TeaWithDani

You get free healthcare, but you now have to speak french. Deal? :p

Yeah... I pay money for 2 cores and 4gb RAM. I'd read the fine print on those free services.

I'm not comfortable with free services anymore. Nor am I comfortable dealing with a company subject to the Cloud Act.

Ubuntu's "reputation" is nonsense. It's a great distro for servers. Security updates are really fast and using snaps in a server environment is really great. I recommend running things like Docker or Tailscale off snap. They will revert to a previous image if an update fails. Extra stability for a server as you run automatic updates. If you run everything that is not in the base install off a snap, you have an extra layer of sandboxing against any supply chain attack for dependencies.

Ubuntu will have more recent packages, that doesnt really matter in a server environment. Debian is otherwise fine, I just dislike it's installer and prefer Ubuntu's. I found it easier to sync third party drivers on Ubuntu.

Ubuntu Pro gets you livepatches for kernal issues, which may be worthwhile. Also done without rebooting.

Ubuntu also gives you better apparmour default profiles on more things, whereas on debian, its up to you to set them up.

Debian will be exactly the same, its just more conservative and has less of those extras I mentioned. May be marginally lighter on resources for that. Either are fine.

Oh, Simplefin does that. Really solid.

It'll be down to your bank's rules. My main bank and brokerage work flawlessly, sync everyday. My secondary bank and Amex need to be reauthenticated every week or two. So I just update those once a month. Just go on simplefin and run the 2FA plus some waiting.

It doesn't sync non-bank stuff, so there's some RRSP providers I just enter manually.

For $20 cad a year its fine. I wouldn't use it to track daily expenses unless you know everything will work. I do all my finances once a month so its fine for me.

I didn't expect to even need a NAS, but I can no longer live without two now. Having all my data in one place, automated backups on my secondary NAS. I found a cloud storage provider I like. Just the whole stack is wonderful and I'm never going back.

GoCardless or Enable Banking don't work? I see both on the Actual Budget website. One doesnt take new customers? Weird

I was using Wealthica before they started charging and Actual Budget + Simplefin is so much better. I'm really happy all my financial info is just mine and not exposed to any other company. The expense for Simplefin is worth it and minimal.

Any plans to support FreeBSD in the future? Or mainly focusing on a docker solution?

So far the only real vulnerabilities that Ai have spun up seem to be really obscure edge case privilege escalation bugs that have been around for ages but nobody discovered. They then get patched in days if not less. I would expect them to run out of low hanging fruit pretty soon.

Most of them can even be mitigated by preventing local access to a system.

There's tools to audit your network and systems. You can setup a SIEM like Wazuh. It'll tell you the same kind of stuff that have been good practice for a while and mitigate most of the ai assisted vulnerabilities.

I have a directory in my home folder for all my different docker containers. I back that up like my other critical files on my NAS, Backup NAS, cloud storage and external drive. Its all scripted to happen periodically.

The docker compose files I also upload to my local Git so I can version them. Make the git ignore skip everything that isn't a .yml

If you would want to spin them up again, yeah you could just copy them in a new place, make sure the docker-compose.yml is at the top and docker-compose pull the image, then docker-compose up. If your yml specifies that your configs are ./ , it'll know to look for them in the same folder as your yml and begin its file paths there. Anything outside your ./ in theory should be read only or be some kind of data off a NAS that is independent from the service. Its just not best practice in my eyes for your docker application to write outside of the folders beneath its docker-compose.yml location.

Just organize your volumes correctly and you can move the docker container anywhere you want with a copy paste and a docker-compose up. Imo docker-compose is WAY easier and faster than any GUI instance of Docker.

Distros are tools for a job. I stick with the ones that have the most helpful communities and/or the best documentation. I avoid communities that tell you off for asking help or documentation that is obtuse.

Still successfully troubleshooting stuff through 10 year old Ubuntu forum threads. Meanwhile learning the most through the FreeBSD handbook and it's not even Linux. lol