I started robotics at 12, started linux aroumd the same time but had to use windows for the program used for robotics competitions,

Stopped attending them at 14 so started using arch right after that and used it for 6 years.

After that used gentoo for a year at 20, and now I’m 21 using nixos.

I also started selfhosting with linix vps-s at around the age of 18, with debian. And last week started to move all my server to nixos with nixos-anywhere and deploying the server with deploy-rs.

Might make a blogpost on my selfhosting journey and on how I use nixos for selfhosting. Haven’t made a post since the start of the year.

Same with me, just make it 6 years ago ( kept updating mal just in case anilist wen’t down ).

God I’m old

Had none, didn’t own a device capable of gaming until I was 14/15 and even then didn’t start playing games till I was 17/18.

I’m 21 ( soon 22 ) now.

Like almost all my friends? It’s the reason we are friends.

My average dream as linux user of 8 years.

While I’m 5’9 (176cm) with size 12 ( man 45 europe ) shoes since I was 15/16 ( same height and foot size since that age )

Butchering, I live on a farm and butcher sheep/lamb and chicken is second nature to me ( started when I was 12 )

Me who still has a 512gb ssd that is always atleast 150gb free.

Which you still need to specifically specify. By default everything still has to be compiled.

Only monad I know is xmonad. My favourite x11 window manager.

I remeber using plasma on a weak 2016 160 usd laptop with no issue in 2018, I can only imagine how much better is now

From what I know it’s the people who are using asahi linux in general and it’s drivers.

Heard he got sent death threats.

Personally didn’t like the hollywood movie at all, but loved both the manga and novel ( even own the manga physically ).

To not be bored.

You could easilly just make a bash script for that

I personally selfhost a navidrome server for my music all flac so my library is about 20+gb rn ( and still continues to grow ). Struggling to find decent subsonic compatible player for linux so will check if deadbeef supports it.

For phone I use symfonium ( not open source neither free but the best for subsonic ).

Neovim ( not heavilly customized, mostly just lsp+trisitter and mini.nvim for a lot of other stuff ) and tmux ( which is also barelly customized + sesh for sessiond management. Also have it start automatically whem opening my terminal ).

Started using neovim right away when switching to linux back in 2018, started using tmux only last year and it’s a godsend for even just regular terminal work not just with neovim.

I also reccomend for anybody who tries to learn neovim to learn touch typing and get to atleast 60wpm, it’s a big difference.

I’m using the default list alongside Firehol BotScout list and Firehol cybercrime tracker list set to ban.

Also using the Firehol cruzit.com list set to do captcha, just in case it’s not actually a bot.

I’m also using the cs-firewall-bouncer and a custom bouncer that’s shown on crowdsecs tutorials to detect privilege escalation for if anybody actually manages to get inside.

Alongside that I’m using a lot of scenario collection’s for specific software I’m using like nextcloud, grafana, ssh, … which helps a lot with attacks directly done on a service and not just general scraping or both path traversing.

All free and have been using it for a year, only complaint I have is that I had to make a cronjob to restart the crowdsec service every day because it would stop working after a couple days because of the amount of requests it has to process.

And the comminity blocklists are updated when more than a couple ( I think the number is something like 10-50 ) instances of crowdsec block an ip in some fast timeframe.

The ai blocklist just adds IP when even one instance finds an AI trying to scrape right from the useragent.

So even if the community blocklist has fewer ai ip’s, it does eventually include them.

Try crowdsec.

You can set it up with list’s that are updated frequetly and have it look at caddy proxy logs and then it can easilly block ai/bot like traffic.

I have it blocking over 100k ip’s at this moment.

https://www.crowdsec.net/