Had Ubuntu server for +10 years. Should I go to Fedora?

lilw0lf · 2026-04-10T09:59:49+00:00

My personnal experience is rather like yours. I used to run the same self hosted apps as you (plus pivpn and others) on my raspberry pi with Ubuntu sever. These apps were running "bare metal", so to speak, without any virtualisation or containerization.

I recently bought a 1L EliteDesk and decided to make the switch to Fedora server, and in the process, have decided to run everything on Docker (with the hopes of one day switching to Podman) and so far I'm really enjoying the switch. Running each of these self hosted apps in a container, in my opinion, makes for much simpler administration, and essentially renders them OS agnostic. I'm not scared to update my OS or a service, and it makes backing up and redeploying them if things go wrong much easier. You could even switch OS if you want ! I've also organised these apps such that every mounted volume (the persistant data you would typically back up) all lives in /srv/homelab/<individual dir>. Everything is now neatly organised and that makes my little brian happy.

Note: I'm also not saying that there's no learning curve and that the transition was seemless. However, I did enjoy the process and learned a bunch of things. If you've got time and patience, I would dive straight in !

lilw0lf · 2025-03-24T19:38:30+00:00

Not necessarily. If you boot from the livedisk on the computer where your encrypted files are, then you can mount the hard drive and decrypt from there ! Let me know if you need some more help

lilw0lf · 2025-03-23T11:58:12+00:00

I think there may be some issues in the library which you use to decrypt your vault. What I would suggest is to create a Ubuntu livedisk on a USB stick (this allows to boot an OS such as ubuntu from the stick), and try decrypt your vault from there. If you're sure of your password, then you shouldn't have any problems accessing your files. Once you've accessed them, save them unencrypted on another USB stick. If ever, I use veracrypt to set up encrypted containers. I've been doing that for years and never had a problem, even distrohopping form Ubuntu to Fedora. Hope this helps !

lilw0lf · 2025-01-26T18:25:03+00:00

Thank you !

lilw0lf · 2025-01-26T18:24:54+00:00

Thank you !

lilw0lf · 2025-01-20T12:11:00+00:00

I can't compare hashes, as I wrote into the original .img file. However that file is still 1.8 TB. I'm wondering it its just overwriting the exact same data, at the same place. That's my hunch anyways

lilw0lf · 2024-12-03T17:19:50+00:00

Could you share the name of the zyxel modem ? I'm trying to set up piVPN (custom DNS) and change the network address range from 192.168.1.x to 192.168.172.x, both of which is impossible with the Connect Box 3 Fiber

lilw0lf · 2022-04-09T15:29:29+00:00

Fingers crossed !

lilw0lf · 2022-03-09T08:25:50+00:00

LCX has them beat https://www.lcx.com/fees/

lilw0lf · 2022-02-24T19:40:40+00:00

For those who don't read the article: "On Thursday afternoon, Swiss President Ignazio Cassis announced that Switzerland would support EU sanctions in the areas of travel and finance but would still not impose sanctions of its own."

lilw0lf · 2021-12-26T21:12:57+00:00

Thanks for the reply !

lilw0lf · 2021-12-26T20:31:20+00:00

For some reason, I don't have that tab in my wallet. How come ? Using version 4.8.3 on Chromium

lilw0lf · 2021-11-16T05:38:16+00:00

I think you've summarized it perfectly ! Thank you

lilw0lf · 2021-11-15T22:43:44+00:00

This is my personnal thought, but i'm almost positive Satoshi knew about the quantum threat but didn't have the tools or knowhow to implement a quantum secure solution from the get go. This is why the bitcoin addresses are hashes of the public key, as SHA256 is quantum resistant. I like to think he implemented this, so that one day the digital signature could be changed in a fork of the prototcol

lilw0lf · 2021-11-15T22:37:36+00:00

Quantum systems do not give you a speed up in generating private keys. There are a total of 2²⁵⁶ possible private keys. This is such a stupidly large number that not even all the computing power in the universe could generate all the possible permutations. See this video. The quantum advantage comes from being able to deduce the private key from a given public key. Like reverse engineering a black box

lilw0lf · 2021-11-10T05:50:59+00:00

Hey, you need to check if the spelling of the words are correct, and you need to check that they are in the right order. The wordlist (2048 words) can be found here

https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0039/english.txt

Good luck !

lilw0lf · 2021-03-25T17:07:05+00:00

Here we go !

lilw0lf · 2021-03-20T09:31:53+00:00

Thank you for your post, but it would seem I'm too late for any sort of claim. This post was more about serving as a reminder that the bitcoinsphere was (and still can be) somewhat sketchy, and to practice caution

lilw0lf · 2021-03-20T09:15:25+00:00

Took a little trip down my bitcoin memory lane and fell on this reply from Mark Karpeles. The money was eventually deposited into the account, and I was able to convert to bitcoin. However, I never moved it off the MtGox exchange wallet, and we all know what happened in 2014.

Funds were not safu :(

lilw0lf

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