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  • How to propperly Ansible and selfhost without burning out?

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  • Nix is fun when you're ready for it, but the only Systems noobs that should consider it are people who are already programmers in some other milieu, because Nix is specifically for people who think like programmers. This is not a bad thing, if you have learned to think that way it's a joy on many levels, but at this point in time, unless this is 100% hobby, it's not the best use of your time.

  • How to propperly Ansible and selfhost without burning out?

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  • It's great to give your brain daily workouts on the ins and outs of systems, but if you're feeling burnt out, you're doing that too much, probably, and my guess is, it's coming in at moments when you were trying to solve some other, more interesting/relevant problem.

    It comes down to whether you're trying to self-host, or trying to learn Linux at a level where you could get a job doing it. Often it's a bit of both, so don't feel like you need to make that decision right now.

    But my advice: whatever you're hosting, use their recommended easy way to host it. In most cases, this means running a container. In most cases, Docker. If you can wrap your head around using docker compose files, your practical problems are reduced by an insane amount, and idiocy at the developer level becomes your only concern. For instance, I used to run Tandoor, but the dev pushed changes into their "stable" docker container that failed to properly migrate my data, and the whole thing cacked. But that wasn't a system problem on my end, it was a case of a dev who was more interested in playing around with data than with providing a stable app.

    So, if you take this approach, which I absolutely do recommend, the one thing you need to be sure of is that you have a good backup strategy, and that you backup before you do any pulls of new images. Docker allows you to select old versions so if you don't like changes that get pushed on something, likely you can just rebuild the old version, but the changes might mess with your database migrations, so you need those backups. Other than that, you cannot go wrong with Docker, if you just want the damn thing to work, rather than get daily aggravating lessons in esoteric systems problems which are above your paygrade.

  • Is there a drug that can give an autist a "normie experience"?

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  • I figured my shit out by reading John Elder Robison, and followed him in medias for a while. Some time back, 5-10 years, he tried out a thing where they stimulate an area of your brain with (IIRC) electromagnetism, and he talked about it the way some people talk about being born again (the Jesus kind of born again). "I once was blind but now I see!"

    I'm sure a google will turn up how that's going, it was just a study or something that he got to participate in at the time I think.

  • Please help me under stand my spouse's gift and their hurt

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  • Just for the record, I'm going insane wondering what the thing is.

  • Self hosting Sunday! What's up, selfhosters?

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  • Bad week for me. Tandoor had become the home of quite a lot of recipes, and well, I'm never gonna just pull a docker container again without a backup, cause I did a pull and the bastard stopped working.

    So I setup Django and got started doing my own recipe server cause I was never very enthused about Tandoor, too much netflix-like Presentation bullshit and did not allow for the very simple thing I wanted, which was, a compact list of my recipes by alphabet that I can swiftly click on the one I want.

    I also need to get my Python chops back cause I think there will be jobs again, soon enough.

    Meanwhile, anyone got any suggestions of a better recipe app? Needs to run as a Linux server, that's about it. I can go Tailscale if it has no security. If I get mine to something usable I'll make it available.

  • Why many men struggle to maintain deep male friendships later in life

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  • I made a lot of terrible choices in terms of friends. Not exclusively terrible ones, I have several high quality men that I still exchange emails with at least a few times per year, and we talk a lot about lunches and stuff that don't happen... but they're quality men, and we are still friends.

    Along with them, two or three times as many dudes who I should've just left where I found em, and who eventually forced me to do so, usually by treating someone else rather than me like shit.

    Some others that I know I should have tried harder to move acquaintance into the friendship category.

  • China’s top chipmaker may be in hot water as US lawmakers call for further sanctions after Huawei ‘breakthrough’

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  • The fiction of the last 30 years is revealed to those with eyes to see.

    All this time the capital class and their lackeys have been saying "Russia is a our superfriend now and China wants to be democratic so we are helping them by using their slave labour and don't you feel guilty for questioning our supremely good intentions here!"

    And meanwhile it's the same old global power struggle, but you can make SO MUCH using slave labour, it was just too tempting to send every bit of our labour - even our high tech - over to their factories.

  • It's Hard to Stay Motivated

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  • I will be one of many saying this: if you want to self-host you need to learn Linux. It can be done, but this is not like taking a pottery class and you don't really get to show anyone, the only people who will understand are people who are also able to do what you do. It's rewarding on many levels, but pleasure and sociality are not among those rewards. :>

  • Parents Upset Over New Nintendo Console - Super Nintendo - Circa 1991

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  • When the first NES came out I was over there with my C64 and my shoebox full of disks with games I hadn't tried yet like, lol suckers.

    I wish I had seen this, there might have been a moment when we could've shifted some parental money from Nintendo to Commodore with the right campaign, and kept the Amiga going...

  • I've noticed that lemmy as a whole is much more leftist than reddit (outside of political servers of course)

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  • The thing about that is, if they're ignorant, their kids will be ignorant too. And what that adds up to is just the same thing we've got: a large group of people who are subject to whatever momentary persuasion happens to reach them on any given day, and a political/ruling class that can work with that just fine, so they are taking steps to hamper education sufficiently that this can endure for an indeterminate amount of time before we all burn.

    What those large populations do react to, is missing a meal or three. And so far, these aristocrats seem to understand that whatever else they try to pull, they must always service the fundamentals: bread and circuses.

    See you at the coliseum.