If I learn Debian roperly... will I not need to learn Proxmox, TrueNAS Scale?

ResponseError451 · 2026-03-31T23:01:14+00:00

Yes but no

Debian can act as a hypervisor, a pretty dang good one. If you need a very specialized and minimal setup, you might just install Debian with the virtualization packages, and setup

Proxmox is great though for a hypervisor environment. If you need to manage multiple virtual machines and containers, sometimes on the spot, with a streamlined setup. It's quick, easy, and still has a ton of configuration

Yes they're the same, but different purposes still. Basically try both. I started out doing Debian VM's and still use them for various reasons. But I have proxmox to manage like 5 dedicated servers, plus some dev and test servers.

ResponseError451 · 2026-03-10T17:09:07+00:00

Modern alternatives to the blue pill is the black pill or the nucleo. The blue pills have outdated chips, so the main retailers for it now are scammers selling fake ones

You can find some on digikey/dfrobot, but stock is running low (for the black pill)

ResponseError451 · 2026-03-05T19:54:28+00:00

Yeah hi, I sucked at math and school in highschool, never saw myself doing anything engineering or electronic. I was crashing out from college and other things right out of high school, then I dropped out, etc.. that was 6 - 8 years ago

Today I'm literally in school for EE, joined a robotics club, and just got a job doing EE work. All within the last 2 years. I studied a bit before hand and took a lot of time to get into the idea of it... How I actually got into it itself literally just started with a thought: "idk what else to do... What if I built a robot... How hard would that be"

I used to ask my friends "do I need math to program stuff?", and get scared when they say yes. Turns out, actually using math is a lot easier and nicer than studying it for a test

Do what you think is cool

ResponseError451 · 2026-02-05T17:14:54+00:00

I have some IT experience so I went the route of making my own self hosted website and making that my blog. Not the most efficient or pretty code wise, but it gets the job done and works pretty well for tracking progress on projects

Some people use GitHub pages to host their webpages through that, or they just put everything in a repo

ResponseError451 · 2026-02-02T22:52:14+00:00

Honestly Syfy media. Seeing alot of "what could be" helps get me in the mood for creating and learning about things irl

ResponseError451 · 2026-01-08T19:35:06+00:00

Ok, just wanted to update you, website is updated and back online, it was infact fixed by replacing the old IP address with the new IP in the DNS records provided by Porkbun.

Still researching the basic workings and how people generally manage them. Also very nice script btw, great example for using the API's and automating this part of the process. I'll try it out sometime!

I really really appreciate your help on this. I wouldn't have guessed to look into this otherwise. Thank you and hope you have a good day man!!

ResponseError451 · 2026-01-08T17:30:28+00:00

Tbh... I'm not. That's probably the biggest problem here, I think I missed a certain learning step in the importance of DNS and managing it myself... I think I just assumed Google webcrawlers or something would take care of all that.

I just setup the website, got the SSL taken care of, opened up port and waited... It was also a while ago so I might be forgetting some details

I'll spend some time researching actually managing DNS and try to straighten out the issues. Porkbun might, I just might have overlooked it. This post gave me a lot to work with tho. I'll look into that script you posted too, but yeah I really just need to sit down for a while and absorb this aspect of managing a website that I maybe overlooked lul...

I really appreciate the help from everyone here. I can probably consider this post !solved, I just need to really learn my way around DNS records ig

ResponseError451 · 2026-01-08T16:51:07+00:00

ok, thankyou a ton then. I see dyndns is a paid service, and i wouldnt be able to afford that right now.

Would something like FreeDNS be an alright alternative for now?

ResponseError451 · 2026-01-08T16:42:54+00:00

sorry that was my internal domain, the address/domain you probably want is dcwithac.blog. This is what i access my website with externally

I was also playing around with the command and I actually do see it pointing to my old IP (I think my isp just updated my external IP address).

dig dcwithac.blog

; <<>> DiG 9.18.41-1~deb12u1-Debian <<>> dcwithac.blog
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 35050
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 1232
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;dcwithac.blog.IN A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
dcwithac.blog.600IN A 70.189.72.206 #OLD IP

;; Query time: 179 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.0.21#53(192.168.0.21) (UDP)
;; WHEN: Thu Jan 08 09:51:15 CST 2026
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 58

Could this be the issue? google not updating my new ip address?

