SinTan1729

But that just makes most ports unprivileged. That is a solution, but less preferred than my current one.

I mentioned in the post that it seems to make the client IP opaque to caddy.

Masquerade was enabled. I need to keep it enabled, since I use it as a Tailscale exit node. Can I just disable it for incoming connections to 443 and 80? I don't want the client to see the internal network.

IIRC, it can work with pacman using packagekit-qt, but it's not recommended.

I had a very similar setup at one point, and what I did was just install Linux on the SSD. I'd recommend against mounting the HDD as /home as it'll make your file manager feel sluggish, and would be an overall bad experience.

I used to just symlink directories from the HDD as ~/Pictures, ~/Music etc. and most software would just be able to work with those. You don't really need to move software to your HDD since they rarely take much space, and moving to HDD will make them very slow.

For games, Steam and Lutris will let you select the installation directory on a per-item basis so you should be just fine.

That said, maybe you could use this opportunity to get a new larger SSD and then you won't have to worry about this anymore. Also, you'll be able to keep your important data on both drives, so you'll have sort of a backup when something fails. (A more robust backup solution will be better, but hey it's a start.)

It's like everything else, you need to actually do it to get better at it. The more you want and try to get better, the harder it'll feel. The best way is to just enjoy doing it. But it's easier said than done.

For me personally, since it's not my job, I don't feel any pressure programming, and it's kind of a stress reliever. I'm not very good at it anyway, but the improvements I've made were due to the fact that I didn't feel any pressure in learning new things, and was able to do things at my own preferred pace. As an example, for the last few days I've been learning about the internal working of SQLite. It's pretty complex, but I don't feel like I need to know and remember everything, so it's easier for me to actually get through it. (Btw, if anyone reading this has experience working with SQLite, let me know, I'd like to discuss some stuff. It's about optimizing some queries, so you don't need to know about the SQLite codebase, just a rough idea of how it works, and some experience with Rusqlite. Fwiw, happy to add you as a contributor in my project if any performance improvements come out of it.)

But it's a different story when it comes to learning stuff for my actual work. Even though the rewards are bigger, the process feels much worse. (Hating on Deligne-Serre representations right now. :( They're beautiful objects, but the pressure to learn is just too much.)

So, if you're like me, try not to take it too seriously, and it'll be easier to learn.

Had a really old machine in high school that could no longer run Windows 10 smoothly.

Forgejo and Codeberg are great (I use both), but only for backups, at least unless you're already well known. For small developers, GitHub is pretty much the only platform that might let others discover your project.

Lean is a functional programming language, and can be used as one i.e. you can make absolutely anything in it. But it's mostly meant for theorem proving, so you won't get any libraries/support for regular software dev. That said, I do know folks who have written complex software (I remember seeing the code for a raytracer) in it, so it's definitely doable.

It does work for me every once in a while.

Great article. It's very interesting how much can be done with literal trash lol.