klangcola

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What's a process where you prefer the old way of doing things instead of how it's done now? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[–] klangcola@reddthat.com 6 points 3 weeks ago

Good news: Firefox on Android supports extensions, including uBlockOrigin

Though Im in the same camp, much prefer desktop over mobile for big purchases, banking, or anything that feels important

Europe’s thirst for AI runs into local water worries in c/europe@feddit.org
[–] klangcola@reddthat.com 3 points 3 weeks ago

Or build more datacenters in the cold north, or near coastlines. Datacenters don't necessarily need loads of fresh water.

For example https://greenmountain.no/about-us/

Best web archiving software for complex sites and sites requiring logins? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] klangcola@reddthat.com 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

SingleFile provides a faithful representation of the original webpage, so bloated webpages are indeed saved as bloated html files.

On the plus side you're getting an exact copy, but on the downside an exact copy may not be necessary and takes a huge amount of space.

Best web archiving software for complex sites and sites requiring logins? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] klangcola@reddthat.com 15 points 5 months ago (4 children)

SingleFile is a browser addon to save a complete web page into a single HTML file. SingleFile is a Web Extension (and a CLI tool) compatible with Chrome, Firefox (Desktop and Mobile), Microsoft Edge, Safari, Vivaldi, Brave, Waterfox, Yandex browser, and Opera.

SingleFile can also be integrated with bookmark managers hoarder and linkding browser extensions. So your browser does the capture, which means you are already logged in, have dismissed the cookie banner, solved the capthas or whatever else annoyance is on the webpage.

ArchiveBox and I believe also Linkwarden use SingleFile (but as CLI from the server side) to capture web pages, as well as other tools and formats. This works well for simple/straightforward web pages, but not for annoying we pages with cookie banners, capthas, and other popups.

Sanity check: am I crazy for wanting to wipe everything and do/learn from scratch? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] klangcola@reddthat.com 5 points 5 months ago

Lol, I'm just over a week in to learning NixOS and this feels so true 😂

I feel like I'm just starting on the incline, luckily I don't have any sturdy rope on hand 😂

Sanity check: am I crazy for wanting to wipe everything and do/learn from scratch? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] klangcola@reddthat.com 4 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Reading your post again, you should start by moving your docker management from CasaOS to vanilla docker-compose files, and keep them in a git repo.

I still think you definitely should look in to NixOS and what it can offer, cause it seems like that is where your mindset is going.

But NixOS is a drastic change, you should start by just converting your individual services one by one from CasaOS management to docker-compose files. One compose file for all services is possible, but I would recommend one compose file for each service. Later you can move from Debian to NixOS while using the same docker-compose files.

Sanity check: am I crazy for wanting to wipe everything and do/learn from scratch? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] klangcola@reddthat.com 12 points 5 months ago (4 children)

I would like to have a system when I know what I did, what is opened/installed/activated and what is not

You sound like you need to to look in to Nix and NixOS. The TLDR is that everything is declared in a configuration file(s), which you can and should back up in git. The config files tell you exactly what you did , and the config file comments together with git commit history tell you why.

The whole system is built from this configuration file. Rollback is trivially easy, either by rebooting and selecting an older build during the boot manager, or reverting to an older git commit and rebuilding (no reboot required, so usually faster)

Now fair warning, Nix (and NixOS) is a big topic, very different from normal way of thinking about software distribution and OS. Nix is not for everyone.

You should also at the very least have a git repo for docker-compose files for your services. Again, that will declaratively tell you what you did and why.

Also, if NixOS is too extreme, you should also look in to declarative management tools like Ansible etc

ArchiveBox/good-karma-kit: A Docker Compose bundle to run on servers with spare CPU, RAM, disk, and bandwidth to help the world. Includes Tor, ArchiveWarrior, BOINC, and more... in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] klangcola@reddthat.com 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Not a problem when self-hosting on own hardware. Especially in winter. Overly complicated spaceheater goes brrrr

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Why use Named volume vs Anonymous volume in Docker? (reddthat.com)
 

What are the pros and cons of using Named vs Anonymous volumes in Docker for self-hosting?

I've always used "regular" Anonymous volumes, and that's what is usually in official docker-compose.yml examples for various apps:

volumes:
  - ./myAppDataFolder:/data

where myAppDataFolder/ is in the same folder as the docker-compose.yml file.

As a self-hoster I find this neat and tidy; my docker folder has a subfolder for each app. Each app folder has a docker-compose.yml, .env and one or more data-folders. I version-control the compose files, and back up the data folders.

However some apps have docker-compose.yml examples using named volumes:

services:
  mealie:
    volumes:
      - mealie-data:/app/data/
volumes:
  mealie-data:

I had to google documentation https://docs.docker.com/engine/storage/volumes/ to find that the volume is actually called mealie_mealie-data

$ docker volume ls
DRIVER    VOLUME NAME
...
local     mealie_mealie-data

and it is stored in /var/lib/docker/volumes/mealie_mealie-data/_data

$ docker volume inspect mealie_mealie-data
...
  "Mountpoint": "/var/lib/docker/volumes/mealie_mealie-data/_data",
...

I tried googling the why of named volumes, but most answers were talking about things that sounded very enterprise'y, docker swarms, and how all state information should be stored in "the database" so you shouldnt need to ever touch the actual files backing the volume for any container.

So to summarize: Named volumes, why? Or why not? What are your preferences? Given the context that we are self-hosting, and not running huge enterprise clusters.

Anyone played around with Podman Desktop? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] klangcola@reddthat.com 1 points 7 months ago

GUIs can be very good for getting started and learning concepts though. Much more "discoverable" and can allow for quicker iteration.

Then when learning the "proper" command line tools, the process should be easier as one already knows the concepts and terminology, and can concentrate on just the tooling.