To be fair, Stephenson is kind of a pro at doing in 200 pages what could be done in 50.

I think Galland drags D.O.D.O. down. I read D.O.D.O., and agree with you (I pushed through it) and decided to give the sequel written by just Galland a shot. It was awful. I quit after a chapter or two.

I enjoyed Y. It is definitely a little dated, but overall still holds up imho

What do you think so far? I finished it recently.

I got a test box set up with nixos and a config that runs all of my services. I wanted to test the declarative rebuild promise of it, so I:

1. Filled the services with my some of my backed up data (a copy of the data, not the actual backup)
2. Ran it for a few days using some of the services
3. Backed up the data of the nixos test server, as well as the nixos config
4. Reinstalled nixos on the test box, brought in the config, and rebuilt it.

And it worked!!! All serviced came back with the data, all configuration was correct.

I’m going to keep testing, and depending on how that goes I may switch my prod server and nas to nixos.

I also recommend forgejo over gitea. I’m running forgejo and I love it.

For your reverse proxy, look into pangolin. It combines proxy with wireguard tunneling and auth. So you can set up access controls on a service by service level. It’s great. I use it and love it. No affiliation. Just really happy with how it works.

I agree with the other folks recommending Pangolin on a VPS for this. It’s great. It combines a reverse proxy and a wireguard tunnel together for you. You don’t have to open any ports on your home network, and Pangolin allows you to set access levels for each individual service.

So you can have some fully open for those who aren’t going to mess with VPNs and tunneling, and you can put other things behind Pangolin auth to add additional protection.

Are you able to ssh in with Pangolin? I’m also using Pangolin on a VPS, and though a little while ago (last year somteime?) they demoed a tool for ssh over the pangolin tunnel, I could not get it to work.

Agree! I had no idea another was forthcoming, and also felt the third was the weakest in the series.

Fuck Bill Gates.

Local library is another great source to get those CDs to rip mp3s

Kate Mulgrew is awesome.

Nice. I got three 14TBs around the same time for the same reason glad I did.

I scored some new WD 14tb drives for $120 US last October, and I am glad I did! Was a hell of a deal.

What desktop environment/window manager are you using?

Android or iOS?

On android I found symphonium to be a great app to use with my navidrome server. On iOS, play:sub was the best experience I found

Neal Stephenson’s Polostan, and so far thoroughly enjoying it.

I was just citing the article’s stated workaround since that’s what everyone will want to know.

Agree. I was just citing the article.

The workaround is pay for YouTube premium.

Edit: the above is is what the article says. Not my opinion. YT can get bent. Firefox + uBlock has been my “workaround” for years.

What do you like about chezmoi vs stow?