Hey I’m not sure if I would ever use the information for any actual future shopping or whatever so no pressure, but would love to know what kind of Lego alternatives aficionados would recommend nowadays!

A fantastic resource, thanks for posting this!

It’s an interesting concept that I also started exploring last year, though somewhat less extreme.

My deployments run on incus containers/VMs which are spun up by terraform. Those may in turn host things e.g. through docker or just bare-metal.

But instead of going full packer-golden image, my principle orchestration is still done by Ansible which prepares the bare-metal host, gets incus rolling, and then starts the terraform process, before taking control again and operating on the now spun-up individual machines.

Lidarr is configured with folder C, which is a mergerfs volume consisting of folder A and B. Folder A is read-only, and any writes on C go into folder B. This way Lidarr can “see” all my existing music, while any automated downloads go into folder B, keeping them separate from my organized files.

That is so dang clever I definitely have to steal the idea.

Nametag […] launched this past week and filled the void left in many of our lives by Monica

I think I’ve been out of the loop here, what happened to Monica?

No I think the OP is confused. tt-rss forums was a largely horrible community which prided itself on being edgy and toxic. FreshRSS never had anything to do with them, except for also being an rss reader. It is (or at least was? Not sure nowadays) instead loosely connected to the framasoft people, who are cool and doing nice things for the open source community, and not at all toxic.

Fascinating read, I should definitely also make way more use of sqlite for little side projects.
Thanks for the link!

While a full ‘deletion’ of such an issue is certainly unfortunate, I can kind of see how it gets to such a decision point.

You’re creating some software in the open, decide to ping some communities on reddit/lemmy and all of a sudden it seems like a disgruntled brigade is breaking down your door while you just wanted to show them the garden.

What for us looks like earnest sleuthing can feel like abuse/harassment from the other side simply due to the asymmetrical nature of the internet.

Would have probably still preferred a closed issue instead, but having a couple ‘niche-successful’ repos on github myself - I can at least certainly empathise.

It might get a little simpler to host and busier to play again in the not too distant future if the announced free fanmade re-release works out!

Luanti and Minecraft are two distinct, if similar-looking things.

Luanti is an open-source voxel game engine implementation which allows running a wide variety of different ‘games’ on it (including two which mimic Minecraft very closely, like the above-mentioned Mineclonia).

Minecraft is the closed-source game owned by Mojang.

The two don’t interact and servers for the one are completely unrelated to the other as well.

So, to answer the question - yes, they still need a Minecraft license if they want to play Minecraft. But this is disconnected from having a Luanti server, for which you don’t need any licenses but which will in turn also only allow you to play Luanti stuff, not Minecraft.

It’s good but it’s also been bought out by, at least to me, an ‘unknown’ early this year. Since then, there’s been a couple outages though nothing too drastic. New owner also promised to only make changes that are ‘thoughtful and focused on making your experience better’ but I am still cautiously eyeing other options since then - I’ve learned never to trust those words by new owners.

It might turn out to be something different - but just in case it does log you out after a system restart (but maybe not after network disconnect) it would probably have something to do with kwallet (the key ring which has your credentials) not unlocking correctly.

If that’s the case this or this might be further pointers to look into.

If it feels good for you, it is probably good.

(For the record, I do think it’s really good advice but that instantly came to mind) :)

I’ve been exclusively reading my fiction books (all epubs) on Readest and absolutely love it. Recently I also started using it for my nonfiction books and articles (mostly pdf) as an experiment, and it’s workable but a little more rough around the edges still.

You can highlight and annotate, and export all annotations for a book once you are done, for which I have set up a small pipeline to directly import them into my reference management software.

It works pretty well with local storage (though I don’t believe it does ‘auto-imports’ of new files by default) and I’ve additionally been using their free hosted offering to sync my book progress. It’s neat and free up to 500mb of books, but you’re right that I would also prefer a byo storage solution, perhaps in the future.

The paid upgrades are mostly for AI stuff and translations which I don’t really concern myself with.

Been seeing the posts pop up recently and I really like the look of your software, bookmarked for future jrnl integration possibilities.

But what a missed opportunity to not have a Journiv Ahead in your second headline :)

Open source/selfhost projects 100% keep track of how many people star a repo, what MRs are submitted, and even usage/install data.

I feel it is important to make a distinction here, though:

GitHub, the for-profit, non-FOSS, Microsoft-owned platform keeps track of the ‘stars of a repo’, not the open-source self-host projects themselves. Somebody hosts their repo forge on Codeberg, sr.ht, their own infrastructure or even GitLab? There’s generally very little to no algorithmic number-crunching involved. Same for MR/PRs.

Additionally - from my knowledge - very few fully FOSS programs have extensive usage/install telemetry, and even fewer opt-out versions. Tracking which couldn’t be disabled I’ve essentially never heard of in that space, because every time someone does go in that direction the public reaction is usually very strong (see e.g. Audacity).

Interesting, so Metal3 is basically kubernetes-managed baremetal nodes?

Over the last years I’ve cobbled together a nice Ansible-driven IaC setup, which provisions Incus and Docker on various machines. It’s always the ‘first mile’ that gets me struggling with completely reproducible bare-metal machines. How do I first provision them without too much manual interference?

Ansible gets me there partly, but I would still like to have e.g. the root file system running on btrfs which I’ve found hard to accomplish with just these tools when first provisioning a new machine.

When I was stumbling on some of his output it unfortunately felt very click-baity, always playing on your FOMO if you didn’t set up/download/buy the next best thing until the other next best thing in the video after.

In other words, I think he’s cool to check out to get to know of a thing, but to get a deeper level of understanding how a thing works I would recommend written materials. There are good caddy/nginx tutorials out there, but a linux networking book will get your understanding further yet.

If it has to be video, I would at least recommend a little more slowed down, long-form content like Learn Linux TV.

I’ve been using NetBird for quite a while now. It has grown from an experiment in connecting to the server without exposing it to quite a stable setup that I make use of every day, and even got my partner and some of my family to use. That is the hosted offering, however, not me self hosting my own server component.

For a couple of months now, I’ve been eyeing pangolin though. It just seems like such an upgrade concerning identity and SSO - but equally a complete overhaul of my infrastructure and a steep learning curve.

I am itching to get it running but would probably have to approach it step-by-step, and roll it out pretty slowly, while transferring the existing services.

That makes sense and I do think nushell has a legitimate place between simple zsh/bash scripts and more complex python ones for me. I think mostly I had issues rubbing against the functional nature of dealing with variables, but hearing your similar experience of grokking the mental model motivates me to try exploring a bit more again :-)

Also, I am surprised by how much it changed since I last tried it around version 0.87 or so! Perhaps I’ll wait for the API to settle down a bit and then strike out again.

Thanks!