time. I like the docking stand, it should have happened a long time ago. Lenovo had something like this 5 years ago, but the tablet was really under-powered. I’m going to wait and see what real world reviews say to see if it is powerful enough. The other thing I would want from it is a keyboard case so that I can take it on family vacations instead of my laptop.

shertson, 1 year ago

I think one of the biggest reasons that iPads have been so successful is the accessory market. They are usually high quality. Accessories for Android tablets have always been “universal” and universally crap quality. If Google can get some high quality keyboards and cases it will help draw buyers. And things like the Square kiosk.

The iOS/Apple ecosystem is pretty tight too. I wish the Google ecosystem was better. I never know if it is worth committing when they might kill off an app/site.

I got the Lenovo smart screen when it came out and found it to be sub-par. I already have Amazon music, so don’t want Google music or YouTube music. If they had a better package deal for music movies and books, then maybe. Never bothered with the Google Hub for that reason. I got the small speaker for free and found it useless.

All that said, I love the Nexus and Pixel phones I’ve had, love the Pixel Buds, and recently got a Pixel watch. So the tablet is a solid maybe. Especially after how quickly the Nexus 7 tablet became bogged down.

shertson, 1 year ago

Pixel 6a checking in!