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Mapy.cz gradually transitioning to Mapy.com in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

Never heard of them , but sounds like they're gaining traction.

They're also a financial supporter of open street map: https://blog.seznam.cz/en/2024/12/mapy-cz-now-financially-supports-the-openstreetmap-project-helping-to-contribute-to-its-operation-and-development/

Good distro for mostly gaming system? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I haven't seen it mentioned here, so just an FIY: Linux Mint is a "regular" distro, while Bazzite is an immutable distro, meaning the root filesystem is read-only.

That means a lot of the "normal" ways of doing stuff you find online will need to be done differently. For example installing system level packages requires a reboot, to boot in to the new "system image". If something gets booked you can reboot in to an old system image to recover. Regular desktop (Flatpak) apps can be installed without rebooting.

Bazzite is based on Fedora, and very similar to Fedora SilverBlue (immutable version). So if you can't find answers when looking online "how to do X in Bazzite" try instead "how to do X in SilverBlue".

And FYI Linux Mint comes with an easy to use app Timeshift for system level backup and restore (by default it does not backup your documents etc in your HOME folder). Very handy to recover from a borked update or installing something you shouldn't have.

Buy European hardware and office supplies in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Ugh, me neither. Bought by Snap-On according to Wikipedia:

Bahco is a Swedish brand within the hand tool industry, which is now part of SNA Europe, part of Snap-on.

Buy European hardware and office supplies in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Same for Cocraft as far as I know (Clas Ohlson white label)

EuroStack – A European Alternative for Digital Sovereignty in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

No, full stack made in Europe. From silicon (microchips) upwards. Including cloud platforms, e-commerce, AI, and more.

Hopefully they'll funnel a lot of investment in to growing and adopting existing open source projects from Europe.
Image for example if all EU institutions used their Office 365 license fees and instead invested in LibreOffice development, and all adopted LibreOffice

You just gotta think different in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Wait what, why? I'm out of the loop. What's up with Proxmox and glib 2.0?

DAE feel like DuckDuckGo is now just as good as google for the vast majority of searches? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

No and kinda yes. Duckduckgo has its own webcrawler, but also adds in results from other sources including Bing, Yahoo and others.

Where to buy a mini pc in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yes this! They sell HomeAssistant Green for 100$ and HomeAssistant Yellow does ship from various European sellers at various prices.

Otherwise agreed a used 1liter PC from a local IT refurbisher the best option if buying a general PC for HA.

Where to buy a mini pc in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Oh cool, 4x 2.5G ethernet for €200! These could make an awesome pfSense / openSense router.

I've seen similar boxes on AliExpress etc , but there you never know what you're getting, with model numbers and "manufacturers" all over the place. And forget about any form of support.

Where to buy a mini pc in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Edit: somehow forgot that HA sell their own devices, HomeAssistant Green for 100$ and HomeAssistant Yellow which also supports the project.

Original comment: Highly recommend a used "enterprise mini PC" from Dell , HP or Lenovo. Get it from your local IT refurbisher, eBay or your local ebay-equivelent.
These are sometimes called 1L PCs for their 1 Litre size. Model names are Dell Optiplex, HP Elite desk or Prodesk, Lenovo Think centre. Prices are €100 to €1500 depending on age and specs. €150 should be more than enough for HomeAssistant.

Alternatively https://slimbook.com/en/ sells Linux PCs out of Spain, and https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/ out of Germany.

Another option is the british RaspberryPi, but that might be more hassle. You need to separately get a good power supply and cable, good SD-Card, case, maybe with fan. And its ARM not x86, but that doesn't matter for HomeAssistant unless you're doing something very exotic.

Need coffee in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Am I looking in to a mirror?

ArchiveBox/good-karma-kit: A Docker Compose bundle to run on servers with spare CPU, RAM, disk, and bandwidth to help the world. Includes Tor, ArchiveWarrior, BOINC, and more... in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Not a problem when self-hosting on own hardware. Especially in winter. Overly complicated spaceheater goes brrrr

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Why use Named volume vs Anonymous volume in Docker? (reddthat.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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What are the pros and cons of using Named vs Anonymous volumes in Docker for self-hosting?

I've always used "regular" Anonymous volumes, and that's what is usually in official docker-compose.yml examples for various apps:

volumes:
  - ./myAppDataFolder:/data

where myAppDataFolder/ is in the same folder as the docker-compose.yml file.

As a self-hoster I find this neat and tidy; my docker folder has a subfolder for each app. Each app folder has a docker-compose.yml, .env and one or more data-folders. I version-control the compose files, and back up the data folders.

However some apps have docker-compose.yml examples using named volumes:

services:
  mealie:
    volumes:
      - mealie-data:/app/data/
volumes:
  mealie-data:

I had to google documentation https://docs.docker.com/engine/storage/volumes/ to find that the volume is actually called mealie_mealie-data

$ docker volume ls
DRIVER    VOLUME NAME
...
local     mealie_mealie-data

and it is stored in /var/lib/docker/volumes/mealie_mealie-data/_data

$ docker volume inspect mealie_mealie-data
...
  "Mountpoint": "/var/lib/docker/volumes/mealie_mealie-data/_data",
...

I tried googling the why of named volumes, but most answers were talking about things that sounded very enterprise'y, docker swarms, and how all state information should be stored in "the database" so you shouldnt need to ever touch the actual files backing the volume for any container.

So to summarize: Named volumes, why? Or why not? What are your preferences? Given the context that we are self-hosting, and not running huge enterprise clusters.