Sounds like you are looking for Opentofu/Terraform. I use Opentofu to fastly create VMs on Proxmox with Cloud Init scripts. In scenario where one VM hosts one service I try to build IaC that way I can destroy VM and create a new one without loosing anything, data nor configuration.

Open source/libre/foss all have to do with the license. Grayjay doesn't have a license that meets the criteria because it places arbitrary restrictions on the code. It has nothing to do with contributions. You can ship the code on a CD and that is totally fine as long as it has the proper license.

Thnx! This looks like the way to go.

Yeah Stalwart seems to have a lot of momentum, I'll probably be setting up a server with my kubernetes+ceph cluster this month.

Here's why I still use Plex: for me Jellyfin hasn't been easy to work the way I want it to. I mostly access my media on an Nvidia Shield, and the Jellyfin Android TV app just refuses to play certain videos; I can play them if I use VLC as an external player, but not within the app itself. The more pressing issue is that Jellyfin just refuses to play 5.1 audio, and downmixes everything to stereo. I have other issues, but these are the ones that prevent me from using it. For me Plex just works.

Self hosted and open source projects are successful if you enjoy it or are solving something you need. Bonus points if it helps someone else too.

It causes way more traffic for the DNS server to use a shorter TTL, so yes, it does incur more DNS traffic. In Germany some providers will disconnect you regularly if you stay connected for too long.

You usually need to trigger a total rebuild to make it part of the same pool, but you could always make it separate vdevs. The best route would be to start with the number of drives you want at least, and upgrade them via replacement as you go.

I think this can happen if the feed itself (the rss/atom file) has more articles than you specify. As far as I know this setting really only applies to articles it cached that are no longer visible on the feed.

All I do is look into the open issues, the community, docs etc. I don't remember auditing the code.

I have not had any problems on my end. I do know that for encoding, there are some quality issues with AMF when comparing it against Nvidia and Intel at equivalent bitrates that was only resolved with the latest 90xx series, but for Jellyfin purposes it works perfectly fine. I prefer AMD over Intel because for 3D acceleration, AMD wins hands down. I also like AMD CPUs over the absolute power-hungry heaters that are Intel CPUs because it allows me to use lower profile coolers and cheaper PSUs.

audience already agrees that complicity in genocide is an acceptable tradeoff to software freedoms I talked about that to show one possible counterbalance between liberty and usages which are probably not explicitly wanted by the authors. Another common example of freedom/restrictions is someone wanting to have their software permissively licensed while also not allowing cloud vendors to resell access to it. That's how you end up with licenses like Elastic's. Or, if you want another example of "free", look at the distinction between the GPL and the BSD license as it applies to Sony and the Playstation. One of the reason Sony chose BSD for the basis of its gaming system is because the BSD license allows for commercial usage. In that sense it is MORE free than the GPL, which would not allow the type of usage Sony did with the Playstation without conferring more responsibility to Sony, for instance, releasing their source. Under BSD they have no obligation to do so, hence it is more free in that respect. My whole point is a lot of people say "I want my software to be freely licensed" but they do not realize that they may be unintentionally opening the door to usages of the software that they do not want to see. One should not pick a license that allows for unfettered usage of the software if you have certain ways you don't want to see it used. As a final parting example, look at Prusa and their printers. They release the firmware and designs as open source. They they later get angry when companies clone their designs. This is permissible under the license. This is making Prusa want to lock down their future designs to avoid that usage. Anyone considering licensing of their own software should think very carefully about what usages they support or object to and license the software accordingly. If you release your software as BSD licensed and some company comes along and makes a billion dollars with it, you aren't owned a cent under that agreement. If this makes you angry, don't pick BSD.

Even on something like tor browser or tails?

I'm not spotting it. "AI" is only mentioned once. The key and secret in the docker compose don't seem to be API keys, but keys for directus itself (which upon a careful reread of the article, I realize is not FOSS, which might be anpther reason people don't like it"). Directus does seem to have some integration with openai, but it requires at least an api key and this blog post doesn't mention any of that. The current setup they are using doesn't seem to actually connect to openai at all.

I want to believe you have given this some thought, but for someone with as long a sea log as yours, you seem to have forgotten what happened when we "gave it time to sort itself out" for other services that are now completely entrenched in our lives and have made them worse for it. apps for everything not raising more complaint about the erosion of our privacy by private corporations not defending open standards like PDF and now PDFs are a security and compatibility nightmare "hey, maybe subscription models can be applied to printer ink" etc, ad nauseum AI itself is fine, and its been used for good (solving protein folding). But AI in just about everything else is awful. It wastes energy and water. It is actively making people dumber. I'm fighting a losing battle at work with fools who wholesale believe AI answers on any question and others who literally vibe code. If you truly believe ai is going to be better in the long run, you have not been paying attention to the last 30 years of technology becoming trash.

Yeah that might end up being necessary, I haven't found any easy solution to provide the 5A/5V required by a Pi5. Still pondering the power supply issue.

You also could just use Ansible Cloud init adds overhead to a clean Debian install. I've never really liked it personally.

I also like Stalwart. It's easy to setup and does its job very well. I'm just a bit nervous that the development team consists of one (!) person. Btw, can anyone recommend an e-mail client that speaks JMAP?