I thought about Nix, it is indeed cool to declaratively install stuff and it would indeed be very helpful to set system settings all from one file so that you control everything there, but I don't think that's what I need, I think I'd need a more focused desktop environment maybe?
Kiosk environments could be a solution, because once the UI is limited, you can install software in any way you like and from any distro really, I think the focus is to keep it minimal under the hoods and very simple on the surface!
How is the user experience compared to matrix? Is it easy to gateway towards matrix or other services? Can I easily join matrix or other communities servers?
I see a lot of people are now using matrix but not so many xmpp, but yeah it hoggs resources on my server too. Also I feel like it's still pretty buggy..
Exactly! I don't see why we have to rely on the old internet infrastructure for a completely differently conceived type of distributing content!
There's stuff like ipfs, and I'm sure there are many ways to make self hosting easier..
We normalize everyone has a modem/router/access point at home: we should normalize everyone having his own server hosted, bitcoin node, ipfs node etc etc..
And your right, these services have to be super easy to deploy.. I think containerization might be helping with this.. Think about docker or Nixos.. Make a nice GUI and simplify docker even more and you get packages that can run on any distro in any OS, that even a complete noob could spin up! Maybe paired with repos that host most of the self hostable stuff.
But yeah I think the whole structure might be have to be rethought, from the way we host to the way we can connect to each other.. We got to give everyone the possibility to decide which web they want to be part of, and federation definitely allows this!
I don't fucking care of having an even slimmer addictive machine in my pockets. Give me a phone that weights 400g but that has a fucking replaceable battery (that lasts 2/3 days), a good OS, doesn't track me and I can set up as I want.
That's really it. If your purpose is just self hosting learning bash could also be helpful. And yeah Linux would be a great choice.
But mostly, if you want to self host an instance of Nextcloud correctly and without having to deal with too many unexpected things, you have to read the documentation and do not rush.
Most self hosted stuff isn't "install and use", because you'll be your own server manager, and everything requires attention to be managed.
Docker or not docker you will have to deal with configuration, settings, requirements and updates.
So understanding how to read the docs/search and open github issues and taking time to read everything would be the most important skill for me.
Also writing down what you are doing would indeed be helpful too, in order not to lose track of what you're doing on your server. (Check out Ansible).
Most apps out there simply need you to know about permissions, systemctl services and package managers.
Try to always find a specific package for your distro for everything you install (eg. .deb for Debian), and have strategies when this is not possible (aka using a Python venv when installing python programs).
Absolutely Debian stable, the first thing i wanted in Linux was stability, coming from windows you want something that "just works" and I think Debian stable + Gnome is the perfect choice for this!
I'm not sure how to get the N from session history, nor how to check my session history..
but this might be some relevant output I've found with journalctl -k -b
Nov 21 16:08:18 rpi kernel: usb 2-2.1-port2: cannot reset (err = -110)
Nov 21 16:08:19 rpi kernel: usb 2-2.1-port2: cannot reset (err = -110)
Nov 21 16:08:19 rpi kernel: usb 2-2.1-port2: Cannot enable. Maybe the USB cable is bad?
Nov 21 16:41:57 rpi kernel: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 2466347032 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x3000 phys_seg 1 prio class 2
Nov 21 16:41:57 rpi kernel: EXT4-fs warning (device sdb1): ext4_dx_find_entry:1796: inode #75497968: lblock 42: comm apache2: error -5 reading directory block
Nov 21 16:41:57 rpi kernel: EXT4-fs error (device sdb1): ext4_journal_check_start:83: comm apache2: Detected aborted journal
Nov 21 16:41:57 rpi kernel: Buffer I/O error on dev sdb1, logical block 0, lost sync page write
Nov 21 16:41:57 rpi kernel: EXT4-fs (sdb1): I/O error while writing superblock
Nov 21 16:41:57 rpi kernel: EXT4-fs (sdb1): Remounting filesystem read-only
The output is from yesterday, when the device stopped working correctly.
I'm not familiar with linux kernel, but I can see there is definitely something wrong...
The HDD (old) is attached to a USB hub (new), I tried switching port of the hub but the same issue happened again, if I try to mount it with sudo mount /mnt/2tb, it says it is already mounted:
mount: /mnt/2tb: /dev/sdb1 already mounted on /mnt/2tb.
dmesg(1) may have more information after failed mount system call.
sudo dmesg | grep sdb gives back:
[147776.801028] I/O error, dev sdb, sector 77904 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x3000 phys_seg 1 prio class 2
[147776.815452] EXT4-fs warning (device sdb1): htree_dirblock_to_tree:1083: inode #2: lblock 0: comm ls: error -5 reading directory block
[147796.731734] sdb1: Can't mount, would change RO state
It's the path of many of us here, now you will hate linux if you come from windows, give it a couple of months and you'll ask yourself how the fuck you could be on windows till now.
I will add another amazing alternative i've found, currently working great: https://www.distractionfreeapps.com/
This was exactly what i was looking for.
The RSS feature is amazing, i wanted to do something like that with RSS Bridge, but it looks like both Instagram and Facebook are doing their best to block exactly these kind of things, so it works half of the times and it needs to be fixed quite often, i think now it doesn't work very well either... Also it is very complicated to be set up if you don't know a bit of PHP. Of course i'm willing to learn but all this blocking that projects like this (see Barinsta or Bibliogram) get is really discouraging. I think Meta content is probably one of the worst to scrape.
Regarding Proxygram: for now it works, i'm using a public istance to grab some RSS feeds, if it proves to be reliable i will be happy to host my own istance as well, if possible :)
It's sometimes slow to grab data (i guess because sessions get easily blocked/limited, getting error 500) but not really a problem as i just want to see new events every couple of days, one issue tho is that the RSS doesn't show all the posts (only showing the last three of them), which can be annoying as you may lose something if you don't see it and save it.
EDIT: It actually does get other posts as well, just reaaally slowly, meaning that if you follow really large accounts in a week or so you can find your feed full of older posts marked as unread.
Anyway thanks to whoever is making the hard job of building/owning an instagram scraper, I really know it can be tough.
I thought about Nix, it is indeed cool to declaratively install stuff and it would indeed be very helpful to set system settings all from one file so that you control everything there, but I don't think that's what I need, I think I'd need a more focused desktop environment maybe?
Kiosk environments could be a solution, because once the UI is limited, you can install software in any way you like and from any distro really, I think the focus is to keep it minimal under the hoods and very simple on the surface!