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  • cybersandwich@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.mlNixOS forked
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    2 months ago

    Wait so people got butthurt that a company made a deal with nix. That company also does business with ICE. And people are mad at Nix?

    What am I missing?

    Also companies and open source entities do business with all manner of government(s) all the time.


  • cybersandwich@lemmy.worldtoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldPost your Servernames!
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    2 months ago

    “rocinante” for my proxmox host.

    “awkward, past his prime, and engaged in a task beyond his capacities.” From don Quixote’s wiki page.

    It seemed fitting considering it is a server built from old PC parts…engaged in tasks beyond its abilities.

    The rest of my servers (VMs moslty) are named for what they actually do/which vlan they are on (eg vm15) and aren’t fun or excitin names. But at least I know if I am on that VM it has access to that vlan(or that it’s segregated from my other networks).









  • Breaking things is the best way to learn. Accidentally deleting your container data is one of the best ways to learn how to not do that AND learn about proper backups.

    Breaking things and then trying to restore from a backup that…doesn’t work. Is a great way to learn about testing backups and/or properly configuring them.

    The corrolary to this is: just do stuff. Analysis paralysis is real. You can look up a dozen “right ways” to do things and end up never starting.

    My advice: just start. If you end up backing yourself into a corner where you can’t scale or easily migrate to another solution, oh well. You either learn that lesson or figure out a way to migrate. Learning all along the way.

    Each failure or screw up is worth a hundred “best practice / how to articles”.



  • Nix is the vim of package management but without good documentation. So it’s incredibly powerful and useful once you get into it, but imagine trying to learn vim without any docs or guidance. Vim has a steep learning curve with good documentation, YouTube tutorials, blog posts, and forum guides.

    Nix doesn’t really have a wealth of that.

    That’s nix package management and nixos in a nutshell.