blackstrat

I'd like to run a small cluster of mini PCs or have extra hardware running a mirror setup, but the cost has put me off.

On Android I use Podcast Addict and on PC I use Podgrab running from Docker. I haven't found a.way to sync them

I give it 2 years

If you want to host things and be accessible from outside your home then I'd start with getting a domain and static IP, point the DNS at your IP, make sure your DNS provider is supported by Let's Encrypt DNS authentication.

Then setup nginx as a reverse proxy and get Let's Encrypt setup with auto renewal. That way you can have secure https connections to your home.

Then install docker compose, fire up a service and configure nginx to proxy to it

And here I am sat with systemd-boot :'(

The only reason I can think that people who want to make a new browser dont fork Firefox is because firefox can already do whatever it is they want to do in their new browser via extensions. This is only a recommendation for firefox in my eyes.

I dont see much advantage over Firefox with some extensions. Plus I'd rather support a non-chromium based browser as we're dangerously close to ending up with the www == chromium only and I think that'd be terrible.

I have tried btrfs in the past and when it goes wrong you are utterly shafted. You can't even mount it as a read only file system, it will just lock you out entirely. And the support isn't great, I ended up finding something that had a disclaimer along the lines of "only run this if you really know what you're doing", but obviously I didn't as the documentation didn't tell me enough to know. So the only people who could possibly know are the developers of the file system themselves. Anyway, I was 2 days in to trying to recover my data by this point so I gave it a go, nothing to lose - it refused to do anything. Great.

So in summary I'm not going to try it again.

Why not both? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I don't game on windows just linux, but I have a windows VM on hand for the occasional bit of windows software I need. But these days that's becoming a rare occurance. I still love my old Nikon photo editing software which lives on the VM, I just dont edit so many photos these days.

The dev team are changing things at will but the documentation is pointing users at the latest master version.

There needs to be better change control and a bigger emphasis on supporting people setting up production environments, not just dev ones. Which means nothing should be broken in whatever labelled version of a file they use.

All I year about from the linux community is NixOS and btrfs, neither of which I have any interest in. It almost feels like someone with an agenda is promoting these two with how prevelant they are.