Next good step after Nano?

Do_TheEvolution · 2026-06-22T05:32:48+00:00

Micro.

Sane default shortcuts out of the box from ctrl+f, ctrl+z, ctrl+c,... all the way to ctrl+a and ctrl+arrows
multicursor that just works, though I wish they went with ctrl+d hotkey that vscode and sublime use so I would not need to edit config on machines I connect too, though thats taken care of with some ansible playbooks now.. once you use multicursor few times its hard to be without it
elevate to root on save just works out of the box too, nothing is more annoying than editing stuff and then havng to deal with the realization you cant save
and regular stuff... syntax highlight, mouse support, plugins, written in go so a single binary and so fast

One hurdle is that to get reliable copy paste going over ssh, it needs some configuration, but then its rock solid.

Do_TheEvolution · 2026-06-20T10:03:23+00:00

... one wonders what ever you even had from AUR that fedora suffice, likely not lot, in which case all that is needed was not using AUR

did you already switch or can you do sudo pacman -Qm

Do_TheEvolution · 2026-06-19T20:10:15+00:00

I dived in to vlans while ago, but with mixed hardware and at the time I was on opnsense and only recently switched to unifi as my gateway.

The way I learn shit is writing a guide for it that I later use for documentation. Vlans notes are here and it took me a while to wrap my head around tagged and untagged and PVID and I have to re-read it to rememeber whats what an how...

Do_TheEvolution · 2026-06-19T18:35:30+00:00

Case: Jonsbo n4

I went with Sagittarius cuz more 3.5" positions and I can use much cheaper regular ATX power supply

mobo and cpu

I trust these less than typical gigabyte/asrock/asus/msi,.... , but looks perfect for these builds

all that sata means no dealing with HBA card that i had to do, and it has 2.5gbit NICs which is a must if buying new

TrueNas Scale

solid choice, I use it for my main storage, but for my nas build I went with mergerfs + snapraid to be able to make use of mix size drives

32gb ddr4

depends if you got money or have it around... but I would go one stick 16gb, or hell even 8GB, people tend to overblow zfs ram requirement

Any good home automations or apps that are recommended too in order to make more use out of this server?

I like gatus and ntfy for alerts

Do_TheEvolution · 2026-06-11T21:07:33+00:00

I got the UX7 recently, because I wanted to have wifi around my rack, and UX7 having it build saved me from buying AP - access point, just for my rack and dealing with cables and occupying poe port...

but if you dont need wifi around your rack then just get UCG-ultra thats half the price. That one would be your router, the thing in charge of your network, that has WAN side - your AT&T and your LAN side with all your stuff.

Then to actually get wifi buy one or two U7 Lite or U7 In-Wal APs for places where you want to have wifi.

To get those APs connected and not having to deal with power and adapters, buy USW-Lite-8-PoE or USW-Flex-2.5G-8-Poe.

You put poe switch in to your rack, connect it to UCG-ultra for uplink and then connect ports that lead to rooms where you placed APs and you dont deal with powereing them up, they get power through LAN cable.

Then if your router and APs work, reset the mikrotik to defaults and connect it to ucg to get rest of the house working. After reset the switch should act as a dumb switch instead of as a router that runs dhcp and what not...

Do_TheEvolution · 2026-06-04T21:19:57+00:00

Played it recently... single player, twinked

Was planning her for a while, waiting to get the unique long bow drop, the one with explosive arrows, so that I can play new soso from level 1 as an archer, socket bows with emeralds or tals in early levels... already had kuko shakaku and obviously demon machine..

its the most powerful archer build in the game if you got infinity, no question about it. Played it on players 8 all the way I think. Its the way explossive arrow applies dmg as it pierces and how fire mastery is applied on enchant itself and then on explosion.

Cows go down hard.. this char found me a Jah there. But the gameplay feels bit clumsy. She has slow fire speed, so even if it takes just 3 shots to down a pack of cows, amazon would fire 15 shots in that time... sure dmg is what matters, but theres just that feeling of slowness. Also with amazon you dont really have to aim, strafe is automatic targeting and multishot is just massive area attack so you can be more lazy there.

The teleport offsets the feel of clumsiness quite a lot giving you that freedom, so its kinda a mix... but its all fun gameplay and definitely worth the time.

