Man, I’ve been living and working in Germany for close to 10 years now. Proxmox is like that 50yo colleague of mine. Hard worker, reliable, really knowledgeable, a treasure trove of info, but he can’t be budged. He insists on installing any new VM using the GUI (both Windows and Linux), he avoids learning “new things” like Docker or Kubernetes, and really distrusts “the cloud”.

I will keep using Proxmox, as I have for many years both at work and at home, but we are migrating from a VM (with Docker) setup to Kubernetes. It would have been great for Proxmox to offer some support there, but…

This is Fairphone’s website. I’m not that anal about it, doesn’t bother me too much, but I did see it on several websites, and I’m just confused…

I’m not saying it should include English, I was just using it for clarification. I think each language / country should be in the native language.

I only realized the list is a region selector after it was pointed out to me. Maybe this proves my point, I didn’t know what the button I pressed was for :) Having the region/country name in the website language does make sense. Language names however…

Flags do help, but there are none in this example (mobile or desktop version). Sometimes flags can be confused too (Romania, Moldova, Chad).

I don’t have a solution, and I’m not the usual ranter, I mostly post in the cooking community :)

You are right, it is a region switcher. I didn’t realize that, maybe because the “change region” button was in a language I didn’t know? :)

I see what you mean, interesting. Didn’t really look at NixOS as a server os. I personally prefer using multiple compose files (in the process of migrating to k8s). I share resources too, like in your example, I just point to the existing DB instance, not create a new one for each new service.

May I ask what you mean by NixOS support? There’s a docker compose you could use in their repo…

I use terraform, helm, a bit of ansible and gitlab/forgejo (for cicd). The minimum amount of scripting I do is shell, I don’t have a need for more…

Back in the days of manual deployments and semi-automated configurations, I did use bash.

What is your need for complex scripting/programming?

I believe R-- stands for Readarr and G–R-- stands for GoodReads.

Oh damn, they’re expensive! Good find indeed!

Hosted with Jellyfin, for clients I use Symfonium on Android and Feishin on desktop.

ansible can seem like just a fancy way to run shell scripts with extra syntax, but the real power shows up when you start managing more than one machine or need repeatable, “idempotent” (i love this word) setups. ansible handles state rather than just running commands, so you can describe what you want instead of how to do it step by step. it’s also easier to maintain over time, especially if your setup grows or changes. just add that new vm to the inventory list.

if you’re already comfortable with shell scripts and just want to get a few vms going, you could totally get by without ansible. but if you’re planning to do this more than once, or want to be able to rebuild things cleanly, it’s worth it, imo. it could save you a lot of headaches later on.

i use it at work, i manage about 40 vms in our pre-production environment with ansible. if i need to install a new package on all, it’s one line and one command (ran in a pipeline). if i need to change the settings for unattended-upgrades on the debian machines only, same thing.

however, our “production” environment is k8s and a handful of external services, and we use terraform to manage all that.

i guess it all depends on your needs.

They also have an API, I think a chunk of that revenue comes from there. Think 3rd party apps and services having chat bots, writing assistants, etc that use openai’s API.

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Not exactly answering your dilemma, but I was watching a cooking channel yesterday (Sorted), and they were talking about seaweed - it’s wild (heh). You can use it to make straws, bags, packaging and all sorts of stuff that’s foodsafe and biodegradable. And apparently, even if we replaced all the plastic used for that kind of thing with seaweed, we’d barely make a dent in the ocean’s seaweed supply - we’d use less than 1% of it.

Give easyeffects a try.

Be honest, and when there is something you don’t know, just say so. I am hiring right now, and many people adjust their CVs to match the job description, but then don’t actually know some of the technologies mentioned there…

Also, the line between confidence and arrogance can be very slim. Try to be confident, but don’t overdo it.

Oversimplifying it, Ansible playbooks are nothing more than some commands that should be run on a remote machine via ssh. Ansible knows or has modules for a variety of different package managers (apt, yum, etc) and automagically knows how to handle services or various config files.

It can get complex, but I think just the startup phase, until you have an inventory of remote machines, the ssh keys are in place, etc. I second the Jeff Geerling recommendation, his stuff is solid, both ready to use playbooks, and tutorials.

I would suggest to also look into cloudinit. Makes setting up VMs on proxmox easier, faster, more consistent, with users, networking, ssh keys, etc ready to use (by you or by Ansible).

Ffmpeg is totally capable of doing this. Something like ffmpeg -i in.mkv -vf "crop=width:height:x:y" out.mkv might work. You would need to specify the crop area (x:y), which you can get with ffmpeg’s cropdetect. Here’s an article about it. To automate this, I would use a for loop in a shell script, for more control, or just a one liner if width, height and x:y are the same for all:

for file in *.mkv; do ffmpeg -i "${file}" -vf  "crop=width:height:x:y" "cropped_${file}"; done