Wow, it is a much bigger deal than it seems to be from the outside!

Resources

Here are the videos I watched to learn more about it:

https://youtu.be/aor29pGhlFE

https://youtu.be/oItwDXraK1M

Here is a #wip reference of fundamental information required to make a general evaluation of the amount of work needed and, possibly, an idea of the budget.

• What is the purpose of the website? (A small set of information pages, a blog/a newsletter, an interactive database, something more complex…)
• Do you want to edit the website yourself/yourselves?
  • How often? (Once a year, once a month, once a week…)
  • How much? (Just one page, blog posts, any page…)
  • How many people would need editing rights?
• Do you need an authentication or login system for the public? (Would they need to submit information, subscribe to a newsletter…)
• If you ask me to do something that requires a technology I can also learn about while building the website, that may lower my hourly rate.
• Consider that website development does not end after the website is made. There are maintenance and hosting costs. Understanding all the points above can give a quite clear idea of how much they would be. Hosting may be free and generally it can be limited to 3-7€ per month. Maintenance mostly depends on the website editing frequency.

Sometimes, briefly yet not too rarely, I see my life as a movie of which I am the main character. Whatever happens, good or bad, it makes up for the plot—cit. Alice Bleasdale. It is part of the story, part of the game. Tragedies occur, joyful moments arrive, and it is how life works. Living life as if it was a movie does not have to imply taking it lightly or not being enraged by what is wrong with the world (or hating billionaires, or destroying fascists), it is about contextualising it. It is about shining the right light on it. Exactly as a movie, it needs the right cinematography. It cannot be too dark, otherwise you understand nothing, like in any Game of Thrones battle. It cannot be smarmellato or it becomes cheesy and fake.

https://youtu.be/4cc9jyFMD5Q

Nevertheless, most of the time my sensitivity, my empathy, and my overall way of being make me feel everything, anything, much more intensely. Every single thought or event acquires a wholesome, totalising weight, and my positivity is swallowed by the overbearing weight of the current situation. Even though rationally I try to perceive my life as a movie, I cannot feel it at all. I am stuck in the vortex of current events and emotions, and I fail to see the bigger picture.

For this reason, I admire and I do my best to be inspired by fictional characters and real friends who I believe are great at living their life as if it was a movie.

The best of the best of the best at this is none other than Fleabag ❤️

https://youtu.be/b8pDI0dC2UM

By learning more about it, I found its advantages and its architecture to be very interesting, while remaining relatively simple, and (to the extent of my usage so far) completely compatible with Docker commands. I watched different videos (linked at the bottom of this page)

Rootless Podman configuration

Following the official rootless tutorial:

sudo apt install passt # apparently it is already installed as a dependency of podman’s apt package

In Linux, unprivileged users (non-sudo) do not have permission to open up ports below 1024. In order to allow ports ≥80 to be opened in rootless mode, a systemd parameter has to be set.

echo 'net.ipv4.ip_unprivileged_port_start=80' | sudo tee /etc/sysctl.d/99-rootless-ports.conf
sudo sysctl --system

Automatically start containers at boot

Follow the guide Autostarting Podman Containers. Deprecated. Using quadlets instead.

Quadlets

Quadlets are configuration files that allow Podman containers to run directly via systemd. Even though

Monitoring

For containers monitoring, I have decided to go with Beszel because it seems to be among the lightest and simplest options, but most importantly because the main developer and owner of the repository has a political statement in his bio 🔥!

#TODO))

Resources

• Monitoring my server with Beszel and Dozzle | Federico Scodelaroj
• Beszel Quadlet · henrygd/beszel · Discussion #572 · GitHub
• Chapter 21. Monitoring containers | Building, running, and managing containers | Red Hat Enterprise Linux | 8 | Red Hat Documentation

Resources

• GitHub - fpatrick/podman-quadlet: Personal Podman Quadlet configurations for self-hosted services in a homelab environment · GitHub

Current data

Following advice gathered from this post on the YunoHost forum, I found btop++ to be the best tool for observing the metrics of a system at present time. It is a simple solution to see at a glance how loaded the system is while it’s running.

I am interested in learning how to use common tools like Prometheus and Grafana to monitor the system over an extended timespan, and potentially alerting me via email for warnings or errors.

Beszel

#TODO)) Install Beszel

Nevertheless, I found this repository that documents in detail the whole process.

Convert uploads to JPEG XL

#TODO)) Using immich-upload-optimizer?

YunoHost

Nextcloud bare installation

A huge shout-out to my friend Claudio, who helped me understand and perform the most tricky passages.

deGooglization

Internet Freedom + Quit and switch + Switching to Linux

• IP addresses are assigned by ICANN (from above). In Reticulum, you can announce yourself to the network, only if you want.
• You can arbitrarily decide if you agree to be a transport node. Good uptime and connection with manu other nodes.
• Reticulum nodes in Metro line E between Rotterdam and Den Haag