This is great for business users!

It really is!

I do run wireguard on my router, but the main reason is ad blocking, not hiding services. Most services are publicly exposed.

Not sure if irregular booting is still an issue, but that sounds a lot like device names changing between boots. If I could hazard a guess - you’ve got something like /dev/sda in your fstab, where ideally you’d have UUID=1234-ABC. You can get the uuid by running

blkid | grep sda

Never had this. It’s pretty much instanteneous.

That… Is literally how you do it. You install the system onto a subvolume. Or many, in fact - the way I do. Root, var, srv, home, opt all get their own subvolume. Only boot stays as a separate partition.

Yes. In general - it’s called live cd. Some distros ship with that in their installed image. {K,X,}ubuntu come to mind. Mint might do as well. You can boot into it and look around, see if basic stuff - network, audio, etc - works.

I’m a living proof you’re the opposite of right 😁

Is this at a webserver level?

It would work just fine within TOR. Reaching out would be a massive pain as the software is not ready.

I’ve set up the “old” UI - no javascript - on TOR on lemmy.cafe. It works well, but that’s not a real hidden service, as such.

Huh, TIL that’s still possible. Wasn’t in my case at the time.

I run my email server, but not at home. Running it at home is not all all more difficult, but it will only work for internal traffic and inbound from the internet. Residential IPs are simply blacklisted by ISP and as such - nothing will reach external recipients. Still useful, but is limited.

To have your smtp reach everyone globally you need to run it on a business IP. I use Linode, has worked very well since the setup in 2019, although they did get acquired by Akamai, which might become an issue at some point.

This is such an incredible write up of something I’ve never even considered to exist. Thank you!

I’d love to have things like that in a form of a post at !graybeard@lemmy.cafe

Thank you very much!

Wait, what? That’s so cool! Care to share somewhere I can start looking into this?

I don’t know the size in bytes, haven’t cared much about it for some time now. It also very much depends on the definition of minimal. My minimal != your minimal.

I’m referring to use flags, which allow me to not have a bunch of features I don’t use compiled to begin with. Less code - fewer headaches.

I run Gentoo.

It’s made my fundamentals stronger.

It allows me to run the minimal number of codepaths.

Every now and then it makes me happy. Sometimes proud of myself. All because I solved some problem that was helped by the mindset Gentoo had set up.

Network? That’s a small bit. DB is struggling with IO at times, but network usage is fairly low, at least on my end.

For those curious - it’s engine-x.

I think you’re missing the point of what I’m saying. Unfortunately, words are difficult enough to produce for me, I don’t have a better way to express it.