App images don’t work on alpine. Use flat pack or run the app image in a chroot

I am starting to get frustrated with lemmy.world. The downtime and stability was one thing but now they cloudf****ed it, the stability has not significantly improved and cloud flare can now see everything we do here. Once there is account migration I plan on self hosting an instance.

It’s an environment variable. I have MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=true in my sway wrapper script.

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This is sad to see. Libreddit was the only way I used to browse reddit since the day I heard about it. Now I almost always have to switch instances over 4 times to get one that is not rate limited.

I have 5 servers in total. All except the iMac are running Alpine Linux.

Internet

Ziply fiber 100mb small business internet. 2 Asus AX82U Routers running in AiMesh.

Rack

Raising electronics 27U rack

N3050 Nuc's

One is running mailcow, dnsmasq, unbound and the other is mostly idle.

iMac

The iMac is setup by my 3d printers. I use it to do slicing and I run BlueBubbles on it for texting from Linux systems.

Family Server

Hardware

• I7-7820x
• Rosewill rackmount case
• Corsair water cooler
• 2 4tb drives
• 2 240gb ssd
• Gigabyte motherboard

Mostly doing nothing, currently using it to mine Monero.

Main Cow Server

Hardware

• R7-3900XT
• Rosewill rackmount case
• 3 18tb drives
• 2 1tb nvme
• Gigabyte motherboard

Services

• ZFS 36TB Pool
• Secondary DNS Server
• NFS (nas)
• Samba (nas)
• Libvirtd (virtual macines)
• forgejo (git forge)
• radicale (caldav/carddav)
• nut (network ups tools)
• caddy (web server)
• turnserver
• minetest server (open source blockgame)
• miniflux (rss)
• freshrss (rss)
• akkoma (fedi)
• conduit (matrix server)
• syncthing (file syncing)
• prosody (xmpp)
• ergo (ircd)
• agate (gemini)
• chezdav (webdav server)
• podman (running immich, isso, peertube, vpnstack)
• immich (photo syncing)
• isso (comments on my website)
• matrix2051 (matrix to irc bridge)
• peertube (federated youtube alternative)
• soju (irc bouncer)
• xmrig (Monero mining)
• rss2email
• vpnstack
  • gluetun
  • qbittorrent
  • prowlarr
  • sockd
  • sabnzbd

Easy fractional scaling on sway

I selfhost my own seedbox at home. I have a vm on my server which is always connected to a vpn that runs qbittorrent-nox.

I use a Password manager and only have free software on main laptop computer. Fake emails, phone numbers, names wherever possible. Noscript in firefox based browsers. Self hosting services at home. For services I do not want my identity attached to shuf -n1 /usr/share/dict/words for usernames. I avoid all non-fediverse social media platforms with no free front end whenever possible. I use rss feeds and mpv for playing youtube videos. I use libredirect with free software frontends. I do not run proprietary software on my main laptop, I use a second laptop, a virtual machine or don't run the software (for example when I need to use zoom I might run it on a second laptop and use a capture card.). I seperate different online activities with different browsers with different firefox colorways to prevent confusion (for example Firefox ESR for normal personal browsing, Normal firefox for vpn browsing, Firefox Dev Edition for school and college).

I use sway wm with the foot terminal emulator. If you do not like manual tiling I have heard good things about river wm.

JavaScript is worse than COBOL.

firefox on desktop, safari on mobile

Make everyone listen to 10 hours of cow sounds on repeat.

You might not need to, If you just want a distro you can install with your dotfiles and programs maybe a setup script which you can run after installing a distro is a better idea.

Best animal

I am currently working on this. I got a static IP and port 25 unblocked from my isp. I am trying to do opensmtpd and dovecot with dkim signing.

Still fedora based

Bupstash

apk upgrade -U in a cronjob daily and hope it does not break.

The zoom Linux client is crappy so if the web one does not work for you I would suggest just booting into windows and using it.

The kindle paper white is nice but it’s Amazon. I have one that I keep in airplane mode and load books over usb.

