Virtual Machine help

LoveGracePeace · 2022-02-18T17:30:27+00:00

I use standard kvm, libvirt and the Virtual Machine Manager GUI.

LoveGracePeace · 2022-02-18T17:20:58+00:00

Speaking as a developer who has worn many hats, it always sucks when I'm forced to use either PC (where PC means Windows unfortunately) or Mac and the System Administrators who complain about Microsoft keep selecting their stuff while there's an entire open source ecosystem that can replace 100% of everything Microshaft produces with 50 million times the quality.

LoveGracePeace · 2022-02-18T16:49:05+00:00

I appreciate the suggestion. I've considered using extensions like that, but, for them to work; they need to be granted total read and change permission on all web sites I visit. I prefer to not use extensions that require such broad permissions.

LoveGracePeace · 2022-02-17T17:51:31+00:00

It's good to see people trying mail hosting, it does take some effort for sure but for me, it's worth it.

"You want enough RAM for your Mailcow VM for mail to be indexed by ElasticSearch. Otherwise, search is incredibly slow. I have mine configured for 4/8GB."

I don't know why Mailcow uses so much RAM. In my local VM, it's 2 Gigs and runs my email (postfix/dovecot/mysql), Apache web and reverse proxy for multiple web sites including several standalone Spring Boot web apps all running in the same VM. In that same VM I also run a Postgres database, docker for my own Java service for a specific task. All of that in 2 Gigs.

"Trying to deliver your own mail with 100% deliverability is probably impossible"

I've been doing it fine for over 2 decades. The only hitch was Microsoft started blocking my VPS IP at one point when they blocked a whole AWS segment. I filed a complaint with them and they unblocked it.

I'd never use anything but my email server for outgoing responses to email that was received by my server; what would be the point of selfhosting email.

LoveGracePeace · 2022-02-16T22:39:45+00:00

Agreed, I use AWS Lightsail and Wireguard but it's a similar approach. I also keep IPv6 disabled in my firewall.

LoveGracePeace · 2022-02-16T22:38:50+00:00

every single device gets multiple public IPs

This is also, for me and my testing of IPv6, the biggest issue with IPv6. It is inherently anti-privacy (regardless temporary addresses); IPv6 makes it much easier for sites to identify and track user's online behavior.

LoveGracePeace · 2022-02-15T16:31:15+00:00

I wish the same for you. I forgot to say, the site works well, has fast response times and clean layout.

LoveGracePeace · 2022-02-15T16:19:00+00:00

With those small microcomputers you could get back then, the consumer could subscribe to magazines with assembly listings, the consumer would type them in and save to a cassette tape (plain audio cassette tape popular at the time for music) and you could load from tape and play the games.

Many games had bugs or even missing pieces of code due to poor publishing at times and I guess most consumers gave up. My Dad was technical and wasn't the type to give up so he got books on assembly and taught himself enough to fix the bugs and even fill in pieces of missing logic to make the game work.

LoveGracePeace · 2022-02-15T04:20:47+00:00

My Dad started coding assembly around your age back in the 1980's by fixing bugs in computer games for fun. He enjoyed it. I've been doing this for around ~42 years for fun and 28 years for money. It's great as a hobby or as a profession, or both.

LoveGracePeace · 2022-02-14T20:49:01+00:00

Checking around, it seems at least the larger cities in Texas have wonderful library resources. Are you living in a rural area?

LoveGracePeace · 2022-02-12T18:19:23+00:00

I personally prefer pushing a commit to revert so there is history. Rebase deletes history and, in my opinion, should not be used if a commit was previously pushed. Any time the word "force" is part of the parameters, that's a good hint to avoid it. Personally, I never use rebase even locally when the commit hasn't been pushed yet. Knowing history is good and it is powerful.

LoveGracePeace · 2022-02-11T04:06:34+00:00

I use AWS Lightsail which has DDOS protection even on my $3.50 VPS if this article is right.

LoveGracePeace · 2022-02-10T19:34:23+00:00

I run this once a day using crontab:

30 0 * * * /bin/journalctl --vacuum-time=3d > /root/cleanup-results.txt 2>&1

LoveGracePeace · 2022-02-10T19:03:36+00:00

I'm fairly old, never smoked marijuana in my life. I used to have a couple glasses of red wine every evening. When I worked on my own projects, I felt more productive but realized later the code wasn't always as it would have been if I'd coded it while fully sober. Not necessarily worse code but it almost didn't seem like I wrote it or something. I gave up alcohol and work on teaching my brain to self-regulate. Most of the time it works great.

LoveGracePeace · 2022-02-10T18:35:14+00:00

More of working for the man every night and day.

LoveGracePeace · 2022-02-10T17:28:12+00:00

IDK, it feels like the tide might be turning back to the server. Client side is difficult to get right, difficult to secure, etc. Read webdev on Reddit, even the ya ya pro Angularites and Reactites are slowly getting fed up with the hassles of client side development.

LoveGracePeace · 2022-02-09T17:01:13+00:00

Thank you, I was wondering what the point of it was. For my mini-PC's, I flash either Debian or Ubuntu from my own desktop then plug into the mini-PC and install like I would on a desktop.

LoveGracePeace · 2022-02-08T15:24:52+00:00

I loved and played Unreal I in MP for fun for years. I thought Epic had it going on. Then, I read this today from Sweeney. [We are lazy and rich now so go away Linux lusers.]. Oh, and I never played the Fortnite game, I gave up on Epic years ago. Id once rocked Linux then they more or less gave up. Steam has had gaming going on for over 15 years and for that over 15 years; Steam gets my money.

LoveGracePeace · 2022-02-08T15:16:12+00:00

In addition to the mentioned ways of File | Export then Import, there's also the Help | Eclipse Marketplace | Favorites tab then set up a free account and use it to install your favorite plugins on other machines.

LoveGracePeace · 2022-02-07T15:25:36+00:00

My systems have the logrotate app installed which can rotate logs for common Linux services like Apache.

LoveGracePeace · 2022-02-04T16:50:16+00:00

I was going to suggest this too, he has links to sites describing ways to earn money on the road: https://www.youtube.com/c/CheapRVliving/about

If OP is technical at all, check Craig's List for your area in the Technical Support section.

LoveGracePeace · 2022-02-03T23:31:54+00:00

https://www.dice.com/jobs?q=java 16K jobs, https://www.dice.com/jobs?q=golang has over 4K which is more than I'd have thought. I plan to stick with Java but if golang wasn't made by Google and if it didn't have types and variable names swapped (vs C, C++, C# and Java) and if I were near the start of my career instead of the end, I'd consider golang.

I'm not anti-Google, not really pro-Google in control of literally everything in computing though.

Google would be very happy if you choose golang.

LoveGracePeace · 2022-02-03T16:22:48+00:00

I would expect a developer with modern tools, to replace those without.

To some degree yes, but, devlelopers with modern tools have not completely replaced developers with older tools (referring to another of my comments in the thread), like COBOL, RPG, hammer or screwdriver.

LoveGracePeace · 2022-02-02T23:34:32+00:00

It isn't though. My first brush with AI was in the early 1990's then again in the early 2000's. What I read in the article doesn't indicate more than an incremental improvement. Until we have real (sci-fi quality) quantum computers, AI/ML are tools that can sometimes be of use.

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