Shout-out to mailcow-dockerized, a GPL-3 licensed setup of postfix/dovecot etc with sogo as webmail. Managed by a German IT company, I’ve been running it in production for more than a year, serving a handful of domains. Very happy with it.

https://mailcow.email/

https://github.com/mailcow/mailcow-dockerized

Oh, and they’re on mastodon as well: https://mailcow.social/@doncow

+1 for the letsencrypt wildcard with DNS verification, been using this for years. with dehydrated (https://github.com/dehydrated-io/dehydrated) you can automate renewing the certs, pretty convenient.

One thing i didn’t see mentioned yet - you can also easily create a wildcard for a subdomain of your domain, e.g. *.local.example.com. Most DNS providers let you define something like _acme-challenge.local IN TXT ... so you don’t even need to define an extra zone for local.example.com. Probably makes no big difference, but i like it ^^

I had used /e/ as a daily driver for about a year, on one of the officially supported phones (FP3). Installation was easy, and coming from other custom ROMs I remember thinking "wow, this just works!” ;) Didn’t use any of the /e/ services, things worked fine connected to a self-hosted nextcloud.

For a usability I think this is how painless an alternative ROM should be if it wants to reach a wider audience.

#im14andthisisdeep

I’m using https://github.com/dracut-crypt-ssh/dracut-crypt-ssh on some of my servers. The initrd opens an ssh port where you can login and enter the passphrase. Setting it up is non-trivial, but it works well. Haven’t tried it on Debian but there should be something similar.

Wera for screwdrivers and wrenches. Best tools I ever had.

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Well, yes, but…

nextcloud forked owncloud back when there was only the php codebase.

opencloud forked owncloud ocis, which is a rewrite in go.

So while both forked “owncloud”, or “something named owncloud”, i doubt they’ll have any code in common.

Owncloud seems to be pretty much over IIRC.

The company behind it got bought be some american company in 2023, that promised that everything will “stay as open as it is” - you won’t believe what happened next ;)

Then recently many of the developers left to join OpenCloud, which seems to be a fork of owncloud, lead by a german open source veteran.

https://github.com/opencloud-eu

Here’s (some of) the half-life 2 devs watching a speed run: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sK_PdwL5Y8g

The centre being all black would have added a nice touch

gentoo. i’m not even gonna look this up but i’d be surprised if immolo hasn’t installed in that platform yet ;)

Y

You can get this as a snack in Taiwan, broken instant noodles with seasoning ;)

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LGR has a nice review of this and a similar machine: https://piped.video/watch?v=6bODiZ5bP84

I’ve recently done this on one of my machines, these were the steps I as far as i remember:

• backup!
• add the new disks to the machine
• partition them like the smaller disks
• add the new disks to the array(s) (as members, not just spares)
• take care of bootloader things while the raid is syncing
• your raid should have 4 devices in sync now
• fail and remove the smaller disks from the raid one by one
• resize the partitions on the bigger disks to maximum
• grow the MD raid to the new size

If you use luks and/or lvm some additional steps will be needed to grow them as well.

If your system can hotplug disks there’s a chance to pull this off with little to no downtime. :)

It’s produced by Chris Morris, so: both ;)

I can’t really tell you what to use, but from my personal experience - stay away from glusterfs and drbd. both have caused me serious trouble when trying to run them in a production setup. ceph seems to be pretty solid, though.

This needs a coffee siphon as well, might even fit gentoo better than the espresso maker. harder to set up, takes longer but it’s different from what everyone else is using ;) great coffee, too