Thank you! It sounds like a really interesting tool. I’d like to have a VPC sort of setup for my devices that I can connect to externally. I don’t think I need the mesh aspect of it, I’d likely just have one VPN act as a hub. But I’ll definitely look into this more. If it does routing for IPs a bit more conveniently that’d be worth it to me.

That’s very interesting. Once you connect something to your mesh you can access the rest of the mesh by IP? What is the gateway in that case?

What do you have set up for mesh VPN?

Anything that keeps maps in local storage so you can use GPS while offline is somewhere between very helpful and lifesaving. Sounds like Osmand is in there.

Organic Maps lets you download also. I got it specifically for backpacking because it enabled that. It certainly has been worth the $0. I should probably donate something each trip.

That kind of contribution seems like a lower level of effort than making changes to source code.

The USB-C power is huge. I don’t know why it is so hard to find. I do not want another massive power brick and barrel connector.

You’ll be saving lives, yeah, but between dealing with entitled assholes that won’t follow directions and then yell at you because they didn’t.

It’s maybe easy to burn out in any career. Society has deprioritized individual fulfillment for most of us because it harms the nesting levels of billionaires’ yachts.

I would use Gitlab only in an airgapped network. Password resets sent to attacker-supplied emails is such a complete failure of a security model it seems like it is only a matter of time until the next critical vulnerability.

“Nearly all real numbers are normal (basically no real numbers are not normal), but we’re only aware of a few. This one literally non-computable one for sure. Maybe sqrt(2).”

Gotta love it.

What would you get nowadays looking at that 5 year mark?

Yes, it is. If people are relying on files to be encrypted they may dispose of their disks differently. Or the NAS might be stolen.

Yeah OpenWRT is incredibly slim. I remember doing a double-take looking at their install page because the memory requirements are so low. I’m used to seeing numbers in GB and they’re saying they can provide full functionality in 64 MB.

No onboard eMMC? Are you able to run this from a read-only SD? That’s kinda intriguing, I figure eMMC could be one of the weakest links on an SBC.

Yeah, I think it’s an unusual case, but I wanted to bring it up to support your point about rejecting their kernel and distro. You can put Incus on a lot of different systems. Don’t like systemd? Put it on Void. Want a declarative setup? NixOS. Minimalist? Alpine.

Do I want to maintain a full operating system just to run this one type of software? No, that’s absurd. I want to choose the distro I want to work with and then have the software work on top of it.

I think I was on a previous account the last time I saw you, glad to see you’re still posting. You convinced me to move from Proxmox to Incus a while back. Sure, I had some growing pains, but it’s pretty smooth now.

I like that I can switch out my distros underneath Incus instead of being stuck on one weird kernel. IME you were absolutely right about that. I’m getting into atomic distros to manage homelab machines. I would not be able to do that on Proxmox.

I also don’t need to edit a giant Javascript file to remove a nag about enterprise software repos, which is nice.

Snake coiled around the pie chart swallowing its own tail.

Oh neat, I was actually planning to set that up to store scripts and some projects I’m working on, I’ll give the tickets a try then.

We built Vikunja with speed in mind - every interaction takes less than 100ms.

Their heads are certainly in the right place. I’ll check this out, thank you!

Do you host your ticketing system? I’d like to try one out. My TODO markings in my notes app don’t end up organized enough to be helpful. My experience is with JIRA, which I despise with every fiber of my being.

Docker/Podman or any containerized solution is basically the easiest way to get really nice maintenance properties like: updating one app won’t break others, won’t take down the whole system, can be moved from machine to machine.

Containers are a learning curve but I think very worth it for home setups. Compared to something like Kubernetes which I would say is less worth it unless you already know or want to learn Kubernetes.