
The most random stupid pic of my self, repulsive enough to make everyone drop the phone in discust.
Works amazing to stop people trying to snoop.

Depends on your country.
Where I live you have to take 35 ( 45 min long ) driving lessons from a driving instructor and then you are able to apply for a test for a driving license.
And if you fail you have to do 5 more each failure, so getting a drviving license here costs at minimum 1.4k euro up to how many times you fail ( each failure will cost you another 175 euro )

Me who has neither close, neither FCBD is celebrated here.

Had none, didn't own a device capable of gaming until I was 14/15 and even then didn't start playing games till I was 17/18.
I'm 21 ( soon 22 ) now.

Agree, wine started but without support from steam ti make proton creating game specific fixes and getting some anticheats to work on linux it would have taken quite a bit longer time to get to this point without steam creating proton.

Where I live ( the good old balkans ) we barelly ever call anybody for work, just because we are all handyman.
Just last year I painted my gradmas house and assembled a new kitchen for her ( was 20 at the time ).
And just in general all furniture and most work that's done on the house we do ourself, except work that is only legally able to be done with professional's or we didn't have experience with before, but learn how it's by watching the contractor and call another one for that kind of jobs.
Our average holiday's and day off's are just working on our houses because we are too cheap to pay a cont$actor for it.

Modified my nixos config even more, started hosting crafty controller so that ny friend can spin up mc servers easilly.
And like every week for months now trying to force my self ti write for my blog.
Also started working out again after 4 months now that temps outside aren't in negativrles ( metric system )

Like almost all my friends? It's the reason we are friends.

Depends on what you run on your system, but when my system idles my cpu is at literal 0%, ram at 600mb and disk usage is 0% (nvme), which ends up my total power usage to about 3W on idle or something like.
It's a laptop so doesn't use a lot.

Sorry, but to clarify no. When your kernel updates if you just log out and log back in you will still keep the same kernel version because linux keeps running a program on same version until you completely turn the program off.
That's why with the kernel and kernel modules you need to completely restart your system for the kernel to shutdown and use the updated version, it's just the way that linux works.
Hell you can even use a program after uninstalling it until you close it for a year if you wanted to ( once untistalled my termninal emulator, but still had it's window opened so just reinstalled it an hour later after realising I can't spawn a new terminal window )

I just keep my laptop on for weeks on end, until the kernel updates or something else that needs a restart, last 6 months I prob only turned it off 7 times.
And no, I don't really feel any effects cause it's linux which doesm't get clogged up like windows and power usage just idling is the same as just suspending.
Also personally don't use stuff like suspend or hibernate ever. Even have them completely disabled on my systems.
Note: I'm on nixos not ubuntu tho.

Good point

There was a woman here that used to work at a national park for 20 years but only 5 - 7 months every year, and after 20 years they finally accepted her for full time, she is now 47 but needs to work a minimum another 30 years to get minimal pension.
She didn't have the means to leave the country to look for work, and no other job wanted to hire her even thiught she would send couple hundred job application each year.
Now she is stuck having to work till she is almost 80 for any kind of pension.

Np on that front, my pops is a mechanic so got that covered.

My grandpa worked in a couple diff countries in eurrope back in 1900's, he worked for 5 years in 2 diff countries and then came back to work in his home country for 30 years and ended up getting pension from 3 countries.
Atleast back then you had to work for 5 years in a country to get their pension.

Car tires. Literally.
Also funds to fix my car if it breaks down.
I'm fucking owned by my car I need to go to work in this god forsaken country with no public transport.

My average dream as linux user of 8 years.

While I'm 5'9 (176cm) with size 12 ( man 45 europe ) shoes since I was 15/16 ( same height and foot size since that age )

Butchering, I live on a farm and butcher sheep/lamb and chicken is second nature to me ( started when I was 12 )

Work, because I ain't free till sunday. On sunday forced easter celebration.

Enabled hdr in windows 11 setting, now I think the gpu is dying.
So today I enabled the hdr setting in windows 11 and everything seemed fine.
Tried playing genshin and it crashed right away.
After disabling hdr I started getting weird artifacting so I restarted and everything worked fine.
I reloaded my gpu undervolting settings in radeon software (rx 6750xt ) and they worked fine.
Went ahead and upgraded the driver and rebooted. Now the undervolt settings crash on stress test and any game I'm trying to play.
Is the windows 11 hdr setting actually killing my gpu????
EDIT: Ended up changing the undervolt from -120 to -100mV and that seems ti have stopped the crashing. Can a driver really affect undervolting that much?
EDIT2: Actually it stopped crashing at -75 undervolt.

