aerc with mbsync and msmtp and neovim for composing

I don’t really care about phones and my parents give me their old iPhones for free.

App images don’t work on alpine. Use flat pack or run the app image in a chroot

foot

Alpine Linux edge

I would not suggest mastodon for such low powered hardware, its also overkill for a personal instance. Akkoma or GotoSocial would work much better on a Pi. The annual cost is pretty much just 3-15$/year for the domain name.

GitHub is not open source

Maybe sourcehut if you need more than git hosting.

I selfhost my own seedbox at home. I have a vm on my server which is always connected to a vpn that runs qbittorrent-nox.

I’m not really a distro hopper but I just have my home directory as a git repository with a gitignore file. https://git.sr.ht/~cowingtonpost/dotfiles/tree/main/item/.gitignore

Alpine Linux, repositories contain most software for a desktop and server, minimal base system, fast package manager. I would only recommend it to an advanced user that does not use proprietary software as most of it will not run because it is linked against glibc but alpine linux uses musl libc.

Maybe around 2nd grade with the piper computer which was a small rpi based laptop that you built. I switched fully in 5th grade when my windows install broke. A few months before that I switched on my laptop when my math teacher reminded me about it. I Have rarely used windows since but for a few months I used a Mac laptop. My linux laptop (Dell xps 13 7390) I had was hidpi, kind of slow and died quickly and the m1 Mac hardware was just plain better (this was close to when the 2020 m1 Mac came out so no asahilinux). I have used pop, manjaro, arch and alpine Linux. I have been using it for a few years now and never plan on going back to windows though I do occasionally use macOS for nonfree/closed source apps. When I first switched the only game I played was Minecraft which worked just as well as windows. Now almost all the games I play are free software like Minetest and super tux kart.

Bupstash

Easy fractional scaling on sway

All the time on both my laptop and my 4 screen desktop. I use swaysome with sway to get awesome wm style workspaces for sway.

GParted live

Still fedora based

• Caddy (web server)
• Agate (gemini server)
• FreshRSS (rss reader)
• Yarr (rss reader)
• ergo (irc server)
• akkoma
• prosody (xmpp)
• conduit (matrix)
• nextcloud
• soju (irc bouncer)
• gamja (irc web interface)
• qbittorrent-nox
• unbound/dnsmasq
• isso (selfhosted comments server)
• smbd and nfs server
• pivpn wireguard
• minecraft stuff in seperate ubuntu vm:
• pterodactyl panel
• pterodactyl daemon
• probably something else I forget
• currently just running a monero miner as I have not been playing minecraft recently.

Hardware: Main server Ryzen 7 3900XT with 64GB of ram, two 240GB ssds running in raid1, two 4tb hard drives running in raid1, running proxmox with mostly alpine linux VMs

Secondary Server: Intel nuc running alpinelinux, only running secondary unbound/dnsmasq server so if my main server goes down, dns still works.

Late 2013 iMac: I was using it to run an iMessage to matrix bridge but I was not able to get it to work so now I just vnc into it to text. (suggestions welcome as vnc is annoying)

I also have another intel nuc that does not do anything.

All of these servers are connected to an APC back-ups UPS.