I guess getting a flip phone and stick to an eBook reader would be a good solution

thanks for this, so it’s not that bad and it seems to be working fairly good enough… Mmmh I might think about that, how’s the battery life? How long do the tips last? The pen is active or passive?

I also looked into supernote, it’s expansive, but it’s totally worth the money if they can offer a full Linux support with an e ink device, and it’s better than the pinenote because of the repairable hardware and the pen which doesn’t need tips replacements.

But they have kinda pulled back on the Linux development, it looks like it was more marketing than other, they have been promising it for a while but they’ve stated it’s harder than they thought.

I won’t buy an Android device so I’ll wait until a real Linux support is added.

I think the second batch is already out, called “community edition”

Mh I get this, yes you pay more on outsourcing but usually you also get a service and an easier time, I would like to understand how much does it actually change…

Surely I’d have to understand how much it’s economically worth it. On super basic plans I remember even seeing something like “40€ for 1 year website CMS hosting” (on the cheaper side). Which is the cost of a basic VPS on which you can probably run 100 sites on low traffic… And charge each client 80€ for hosting + maintainance, it’s an easy great gain you’re getting per site. And maybe add something if they want also email. Great passive income in this case.

But on bigger plans tailored to devs more than to direct clients does it keep being worth it? How much would I spend to host 100 WordPress websites + email on something like Hostinger VS self hosting them all on my VPS?

I guess it also depends on your experience with self hosting, at first I was messing up when doing it, now I understood that most apps really just need mostly the same stuff, and it’s mostly all easy set and go. Unless I get hacked or get above some of my VPS limits I don’t see big issues coming if I’m hosting 4/5 services for my clients.

I already self host some stuff on my own and rarely have to touch it unless I wanna add features or something like that. I guess with more clients you’ll have to factor in scalability and/or managing multiple servers: all great stuff to learn but also yeah def more complex than doing a login and have a nice dashboard with all the services there ready for you…

Use a reverse proxy to proxy everything through https, then you can install how many services you want. Caddy is super simple, you can reverse proxy with just 1 line.

For calendar and contacts (caldav, cardav) Baikal is extremely easy to install and use. And pretty minimal.

As far as I knew reverse proxies could only reverse proxy stuff coming in from 443 or 80, I didn’t know they could listen other ports as well!

Main reason why I was using a reverse proxy at first is because I had everything behind cloudflare, and cloudflare can only proxy and give you an SSL encryption for stuff that goes through 443, so I could make Caddy listen to 443 and then forward to interested ports.

But this leaves out everything that needs to go in some other places than 443, and requires its own standalone ssl certificate, which is a bit cumbersome. Pheraps these can be proxied with other proxies than cloudflare, hopefully giving SSL to everything…

I’m not sure I understood the upstream ssh thing, what do you actually do?

Self hosting IS hard, don’t beat yourself too much because of it… After all you’re trying to serve services for yourself that are usually served by companies with thousands of employees.

A server requires knowledge, maintainance and time, it’s okay to feel frustrated sometimes.

GNOME all the way

Yes you’re probably right, I definitely have bias and the time spent tryna fix the bug influenced this…

Thanks

I know some basic Rust (currently at chapter 9) and a little bit of JavaScript.

I’m trying to work with headless CMSs and that requires some understanding on how APIs work…

Even tho I wouldn’t want to stick with JS, I don’t really want to dig into frameworks and dependency hells.

But I like the concept and I need to build a site that grabs some data from an external api, so a headless cms would be my choice to grab the data and structure them there in order to be rendered later in something like a static site generator (I’m quite good at Hugo). Or will learn some basic React and try to build a template on my own there…

I think essentially I would like to achieve something like this

Thank you for your answer!

Yes I’ve considered using Hugo data sources, but handling all events in one single data file is not really a good way to manage data because Hugo can’t programmatically generate content pages from a single data file sadly… Also again, even if I make a script able to do this, I don’t think you can modify content when already created without handling single posts individually.

I could generate a “list of events” but not individual pages from it and not an RSS feed for posts which I would need for newsletters etc…

The thing with CSV is that I kinda lost track of where the actual updated data is, so I’m keeping that updated too, yeah I know I’m a mess.

All the stuff cited is needed for one single job essentially: contacts, newsletter, events… Which is gathering self published and externally published events and sending them to a list of chosen emails + some integration with social medias.

I’m not a webdev and I thought I could solve this much more easily, but I think doing this correctly would involve using at least an headless CMS + something that is able to grab data from external APIs + some JS framework for building the frontend.

Or relying on a ready full CMS like Ghost or WordPress + theme and hosting on a VPS, which honestly is what I’m leaning towards…

I want to avoid JS if possible as I had terrible coding experiences with it, I know some Rust but webdev in rust is not really a good option from what I’ve learned.

What do you think?

No I actually prefer GNOME, but have to use KDE because I need specific features (kiosk mode), but yes I feel like Gnome is so much better integrated with its defaults apps!

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That doesn’t take into account privacy coins like monero, which have different purposes, but most crypto is bullshit.

Glad to know xfce has a kiosk mode, I wonder if it’s easier to set up than KDE or GNOME…

UFW definitely and maybe also selinux or apparmor to give internet access only to applications that need access!

I thought about Nix, it is indeed cool to declaratively install stuff and it would indeed be very helpful to set system settings all from one file so that you control everything there, but I don’t think that’s what I need, I think I’d need a more focused desktop environment maybe?

Kiosk environments could be a solution, because once the UI is limited, you can install software in any way you like and from any distro really, I think the focus is to keep it minimal under the hoods and very simple on the surface!

How is the user experience compared to matrix? Is it easy to gateway towards matrix or other services? Can I easily join matrix or other communities servers?

I see a lot of people are now using matrix but not so many xmpp, but yeah it hoggs resources on my server too. Also I feel like it’s still pretty buggy…

Didn’t think about the 2 machines thing. But yeah it looks definitely easier than setting a transparent proxy… But I guess all of this has to be on the same network, I cannot use an external server to which I connect to via wan because at that point the connections would be already need to be unproxied going out right?

But can’t your setup be done on the same machine with a firewall?

Yes DNS and pihole were never thought as content filtering tools