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I just made a mirror out of two NVMes―they got cheap enough not to bother too much with the loss of capacity. Of course, that limits what I can put there, so I use a bit of a tiered storage between my NVMe and HDD pools.

Just think in terms of data loss: are you going to be ok if you lost the data between backups? If the answer is yes, one NVMe is enough.

Another alternative: https://pushover.net/

the issues related to that macro still exist, but the author seemed to call it out and link to an article about it (which doesn't seem disingenuous at all to me).

That's fair, I stand corrected and I overreacted a bit.

I stumbled on the unintended cancellation a few times, but I’m used to select! paradigm from the other languages (and not used to how differently it behaves). I suppose I just expect the examples of its usage to be explicit and actually show what it takes to make select! behave in a way that doesn’t abruptly drop your async function after only going though half of it.

What I find slightly dishonest is bits like

This way of using select in a loop could potentially cause issues regarding cancellation of futures (although in this case it’s fine)

The select example is pretty straightforward and comparable to such in other languages, even to Go's switching on channels. But rust hides an extra bit of complexity with the cancellation concerns that people don’t want to talk about unless absolutely necessary, and it is necessary in so many cases!

You don’t need -it because you don’t run an interactive session in docker. It might be failing because you ask for a pseudoterminal in an environment where it doesn’t make sense.

Seq is expecting structured logs which yours aren’t. So you want to either convert your app's logs into a structured format (which is generally hard for a random third-party application) or use a log collector that's fine with non-structured logs (e.g. Loki+grafana don’t care about the shape is your logs and you can format the output while querying).

How does it compare to archivebox in regards to specifically saving content that's a mix of websites and YT videos?

I’ve been using FreshRSS and Reeder (now Reeder Classic) since google reader stopped being a thing. It's pretty great.

There were quite a few games using the same formula (and improving on it), to the point where I feel Desperados would be my favorite in that genre, not Commandos itself.

I still remember having to reparation my drive and reinstall windows, upgrading from fat16, because commandos wouldn’t fit on either partition.

It'd be hard to find an actual product because your use case is rather niche and all of those platforms have and expensive certification process. You can DIY a matter solution the easiest, though, there's plenty of devkits for standalone matter devices.

You can (trivially) spin up a fake matter switch from one of their examples. It requires a service running on a Raspi.

Otherwise, what was wrong with a virtual switch in homebridge? I’ve been using one of those for years now to do a bunch of homekit automatons.

I have a dedicated vm for things that are crucial to the home network, either latency-critical or network related.

That'd be my dns resolver (I enforce it over VLANs by hijacking anyone trying to do DNS to other resolvers, like random IoT devices), homebridge for less important home automaton and my own matter controller for most important home automaton (controlling the lights).

My router of choice is RouterOS in another VM. I tried opnsense, pfsense, vyatta, and a bunch of others (even a containerized Cisco route), and I settled on ROS, because it was the only one who could do IPv6 properly (apart from Cisco, but that has other issues).

For the less important things I run them on k8s and really, there are only two bits worth mentioning as essential: ArgoCD and nixhelm. Together, they provide effortless and mostly automated software updates with very easy rollbacks. I don’t have to go and manually update every single bit of software and that saves huge amounts of time.