I usually prefer to use nix, as it’s a real language and basically serves as macro language/preprocessor for the configs that don’t have functions or such (obviously in this case Lua does) . So it gives me everything in one language (thank I generally kinda like), with proper highlighting, I can reuse code, and I can more easily cross reference between different services/apps.

That said, I didn’t know hyprland was going to make this switch. I guess I finally have to go see if I will like niri.

Not if you run it in two different processes. Then it’s exactly the same as your new setup.

Ok, that’s a valid reason. But you didn’t touch on that in your post. You only talked about performance. Hence my wondering.

That seems purely resource bound. So as long as your pc has enough cores and memory I feel like it should work fine, can’t see what brings it down except excessive iops? . But I haven’t had much experience with newer games like this, so I can’t really dispute your experience.

First of all, congrats on your server!

But I was wondering, though I don’t really know much about Icarus. But why wouldn’t you just be able to run the server on the same machine? If it only takes two cores anyway, most modern systems should easily run that besides the game itself no?

Not saying this isn’t a better solution, just doesn’t seem necessary to create a server for just that. But now you get to enjoy the experience of how deep the self hosting rabbit hole goes. Have fun and good luck!

Come on, you know it’s going to be 1/1/1970 most of the time.

Let’s encrypt doesn’t have to be accessible from the web, it accesses the web itself. It’s a subtly difference i guess, but you don’t need port forwarding or anything. Of course if your jellyfin/immich service is completely blocked from going out on the internet then it still won’t work.

as far as I know, there is no way to put a valid certificate like let’s encrypt for a service that is not accessible from the net

I don’t think that’s true. But Let’s encrypt does need to verify the domain name. If it’s just a domain you made up in your LAN that is an issue yes. But I have no experience with that though.

You could use self-signed certificates, they are free. but you would need to add custom trusted CA to all the user devices manually. I’ve never done this myself so no clue how troublesome this really is.

What I do is have a reverse proxy that requests a wildcard certificate (e.g ‘*.example.com’) with Let’s encrypt. And then route all my services through the reverse proxy with subdomains. You can get free domains with duckdns.org or others.

Could they not have created an AUR mirror and delayed that to be in sync with the main repo’s? It would have solved the AUR ddos that the Arch team got mad about a few times and the out of sync dependencies.

Buys closed eco system phone. Shocked it’s a closed eco system. Cue shocked Pikachu face?

I love it for using klipper. But when I started doing it the klipper pkgs did give me some troubles. You can work around them, but know you might find some issues on the way. Maybe it’s better now, I haven’t really updated that part of my config much recently.

Do know that not all arm devices are equally supported. rpi 3 and 4 are, the rest is community based (see: https://nixos.wiki/wiki/NixOS_on_ARM). Personally I run klipper on a x86_64 thin client for this reason and because raspberry pi’s were scarce and expensive back then.

I have to be honest and say it was a journey. Nix in itself isn’t really difficult I find. But everything together and finding the right documentation and figure out how NixOS comes together can be a bit daunting.

But a simple straight forward config is pretty doable. My advice is to start small and build up. You can reuse your old dotfiles and include them in the configuration directly, so you don’t have to convert everything to nix (right away). Also don’t scare away from using flakes, they are the way to go in my opinion.

You can define multiple hosts/systems in one configuration with each their own nixosSystem call. So you can define hardware/fs/network etc per system.

Also I like to add that the vimjoyer video’s on nix helped me with understanding some of the concepts, They are usually short and straight to the point.

I’ve converted everything to NixOS (Desktop, laptop, nas and 3d printer, rpi with home assistant) only my router is still pfSense (and thus BSD). It just makes configuration and updating so much easier from one central configuration. And I don’t have to remember what and how I installed something. It’s just there in my flake.

If it’s just those two programs and wine doesn’t work, I would use a VM. If hardware acceleration is a must have you can look into GPU pass-through, if you have a iGPU or 2nd GPU.

I never really worked much with rpm-ostree, besides a short stint with Bazzite. But never really customized it, so I don’t really know how that experience is. But I would encourage you to look into NixOS (or something else not image based) whenever you feel to experiment with another immutable. It’s very nice for servers.

You don’t have to reboot to adjust configuration or update. At least not with NixOS, don’t know much about other immutables.

Why not an immutable OS for servers? It seems like an even better choice for servers than for a desktop to me. It’s basically just like docker/containers but for your whole OS, configuration-wise.

I love my declarative NixOS servers/systems, and would never go back to imperative setups, it just seems archaic. The only exception I have (for now) is my pfSense router, as I don’t trust myself enough to setup a secure router.

I was impressed too, must people jump to gnome, KDE or xfce first. But straight to a tiling window manager. Good on you! I would never go back to a floating window manager now, wish I had discovered it straight away

So Google maps should be shut down too? Or you could use it to find a route to someone who has been doxxed for free! This logic is really flawed…

I always see people advocate for Stremio. But my experience was always very mixed. Half the time it would just buffer all the time. I guess it’s s my own fault for having little interest in the latest Marvel/Hollywood movies, but alas. I way more prefer my jellyfin/jellyseer/arr stack. Once it’s available I’m (99%) sure it works from everywhere in the world.

Jellyfin has a sign in through the app for tv. Which I tell them to use first. And URL is also nothing new. All this stuff are 30+ year old concepts by now. But to each his own!

I’m starting to think it acts as a nice filter. If they can’t grasp an URL + login, it would save me from tech support down the line.