Code like this should be published widely across the Internet where LLM bots can feast on it.

With?

I run projects inside Docker on a VM away from important data. It allows me to test and restrict access to specific things of my choosing.

It works well for me.

About that.

Just because I’ve done it this way and haven’t had issues, doesn’t mean it’s the best or only way.

You dared to ask a question and the tools to explore answers are readily available.

This is how we as a society make progress.

Please don’t feel like my experience is the final answer to your question … my experience tells me that this is rarely … if ever … the case.

So … please … explore!

If you genuinely attempting to quantify this, you can create a swap file of any size right there on your drive. You could iterate and test every setting for every scenario. You could even change settings dynamically if you wanted to.

That said, I leave it to the kernel to figure out and over the past 25 or so years that’s been fine.

I’ve never used the tool, but I’m guessing that your Oracle database can create an SQL dump of its schema which presumably is how this tool ingests a database to chart.

If that’s how you want to run your server that’s your choice, but if it were me, I’d think long and hard about the legal implications of doing this.

So far you’ve not said anything about what you’re trying to achieve and that’s not helping.

What specifically are you attempting to achieve, because right now, what little you have shared sends up red flags and rings the alarm bells … loudly.

What actual problem are you attempting to solve?

If you want pihole blocking away from your LAN, set the DNS for the device to adguard and be done with it.

If you’re trying to do something else, give us some context.

It appears to be an attempt to monetize open source software, something which should in my opinion be applauded, given the trillions of dollars made off the backs of software developers who contributed to OSS without ever getting compensation, something that’s required to have a roof over your head and food to eat.

Another approach being attempted in this space is by Bruce Perens (of Open Source fame).

He’s calling his efforts Post Open: https://postopen.org/

Disclaimer: I contributed to the community conduct document.

Skirting the edge of self hosting, I was faced with this question last month. I ended up with a Ubiquity UCG Ultra. It has all the network management tools on-board and for the first time in a long time I can manage my network from anywhere on the planet.

Access can be via a web UI, or an app.

The boundary of where to host what, is not fixed. You cannot host the internet at home. Where people sit on the spectrum varies depending on skill, resources and need.

I highlighted several options that provide a solution for someone with limited skills and resources.

You could host a CALDAV server or a next cloud at home and use the suggestions I provided, or you could use those hosted by someone else.

My answer was to provide ideas, not a how-to guide, answering, in my opinion, exactly what OP was looking for.

That it doesn’t match your idea about solving the problem tells you that there are many ways to solve software problems. My suggestions had a low barrier to entry.

What’s your recommendation for OP?

Nothing and everything.

There are thousands if not millions of open source solutions scattered around society. Some are feature complete, most are not. Some are maintained, many are not. A handful are funded, the rest is not.

What open source needs, more than anything else is fundraising and the means to distribute those funds to the tune of the trillions of dollars that the corporate world extracts in profits from those open source efforts.

In other words, the people who make this need to get paid.

Firefox terms and conditions, Red Hat, and several other projects that have caused uproar through the community, are all caused by the need to get paid to eat food and have a roof over your head whilst you contribute to society and give away your efforts.

Google Sheets will be a simple solution you can do for free.

The app “Track & Graph” is another.

I have been logging all my medical events using Tasker and a Google Calendar. Analysis is manual using graphviz.

I rarely use a docker container in production that I didn’t write the Dockerfile for. Once you understand how it works, you can write your own and install exactly what you want in the way you want it.

Have you considered what is driving this change?

Looking from the sidelines, I think it’s all about money, specifically, how to make the development of Firefox sustainable. Yes, I’m aware of the cynical view that this is about lining the pockets of the CEO, I have no evidence for this.

I think that’s essentially caused by how we have licensed open source software and had limited resources to combat abuse at the industrial scale that silicon valley companies have monetized other people’s work.

Bruce Perens is attempting to erect “Post Open”, but I’m not yet sure if that is going to solve the fundamental issues.

Disclaimer: I’ve worked a little on the community standards document for the post open project.

Satellite TV is transmitted as DVB-S. Normally the TV itself does not decode it, but an external box.

How is the Satellite signal getting to your TV?

I miss my SPARC, it had to be given away when I started travelling around Australia for five years. The last IBM ThinkPad replaced it, anyone remember recompiling kernels to support the PATA/SATA driver so you could boot the thing? I never did get all the onboard hardware to work and one day someone in the Debian X11 team decided that using multiple monitors as a single desktop wasn’t required any longer.

I bought a 17” MacBook Pro and installed VMware on it, never looked back.

I take your point on not needing server hardware. The proxmox cluster was a gift on the way to landfill when my iMac died. I’m using it to figure out which platform to migrate to after Broadcom bought VMware.

I think it would be irresponsible to go back to it in light of the developments since the purchase.

Yeah, I was getting ready to use NoMachine on a recommendation, until I saw the macos uninstall script and the lack of any progress by the development team, going so far as to delete knowledge base articles and promising updates on the next release three versions ago.

An added wrinkle is getting local USB devices visible on a VDI, like say a local thumb drive (in this case it’s a Zoom H5 audio recorder) so I can edit audio, not to mention, getting actual audio across the network, let alone being synchronised.

It’s not trivial :)

At the moment I’m experimenting with a proxmox cluster, but any VM from VMware don’t just run, so for ancient operating systems in a VM like Win98se, you need drivers which are no longer available … odd since that’s precisely why I run it in a VM. Not to mention that the Proxmox UI expects you to run a series of commands in the console every time you want to add a drive, something which happens fairly often.

For shits and giggles try finding a way to properly shutdown a cluster without having to write scripts or shut each node down individually.

As I said, not trivial :)

I’ve installed Debian on several bits of bare metal hardware since, Raspberry pi, suddenly doesn’t detect the usb wifi dongle that worked in the previous release. Or the hours trying to get an extended Mac USB keyboard to work properly.

Supermicro servers that didn’t support the on board video card in VGA mode (for a text console).

Then there was a solid-state “terminal” device which didn’t have support for the onboard ethernet controller.

It’s not been without challenge, hence my reluctance. I moved to VMware to stabilise the experience and it was the best decision I’ve ever made, other than standardizing on Debian.

I note that I’ve been installing Debian for a while. This is me in 2000:

https://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2000/09/msg00038.html