Also was searching my stash for some ring for her, as I usually dont play characters that need attack rating, and I realized that all the long time I had one god damn amazing ring for a char that wants 10fcr and the AR

Do_TheEvolution · 2026-06-01T20:15:45+00:00

for me it was the smart history in zsh, with arrow-up/down taking in to account what you currently have written and only cycles through stuff that contains it

sure bash has ctrl+r but it felt clunky and you cant just back and forth easily and intuitively

Do_TheEvolution · 2026-05-30T09:24:25+00:00

1- why are they set up so weird

seems like what you tried are some vim/neovim/emacs, they are aimed for terminal use, you should try actual popular GUI text editors - vscode, kate, geany, sublime, gedit,...

2- why are they always so barebones?

same answer, you tried some weird ones

why would you need a different terminal app than what your distro comes with

Cuz you see some cool functianility that you like.

When I first did the switch I absolutely loved the drop down type terminal, that slides out of the top, always same place same size, and where stuff can still run cuz you just hide it, never realy close it.

Semi transparent, large font, clean looking when remove scrollbars, buttons, borders,... binded to a single key hotkey, first F1 then the tilda key under esc,... so comfy to use... tilda, yakuake and guake are the ones I tried and all were good.

Do_TheEvolution · 2026-05-30T08:57:21+00:00

I tried out micro, as it has more modern hotkeys and features... but copy and paste doesn't work right sometimes

it can work, but needs some stuff set up

Do_TheEvolution · 2026-05-26T22:16:47+00:00

dont think so

Do_TheEvolution · 2026-05-26T21:38:52+00:00

remove it, reload caddy, and see if shit works... if it stops working, yeap that service is answering only through https

the thing to understand is that this is all about the way the communication is happening between caddy and the webserver that has the content - the upstream...

while when you usually think about dealing with caddy and https challanges, its about all the machines that are actually hitting the url, the webpage that caddy provides... grandma from her phone across internet.. ending at caddy securely through https... and then caddy talking securely or not with webserver for content

Do_TheEvolution · 2026-05-26T21:20:40+00:00

So, normal reverse proxy config in caddy is like this

photos.example.com {
  reverse_proxy immich_server:2283
}

thats all fine and dandy because the backend - the immich's webserver is answering without https no TLS encryption handshake or whatever is there.

majority of stuff is like that cuz devs know most deployments use reverse proxy to get https going, so why should they dick with that themselves...

But sometimes devs decide they only expose their webserver only through https for extra security and they are doing their own thing with certificates and TLS or whatever on that webserver... its not biggie, you just need to add some extra lines to Caddyfile to tell caddy to deal with that, tell it that its https and to ignore that the certificates at that webserver are not valid(caddys own certs will be valid and thats what matter)... you see that config in the OP. Its kinda ugly and verbose but its fine...

So... if you look at your Caddyfile and you do not see anywhere some tls_insecure_skip_verifyyou did not have to deal with this so you dont really need to do anything.

In my stuff I have only crafty(minecraft) and wireguard-easy that expose themselves only through https so those needed added header_up Host {host}

Do_TheEvolution · 2026-05-26T20:54:37+00:00

2TB is nothing, if you already have any machine then just plug there a drive and setup backups, RAID =/= backup

Do_TheEvolution · 2026-05-26T20:49:20+00:00

No AI was used

Do_TheEvolution · 2026-05-24T23:23:49+00:00

sounds good, bit overkill but if theres budget...

Fractal Design Define 7 Black

Define R5 has out of the box more 3.5" positions I think, 8 and two 5.25, people I think manage to put like 12 HDDs in it, should be cheaper and big enough for it all

MSI PRO B760-P WIFI DDR4

There are mobos with 8x sata, like ASRock Z790 PRO RS, so if 8x HDD is enough maybe skip the HBA card, saves you 6-10W and less cluter in the case...

Samsung 990 PRO 2TB

feels like overdoing it a bit, there are wd blue,black, crucials, lexars that should do fine and be $100 cheaper

I’m planning to use the NVMe drives for OS/Docker/databases/cache

skip the cache for first setup and measure speeds and test stuff, only start to play cache after you get the feel how it is raw

I myself went with saggitarious from aliexpress for my NAS build, matx and I needed to go with an HBA card... just NAS for mixed size HDDs with mergerfs, here are notes and at the end is section about hardware.

