That’s really helpful, thank you. I’ve ordered an AX23 which will arrive tomorrow. I’ll try to figure it out in the next few days and report back.

Thank you! I’ll evaluate and report back.

And openwrt is capable enough?

Yeah it’s insane right? Every address is reachable when I open a port range. And it’s like there are ~ 10 predefined services (HTTP/S, SMTP, …) and the category “All other ports” where also 22 is part of. So I really have the choice to either keep everything shut or leave everything wide open.

I think I can’t use my own modem but I’ll have to double check with my ISP. But yes the Wi-Fi is also provided by that router and it’s also quite crappy.

Thank you! Do you have an example for such a firewall device? Could something like the TP-Link Archer AX55 in IPv6 “pass-through” mode do the job? Or would you go for a standalone firewall? My budget is around a hundret bucks.

haha, word

Take a look at the podman kube play command which lets you run K8s-style stack definitions on podman. Has partly replaced compose for me (although I still have some docker servers running for stacks that don’t play nicely with podman yet).

That’s what’s kept me from using it, although I very much like the idea of paying for a good service. I would love to see them figure out a way to avoid accounts.

IIRC there is a plugin for Caddy that can do what you are looking for.

Edit: here you go

Your comment reminds me of that great tune by Pink Floyd.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDDzR2zSgsM

I migrated my home- and webservers from Debian to FCOS a while ago and I’m very happy with how everything works.

Troubleshooting butane/ignition was a bit of a pain in the butt but worth it imo. I suggest just reading through the FCOS docs, they guided me well while setting everything up. I use podman on my webservers and docker on the homeserver (bc nextcloud aio is not fully podman compatible). I use the installer to build a pre-configured ISO that I can deploy where I want to.

Someone in the comments mentioned Flatcar, which I think looks compelling as well, since it’s basically the same but more of a community effort.

I think this is a step in the right direction. Everyone can lose a portable device or it can get stolen, so protecting the potentially sensitive data is important.

I think what people are complaining about is not full-disk encryption itself, but the fact that people are not used to being responsible for their cryptographic keys.

I think we should educate people regarding this responsibility. We did it with regular keys we use to unlock our homes.

No radio expert here, but would’nt this at some point interfere with the transmissions if deployed at a large scale?

I do where possible, but it’s not always available.

Yes, you can just go ahead and install nix in your distro to use e.g. nix-shell to create a development environment.

I recently switched to Debian and use nix to install / provide the likes of node / python / go for development.

Step by step, it seems, YouTube is evolving into something that has previously been called TV.

Sounds like a rather frustrating journey for you.

Thanks! Glad to see the 8x7B performing not too bad - I assume that’s a Mistral model? Also, does the CPU significantly affect inference speed in such a setup, do you know?

So you access the models directly via terminal? Is that convenient? Also, do you get satisfying inference speed and quality with a 16GB card?

Why exactly are the IBM dependencies a problem for you?

I guess I just like independent, community-driven distros, since there’s less space for financially motivated enshittification. Just shortly after I decided to go with FCOS, RedHat / IBM decided to close down CentOS, for example.

I can’t really find good resources on how FCOS is working and what are the benefits. Is it updating the system/kernel automatically as well as the containers?

The system & kernel yes. The whole system is basically a read-only system “image” for which the devs make sure all the packages play nicely together. Packages are not updated individually, but whole system “image” are released periodically, which the system then downloads automatically and reboots (you decide when it actually reboots through the config). If anything goes wrong, the system is rolled back to the previous “image”.

When you go with podman, there’s a systemd service you can enable which will update the containers (i.e. pull the specified image tag). I’m not aware of a similar mechanism for Docker, which is why I use watchtower for that which has been working smoothly so far.

Edit:

And what are generally, in your opinion, the advantages of FCOS?

For me, it’s the (quite safely designed) auto-updates of the base system (I just feel like having to do less repetitive work), infrastructure-as-code aspect, and the container mindset (as I containerize everything anyways). Also I just have a weakness for new, fancy stuff.