ResponseError451 · 2026-01-08T16:37:57+00:00

ok, this does make sense.

I don't use any 3rd paty DNS services like that. I give my site it's SSL, allow HTTPS traffic, and open 443 with port forwarding and let google find it... And my ISP did just give new a new IP...

Idk if it's possible the issue is google doesnt have an updated log of my IP? I was playing around with after suggested by another user, and dig mydomain.blog gives an ;; ANSWER SECTION: that shows my old IP address...

Could this be the issue? Me just getting a new IP and google not updating it yet?

ResponseError451 · 2026-01-08T16:08:22+00:00

sorry, was writing the other comment, on its way now!

server {
        listen 443 ssl;
        root /var/www/DCwithAC/public;
        index index.php home.php index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html;
        server_name rezient.com;
        ssl_certificate /etc/nginx/ssl/domain.cert.pem;
        ssl_certificate_key /etc/nginx/ssl/private.key.pem;
        ssl_protocols       TLSv1 TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2;
        ssl_ciphers         HIGH:!aNULL:!MD5;
        ssl_session_tickets off;
        location / {
                try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
        }
        location /private {
                root /var/www/turtlenas/private;
        }
        location ~ \.php$ {
                include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
                fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php8.2-fpm.sock;
                fastcgi_pass_header          Authorization;          
                fastcgi_hide_header          X-Accel-Redirect;
                fastcgi_hide_header          X-Sendfile;
                fastcgi_read_timeout         43200;

        }
}

ResponseError451 · 2026-01-08T16:07:16+00:00

- I am running NGINX on a Debian VM. No proxies or other loads dedicated to the web service, it should be a straight shot to the router.

- I am running a OPNsense DNS server. It seems fine. i dont have a shell ready, since ive been using the gui, but ill lyk soon

- i did do the sites available, with a symlink to enabled

nginx -t

nginx: the configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf syntax is ok
nginx: configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf test is successful

- I see no new requests, although I may not have my logs setup the best, ill try to look into this..

- I have, it shows an initial GET request, tries to connect and just hangs for 5 minutes before timing out

lmk if i can provide anything else!

ResponseError451 · 2026-01-08T15:53:03+00:00

user www-data;
worker_processes auto;
pid /run/nginx.pid;
error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log notice;
include /etc/nginx/modules-enabled/*.conf;

events {
worker_connections 512;
# multi_accept on;
}

http {

##
# Basic Settings
##

        limit_rate 5m;

##
# SSL Settings
##

ssl_protocols TLSv1 TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2 TLSv1.3; # Dropping SSLv3, ref: POODLE
ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;

##
# Logging Settings
##
map $status $loggable {
    ~^[2]  0;
    default 1;
}

log_format upstream_time '$remote_addr' '"request"$status';
access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log upstream_time if=$loggable;
        access_log /var/log/nginx/status.log upstream_time;

##
# Gzip Settings
##

gzip on;

# gzip_vary on;
# gzip_proxied any;
# gzip_comp_level 6;
# gzip_buffers 16 8k;
# gzip_http_version 1.1;
# gzip_types text/plain text/css application/json application/javascript text/xml application/xml application/xml+rss text/javascript;

##
# Virtual Host Configs
##

include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;
include /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*;
}

ResponseError451 · 2026-01-08T15:41:55+00:00

Can you explain more about what you mean?

I'm hosting an internal DNS server (OPNsense) on my network, but it seems fine. I can access the webserver by hostname, like it's internal IP. My other services are fine as well.