Alpine Linux. I use it on all my computer and servers. I also maintain a few packages for it.

Fuzzel is also nice if you are using Wayland.

Zoom does not work in wayland

I can’t believe some subreddits migrated to discord in protest over third party apps when discord will ban you if you try to use 3rd party apps.

My home directory is a git repo with a .gitignore that contains something like

*

!.config/sway

!.config/sway/*

!.config/sway/**/*

Yes, this bookmarklet javascript:(function () { var newLocation = function () { var url; Array.prototype.slice.call(document.getElementsByTagName('link')).forEach(function (element) { if (element.getAttribute('type') === 'application/rss+xml') { console.log('Found direct feed link'); url = element.getAttribute('href'); } }); if (!url) { Array.prototype.slice.call(document.getElementsByTagName('meta')).forEach(function (element) { if (element.getAttribute('itemprop') === 'channelId') { console.log('Found channel ID'); url = 'https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=' + element.getAttribute('content'); } }); } return url; }(); if (newLocation === undefined) { console.log('Could not find a channel RSS feed from ' + location.href); } else { location.href = newLocation; } })(); Will convert a youtube channel page to a rss feed. I watch the videos using photon and mpv but that is probably too advanced for your kid but a simpler app might work.

Maybe try some third party native mobile apps. Fire fish supports the mastodon api so you can use any mastodon app with it.

I prefer digital with no drm but if that is not possible I will get a physical book.

Gmail

GParted live

Maybe sourcehut if you need more than git hosting.

I would not suggest mastodon for such low powered hardware, its also overkill for a personal instance. Akkoma or GotoSocial would work much better on a Pi. The annual cost is pretty much just 3-15$/year for the domain name.

I use bupstash to backup to a server I built a few years ago

I have been running wayland with sway for around 6-10 months (I forget when I switched). I have a 4-monitor setup and hated the default workspace management but swaysome convinced me to switch. I heard a lot of stuff about how manual tiling is bad but I actually don't mind it and kind of prefer it to automatic tiling from AwesomeWM which I used before sway, .

All the time on both my laptop and my 4 screen desktop. I use swaysome with sway to get awesome wm style workspaces for sway.

I'm not really a distro hopper but I just have my home directory as a git repository with a gitignore file. https://git.sr.ht/~cowingtonpost/dotfiles/tree/main/item/.gitignore

Alpine Linux, repositories contain most software for a desktop and server, minimal base system, fast package manager. I would only recommend it to an advanced user that does not use proprietary software as most of it will not run because it is linked against glibc but alpine linux uses musl libc.

A molex to PCIe adapter with an 850w power supply. I only have like 10 watts of headroom but usually only one gpu is running at a time so it works fine. I would have bought a better one but my dad accidentally bought 2 for another project so he had an extra one and it works fine.

• Caddy (web server)

• Agate (gemini server)

• FreshRSS (rss reader)

• Yarr (rss reader)

• ergo (irc server)

• akkoma

• prosody (xmpp)

• conduit (matrix)

• nextcloud

• soju (irc bouncer)

• gamja (irc web interface)

• qbittorrent-nox

• unbound/dnsmasq

• isso (selfhosted comments server)

• smbd and nfs server

• pivpn wireguard

• minecraft stuff in seperate ubuntu vm:

• pterodactyl panel

• pterodactyl daemon

• probably something else I forget

• currently just running a monero miner as I have not been playing minecraft recently.

Hardware: Main server Ryzen 7 3900XT with 64GB of ram, two 240GB ssds running in raid1, two 4tb hard drives running in raid1, running proxmox with mostly alpine linux VMs

Secondary Server: Intel nuc running alpinelinux, only running secondary unbound/dnsmasq server so if my main server goes down, dns still works.

Late 2013 iMac: I was using it to run an iMessage to matrix bridge but I was not able to get it to work so now I just vnc into it to text. (suggestions welcome as vnc is annoying)

I also have another intel nuc that does not do anything.

All of these servers are connected to an APC back-ups UPS.