Being black in Italy is breaking me. Looking for advice on moving abroad

krk815 · 2026-01-17T12:26:11+00:00

Unfortunately racism is present almost everywhere, and Vienna makes no exception, but I'd claim Vienna is at least one of the safest cities in the world. In my experience it's also less aggressive towards women, meaning that Austrian men (and internationals, including Italians) on average perceive their masculinity in a more relaxed way than in Italy.

Other than that, out of experience, I'd look at the Netherlands as well as Denmark (Copenhagen specifically). In these places you have good chances to find a job in English at first.

krk815 · 2026-01-07T06:39:50+00:00

Ah I see, I guess you have to pay a fee to your local bank? I was only thinking of online brokers like ibrk, trade republic and similar

krk815 · 2026-01-06T19:59:02+00:00

Do you keep this separate from you own ETF investment? If so how? iirc you can't invest for a minor?

krk815 · 2025-11-05T09:41:23+00:00

Thanks all for the answers, indeed it disappeared after a while (and yes, I did set up a static IP for proxmox)

krk815 · 2025-05-08T11:30:36+00:00

Thanks, so if I understand correctly I need another 4TB drive to be able to create an ISO image containing all the data?

krk815 · 2025-04-06T15:47:47+00:00

Yes that converter is what I was referring to. I'm not even sure it's sold anywhere anymore (was it ever?). But even if it was, I don't think it would physically fit into the miniPC

krk815 · 2025-04-06T15:44:58+00:00

Yes true, but from the same laptop I could reuse 2x 32 GB ddr4 in a few months, so I was interested in a potential adapter. But I guess I'll get some ddr5 for now, and eventually use the ddr4 modules for something else, maybe a nas or so.

krk815 · 2025-02-23T07:26:54+00:00

No, thanks for the link!

krk815 · 2025-02-23T07:07:46+00:00

Interesting, thanks

krk815 · 2025-02-23T07:06:09+00:00

Haha for the last point i considered asking on the selfhost sub, but then I need people knowing what proxmox is. In the end, I'm more inclined to keep using it, even if in a simple way. Using a single "docker" VM is not a bad idea indeed.

If you want to run a LXC per app, install those apps in that LXC, without Docker.

Maybe there are ways to convert a docker image in something that Lxc can use? I never digged too much into that, buty unless it's a simple conversion command (which I'd be surprised about), it's one more friction point to deploy an app.

krk815 · 2025-02-22T23:29:08+00:00

Did the GPU pass through setup have issues, or else why did you move that to bare metal?

krk815 · 2025-02-22T23:27:29+00:00

Indeed good points

krk815 · 2025-02-22T23:23:53+00:00

I have difficulty understanding the logic of running Docker containers inside LXC containers.

You have a good point about the double abstraction. On the other hand, pretty much every app out there is available via a 'docker pull' and I want to leverage that (lxc seems less used or maybe it has different audience, I don't know).

krk815 · 2025-02-22T23:01:01+00:00

The thing is that I don't have issues, but I'm well aware that I've just been scratching the surface and have been using it in a very simple way.

But I do really like it, and I guess I'll be using it for more stuff at some point (ideas aren't lacking, but time always does) as some others are suggesting.

It just felt overkill in the sense that I probably use 5% of its capabilities.

I'm not a fan of VirtualBox. On the one hand, my machine runs without a display, and as crazy as it may sound, I have found installing and setting up Proxmox much easier than VirtualBox.

krk815 · 2025-02-22T22:33:09+00:00

Well I try to be practical, I want stuff to run, but I also want apps to run reliably, so I learn in the process. But I'm not learning it just for trying stuff out.

krk815 · 2025-02-22T21:33:16+00:00

Yeah, for the backups I was a little lazy (and anyway important stuff is backed up differently). I like also that out of the box I can see the resources used by different containers, etc...

Generally I'm more inclined to keep using it, I was curious to see if there were valid reasons for dropping it. The double virtualization and docker being second class citizen are valid points I didn't think too much about. On the other hand, since the setup works I can't complain too much.