Don't forget to undervolt your gpu and change fan curve
Today I undervolted my brother's amd rx 6950xt by 120mv ( at 125mv a game we tested would crash at 100% usage and max power draw ).
Also made his fan curve more agressive cause by default it never wen't over 55% fan speed which is just stupid.
This in total lowered his temps across in mist games from average 80C to 55-60C and lowered power draw on average by 20W.
It also allowed him to play supraland at max settings with gpu not going over 70C instead of lowest setting 80C on average.
So yeah, if you never tried or bothered with undervolting try it and post your results. Or if you did it before post your story and results.

Good mail server for selfhosting
So I'm migrating stuff from my old server to a new provider and only thing left is email.
The problem is I used luke smith's emailwiz script ( the script and setup itself isn't a problem ) because it uses system users for managing users with dovecot and friends to setup a mail server.
So now I'm looking for a new email server to selfhost (preferably docker/podman) that in the future I can easilly migrate.Would also love if somebody has a reccomendation on how I could backuo and import emails from the old server.
NOTE: I use caddy as webserver, so the server should have a simple way on getting ssl certs, or abikity to easilly make use if caddy one's.

Interesting distro to try, or to try again
Hello, I have been a linux user for close to 6 years now and I have changed my distro quite a bit ( especially in first few months of starting out linux ).
I have wen't from ubuntu, xubuntu, fedora, peppermint, arch, artix, ... in first few years. After that I have settled on arch for close to 2 years. After that long time on arch I decided to try out and test interesting distro's for at minimum 6 months every year ( and if I didn't like them I would go to arch back ) until I found something else I could main because I have found a few issues with arch that I could accept but would become annoying from time to time.
Across the two year's I started this yourney I have used gentoo ( used it for a year but then the lack of a proper retroarch package made me change the distro, plus the 3+ hours compile times when updating specific software ( looking at you qt-webengine and firefox ) ), then I choose to try out nixos which I used for 3/4 months before all that main maintainer debacle and

Got 20 euro, what game/games to get on steam autumn sale?
Hello, I got 20 euro to spend on the autunm sale, so wanted to ask what games you would recommend to get.
Any kind of game work's of any kind of game work's up ti 20 euro.
You can reccommend one amazing game for 20 euro, or multiple small addctivie indie titles for up to 20 euro, anything goes.
Looking forward to check out your recommendations.

Good casual shooters
Hello, I'm interested into some good casula shooter's that work on linux. My only requirement is that they shouldn't EVER have to use an external launcher like ea ( have bf3 on steam and the ea launcher just doesn't wanna work ).
I played games like splitgate, halo infinite and battlebit remastered

Looking for my first handheld
Hello, I wan't to get my first handheld for playing retro games.
I'm mostly looking for a handheld that can handle 3rd generation consoles (nes/sega ms), 4th generation consoles ( pc engine/sega genesis/snes ) and handheld's like gb/gbc/gba.
In general no need for 3d consoles like ps/n64/sega saturn ( would be a nice bonus if it could, but I'm mostly only interested in 2d consoles for now ).
Something with looks of a gameboy advanced would be nice in my opinion.
Would like it to be able to be modded with diff rom's/customizable software and ability to be able add my own rom sets.
Price isn't an issue and am looking for the most premium possible experience with 2d consoles (I would most likelly mostly be playing gba games ).

Is ansible worth learning to automate setting up servers?
Hello, I have recently been seeing a boom in people using ansible for automating setting up vps's, services, ...
Is it worth it to learn ansible to do also automate the way I setup everything, or is a bash script good enough ( I know some bash scripting but ansible seems like it could be more worth the time to learn )?

Mattermost: Casual Selfhosters
Hello, today I would like to announce the creation of a mattermost group "Casual Selfhosters".
I created it because I feel like there is a need for real time chat at times when it comes to helping someone with selfhosting and some aspects of communication generally work better in real time chat, than in a forum like setting like what lemmy does.
The server is hosted on a dedicated hetzner machine.
I would love for the mattermost group to grow alongside this lemmy community and be a good addition in helping other people get into selfhosting.
Hoping for good feedback to make the community even better and hope people will find it usefull if they are ever in need of real time chat to help someone across the globe.