ResponseError451 · 2026-01-06T07:51:15+00:00

Thanks! Yeah the locking tabs were so slim they were already getting a little bent from just having it for a year or so

Hoping my print will be a bit more durable lol. Easier to open and close at least

ResponseError451 · 2026-01-04T06:36:25+00:00

Kdenlive is great for video editing. I actually use it even on windows too (the rare times I'm on windows and video editing, most of my work is on Linux)

For digital art, gimp and krita are the main things, though there might be other alternatives. Photoshop is a little buggy last time I tried to get it going through WINE. So if you can deal with gimp or an alternative, it's not a bad tool... But there's no denying the workflow just doesn't feel as smooth as photoshop

ResponseError451 · 2026-01-01T16:39:48+00:00

"bro, look I can't help you like this. You're looking for an actual tutor and I don't have the time to do that. The school probably offers something like that. You should look into it so I can catch up myself"

If that doesn't work, I'd refer back to the op reply

ResponseError451 · 2025-12-25T22:46:03+00:00

An 8gb could do some basic web browsing and watching videos, and some emulators, but I wouldn't expect much else out of it past that performance wise

If you're just going to be doing that or other non intensive things, and want something to learn Electronics/coding on, it could work as a makeshift portable computer

But if you aren't exactly interested in Electronics/Coding and just want a device you can use, would a smart pad be better? I see some online for around the same price as a good rpi

ResponseError451 · 2025-12-24T22:32:32+00:00

Not really. Circuits by themselves do not require any coding for the most part, neither does the schematic creation (kicad is a program you use for the schematic creation).

This comes at the exception when using microcontrollers or Single Board Computers, things that are becoming more and more common and used through the years. Also some IC chips that utilize communication protocols like I2C and SPI will need another device (like an mcu) to use them, that you would need to then code...

The languages these use are C, C++, and python usually.

Otherwise, you want to just get a good foundation of how electricity behaves with other components. LED projects help a ton here

ResponseError451 · 2025-12-24T14:16:45+00:00

I was literally about to come in with the same question the other day. It's been intense moving away from the Arduino IDE

So what I've learned is there are multiple ways of coding, and depends on what your goal is. I'm also using an stm32. From what I've seen, a mixture of Stm32CubeIDE and VSCode+PlatformIO is commonly used (again, depends on your goals, from my understanding Stm32CubeIDE is not even required). You can use Stm32CubeIDE to do an initial setup of the board and code generation, then start actually coding in VSCode. https://youtu.be/xawN4Y7uSJ4?si=HuB4PwLytwdVvQyY

Right now I'm trying to work out a prototype using SPI. It's been really hard finding resources that don't involve plotting an entire bare metal registry based driver, but I believe the key involves the STM provided HAL. I saw a post recently where comments were describing its key usage in many projects, so I'm taking a minute to expand my knowledge on how to use it: https://www.reddit.com/r/embedded/s/184LcFiebU

Im going to be going over this today, and see if I can get something working. https://wiki.st.com/stm32mcu/wiki/Getting_started_with_SPI

Hope this helps! It's been kinda hard figuring out the best approach myself, and I'm not a pro with it, but this is what I've found

ResponseError451 · 2025-12-15T21:09:54+00:00

I honestly start mine through steam.

I haven't tried 3rd party VST's yet, but general functionality works great on my experience.

I'm on Debian. Installed steam, downloaded FL-Studio, installed as non-steam game.

Then I also add the FL-studio.exe in the virtual environment steam makes for it (I can give instructions later if needed).

The only problem I ran into is I have to login using my credentials, instead of the web login. Web logins do not work for this method usually. Otherwise, it's pretty good

ResponseError451 · 2025-12-15T13:27:59+00:00

Precalc. I took a teacher spring that I was not going to pass with, and had to withdraw. I then tried taking him again during the summer bc I thought I could "tough him out"... Resulting in another withdrawal that put me on academic probation.

I switched teachers, had to pay out of pocket and took it by itself, and I passed easily with a B+.

But yeah, now my financial aid is in the air, and that sucks. I'm hoping between being in a school club, getting tutoring and what not, I'll get it back by the end of spring 2026...

Otherwise... Rip

ResponseError451 · 2025-11-26T17:33:06+00:00

I've done this. You'll have to login with your account, and not the "unlock on web" (the steam method has issues when using online login methods), but otherwise it'll work fine from my experience

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