I only recently started using C-r to search in the command history. Game changer!

For me it was Windows 7 end of life. I always liked to tinker, and at the time I didn’t wanted to spend the money to get a macbook, so I tried Linux, eventually moved completely to it and never looked back.

I daily Trisquel on my secondary laptop (corebooted X230), and it’s great!

The main issue regular user would face with these 100% Free distro is wifi cards compatibility. Most will not work and the ones that do are old and slow.

Genuinely helpful advice! Thanks!

Me too and I’m pretty sure it counts!

I noticed bc I live very east and in general I’m off by one day in the other direction x)

I had two problems with my gitops setup:

• Longhorn would fail to deploy, some container creation timeout and crashed on repeat for hours for unknown reason.
• I never managed to have a working ingress neither using the built in Treafik, nor adding it afterwards.

Probably skill issue in both case, but the trial and error was slow and annoying, so I figured I would just upgrade my Ansible setup instead.

Sunday

What’s good, Kiribati ? 🇰🇮

I made some effort recently to try and set a K3S cluster with Flux but my bunch of RPi are just not powerful enough for that (never managed to deploy Longhorn). I’m moving to a more reasonable Docker Swarm with Ansible.

Maybe trying with some Raspberry Pis for your services (takes up less space, low power) and building a dedicated machine for the NAS, as suggested by @hodgepodgin@lemmy.zip, but that’s a whole different budget.

Otherwise, maybe going for some mini-pcs, more recent second-hand PCs (stronger CPU for video encoding) or just more RAM and more disks.

I guess the final price will depend on what exact machine you can get your hands on.

Nice project!

Given the tight budget, here is what I would do, especially if you are not too constraint by space and don’t mind a few extra watts of power consumption. The Raspberry Pi are getting expensive, and the 200USD will barely get you a RPi5 nowadays. You said there is no market for you for second hand sever hw, but I’m guessing it should not be too hard to get used office desktop PCs.

• Get two of these. Maybe Optiplex or Thinkstation. You can probably get something decent <50USD each.
• Get two small SATA SSDs for the OS (128 - 256GB), around 30USD each.
• Get your storage drives. You should get 3 of them so you can have ZFS raid redundancy.
• On one machine, install TrueNAS and your storage drives. Default RAM is probably enough.
• On the other one, upgrade the RAM to 8 or 16 GB (~50USD), install your favorite Linux distro, and you can run your services, accessing the storage with NFS!

To me it feels safer (against my own mess-up) to separate the storage and the services, plus this setup is fairly upgradable. You’ll probably have space to add more storage drives, even maybe a cache SSD; increase the RAM; add a third machine etc.

Of course it’s just one idea, maybe other another layout might fit your use-case better, idk.

Good luck!

Thumbs up for the thorough recap!

I am dailying Aeon for a while, which is a OpenSuse + GNOME version of Bazzite, which I also tried. I can highly recommend both!

Spooky

Guess I’ll pronounce it Kh Duh from now on!

Found the KDE user!

Your welcome :D

You mean, the fancy double-s from German : ß ? I’m not aware of that for old English, I’ll look it up, thanks!

[Edit]: Okay, actually it’s the long s “ſ”, and there is no double-s in the text to use it >< But I’m adding it to my Anglisc note for later usage!

Love them miniracks!

Maybe you can cross post it to !selfhosting@slrpnk.net , they will appreciate the DIY aspect of your project!

fifg

Þere is a handig (ƿorðig) limb, and þat’s “sgstemd”. Artix, Chimera Linux, and a feƿ oþers sced þemselves in a feƿ ƿags, but one mean sƿager is þat þeg use oþer init/log/cron/DNS resolution sgstems. Chimera is one of a kind (?) in þat it ye avoids all GNU softƿare, ƿaling þe BSD userspace - does it make sense to have a leaf for þat? Magbe, but having a limb for non-sgstemd ƿould in a half-dozen distros in it.

Always love to see Alpine desktops!

Nvidia GPU can be troublesome on Linux indeed. Mint might not be the best option in that case. If you are flexible, distro-wise, I cannot recommend Bazzite enough.

You can get an image with all the needed Nvidia drivers and configs, that should bring you the smoothest possible experience with your hardware, especially for gaming!

Good luck!

That’s great! Love to see more GN and Lvl1 collabs!