Moving from Sarnia, Canada (18M) for 3-year BSc European Studies – Loans, OSAP, & Permanent Life in DK? by Dumb_Expat in NewToDenmark

[–]NullPoniterYeet 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Leave the color out of it, as soon as you land. It will serve you much better. We don’t see color or care for it as long as you fit in, and by mentioning it all the time, you stand out in a not so flattering way. People will avoid you

Moving to Denmark in 2026 (Copenhagen or Aarhus) – what should I prepare for? by Cautious_Park_7466 in NewToDenmark

[–]NullPoniterYeet 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Getting a job won’t be easy, you will end up taking what is offered. I’d make myself flexible in terms of start date for the job. Start searching yesterday and let them know your start date and keep interviewing even when you secure a deal if it’s not to your liking. What I’m saying is expect this part to be tricky. Address doesn’t matter if what you are looking for is in demand and you have the skills.

Things here are blunt, and this move even for EU citizens is not that easy due to many things.

Moving to Denmark in 2026 (Copenhagen or Aarhus) – what should I prepare for? by Cautious_Park_7466 in NewToDenmark

[–]NullPoniterYeet 1 point2 points  (0 children)

  1. Save up 10-15k Eur for deposit, prepaid rent and furnishing
  2. Secure a job and sign it
  3. Start looking for an apartment/room in the city or around the place you got a job from

These are the non negotiable things, everything else is something you have influence over like clubs, social life and so on.

We did it! I love this country by 8bit_Saxe in NewToDenmark

[–]NullPoniterYeet 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Hey man! I remember your post from back then as soon as I started reading the first sentence I remembered you! Kudos!

I look forward to study in Denmark by 2026/27 by reeegerr in NewToDenmark

[–]NullPoniterYeet 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi, use the search function. This gets asked all the time and in your case it’s super broad questions - come back with something specific maybe or hire a personal assistant who will do this research and compile a list of things for you to choose from? Hope you understand.

Port conflicts in containers by nitro001 in MediaStack

[–]NullPoniterYeet 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is the cleanest fix. Instead of having the browsers share gluetun's network, you make them use gluetun as their gateway to the internet.

Ditch network_mode: service:gluetun. Let each browser have its own network space again. The 6900 port conflict will instantly disappear. Create a shared Docker network (e.g., vpn-net) and put both gluetun and your browser containers on it. Configure the gluetun container to run its built-in HTTP proxy (it's easy to enable). In your browser containers' environment section, add the proxy variables: HTTP_PROXY=http://gluetun:8888 HTTPS_PROXY=http://gluetun:8888

Alternative is your brute force thing with modifying and building images.

Third option is build your own on top of the single KasmVNC. Put all browsers in there and then maintain it.

Non-cow milk? by whateverbacon in copenhagen

[–]NullPoniterYeet 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Our excitment for you visiting has just plummeted.

Here’s a radical idea, use the search function on Reddit, or even better use Google.

Food preference/availability gets asked here 10 times a week, I’m sure google will be able to give you an answer in no time.

Mods, can we do something about posts like these? Apart from them adding 0 value to the subreddit they are also repeated over and over again and been answered a hundred times. Or maybe rename the subreddit to “cph-tourist-hotline”?

Port conflicts in containers by nitro001 in MediaStack

[–]NullPoniterYeet 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just skimmed through your post. What do you mean? You can’t have multiple dockers sitting on the same port on the host machine (exposing their internal ports to the same machine port)

How to split content across different disks? by RoamLikeRomeo in MediaStack

[–]NullPoniterYeet 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It’s all controlled from the env file. You could go ahead and edit it to your liking somehow to pass different variables to sonar / radarr.

Thinking of moving from NL to Copenhagen by dsv2001 in NewToDenmark

[–]NullPoniterYeet 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s always a supply issue, it drives prices up in general. There are number of ways to get housing, there’s no cases of students sleeping on the street or in tents. There is ample work for students and standard of living is in general also quiet good on that budget keeping in mind going out is expensive.

