Well, if masochism is your kink…

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What’s cool is that I can watch it build the feature in another page (actually, I have a ttyd session in the app so I can bring up a terminal on the Pi to work with Hermes or Opencode) and it will run pytests against a test instance of the service, then swap it into the production files and restart the service. I get about 2 seconds of disconnect where the cards don’t update, and then I refresh the browser and it’s live. If I don’t like it, I can tell it to revert to the earlier commit or change things. It’s magical.

Then I blew a hydraulic hose and went to bed. AI can’t help me with that.

Just can’t resist eh.

I have an old seed drill and the ECU smoked itself last fall. $6000-8000 if I can find a used one and then wait for it to show up, hopefully it works.

Pulled out Hermes on GPT5.5, spent the weekend building a DIY unit that monitors shaft and airspeeds, controls clutches, and gives me a browser page that I can watch all that stuff. I’m currently sitting in the tractor and waiting for it to build me a new feature I didn’t have on the old monitor where I can manually enter acres done.

It would have taken me months to build this and I’d have done nothing but work on that. Now I can tweak this while I work, or even access it remotely and change things if someone else is using it.

People can get on their high horse all they want, it cost me almost nothing to build something I can modify as I wish now. AI has democratized software. Hate it all you want, it works.

Don’t let the anti-AI bullshit get you down. You built something that worked for you, it isn’t the basis of national security for everyone and you wanted to share it. And you opensourced it so if I want to bolt on an IRC downloader or something, it’s easy.

I appreciates you.

Calibre doesn’t sync reading position.

If you’re new to it all, this is probably the safest approach. Getting mail isn’t hard, sending it is where the potential gotchas will getcha.

If you want to give it another try, I’ve used Mailcow for about a decade now, after running on Exchange for twenty before that. Mailcow is way easier to set up and maintain than Exchange.

Key to it all is making sure you have your DKIM, dmarc and SPF records set up correctly, as well as a PTR with your internet provider if you can manage it, though that seems optional.

Never had a problem with the big providers bouncing my mails, just a couple little outfits that couldn’t figure their filters out correctly.

Better than fucking Discord. I won’t even engage with a project that uses Discord as it’s support channel. Fuck that.

Essentially its a paid seed box. It has most things already cached, and if it doesn’t, you can copy in a magnetic link and it’ll torrent it for you and save it to your account cloud (and presumably make it available for other users but it counts against your credits so delete it when you’ve watched it).

Personally, I’ve rarely had to get it to pull a feed for me, it has nearly everything I’ve wanted cached already.

You might want to consider Premiumize for Usenet (and torrent cache) at that price. Catch it on the Black Friday sale. I think it does NZB as well.

Don’t use any btrfs raid levels besides mirroring. There are long-standing raid bugs that they wontfix in 5 and 6 that have led to data loss.

Ham and cheese sandwich.

Some HP SFF with 8GB+ and maybe 6th gen or higher would suffice. Spend $100 on a used one which will come with a small SSD. Slap a used 4TB drive in it for storage. Install Debian, Docker and use the NC AIO config.

Don’t piss around with a Pi that’s going to be twice the price with a tiny SD card (that you shouldn’t use for volatile storage), no NVME or SATA, and a tenth of the processing power.

Most people should be using a VPN and not exposing these things to the internet at large via proxies or port forwards.

Synergizing good EQ through the single pane of glass.

I never could get Technitium working correctly, it’s like there’s some switch you need to throw to actually get it to accept requests. I posted that and had a couple of other say the same thing. I didn’t spend a lot of time with it, IMO a DNS server should serve requests out of the box.

Went back to Unbound on my OPNsense router.

Forgejo is fine. Don’t expose it to the internet unless you have to, or mirror your repos to Codeberg and let them worry about it.

I see plenty of people using Excalidraw that way.

I’d bite the bullet and learn how to use Compose from the command line so you can work on it over SSH. If you want a UI, try LazyDocker