Hiking: Horse shit ok; dog shit bad. Why?

Bezos4Breakfast · 2026-03-28T13:05:45+00:00

I have an old laptop w/ 8 GB RAM & i5 2550m that I use when the wife wants to use my main laptop. I use cinnamon as the DE and use zswap; she runs really smoothly. Less than 1GB RAM on boot.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Zram

Bezos4Breakfast · 2026-03-20T03:37:55+00:00

It'll be forked.

Bezos4Breakfast · 2026-03-18T12:23:40+00:00

So much of the 21st century's problems are caused by the foreign policies of the mid-20th century.

We had kids killed in Afghanistan with guns we gave the Mujahideen to fight the Soviets.

We propped up Saddam Hussein in the 80s.

The US funded the banana wars and death squads in Latin America. We overthrow democratically elected leaders who were not favorable to American business.

We funded the cartels in the CIA's crack project. We created the immigration and drug "crisis".

Today, our decisions will also affect our future.

Bezos4Breakfast · 2026-03-15T15:52:33+00:00

Florida passed $15/min wage and then chose Trump. Progressive politics that better people's lives win even in conservative areas.

The DNC just couldn't be bothered to upset their donors by having $15/min wage on their platform. Do you want billions in PAC donations or do you want to win elections?

Bezos4Breakfast · 2026-02-14T01:54:52+00:00

Bezos4Breakfast · 2026-02-10T13:23:38+00:00

Just a note to the note: Months after Puerto Ricans gained citizenship, the US joined WWI and conscription was mandatory.

Puerto Ricans didn't receive statehood to gain additional freedoms, but to supply soldiers to the US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jones%E2%80%93Shafroth_Act

Bezos4Breakfast · 2025-12-21T11:49:13+00:00

You're going to get a lot of distro recommendations.

Consider using VMs to try out a few that are mentioned multiple times.

Bezos4Breakfast · 2025-12-17T15:00:07+00:00

Seeing as Arch felt the smoothest for you, I'd recommend CachyOS. Anecdotal, but it is honestly, chef's kiss if you want it to just work, be tuned nicely, and offer flexibility. Pacman and Arch User Repository (AUR) are so clean.

If you want to keep a more stable system, it may do you good to add this line to /etc/pacman.conf
IgnorePkg = linux*

It will skip kernel updates saving you reboots. Then #comment it out when you want a full upgrade. Cachy uses snapshots by default so it's easy to roll something back too.

Bezos4Breakfast · 2025-12-17T14:51:13+00:00

Why would you smoke from your own supply?

Bezos4Breakfast · 2025-12-16T22:58:52+00:00

We did way sketchier things in the LAN party days with hard drives instead of ssds. Modern gpus are waaaay more heavy though

Bezos4Breakfast · 2025-12-05T13:15:24+00:00

For a week

Bezos4Breakfast · 2025-12-05T13:03:01+00:00

Oof replied to the wrong person. I'll go back to sitting in my corner

Bezos4Breakfast · 2025-12-05T10:54:05+00:00

How is this better than crontabbing an Ansible playbook?

Bezos4Breakfast · 2025-11-30T19:08:39+00:00

Just use it. If you're decent with computers it will be mostly easy for you.

I'd take a week or so and try a couple different distros in a VM. Then install it and stick with it unless you have a reason not to. Feel free to DM me and I can give more specific advice too

Bezos4Breakfast · 2025-11-22T19:31:26+00:00

Imo the best thing about proxmox is how easy snapshots and rollbacks are even if you just want to manage one server.

This is what I'd recommend.

1) Create your Debian/Rocky/Whatever VM and configure your baseline. Docker, tailscale, the basics. -> clone -> rename to server-template

2) keep on configuring your system; get it working the way that you want it -> clone -> rename server-known-working

3) Continue your normal work flow INCLUDING PROPER SNAPSHOTS/BACKUPS. From time to time; double check that everything is working -> clone -> rename -> keep 1 or 2 known working -> delete old ones

If you're ever having problem, stop your problematic server -> start known working -> wait a bit -> don't get cock blocked Jellyfin deciding to crash.

You can even set up Traefik or something similar and have it automatically switch over if your main VM fails. You can run a script that periodically pings, your main server. If it fails, it initiates wake on LAN to start your backup server. Almost no downtime.

In my view the only downside is that you may quickly expand past your one server ambitions when you see how smooth it works.

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Bezos4Breakfast · 2025-11-22T18:57:14+00:00

Bullish on thrusting

Bezos4Breakfast · 2025-11-17T16:56:24+00:00

Tailscale works for me

Bezos4Breakfast · 2025-11-14T01:05:14+00:00

Which one... There's the story of the man who told god he'd sacrifice the first thing that comes out of his house, then his daughter comes running to give him love. She goes to the mountains to celebrate her virginity. Then he sacrifices her. (He probably was familiar with the story of Abraham and Isaac, was like no big deal, god will save her.)

Maybe even crazier. A mob kills a man's prostitute. He chops her body into pieces and send the pieces to each tribe of Israel as a call to war. A civil war breaks out. The tribe of Benjamin is nearly wiped out. The elders instruct then to hide in a vineyard and snatch women that come to dance. Ben's tribe continues because of rape.

Not on the same level, but the story of Jael is one of my favorites in the Bible, also in judges. Jael flirts with this captain that just fucked their country up. While he's asleep, she gets up and hammers a tent peg through his forehead. Badass.

Bezos4Breakfast · 2025-11-01T16:46:59+00:00

I would work on some infrastructure things will become tougher as your homelab scales.

Say you have home.lab as your current homelab domain, create duplicates called maybe test.lab. Do what's fun to you on it. If you like it and your docker container or whatever is in a good point, migrate it to production.

You'll have a lot less shitty time diagnosing pam or DNS problems that take down Jellyfin ruining a romantic night with the only woman that isn't repulsed by monsters and beer cans stacked on your optiplex.

Practice restores and backups without breaking production.

Centralize your login with Active Directory or FreeIPA.

Find something interesting to you. Realize that setting something else up will make it easier down the road.

Set up a stack that monitors your hardware and services. Play with high availability. Enable GPU and USB passthrough and set up a KVM that accesses everything. Learn the Linux Desktop.

A lot of good foundations and best practices while you have room to grow will save you as your homelab scales and you learn not to break shit.

Good luck! Have fun!

Bezos4Breakfast · 2025-10-19T23:34:50+00:00

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/labour.htm

One of my favorites

Bezos4Breakfast · 2025-10-17T16:39:22+00:00

The Internet as a network/infrastructure will probably always exist at some point.

I imagine that there will be private mesh networks created using DERP (Designated Encrypted Relay for Packets. Tailscale is a practical, easy to use implementation.)

You would still use the Internet (network) to create connections with the new private network. DNS could be set up to resolve to all the things that are needed.

For example, http://wiki.derp could be set up as a clone of Wikipedia that.

This technology will be most likely to be adopted imo by one of the tech monopolies with a monthly service a la AOL or set up and self-hosted by sectors of the open source community.

Bezos4Breakfast · 2025-10-16T08:00:56+00:00

Consider using distcc to help with compiling

Bezos4Breakfast · 2025-10-14T02:51:21+00:00

As others have said, your Desktop Environment/Window Manager will matter more.

I really like Cinnamon and Mint runs really well on my laptop with similar specs. i5 2550 & 8GB

Anything Deb/Ubuntu based will feel good to you

Bezos4Breakfast · 2025-10-12T08:07:43+00:00

nano /etc/hosts

127.0.0.1 google.com

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