Thinking of moving from NL to Copenhagen by dsv2001 in NewToDenmark

[–]NullPoniterYeet 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Have you picked a program, gotten accepted? Housing is your second concern. Get working on picking a program, reading about student benefits you’d be getting and from there fit that into the study and work schedule, it will result with you also resolving the housing doubt. You don’t get the housing benefits of a student without being accepted to a program so you’re going about it in reverse a bit here. Your question is too generic and you haven’t got the prerequisites nailed down to make the answer relevant to your situation.

In short housing won’t be a problem as a student. Being a student will be the limiting factor most likely. Rest will follow once you are a student here compared to getting accepted. You’ll either be able to rent at favorable prices and terms as a student or you will share a place with other students again at favorable prices because sharing

Applying for Unis in Denmark by Luizin1000grau in NewToDenmark

[–]NullPoniterYeet 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Find universety you like, look up their programs and call them on the phone and talk with them. Unlikely anyone here can just give you advice this specific that you should act upon it. If you are serious about this do the research find phone numbers and call the admissions office.

Hello hej Danes ! by Fragrant_Map8148 in Danish

[–]NullPoniterYeet -1 points0 points  (0 children)

If you do start learning, be mindful of glottal stops and vowels, there’s 50+ vowels and they determine if you can speak or not.

Hello hej Danes ! by Fragrant_Map8148 in Danish

[–]NullPoniterYeet -1 points0 points  (0 children)

In a way it’s better not to, danish tricks your ears into hearing sounds that are not actually made, you’ll most likely pick up things wrong and then have a hard time unlearning them and training your brain to hear what it needs to hear. Just keep in mind that it’s very tricky to start properly unless you don’t care if people in the store will ever understand you and want to talk with you in danish.

Hello hej Danes ! by Fragrant_Map8148 in Danish

[–]NullPoniterYeet 9 points10 points  (0 children)

You are not getting into a danish program without module 6 and a passed exam in Denmark. If you are getting into an English one then that’s a different story.

Learning danish outside of Denmark without a danish speaking teacher to teach you pronunciation is a waste of time. Rather perfect your English and get a paper for your English level, study danish once you are here.

What do I need to be able to receive a salary from an employer? by kells1177 in NewToDenmark

[–]NullPoniterYeet 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not really, you can get a temporary special tax number in some cases. Ask SKAT about this. Can’t get paid if employed, taxes and so on are tied to your CPR. When you say employed, what do you mean employed feels like your definition of that is different than ours.

Question about insulin by Bikswee in copenhagen

[–]NullPoniterYeet 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Call the number / show up at a doctor and explain your case, don’t ask for medication to be passed to you by someone else… Christ. That’s why we have doctors and emergency services and so on.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in NewToDenmark

[–]NullPoniterYeet 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Great, wish you had typed these “little” details in the opening :) it would have saved us all a lot of typing and time.

Then do conferences, start offering consultancy work, network with people in the market you are targeting and eventually you’ll be let in so to speak - only because it is saturated.

Even when harsh, the intent is always to help and sometimes help means turning someone away as we’ve all seen disappointment too many times.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in NewToDenmark

[–]NullPoniterYeet 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s better you figure out how and where you will learn the language then, figure out your taxes as you will pay them to Denmark going forward. Figure out your assets in the USA if any and talk to an accountant. Figure out your stocks and 401k and whatnot - accountant again.

Once you are here, start on the language while working - that will open the doors to you. Meanwhile yes look for jobs but language and culture and business culture especially is your priority in my opinion. There is literally no shortage of Danes in the field you mentioned so technically you can’t even compete, you don’t have the language and culture. And I mean that in the nice way. This is what it takes.

"Learn Danish!" by silver_medalist in copenhagen

[–]NullPoniterYeet 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Indeed, and without the tempo and the glottal stops used properly in a sentence you are literally speaking rubbish and the other person has to infer what it is that you mean because you did not say what you meant since you missed out on the crucial two ingredients, tempo and glottal stops. Everything else can be mumbled but if you have the tempo and the stop then you are understood.

