Wow this is awesome on so many levels!
Could you just buy wood sticks of that size in the hardware store, or did you have cut them to width yourself? And how is the wood glue sticking to the plastic flare? (Never tried using wood glue on plastic before)
Yikes, are those required? Looks very rug-shaped, perfect for pulling things. Or not. Who knows?
Yeah it’s a normal model, but BitWarden is a bit special in that their original server-side implementation was enough of a pain to self-host on a small scale that an alternative implementation Vautlwarden was created. And Vaultwarden became very popular in self-hosted circles. And now many years later BitWarden offers a Lite server which scales down. I think it’s a good thing, just a bit unusual. I’m struggling to think of similar examples.
I’m sure Vaultwarden still funnels plenty of enterprise use of BitWarden, since Vaultwarden users still use official BitWarden client.
Forward thinking venture capital funded companies are getting rarer, hence the question on motivation. Especially the last few years many VC Foss companies have squeezed harder the other way (gitea, Terraform, docker). So all kudos to BitWarden for launching Lite.
What you say a about brand dominance, or brand protection makes a lot of sense. It’s not a good look for them that a large number of people choose to use an unofficial implementation instead of theirs. And should there ever be a catastrophic security issue with Vaultwarden, it would still reflect bad on BitWarden as that kind of nuance (like “unofficial server side implementation”) tend to get lost in reporting. Having more IT workers self-host official version probably also helps pave the way for bringing enterprise-bitwarden to companies.
Valve are a bit of a unicorn though, because they are privately owned. There’s no investors demanding ROI the next quarter, which gives them freedom to think long term.
When Microsoft launched windows8 and the Microsoft Store, Valve took that as an existential threat to their whole business model (the Steam store). Valve feared that Microsoft was trying to position itself like Apple on iOS and Google on Android, where there is only one platform store, and all apps are purchased through the platform store, and the platform store takes that sweet sweet 30% cut. So Valve pivoted to ensure the Steam store would not be obsolete, and give customers a reason to still use the Steam store.
And what they achieved is awesome, for Linux, for Valve and for gamers. But it took nearly a decade, which is a level of patience few companies have.
I had the same happen on the root folder on a SATA SSD. The SSD was dying (don’t remember if there was SMART errors, but the dmesg log showed write-errors. I cloned old SSD to a new SSD and haven’t seen the problem since. That was years ago.
When there are multiple consecutive write errors, Linux will re-moumt the partition as read-only to protect the data.
(There usually a statement along the lines of “on-error:remount-ro” for the partition in the /etc/fstab file)
Wonder what’s the reasoning behind offering this Lite version. I don’t imagine competing with Vaultwarden is very lucrative financially.
To be honest I don’t remember why I set up gitea with MySQL instead of sqlite (or MariaDB), its quite a few years ago. And sqlite would probably be fine for my single-user instance
It’s a bit of a sad state of Europes electric car manufacturering that the only two mentioned manufacturers are Volvo/Polestar, both wholly owned by Chinese Geely, with production in China.
The ChargeUp organisation consists of charging infrastructure providers (including gas station companies like CircleK, BP, Total). The only manufacturer is (American) Tesla, presumably because of their charging infrastructure division. https://www.chargeupeurope.eu/membership
EmobilityEurope organization is mostly driver-associations and supply chain companies. The actual manufacturers are:
So not a single European (electric) car manufacturer is involved
I just did it not long a ago. Gittea -> Forgejo10 -> Forgejo11 LTS, in Docker. Surprisingly quick, painless and smooth.
(My only issue was not Forgejo, but MySQL. Because the hardware is ancient and Docker compose pulled down a new version of mysql8 at the same time as pulling forgejo. New version of mysql8 didnt support my CPU architecture. Easy fix was to change the label mysql8oraclelinux7 in Docker compose and pull that image. There is a issue with solutions in the MySQL Docker GitHub repo)
Hardest issue would probably be financing, and motivation.
GPUs are expensive, electricity is expensive. All the current major LLMs are huge loss leaders for giant players with deep pockets. A distributed AI service would be by smaller players without the financing nor the motivation to upfront all the cost.
There is “folding@home” where you donate time on your hardware for scientific calculations, but that’s quite different from donating time on your hardware to some random unknown stranger to generate AI cat images or summarise a news article.
