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PostmarketOS allows you to use upstream Linux

You probably have your network locked down much better than me. That should work too.

For me, it was easier to set up authelia to limit access. I don’t trust the “authorization” portal in foundry so I set up a real authentication proxy.

As a dev I’ve had experience with the developer culture and norms in different languages, and NodeJS stands out to me for invoking (other NodeJS) dependencies for even the smallest things.

Left-pad is the best illustration of this dependency culture. This also means vulnerabilities spread across the entire npm landscape instantly, since everything depends on almost everything else.

I’m hosting foundryvtt on a k8s cluster. I’m using Authelia+lldap to have only authenticated users passed on to that behemoth of a NodeJS app that is undoubtedly full of vulnerabilities.

I have Authelia set up to enforce 2FA for any request outside my users’ home networks. Or so I thought, but one of my players kept getting asked to 2FA.

Turns out I forgot about IPv6. He connects over IPv6 by default.

Wow, amazing!

It’s copy-pasted, not linked, but this is essentially a crosspost of: https://lemmy.ml/post/36614892

There are some good answers there already

This is just using old laptops as servers with extra steps.

Let me present my self-hosting strategy:

1. Buy old laptops for less than €100 a piece, especially if they have good hardware and cracks in the frame, dirty keyboards, etc.
2. Put them in a cabinet with power and an old 1Gb ethernet switch
3. Install whatever you want on them (in my case a Talos Kubernetes cluster)

Much simpler, and a lot cheaper

CPU requests were filling up on my setup. Got a dirty cracked used Ideapad with 4C/8T (i5-8265U) and an NVMe SSD to reinforce my Talos Kuberbetes cluster. Cost €65.

Upgraded it from 4GB soldered + 4GB stick RAM to 20GB RAM total. 16GB DDR4 sticks only cost €20 on the used market nowadays :)

RAM upgrade done, still need to add it to the cluster.

Then I’ll install a nice observability stack: VictoriaMetrics, VictoriaLogs, Grafana, and set up alerting finally. Afterwards, I’m thinking of adding Karakeep.

Yeah it’s been great for a few years but it’s slowly falling apart. I’ve been putting off getting a replacement as it looks like the only options are downgrading or triple the cost (or more)

I use a Reverb G2 which is directly driven by the host pc through OpenXR, no compression or onboard processing at all.

I only use it for flight sims.

Understood, I’m wired so no compression. It works well for me

Try flight simulators in VR. Upscaling saves you at least €400 in GPU cost

Note that Frame Gen does not help here, as not getting nauseous in VR requires low latency. Frame Gen actually increases latency.

Proton already had PROTON_FSR4_UPGRADE=1 though?

Been using it on my RX 9070 XT on CachyOS for months now

So, fish are paraphyletic to whales?

I’m not actually sure because I haven’t measured it. But I’ve read that while CPU and memory overhead is small, disk IO is much faster without virtualization.

Sell the expensive minisforum pc, buy 3 used laptops, use https://github.com/onedr0p/cluster-template

Done! Full GitOps bare metal Talos kubernetes cluster that runs your workloads so much faster than any VM. Without hypervisor or Ansible or systemd or ssh. Just YAML manifests all the way down. Cert-manager for automatic certificate management. SOPS for local secrets management.

A few months later, you can have this:

Volsync for automated encrypted backups that automatically populate your volumes when you completely reset the entire cluster.

Rook-ceph for shared replicated storage among the nodes.

Authelia/lldap stack + Anubis botblocker to protect public-facing endpoints.

I guess I should start a blog.

Maybe Signal drains battery when it can’t use Google Play Services for notifications and falls back to keeping a connection alive to Signal servers instead?

Tell your buddy you can play Helldivers with him!

Helldivers 1 and 2 are platinum and gold rated on ProtonDB with recent reports on both confirming they work well.

https://www.protondb.com/search?q=Helldivers

You’re both right: one doesn’t exclude the other.

• Yes we need to be more careful about privacy and who we trust with our data
• Yes we need to protest and take a stand against fascism