Of course the week I take off this happens, man was I concerned when I didn’t receive my paystub.

My 1Tb nextcloud instance cost around 10CAD per month and I get office suite and much more.

NextCloud is open source and self-hostable? Why not just cut out the middle man, pay for a cheap desktop computer, turn it into a server and host it yourself?

I don’t understand why people and organisation don’t use it more

I personally didn’t like NextCloud, I felt like for the tools they offered there were better alternatives out there, it also felt like I was bringing work home which is a big no-no.

Have had mine on the same keychain for 6 years now, Yubikeys are absolutely worth it, pair it with an AirTag or something similar and you’ll be set.

Important - disclaimer: Given that I do not know what hardware you have purchased my suggestion below may not be the perfect solution for you, if your hardware is underpowered then I would skip Proxmox and just install Debian as the host operating system, the installation for Docker & PiHole is the same, this lessens security but it’s unlikely you’ll be exposing your PiHoles directly to the internet so it should not matter too much.

Personally I would install Proxmox VE on these devices as the host operating system, Promox is a virtualiziation manager this lets you easily spin up Virtual Machines or Linux Containers.

Once you have Promox up and running I would spin up a Debian 13 Virtual Machine, these VM’s will act as your server, you can then follow the documents to install the Docker Engine & Docker Compose on the Debian VM’s and then PiHole’s guide to spinning up the Docker Compose instance.

If this is confusing don’t worry, follow each document as best as you can, ask questions and I’ll try my best to answer as soon as possible!

My own project

Given that majority of your project was contributed by Claude I’m afraid to ask my question. What differentiates this from competitors such as BentoPDF or StirlingPDF?

Defederated, thanks!

Best practice is to host 2 PiHole instances, if 1 DNS sinkhole fails you can fallback to another one (Primary & Secondary DNS Server) that way you don’t lose internet access.

Certainly read and try to interpret the documents as best as you can, I suggest going the Docker Compose route for hosting as it’s quite straight forward and a great tool to learn if you want to selfhost other software, fiddle around with 1 DNS sinkhole before you jump head first into getting the second one up though.

What is everyones preferred solution?

Host your own.

It seems like this could be massively improved by not including play sessions that’re less than some baseline duration, only including data where people have more than say, 2 hours of total playtime, and throwing out outlier data.

It would still depend on what’s actually being rendered at that time, before I upgraded my GPU I would abuse Sky Boxes knowing I can increase my FPS by simply looking up or away from geometry.

Yeah Linus thinks because he can easily validate the code generated by ai and know what to use and what to discard/recreate

I mean, the Linux kernel exists because of him? I would argue to say he knows the most about Linux than anyone arguing against him.

somebody is gonna fork it to keep it human only

People are going to generate and commit code without acknowledging the LLM usage, then 5-10 years will pass and a huge whistleblower will go ““BabaMan29484” has been committing LLM code for years and nobody except I knew about it!! [Insert evidence] [Insert community outrage] [insert fork of a fork created by “real humans”]”

I won’t argue and say that LLM generated code isn’t plagiarism, I mean it has to learn somewhere, but if it’s being audited by industry professionals I can’t see the negative to using it.

Just wait until you start learning about reverse proxies!

About a month ago, I bought a router that uses OpenWRT. With that, I setup up Adguard and specifically one of the lists that is supposed to block devices from phoning home.

How would I check that?

AdGuard used DNS to enforce its blocklists, you can setup your own DNS sinkhole server on your network relatively easily, point your devices to it, and view what servers your devices on your network are connecting to.

How is this even possible? I thought Youtube and Reddit ads are impossible to block via a DNS filter.

Perhaps proxying through Invidious and or Redlib instances? Given that a Redlib and Invidious URL’s follow the same paths as Reddit & YouTube it’s not hard to replace https://reddit.com/r/SomeSubreddit with https://lib.nextdns.tld/r/SomeSubreddit or https://youtube.com/watch?v=SomeVideoID with https://inv.nextdns.tld/watch?v=SomeVideoID

I like the atomic nature of it

Did you mean immutable? Never heard of an “atomic distro” before.

I picked Debian with absolutely no knowledge of Linux, have yet to switch or try other distros, it’s been well over two years now.

Electric bill.

Angle grinder and Zip disks, metal can be manipulated.

I’m pretty disappointed in my fellow PC users.

We’re supposed to be at least a little tech savvy.

My boss once asked me to trim a mp4 for him because he didn’t know how to on desktop.

Put my Debian 13 desktop to sleep the other day, didn’t think much of it as it worked in the past but this time it turned my monitors into CRT’s! I could see displays refresh, surprising how complicated a feature we all take for granted is.

Could you do better?