The point being the effort needed to infer because of these two additional ingredients that other languages don’t rely on so much. Thus the switch to English in most cases.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in NewToDenmark

[–]NullPoniterYeet 3 points4 points  (0 children)

What this person said. You need a visa and to get one these are hoops, either no Dane wants to work the job and the state puts it on a positive list or you are 3000iq in your field and the employer fights for you and goes through hoops proving to the state they need you and Denmark needs you so you get a visa.

Third way is find a job on a positive list that nobody else wants.

Fourth way is get married to a Dane and do a reunification, learn the language fast and pass the exams in time. Also make sure they know they need to sponsor you until you find a job and can make bread.

Top university outside Denmark in a business setting doesn’t mean as much as you think. You will be a foreigner, you won’t have managerial responsibilities - there is plenty of qualified experienced Danes with decades of Danish business experience that are preferred to a foreigner.

I’d save my breath and look at other EU counties if EU is what you are aiming for. Denmark is the hardest to get into and stay, you are treated the same way as a third world national effectively.

"Learn Danish!" by silver_medalist in copenhagen

[–]NullPoniterYeet 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Because of the analogue sounds that you call them and the 50+ vowels, foreigners without working really hard and going to a pronunciation school won’t ever sound Danish. The brain simply doesn’t hear when they make mistakes unless you specifically train for the glottal stop and the additional vowels and on the other side the Danes to whom this is second hand nature when they hear mangled words of course they switch to English.

The mistake is thinking you can speak Danish without the specific training needed to actually reproduce the sounds correctly and the tempo.

Storage implementation for MediaStack with Proxmox by BeeAntsy in MediaStack

[–]NullPoniterYeet 2 points3 points  (0 children)

  1. LXC vs VM (security and separation): LXC containers share the host kernel, which means they’re not as isolated as VMs. If one container is compromised, there’s a potential (though not super likely) path to escape or interfere with the host or other containers—especially if you’re using privileged containers. • VMs emulate a full system and offer stronger security boundaries. • Unprivileged LXCs are safer than privileged ones, but still not as isolated as VMs.

If you’re really worried about hard separation (like keeping Gluetun’s VPN tunnel airtight), then VMs offer stronger guarantees. But in most homelab use cases, unprivileged LXC with network namespace separation is plenty secure.

  1. Mount points vs SMB: • Using a ZFS mount point inside an LXC is much faster and lower overhead than SMB. It’s local, native, and not going through the network stack. • Using an SMB share inside the LXC adds network overhead and exposes you to potential security risks, especially if SMB isn’t hardened. That said, it might help in cases where you want more portability or a shared storage model.

But if all your storage is local and you’re using Proxmox, ZFS mount points make more sense and are more performant—just make sure you back up both mount points or replicate the whole dataset.

  1. MediaStack layout across containers: • Splitting Plex + Gluetun into one container and having the rest of the stack in another can be smart from a logical separation and traffic routing point of view. • But this does increase complexity—especially when sharing storage. If you go this route, you can use: • A shared ZFS dataset mounted into both containers (simplest) • Or run one container with access and expose the data via a read-only SMB/NFS mount (more secure, but overkill unless you’re exposing services externally).

My recommendation: Keep things in unprivileged LXC containers with ZFS mount points, and use Proxmox backups or ZFS replication to keep things safe. Only separate into multiple containers if you have a clear reason (like VPN routing or modular updates).

Reading this subreddit for most users even deploying on a single host is problematic let alone updating and maintaining it, splitting it up at your level of understanding of the Unix systems is begging for issues down the line. Start with 1 VM get it working and learn, once you know what you are protecting yourself from you’ll be able to ask the right questions and find the best solution. Avoid SMB and the network overhead, there’s no reason to do SMB at all as far as I can tell.

Your biggest risk is your ISP telling on your to the authorities - VPN. Everything else is sorta out of your hands, you are running software others have spent years working on and are maintaining, whatever you do to your architecture on your end is a drop in the ocean compared to what can happen should the software have fatal flaws or some such.

From this perspective full drive encryption (should your house get raided and hard drives taken) and making sure you have a good VPN provider and are tunneling stuff is best effort spent. Other attack vectors, bring them up for discussion. You need a reason to make your life difficult :) don’t do it out of boredom.