I tried a USB KVM switcher. I only recall there were serious issues and it didn’t last long.
Now I use a high quality USB dock and physically unplug/re-replug a work and personal laptop. That’s been a simple and reliable solution.
For my home server, I ssh into it.
Ghost has a lot of these features as well as being a blog and handling paid subscriptions and donations.
You use an IMAP syncer, like this one:
A word of caution: I professionally hosted email for over a decade.
90% or incoming email will be spam. Anti-spam tools will need regular updates. Backups are also super important.
All things considered, I don’t host my own email anymore although I know all the pieces involved.
There are also some independent email hosts that are good like Fastmail or for extra privacy, Proton Mail.
If the emails live on your server, can’t you use software there to send, receive and search emails?
There aren’t log visualizers for every artisanal log file format. But there’s a movement towards supporting JSON format logs for more services, and lots tools that can understand JSON logs making generating graphs and metrics from arbitrary logs fairly efficient.
If this tool is making the logs harder to parse by using a custom format, that’s something the tool could improve.
Some apps support both plaintext logs for humans and JSON logs for tools.
I recommend generating some metrics from the logs and graphing them yourself.
Perhaps the free Grafana plan would have what you need to parse the log files and visualize the metrics you want.
I’m tempted to try Hikari just because it uses Darcs.
I preferred it to Git until Git dominated so thoroughly that I started using Git for personal as well as work projects.
Look at how Dynamic DNS supported. Does it require full access to the account-- dangerous-- by using your login credentials or an API token with full read/write access? Or does it over a very limited scope access that gives the Dynamic DNS tool precisely the access it needs to update a single DNS record-- much safer! The latter is what CloudDNS does.
There are two services involved. Domain registration and DNS. Most domain registrars now provide some free DNS service, with basic features. I monitor dozens of domains, and I can tell you that these free DNS services with registrars are most likely to have short DNS outages as well.
ClouDNS is a professional, high-quality DNS service and that does one thing well. As far as I can tell, they don’t do domain registration, so that will always be a separate service. One of the things that ClouDNS does well is making Dynamic DNS easier.
Domain.com sounds like a domain registrar. You would keep that service and point your name servers for the domain to the ClouDNS name servers.
ClouDNS makes DDNS easy for a low cost for 1-5 domains.
Fuzzel and Rofi are picker/launcher utilities.
More alternatives are compared here: https://mark.stosberg.com/fuzzel-a-great-dmenu-and-rofi-altenrative-for-wayland/
I built a console-only laptop once for financial reasons. I wanted something to travel with on a trip and was donated a laptop that, I think 20 MB of RAM after I upgraded it. I was able to run vim, perl and mutt was very tolerable performance.
I don’t think there’s really special tips. Pick a goal of some tasks to accomplish. Work towards them, discover the rough edges and find solutions for them. If you install everyone else’s favorite CLI apps, you can end up more than you need.
All that said, if I had the memory to run a GUI, I probably would have do so. But I wasn’t going to have a lot of time for web browsing and other laptop on that trip anyway.
A lot of the bindings are the same, because Helix was inspired in part by Vim.
Helix overall tries to make more consistent vocabulary and “nouns” and “verbs” in the keybindings, so there are some breaking changes.
Someone published a more “vim-like” set of keybindings for Helix: https://github.com/LGUG2Z/helix-vim
I started with that and then have slowly disabled a number of them as I come to appreciate the Helix defaults, and have realized that some of these vim-bindings are overriding other Helix bindings that I wanted.
A better out of the box experience-- fewer plugins required. More discussion here: https://urbanists.social/@markstos/112586854536602496
Anyone care to compare this with Helix?
I also switched to a trackball, The Kensington Expert.
I have also heard good things about the L-Trac.
https://www.amazon.com/X-keys-L-Trac-Red-Trackball-Mouse/dp/B06XWLCLGB?ref_=ast_sto_dp
Right. I’m glad there are options. Despite their flaws, web UIs for email are massively popular.
I like to manage services maximally with systemd so it was a natural fit for me.
It did not seem difficult to set up web and database quadlets so they are properly networked.