yeah but from a University IT Admin standpoint NixOS would just be so much easier to maintain and set up. you literally would just need one config file to slap on all the machines. Install the OS, clone the config, rebuild, walk away and go to the next computer. Program causing issues and needs to be removed? cool edit the config, push it to the repo, clone it to all the machines, rebuild.
would be brutally easy though.
I use Bitwardens self hosted option, VaultWarden, that I run in a docker. works fine. I use it with the bitwarden CLI since I’m using QuteBrowser on all my machines. I then run a weekly backup of my vaultwarden to an external ssd.
Beauty of it is that it will also work with Bitwardens extension on chrome or firefox. So if I’m on another machine and I need access to my PW’s I can just install the extension, add my self-hosted vaultwarden, then remove it when i’m done.
I deleted it because the GNOME users were getting annoying.
yeah I thought I was an Arch addict up until like 3 weeks ago when I decided to give NixOS a go…I just can’t imagine myself anywhere else right now.
The other week had a GNOME dev reply to a thread of mine on mastodon stating that the users desire to select a default terminal emulator was an “edge case” and it was beneath GNOME. then all the GNOME fanboys came out to his defense.
It’s an insufferable DE and community.
sure thing, just gonna get started on it now so…give me like 20min.
Sorry, took 30min not 20…anywho https://market.andmc.ca/
welp guess I’ll set up a Canadian instance for this today. I like it. good idea.
done. https://market.andmc.ca/
PLEASE NOTE FOR MY FELLOW CANUCKS: I’m just starting a test on it within the GTA (Greater Toronto Area) at like a 50km range. if it’s fine after a couple days then i’ll gradually expand it out. I DON’T have a lot of time to work on it today so It’s very bare bones right now but it’s up and seems to be working fine. have at it I suppose.
Second NOTE: I have no clue how to deal with a marketplace so as far as “rules” go i’m clueless so…don’t be a dick.
I run Akkoma, Navidrome, Searx, valutwarden, RomM, Forgejo, wireguard, RDP, and a few other things all via docker. Honestly I just keep everything in their own dir and just have Yazi on my server to make it easier to manage. I don’t auto update anything, it’s all manual updates.
I’m probably going to slap Watchtower in there to just make things easier. don’t really need to over think it in all honesty.
I know when I tried to sign up with Herztwhatever, the other popular European one, they wanted my ID and I said no way. but yeah OVH has never once asked for mine.
really? I never had to do that. They’ve left me alone since I originally signed up with them.
I have OVH for dedicated but I’ve also used their VPS and they’re great. They leave me alone, don’t hound me for anything, cheap prices, reliable as I’ve never had issues them. can’t complain. They’re Euro based but they have servers near me in Montreal so I use that which is great when I put my VPN on there cause now I get student discounts everywhere since my server is at McGill University.
yeah I ONLY just recently switched to fish after using zsh and oh my zsh for so long - pretty much since first starting linux cause I once saw someone using it on unixporn and I thought “that’s cool”
when I switched to NixOS zsh with all the plugins was a total slog. switched to fish and it just HAS everything that zsh/oh my zsh and the various plugins had but baked in.
so yeah in Fish it’s just starting to type something and hoping it’s still in the history.
Very serious. I kinda fell into it myself when one of my clients reached out to me late last year about needing help with some project they utilized Claude Code and a vibe coder to build from end to end. After that I thought “huh, wee bit o money to be made here”.
It’s a menial/easy job for sure but man you charge a Premium for it. These companies have no idea what they’re doing I mean hell they put their entire company on the back of a 20 year old junior dev and an Anthropic subscription. I generally charge double what I would normally charge for dev work and it’s always less work, thus I’m able to take on more clients to fix this stuff which means I’m making much more for less.
Like I said a friend of mine simply went back to the place he got laid off from and told them he’d fix their fuck ups and nickle and dimed them to do so. I and others simply go on LinkedIn and call out the bullshit from tech bro posts and then say we’ll fix it. the thing is YOU have to be the one to advertise your service because companies still aren’t going to admit they fucked up and post ads asking for help. Trust me they ARE looking for help they’re just won’t openly admit to it.
it’s very menial/easy. BUT you charge a premium for the service because as /u/pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip put it these places are very desperate to fix their fuck ups and fix them quickly. Like I’m talking builds or projects that could be months along and suddenly…nothing works. or something breaks. or nothing can be added. or more common than anything the AI claimed it had added something when it reality it either didn’t or simply made a #todo comment and vibe coders continued on.
But yes the pay is good. I essentially get paid to tell a company how much they fucked up and what it will take to fix. There is always the very slim possibility of refactoring but i’d say 8 times out of 10 the only clear path forward is to start from scratch and that generally means hiring devs again.
yeah I know I just thought i’d be funny for people to be cloning and pushing a bunch of porn repos and then throwing their “personal” stash into .gitignores
FINALLY someone wrote something about my job. This is EXACTLY what I’ve been doing for the past year and I make more money doing it than I did as a regular freelance/consultant dev.
Seriously people, if you’re a dev learn and get good at code reviewing. And honestly you don’t even have to be THAT good at it because the slop that is puked out by the likes of Claude Code is so god damn easy to find. Deal with the bullshit that is LinkedIn and start advertising yourself as someone that is a sort of “digital janitor” for AI. you’ll get clients.
A buddy of mine that was laid off by a company saw what I was doing and decided to be even more ballsy than I was and actually go BACK to said company and offer them assistance in cleaning up the mess they created by laying him and other devs off. He went back as a freelancer, charged them a premium, and now is “working” for them again but making MORE than what they were paying him and now he gets to work on his terms for doing less work.
These places fucked up, they are now learning how much they fucked up, so take advantage of their fuck ups and fuck them even more. I got ZERO sympathy for ANY company that leveraged AI for their builds and tossed their dev teams to the side. But make no mistake, I charge these places an arm and a leg and they deserve it.
yeah because when I want to be social or check out porn github is the first place that pops to mind.
Although…now that I think about it…doing git clone on a porn repo would be convenient. could even easily update it. hm…Actually I think Australia might be on to something here
yeah and boomers were saying the same about us when we were watching a squirrel singing about “Gonads and strife” or a badly translated Sega Genesis game claiming “All your base are belong to us”
ALL generations watch dumb shit, stop acting like this ONE generation suddenly originated dumb shit to watch.
yup discovered this on my server yesterday. needed something on there so just did sudo apt install blahblahblah and then come to find the little ubuntu fucker installed a snap of it.
I really should have gone with another distro for my server but meh i’m too lazy to fix it now.