I’m using nixos-anywhere to install and then deploy-rs to deploy updates to nixos vps’s.

Also using agenix for managing secrects for the services so that I can easilly have them all in a public repo, so that other’s could take a look and take inspiration.

My nixos flake url if you wan’t to take a look.

This week moved all my vps’s to nixos, so am now able to use one flake for my desktop and all my vps’s which significantly lowers down the time I need to manage my vps’s.

Nowto move my proxmox homelab server ( an old desktop pc I bought recently ) and all my server’s/devices witll be running nixos.

EDIT: An issue I’m thinking about is getting a “proper” server. Not a server like a server rack server, but a mini pc or something along those sides wbich would be a lot stronger and a lot more power efficient than the current 10+ y/o desktop pc I’m using currently.

So would like some reccomendations on that front, like what are some good mini pc brands and mini pc’s that I could have raid seted up on for nas or good budget parts and case to make one myself.

I started robotics at 12, started linux aroumd the same time but had to use windows for the program used for robotics competitions,

Stopped attending them at 14 so started using arch right after that and used it for 6 years.

After that used gentoo for a year at 20, and now I’m 21 using nixos.

I also started selfhosting with linix vps-s at around the age of 18, with debian. And last week started to move all my server to nixos with nixos-anywhere and deploying the server with deploy-rs.

Might make a blogpost on my selfhosting journey and on how I use nixos for selfhosting. Haven’t made a post since the start of the year.

From what I know it’s the people who are using asahi linux in general and it’s drivers.

Heard he got sent death threats.

Yes, agree that they are situational. In case if my laptop I’m unervolting mycou because if I won’t it will just crash when used at max speed.

Edit: in case of my brother pc, the temps were just horenderous for the perforformance he was getting. Plus the fans were barelly on even at 85C. Undervolting and making the fan curve more agresive allowed him the get much better temps at same fan speed, and lets him play some games he wasn’t able to before cause of themps. And the fans even at 100% are quieter than my laptops at 50% so he doesn’t mind them at all.

I followed a random guide I found on the internet for amd.

In amd case you can do it from their driver by going to performance tab and choosing tuning.

There you will find gpu setting, set them to manual and from there you can start changing fan speed and voltage. Voltage you change by 50mv first time and if stable by 25. When you come to a point where your game/program crashes you use the value from before that didn’t crash the game and that’s it.

As for nvidia I don’t know because I don’t own one and don’t have the money to own one ( they are 1k euro on average here for 4070 and 2.5k for 4090 on average ) only thing I know is that you will need msi afterburner.

I use nixos on my desktop, the server is a debian one but might be good to install nix on it.

I just have to import only one. Might just use thunderbird for that.

Will test out mailcow and see how it goes.

I use nnn for file management.

It doens’t have a preview pane by default, but I don’t need it most of the time, so I just use the plugin for it when I need it.

Also supports quite a few other kinds of plugins and features like bookmarking.

I think your phone is, doesn’t hapen to me.

It was a systemd issue, after installing network manager, enabling it and disabling systemd-networkd share now mount’s in a matter of second’s.

I don’t like the fact I got to use network manager, but whatever.

Dec 15 14:12:33 arch systemd[1]: mnt-nfs.automount: Got automount request for /mnt/nfs, triggered by 1926 (keepassxc)
Dec 15 14:12:33 arch systemd[1]: Starting Wait for Network to be Configured...
Dec 15 14:12:33 arch systemd-networkd[1612]: enp3s0: DHCPv4 address 192.168.0.3/24, gateway 192.168.0.1 acquired from 192.168.0.1
Dec 15 14:12:33 arch systemd-timesyncd[1587]: Network configuration changed, trying to establish connection.
Dec 15 14:12:33 arch systemd-timesyncd[1587]: Network configuration changed, trying to establish connection.
Dec 15 14:12:38 arch systemd[1778]: Started tmux child pane 2350 launched by process 2106.
Dec 15 14:12:46 arch systemd[1778]: Created slice Slice /app/dbus-:1.15-org.a11y.atspi.Registry.
Dec 15 14:12:46 arch systemd[1778]: Started dbus-:1.15-org.a11y.atspi.Registry@0.service.
Dec 15 14:12:46 arch at-spi2-registryd[2526]: SpiRegistry daemon is running with well-known name - org.a11y.atspi.Registry
Dec 15 14:12:58 arch kernel: logitech-hidpp-device 0003:046D:4074.0008: HID++ 4.2 device connected.
Dec 15 14:13:03 arch systemd-timesyncd[1587]: Contacted time server 161.53.131.231:123 (2.arch.pool.ntp.org).
Dec 15 14:13:03 arch systemd-timesyncd[1587]: Initial clock synchronization to Sun 2024-12-15 14:13:03.310583 CET.
Dec 15 14:14:33 arch systemd-networkd-wait-online[2039]: Timeout occurred while waiting for network connectivity.
Dec 15 14:14:33 arch systemd[1]: systemd-networkd-wait-online.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Dec 15 14:14:33 arch systemd[1]: systemd-networkd-wait-online.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Dec 15 14:14:33 arch systemd[1]: Failed to start Wait for Network to be Configured.
Dec 15 14:14:33 arch systemd[1]: Reached target Network is Online.
Dec 15 14:14:33 arch systemd[1]: Mounting /mnt/nfs...

According to log’s it’s a systemd-networkd-wait-online.service issue, which shouldn’t be an issue because I’m using ethernet and share get’s automaunt request when I login into my user and load my xorg server.

Yes systemd is waiting until the network is up before trying to mount them, and am using the feature of systemd to not load until I need them to load.

From reading the logs further seems to be an issue with systemd not being able to properly check if network is up because I don’t use network manager, because after systemd-networkd-wait-online.service times out the nfs share get’s mounted right away,

Wouldn’t know, because at the time I was by my pc maybe 30 mins a day because of my job, so I just let my system compile in my 13 hours work time so just never tested that stuff out.

I do know that it felt snappy always.

Agree, might go back to it, but when that came up at the beggining of this year ( or was it last ? ) about mainter’s made me leave it until the situation settled down cause I didn’t wanna use a distro in an unstable maintenanve state.

100%, I use to do global use flags at ‘-*’ and then set minimal amount of flags till I get something working.

Spent a whole day doing that.

I wrote at the end in an edit it’s for fun and learning new things.

I tend to get bored of running the ssme distro for more than a year.

Luckilly my machine isn’t a work machine and just my personal plaything which I can break whenever I wan’t and then spend time learning how to fix it ( exceot lfs. i still need to use it to manage my server’s )

I used to strip out more than half the features those packages provided that I didn’t need, so it does for my usecases.

Gentoo is a distro that you compile all the packages ( atleast used to be that ) where you compile packages with flags that optimize those for your exact cpu.

Also allows you to strip out features from packages while compiling like X11/wayland uf you don’t use either.

This can help a lot in general performance of your system.

That defeats the whole purpose of using gentoo tho.