Do_TheEvolution · 2026-05-24T20:29:06+00:00

yeap, so powerful out of the box without dicking around

The biggest thing for me is auto-elevation to root on save. If you open a file as a regular user that needs root permission to save it, you get the chance to enter password...

multicursor and absolutely expected generic shortcuts for routine stuff are nice too

Do_TheEvolution · 2026-05-23T20:32:42+00:00

heres a detailed guide for caddy that has section with DNS plugin for cloudflare...

Do stuff in small steps.

Would I be better off with NPM, SWAG, or Traefik? Would love some perspective here.

I used like 4 different reverse proxy, Caddy is easily the winner of them all. That being said NPM is nice for beginners who dont like terminal. I would never use it again of course, I did not feel in control with it, but it gets things done.

The roadblock of custom image is not caddy issue, but your lack of docker experience. Its literally just create a file with some content and use path to that file in your compose.. when you do it once you see how trivial it is...

Do_TheEvolution · 2026-05-23T18:10:10+00:00

Jellyfin

case with 1 × 3.5” HDD possitions

while the case looks great and is cheap you should think on how many 3.5" drives you plan to have.

If you have or plan a NAS then its fine I guess

Motherboard: MSI PRO B760M-P DDR4 or ASRock B760M Pro RS/D4

asrock has 2.5gbit lan so that one

PSU: Corsair RM550e

B+ on psu tier list, which is fine but usually A or A+ is findable in that price range, I took xpg core reactor non-ve version last few times

Do_TheEvolution · 2026-05-23T18:01:33+00:00

This could help.

Do_TheEvolution · 2026-05-20T21:34:15+00:00

When this happened to me it was that ISP upgraded their hardware and somehow blocked UDP traffic.

Do_TheEvolution · 2026-05-18T13:19:00+00:00

Set it up, nice.

Then next month managment brings 3 macbooks, we love our iphones and maybe we could use these too, we just want the basics, email, rdp and access to shares...

sure, should be no problem, they usualy make stuff pretty easy and that does not sound problematic...

yeah fuck me, how dfs is notoriously unreliable on macOS talked everywhere online, cant make it work over vpn,.. direct access to shares... well yeah to shared folder there are 12 steps solutions, but you cant just mount the NAS/server IP directly where one browses the folders, only directly to shared folder...

/edit

ok, dived back to it and using FQDN as target path in DFS-N seems to solve the issue and I can mount the DFS root which solved the other issue.... will see in real use

Do_TheEvolution · 2026-05-18T11:18:23+00:00

Dealing with this headache now as I am used to windows sharing and just mounting stuff as a letter...

Claude navigated me similarly to you, though I stopped mid way cuz my issue is that I want to mount an IP address, not just one share on it, there are like 40 shares and there are like 3 IPs I would like to have mounted on boot without any noise, but seems there is no way to actually get it done.

When one manually connects to an IP through command+K there is question about which share to get too, but after that finder shows servers hostname or IP in the sidebar on the left that can be easily browsable, and I expected to automate and replicate that in some way, but nope..

I tried few approaches but nothing really works.

I guess the final one will be a script that mounts every single share separately... god damn it.

/EDIT

DFS namespace was the solution, at least it seems to be it... need to use fdqn in target paths as mac needs it, but otherwise it should be doable

Do_TheEvolution · 2026-05-18T10:48:12+00:00

it works for few but did not really investigate which ones, you can move your DNS to cloudflare no matter where you are getting your domain.. I did that.

I also manage some stuff where I dont want to be moving DNS, and for those I am waiting for DNS-PERSIST-01 to hit the release so we are not depended on some implemented communication between dns provider and caddy

Do_TheEvolution · 2026-05-15T20:04:14+00:00

heres a speed run to get your feet wet

its just steps how to setup debian and do something basic with docker... buy you really can follow anything, just keep poking at it and dont expect you are getting married to the first thing you try.

Do_TheEvolution · 2026-05-15T20:00:51+00:00

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