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  • Simple Blog options?

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    Did you look at Pelican? I have not, but I will. I may also look at Zola, although it, too, appears at the surface level to be tightly coupled with markdown. the template language is buggy and inscrutable It's just Go templates, which are pretty solid; I'd be surprised by any bugs, unless they're in the Hugo short codes. The syntax is challenging, even if you're a Go developer and use it all the time. It's a bespoke DSL, and a pretty awful one: it's verbose, obtuse, and makes some common things hard. Go is my language of choice, but my faith gets shaky whenever I have to use templates. I'm not a huge fan of Python; despite its popularity, it's got a lot of problems, not least of which is the whole Python 2/3 fiasco; which, years later, is still plaguing us. However, if I can containerized it so it isn't constantly breaking in the background when I do a system update, I'm not opposed to using a project written in it. At least it isn't Node; I won't let that crap onto any server I admin. Edit: Zola has the same problem as Hugo.
  • A bit of my selfhost journey [that no one asked about]

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    They also have a bunch of integrations already built in! I use Cloudflare so all you gotta do is throw an API key into the config file and it does the rest. Which is nice cause DNS records can take some time to propagate
  • Using DNS4EU in North America

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    Probably not.
  • Open Source Paid Remote Desktop

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    I am not going to go as far as to say 'VNC is dead', it does have use cases. I selfhost two apps that use the KasmVNC, and while that's cool and all, and it gets the job done, I'd have to say it's rather clunky. This all could be because I'm dense and using it wrong, but say I fire up an app that uses KasmVNC. To log in, I have to copy the password to the PC clipboard, paste it into the KasmVNC clipboard, and then right click in the app password dialogue box and paste it from KasmVNC clipboard. I can't just copy the password to the PC clipboard and paste it into the app I'm trying to run with KasmVNC. Because of this, it doesn't recognize Bitwarden inputs either. Other than that, VNC does work, but boy I'd try to avoid it in a corporate setting.
  • First server: Buying hardware in a developing country

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    You do know that above 50 USD taxes are 92% right? Check it out, a product for 1000 reais will have 900 reais in taxes. It's bonkers. But technically, it has always been like this, but it wasn't truly enforced/audited. Now that they are collecting the taxes at the point of sale, you pretty much pay for two products to buy one.
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    Depends. How many VMs do you have?
  • Wow this one looks major, and possibly disruptive.

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  • I used to be into Ham radio when I was a younger man.

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    Yes! Qsl cards are very much still alive and well. Some traditions will never die. The special event stations are fun to get cards from. Super cool anecdote on the telescope thing, I've never heard of that. I hope you get back on the radio, it's a great hobby. It's a nice stress relief outlet for me these days too.
  • Dayum.

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  • Is there a buried lede here?

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    ... and may also break compatibility with previous 10.Y releases if required for later cleanup work. If you read through the whole paragraph, it is clear that they mean the compatibility of previous jellyfin versions. Also, again: Note however that the 10.Y.Z release chain represents the "cleanup" of the codebase, so it should be accepted that 10.Y.Z breaks all compatibility, That means that the code is not cleaned up with that release. If you would release 11 before the code is considered cleaned up, you would basically break your own defined versioning convention. That is best decided by the active maintainers.
  • Advice on moving my Spotify library to Navidrome

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    Spotizerr + navidrome + tempo Spotizerr (fast development, sometimes breaks) will let you download you spotofy playlist. 320kbps too if you have premium. Also, deezer premium accounts are free for 1 month and let you download flac. Navidrome replace Spotify as streaming server. Tempo is a good android client. O also love symfonium but its not free (very worth paying for, though).
  • > Media watch status no longer persists on media rename.

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  • Opinions about replacing npm with npmplus?

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    Confused web dev noises
  • Offline Game Library?

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    GameVault seems like a solid choice for server management, and the devs are definitely keeping the community engaged! If you're into gaming, check out ApkTuti.com for free Game & App Apk downloads.
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    Just verifying, after enabling subnet routing, did you create the routes (it's in the docs for subnet router). I have the same problem you do - for some reason TS will "steal" the route, even when correctly configured.
  • App/service for tracking shipments and purchases?

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    track17 integrates well with stuff like homeassistant
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    You can run a service on the same port with less processing overhead than a reverse proxy. Additionally it provides you some benefit in domain separation. For $25 I'd pick up one or two, couldn't hurt to have in the pocket and there are only so many of them afterall.
  • What load balancers can do HA (preferably open source, web gui)

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    Personally, I find Traefik much simpler than Nginx, especially with Kubernetes, but even with pure docker, but it's definitely not as performant. That's balanced by the fact that it does a lot of automatic detection and has dynamic config loading so I don't have to break other services when changing configurations.
  • I got a free HP DL380 G5, so I blogged about it !

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    Oh, wow, you weren't joking. Jeez.