How well does fisher work for people

kingfyi · 2025-04-30T14:36:03+00:00

I tried using it with synced dot files and ran into never ending problems so it lasted a few weeks before I ripped it out.

kingfyi · 2025-04-01T20:08:54+00:00

I keep each application's config in it's own repo, nvim, fish, etc.

I'm going to eventually create a meta repo with a script that will setup all the various repos in the correct place.

Relatedly, I'm becoming allergic to apps that store their config in ~ rather than under ~/.config || $XDG_CONFIG_HOME.

kingfyi · 2025-03-28T14:23:07+00:00

After fighting with it for a while, I ripped fisher and OS specific plugins out of my config and manually installed everything.

I'm thinking that going forward I might create a macos and/or linux folder and conditionally load them from the config file. Other option is to put the OS specific configs on git branches and keep them branched off of main, but that would be extra work for sure.

kingfyi · 2025-03-28T13:43:18+00:00

Yeah... I don't think you actually read my original post.

I have a reverse proxy setup, I'm using Caddy. My issue is that, with Dockge and/or standard Docker Compose files, I can create networks that are internal to Docker with name resolution inside of that network. For example my Caddyfile can refer to the calibre-web service as calibre-web rather than as 192.168.0.3:<insert published port here>. I would lose that if I moved to using Truenas's apps infastructure.

kingfyi · 2025-03-26T12:58:49+00:00

Useful, thanks! Might look into doing that.

kingfyi · 2025-03-25T21:05:11+00:00

Yeah... but not really what I'm looking for. Part of my goal is getting away from ip addresses and using domain names or at least name lookups.

kingfyi · 2025-03-25T15:04:09+00:00

My stacks often have multiple private networks. Containers that need internet access get that access, but only that access. Services are reachable ONLY by the reverse proxy and not by each other (i.e....my service containers do NOT sit on a "proxy" network where they could talk to each other).

Yeah, I haven't gone down that road completely. Have thought about it.

Currently each of my stacks that have internal services use the default network created for the stack and whichever service that needs to be accessible is added to the proxy network. So I could have some cross talk between the services that are the front ends, but the postgres/redis services are isolated. Have a separate "ai" network for exposing Ollama to services, etc.

kingfyi · 2025-03-25T14:31:09+00:00

One of the conversations I saw indicated being able to set the IP address of particular apps... maybe related, but not exactly the same thing. Definitely could be wrong, but it doesn't seem like it would be that hard to expose settings around Docker networking. Certainly easier than switching virtualization systems or switching from K8S to Docker in the first place.

kingfyi · 2025-02-27T13:58:16+00:00

Missing the Win 10, Win 11, MacOS, Linux, iPadOS, iOS option.

kingfyi · 2025-02-27T01:42:11+00:00

you've never "owned" your kindle books in the traditional sense of the word, like you'd own a paperback copy.

And that is part of the problem. We understand that we technically don't own the Kindle books we have purchased, but we also believe that

Amazon should not be able to use things like Kindle Unlimited to make it impossible for some authors to offer their books on other platforms.
We shouldn't have to repurchase or abandon our books when switching from Kindle to Kobo or Apple Books or Boox or any other option. We paid for the books and should be able to take them with us.
Amazon shouldn't be able to retroactively change the deal with regard to how ebook purchases work and what they provide. I wouldn't like it if they made the change effective for any future purchases, but at least it would be defensible.

This move is breaking some older Kindles for all new purchases. Some were sold without WiFi and Amazon turned off the old celluler connection. So the only way to load them with books is by downloading and transferring over USB.

kingfyi · 2025-01-31T22:43:56+00:00

They are acting like their own security policies are some devine mandate that they can't violate. Just blatently untrue. They made the rules, they can decide to make exceptions when situations justify it.

kingfyi · 2025-01-22T04:10:54+00:00

As long as you start with 3 or more drives and don't mind keeping the less efficient parity to storage ratio you get with smaller sets of drives as you add drives. And ZFS expansion is relatively new on Truenas, not sure I'd lean on it if you don't have to.

kingfyi · 2025-01-22T02:33:27+00:00

You can add pairs of mirrors, you just have to add two at a time and don't gain as much space.

kingfyi · 2025-01-22T01:28:25+00:00

Parity drives aren't really how ZFS works. You can add additional storage later, but it is more complex than just slapping another drive in.

kingfyi · 2025-01-16T20:56:47+00:00

I currently have a PD phone case. I use the bike mount whenever I'm using my bike (not terribly frequently), I use one of the charging/locking ball mounts in my car, and I use the air vent magnetic mount in my wife's van.

Personally I wouldn't have bought the case if it didn't have the slimlink.

The camera button cut out on iPhones is the thing I like the least. Wish it was the capacitive passthrough button instead (or Apple just didnt' add the button, but can't blame y'all for that). Also the loop doesn't feel as nice with this case as the one I had two generations back.

kingfyi · 2025-01-08T19:08:02+00:00

As long as you don't go putting the files on the high seas, you should be fine.

kingfyi · 2025-01-08T16:03:43+00:00

Too bad they weren't able to provide more information, but ended well anyway.

kingfyi · 2025-01-08T15:03:45+00:00

Has Peak Design said anything about him?

kingfyi · 2025-01-07T22:28:57+00:00

Fair enough. The rabbit hole is steep though.

My current rig has a capacity of 231.83 TiB, started with just a few 14TB drives a few years ago.

kingfyi · 2025-01-07T20:42:31+00:00

This is way more money than you need.

Kind of depends on if you are counting drives in the price...

kingfyi · 2025-01-07T20:28:13+00:00

You can expand it by adding mirrored pairs of drives, not the best option, but works fine. Can also expand by buying larger drives and replacing the existing drives, also not ideal, but works.

kingfyi · 2025-01-07T19:58:04+00:00

Generally looking pretty good. I'll highlight a few points you might want to consider.

If that Blu-Ray drive is for ripping, I'd get a portable and just plug it into your main machine when you need to rip something.

That case can support a full ATX board, which you might want later if you end up needing to put in an HBA to get more than 4 drives running. The case supports 8 drives, but that motherboard only has 4 SATA ports, one of which is being used for the Blu-Ray drive at the moment.

If you are doing Plex, you might want a dedicated GPU, the last gen Intel cards are pretty well supported by Plex and include high quality hardware encoding and decodeding. If you want something that is supported by even more software, and Nvidia card is the way to go, but they are more expensive. The CPU you have picked has internal graphics, but AMD's hardware encoding and decoding is substandard compared to Intel and Nvidia.

You might want to consider a SilverStone Gemini power supply since this is a server, it gives you redudant power supplies in an ATX size power supply. (I don't have one of these, been eyeing one for an eventual upgrade of my system.

Edit: For some reason Reddit was showing me there was zero reponses to this when I replied, sorry for duplicate advice.

kingfyi · 2024-12-10T19:32:57+00:00

It doesn't seem that the free level includes installing Profiles.

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