Selfhosted messenger/community software like discord
Hello, I would like to hear your opinions about a good selfhosted messenger like discord.
To list exactly what I mean by that is:
- No need for federation ( only will be used by friends )
- E2EE
- Support for direct messages
- Support for discord like server management by which I mean the ability to set rooms and topics for such rooms.
From what I know, this seems to be more similar to slack alternative's but wanted to hear opinions of others.
I have been thinking about either matrix, mattermost, rocket.chat or revolt chat.
I already have a XMPP server, but setting up encryption and client's has turned away quite a few people I would like to get onto this platform.
EDIT: As pointed by other people E2EE isn't needed for my usecase if no federation.

Restart Docker Container Without root privileges
Hello, I have a mumble server running as a docker container.
I'm using lego to generate let's encrypt certificates using dns challenge as an unprivileged user.
My problem is that I need to restart the mumble server so that it can reload the ssl certificate, which means restarting the docker container.
Is there any way to do this withuot adding the user to docker group, since there are security issues with that group where it's easy to escalate to a root user.
I thought about maybe a user level systemd service could be able to do it, but wan't to hear your opinions?
EDIT: I mention mumble specifically here, but this can apply to any server that requires manual reload of ssl keys, like postfix for example. I'm also not againd the idea of converting to something like kubernetes or even podman ( which would be harder cause of file permissions on all my binds ) if they can allow for woking on the container without root privileges.

Selfhosted twitter alternative, not mastodon if possible
Hello, I have seted up my lemmy server couple months back and am loving it. One problem I have with it is that I can't follow individual users so I have been thinking about selfhosting another fediverse service that will satiate my need to follow specific users.
Most popular platform on the world generally for that is twitter so I wan't to see if there is any good twitter alternative. I know of mastodon but have heard that it can be hard to selfhost and uses a lot of storage ( that wouldn't be that much of a problem with s3 storage provider, like what I do with lemmy already ).
So I would like to know if there is any simpler "twitter" alternatives for following single user's on the fediverse, preferably with s3 storage support.
If mastodon is the best in that regard I most likelly will just selfhost it.

Alternative to certbot for acquiring ssl certificates to use with nginx.
Hello, I wan't to ask if anyone knows of a good alternative for certbot for acquiring ssl certificates for nginx.
Certbot isn't good anymore for me since I started using crowdsec with nginx bouncer that uses lua block's inside nginx config that cerbot can't parse, making it not work anymore.
I use nginx because it's the one I know the best and for my use case work's the best. ( Hosting both program's directly on metal and docker container's )

Traefik + ntfy redirect curl
Hello, recently I have moved from nginx to traefik and have found an "issue" that I would like to have fixed.
Originally with the nginx config I had a block that allowed for ntfy to work with curl without having to specify https://
but with traefik this doesn't work and throws out Permanent Redirect
when trying to send a notification using curl.
This are currently my traefik settings for ntfy using labels:
yml
... labels: - traefik.http.routers.ntfy.rule=Host(`ntfy.cronyakatsuki.xyz`) - traefik.http.routers.ntfy.tls=true - traefik.http.routers.ntfy.entrypoints=websecure - traefik.http.routers.ntfy.tls.certresolver=lets-encrypt - traefik.port=80 ...
Is there any way to setup traefik and ntfy to be able to send notification without having to specific the protocol or is there no way?

Hetzner Server auction worth it?
Hello, recently I have started to see the limit's of vps's and have been thinking about getting a hetzner dedicated server from the auction. My question is are they worth it and if so what would be the best way to make use of them.
By that I mean should I get something like proxmox on it and make use if it that way, or install a stable os like debian and have it all installed in docker making use of the pure power of the system that way?
Edit: My use case for my server vps is my main website, but I also host a lot of alternative frontend' and some other thing like a feed reader (miniflux) and other things like that, that with time I have accumulated and if I wanted to have them all running well would either have to spend money in uograding one vps, or buy multiple smaller one's. In both cases this could end up quite costly.
Reason I can't do it on my own hardare is space contraint's, part's avalibility where I live and prices. They are high.
Edit2: If there is any other good alern

Jellyfin on a vps
I have a jellyfin instance running with radarr/sonarr/... for my media needs on my vps.
Problem is that I don't have huge amount of storages and I would like to expand the storage until I'm able to make a personal server ( I don't have space where I live for even a mini pc rn ).
From the options that I have been considering the contabo ( my vps provider ) storage expansion are quite costly so I have been thinking about hetzner storage boxes or a backblaze b2 bucket mounted with rclone/s3fs.
The problem with backblaze is that I use hardlinks with my *arr suite so to save up on space so I'm not sure if I can mount them preserving the hard links.
What would be your thought or reccomendation? Should I get a hetzner storage box and just mount it or is there anything else I could do until I manage to make my own personal server?