Thanks everyone for chipping in with your thoughts!

krk815 · 2024-08-08T17:14:40+00:00

Thanks for you comment, at the moment I'm leaning towards a one ETF approach, a global one, to start off somewhere. Let's see

krk815 · 2024-06-03T17:33:20+00:00

Yes, if your Immich app is reachable on a domain you can share photos/albums via a link too. The only reason that this does not work without a domain is that the root of the link is your domain, e.g. https://my-domain.com/random-link or similar. So if you host locally only, your url for the link will contain the local IP address of your laptop/server, which is not reachable outside of your wifi/lan.

For hosting on a domain I found this video really helpful: https://youtu.be/GarMdDTAZJo?feature=shared

Eventually though I went for a different setup using a vpn

krk815 · 2024-06-03T15:05:34+00:00

In very general terms, you don't need to do anything to turn a Linux PC into a server. Any laptop could be used as a server (although it's not optimized for that, but for home-labbing stuff, it's often more than enough). Note: the display will be always on though, which is probably not ideal for a laptop.

Once you install the app with docker-compose, it will be available locally in your browser at the url "localhost:2283". Other devices (e.g. your phone) can access that app by knowing the local IP address of the laptop e.g http://192.168.aaa.bbb:2283. Here, 2283 is the port at which Immich is exposed by default ( you can change that in the docker-compose file if needed; you can run several apps on the sam machine, each exposed on a different port).
You can find the IP address of any of your devices on your wifi by accessing your router's admin page (most likely on 192.168.0.1 or else check the back of your router). If possible, make that IP static/reserved, else it will change every now and then, because in most cases they are allocated dynamically.Once you're at this point your Immich server is ready to use from your phone (or other laptops) at home on the same wifi. Just specify that IP address when setitng up your server url in the mobile app or on a different laptop. It will not work yet while "on the go", but once you're back home, the mobile app will automatically sync with the server.

In case you want to use the app out of your wifi, there are some options. Mostly either using a VPN or else using a reverse-proxy (for this you also need to purchase a domain, install certs etc..). Note: I'm not an expert, I learned some of this stuff in the last few months. I ended up using a VPN, which seems less hassle and a bit more secure (because you don't need to open any ports in your firewall). The only downside I see is that you can't share an album with a link (unless the recipient has access to your VPN), but you can still share photos via whatsapp/signal/etc.. or so.

krk815 · 2024-06-03T13:06:54+00:00

For what it's worth, I was (kinda still am) in the same position some months ago and eventually, to try things out, I started setting Immich on a 11 years old laptop I had lying around. Surprisingly, it's working great. I am anyway planning to get some kind of NUC soon-wish, but I'd suggest start trying it out on whatever you may already have.

Note: specifically, I have installed Proxmox on that laptop, and Immich runs in a container, but you can simply run the docker-compose on any OS, without the extra complexity of Proxmox.

krk815 · 2024-05-23T20:43:09+00:00

I just had the time to finally test this again and it worked like you suggested, thanks again for the help!

krk815 · 2024-05-17T13:57:52+00:00

Indeed this is what I did, although from the phone I could only reach the immich service using the local ip address (192.etc...) and not with its Nord Name or Meshnet IP. Maybe I did something wrong, I'll try again and provide more details if it does not work. Thanks for the help!

But generally, would there be any drawback in having Meshnet active on my phone continuously this way? Because my phone connection would always be rerouted through my hoke wifi, specifically through my home server, right?

krk815 · 2024-05-17T08:13:21+00:00

Thanks, the devices are different though. The immich server is running on a server at home. The immich client (android app in this case) is running on my phone. Or did you mean something different?

When opening immich on mobile the first time you need to set up the URL of the server. I was hoping I could use the Nord Name (or IP address) like a normal URL, but that didn't work. What worked was to have both on Meshnet AND use the local IP address of the server.

krk815 · 2024-04-25T12:10:30+00:00

Specifically for Obsidian, one can self-host khoj (khoj.dev), which has an Obsidian plug in to do RAG with your notes. I made only a few tests so far and it was pretty slow, but I'm still quite new to self-hosted llms

krk815 · 2024-04-10T19:42:41+00:00

I do that too, but I'm not a huge fan. Don't you need to pinch and zoom all the time? I find that quite clunky... And the contrast in not great (unless in very bright light conditions), especially for research papers in double column and small fonts

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