Lemmy and Mastodon etc have a comparatively modest monetary (and energy/environmental) cost, and the benefit is building communities and bringing people together. For distributed AI the cost ( monetary and energy/environmental) is higher, and the benefit is limited.
Can attest that Folder Sync is excellent. I use it all day (in the background) for two-way sync (notes) and backup of photos videos etc
Though a small PSA on setting up:
I once set up a new share on a new phone with two-way sync, and the app decided to sync the (newer) empty directory to the server (i.e. delete everything) instead of pulling the files from the server to the phone.
Easy fix: Restore notes from backup (step 0: have backups in the first place), then do an initial 1-way sync from server to phone, then change the sync job to two-way.
For jpg’s, no they will not get smaller. Maybe even a smidge bigger if you zip them. Usually not enough to make a practical difference.
Zip does generic lossless compression, meaning it can be extracted for a bit-perfect copy of the original. Very simplified it works by finding patterns repeating and replacing a long pattern with a short key, and storing an index to replace the keys with the original pattern on extraction.
Jpg’s use lossy compression, meaning some detail is lost and can never be reproduced. Jpg is highly optimized to only drop details that don’t matter much for human perception of the image.
Since jpg is already compressed, there will not be any repeating patterns (duplicate information) for the zip algorithm to find.
There’s nothing wrong with Mint, it’s solid. If it works for you don’t stress about it
The only thing is that it’s based on Ubuntu LTS so it’s packages can be a bit old. Doesn’t really matter much unless you have very new hardware and need the hardware support. Then something Fedora based like Bazzite would be better.
For getting newer software you can use flatpak/Flathub.
Bazzite is also “immutable” which makes it harder to break on a system level, but also harder to tinker on a system level. Mint is a “normal” distribution in that regard. Mint does have Timeshift for taking system level snapshots, on the off chance that an update or your tinkering breaks something. Its worth checking that Timeshift is set up for automatic snapshots
Do you version your compose files in git? If so, how does that work with the dockGE workflow?
I highly recommend you use Proxmox as the base OS. Proxmox makes it easy to spin up virtual machines, and easy to back up and revert to backups. So you’re free to play around and try stupid stuff. If you break something in your VM, just restore a backup.
In addition to virtual machines, Proxmox also does “LXC containers” , which are system level containers. They are basically a very light weight virtual machine, with some caveats like running the same kernel as the host.
Most self-hosting software is released as a docker-image. Docker is application level containers, meaning only the bare minimum to run the application is included. You don’t enter a docker container to update packages, instead you pull down a new version of the image from the author.
There are 3 ways to run docker on Proxmox:
The “overhead” of running docker inside a VM on the host is so negligible, you don’t need to worry about it.
I had never heard of dockge before, but this sounds like the killer feature for me:
File based structure - Dockge won’t kidnap your compose files, they are stored on your drive as usual. You can interact with them using normal docker compose commands
Does that mean I can just point it at my existing docker compose files?
My current layout is a folder for each service/stack , which contains docker-compose.yaml + data-folders etc for the service. docker-compose and related config files are versioned in git.
I have portainer, but rarely use it , and won’t let it manage the configuration, because that interfered with versioning the config in git.
The article introduction is gold:
In the unlikely case that you have very little RAM and a surplus of video RAM, you can use the latter as swap.
I’m using NixOS with KDE for HTPC, though I’m not sure I’d recommend it unless you’re eager to learn Nix.
The upshot is that it’s super stable, and everything is declared and versioned in the git repo, including my lirc device codes and node-red automation flow for lirc and mqtt. (The HTPC shows up as a mqtt switch in home assistant for turning on and off, and the HTPC turns on or off the TV and amplifier through IR as the PC turns on or off)
I mostly use Firefox and various streaming sites for video, and Spotify desktop client for music. A gyro mouse/keyboard is the main input device, plus wireless Xbox360 controllers for streaming games with Moonlight (from Flathub)
That’s hilarious :D
What It IS
A real DOOM port - Uses the actual DOOM engine via doomgeneric, playing real levels with real game logicWhat it ISN’T:
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A practical use of your PCB editor - This serves no purpose other than being delightfully absurd
Not sure I buy the “not critical infrastructure” argument. Even if 95% of public (and private) correspondence is digital these days, paper-mail is still used as a fallback for some institutions and whenever a physical copy must be sent for whatever reason.