i am un-admining. free-range artisanal services wherever i happen to drop them. hell i don’t even know what’s running and what’s not until i try to access something.

i manage tech all day so my home tech is nothing but abject chaos and i’m ok with that. i have backups and i can go without if needed.

I suppose it boils down to a threat model. I wouldn’t lose sleep if any of my VMs imploded and I had to rebuild them from scratch.

I don’t believe there’s cause for concern. I just assumed based on the prompts while setting up the backups that it would actually restart the VMs. I was wrong.

Just sitting here surprised that my proxmox backups didn’t interrupt my VMs.

I use both. I have some things I want in VMs and others in containers. I run a VM to run containers in podman alongside my “normal” VMs.

Proxmox has its own ability to run containers but I was more familiar with docker/podman.

Your DNS provider may offer static hosting as a paid service. I’m using porkbun and their static hosting is pretty cheap, plus they handle SSL and whatnot for me.

i have very few services and tend to lean into virtual machines instead of containers out of habit. i have proxmox running on an old mini-pc that needs to be replaced at some point. 16GB of RAM in it, 4 cores on the CPU (it’s an i3 at 2ghz), and a 100GB SSD.

VMs and services are as follows:

• ubuntu vm
  • runs my omada controller in docker
  • used to run all of my containers in docker but i migrated them to podman
• fedora vm
  • runs several containers via podman
    • alexandrite, where i’m composing this now!
    • uptime kuma
    • redlib for browsing reddit
    • kanboard for organizing my contracting work
• dietpi in a vm to run pi-hole (migrated here when my pi zero-w cooked itself)
  • this also handles internal dns for each server so i don’t have to type out IP addresses
• home assistant HAOS vm

home assistant backs itself up to my craptastic nas and the rest of the stuff doesn’t really have any backups. i wouldn’t be upset if they died, except for my kanboard instance. i can rebuild that from scratch if needed.

i’ll be investing in a new mini-pc and some more disks soon, though.

i know there were a lot of recommendations for tailscale/headscale (and they’ll keep coming because it’s the current market darling) but i’ve found netbird to be more ergonomic for my needs.

for my car and motorcycle, I have an older Garmin dedicated GPS that still gets updates and has routed me better than Google maps in the past. it doesn’t require a subscription, though some newer ones do. I think I can update it with open street maps if the worst happens.

I use Organic Maps on my phone, which uses open street maps. It works pretty well but I often need the actual address for a location as opposed to the business name or search won’t work.

I’m a Kagi subscriber so I try to use Kagi Maps in the rare instance that I’m looking things up on my computer. It is a bit more limited.

podman is also rootless.

big fan. used it on a pi zero w that I had hosting my PiHole for years. when the hardware finally died, I just installed dietpi on a VM in my proxmox server and used it for pihole again.

sure, I could’ve used another distro but it only seemed fitting for this use case.

I use Markor Notes on my android device with syncthing to send it all to my PC. It’s a terrific markdown (and general text) editor that doesn’t have much of an opinion about how you organize your files.

they’ve already got my data, buddy.

affiliate links, tracking cookies… this could have been a gist on github.

i used netbird heavily at my last job and i use it for a few things at home. it works pretty well.

is that because asymmetry is the norm due to these ISPs’ practices or because people just don’t upload things often as a common behavior?

i recall a lot of my peers hosting mail and web servers among other things when broadband started to become more common, before they started blocking common ports as “security” and “antivirus” measures designed to extract more money from you.

nope.

there are dozens of us!

these “ai bad” posts are getting so tiring. they just feel like upvote farms these days.

I’m on a fire emblem warriors (3ds) kick.