I’ve been playing #nomanssky on and off for years. It’s easily one of my favorite games. I’m going through another round of jumping back in after several of the new updates have happened, and it is so much fun to be able to revisit my old bases, but then be totally surprised by a bunch of new […]

Very excited to have gotten through a pretty big lift + refactor in the #homelab over the last few weeks. For a while, I’ve had one foot in my old, disorganized, scattered Docker services, and one foot in a new, fully automated, #gitops pseudo-prod for home. Well, no more. I’ve cleaned up all […]

The winds around here were pretty epic today, and I had killer #kitesurfing session! It was also ~70F degrees in the Midwest. Tonight, it will drop to 16F, not including wind chill. My short term fun is also interrupted by my long term dread of how wildly […] [Original post on defcon.social]

I cannot tell you how underwhelmed I normally am when I switch between #webbrowsers. It borders on frustration, because many times, I am switching for inconvenient, or frustrating reasons. For the last few years, I've now switched on a few different occasions for various personal, privacy, and […]

There's been a really cool increase in switching to #linux over the last year. But, almost certainly, the first problem you run into after deciding you'd like to try it is "holy shit...wait, what's a distro? And how many of them are there? Oh god...I just hate Windows/MacOS and would like […]

Calling all #kubernetes people. Y'know how sometimes you deploy those little services that have a helpful web UI, but with sensitive data in them? You don't want them open to the world, but your platform team benefits from having them? Yeah. This is the magic […]

I actually appreciate, and mostly agree with the honesty here. But there's something that I feel like so many people in the #linux community either miss, or perhaps intentionally bristle at: Especially in North America, there are many people with an atrophied problem solving muscle, at best […]

RE: https://mastodon.derg.nz/@anthropy/115712265492409357 If I may add a corollary: If your self-hosted environment was X number of weekends worth of a shit-ton of steps, installs, scripts, config, keys, move this file over there, but edit that one line with that one thing, etc. If you have […]

The scientific method has fundamentally changed the trajectory of the human species. How? By fixing the core problem of how humans figured out what they thought was truth throughout history: Bias. The scientific method enabled humans, for the first time, to *systematically* test our theories […]

The last 10-15 years have been something of a renaissance for virtuosic #guitar #music. I am here for it. There are many fantastic guitarists that I love, but out of all of them, David Maxim Micic holds a really special place for me. He uses the language and mannerisms of djent-y metal, but […]

A thread about #guitar and #musicproduction. https://bsky.app/profile/stephenfroeber.bsky.social/post/3lgxnh5orek24

Alright...this might be a hot take, but also, it's the truth and I don't make the rules: A sizeable percentage of #linux "distro" hoppers are really just desktop environment hoppers. And, to be clear: hop those DE's all day long if it tickles your fancy! It can be fun! All I'm saying is your […]

Fellow #musicproducer #audioengineer #musician nerds with an interest in #linux good news! https://bsky.app/profile/stephenfroeber.bsky.social/post/3lgqxoguzos2k

Ok, the world is really dark right now…but there are still breathtakingly beautiful #guitars being made, so there’s that. https://www.ceccariniguitars.it/en-gb/electric-guitars?product_id=122

One of the most difficult parts of my transition to #linux still revolves around creative tasks. Background: former professional musician/photographer/videographer, now cloud software engineer. I daily drive a flavor of @fedora. For all of my development projects, and for day to day tasks, it […]

Calling all #k8s @fedora#k8snerds: Does anyone have some sensible, pre-canned Ignition files for #coreos that are good for rolling a #k3s cluster in a homelab that you're willing to share? (Reference: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-coreos/producing-ign/)

Advanced users of #truenas, a penny for your thoughts. I’m comparing the following scenarios: - Native apps - #portainer/Docker Compose - Roll my own VM nodes into a k3s cluster I’m a cloud engineer by day, so very comfortable with all 3 scenarios from a technical implementation perspective […]

Is anyone else tinkering with their #homelab and working on #selfhosting as way to distract and numb yourself from the collapse of democracy and the rise of far right lunacy in government happening all around? Asking for a friend. 😅

Calling all @nextcloud Home users (especially those that migrated from Apple’s ecosystem)! I was about to start self-hosting an instance on my #truenas server. Any thoughts? Opinions? Things you would do differently? Did you go for a full migration, or is it more piecemeal? #selfhosting […]

My toxic trait is that I fundamentally enjoy tinkering with technology, and I write software for a living...but I also fundamentally hate what technology has become in our society, and sometimes want to just have a little offgrid beachside homestead with a vegetable garden.

This one’s probably not gonna make me any friends, but here we go. So I see a lot of people in the #selfhosted community talk about not using big tech services from an ethics perspective. The types of concerns usually fall into 2 camps: 1. Not supporting those companies financially 2. Not […]

I don't use Proton so I don't have any skin in the game, but I understand people who'd want to leave after what the CEO said. I also understand why someone would not want to leave despite being completely against the CEO's words and opinions. It sucks having to move from service to service […]

I really appreciate the other #linux nerds that pointed me in the direction of #auroradx. #bazzite is still pretty cool, but Aurora meets my particular use case a little better. I've now been driving it for about a month, and I am *really* liking it. For any #fedora #kde enthusiasts that […]

Sometimes, it’s nice to not do anything remotely close to using a computer. #kitesurfing #aruba

A little user facing #linux in the wild on my flight. #delta

Ok, I've got a #cloudengineer spicy 🌶️ take that will lose some followers. (Preface: I've used #terraform and built up some moderately complex infra with it. Nothing crazy. I'm not an expert, but definitely not new to it either.) I will take #ansible every day of the week over TF for any […]

After I made the decision to move away from #apple at least for my laptop, I decided to get an Asus and go all in on #linux for daily driving. I’ve been using various Linux distros at work for years, but rarely as an end user in a desktop environment. I’ve had my #asus #zephyrus #ryzen now for […]

Ok, here's my #opensource spicy take: If we philosophically want #foss to work at a wider scale within our current economic system, we must first address the problem that is nicely represented by the allegorical story of the "Elephant King." It's a story that comes from Buddhism (and don't […]

Exciting! Just finished up a new PC build for my #TrueNAS Scale server, and getting to that first screen feels so good. This will replace my venerable #synology. I used to build PC's from scratch when I was younger, but I haven't done an entire build in […] [Original post on defcon.social]

I recently did a "soft" distro switch from #fedora workstation to #kinoite, with a specific variant called #bazzite. https://bazzite.gg/ I already use containers all the time in my day job, so the Atomic desktop approach makes a ton of sense to me. I also recently switched from a Macbook Pro […]

So…at first there was a little bit of friction, but now that I’ve been reading up on #fedora #kinoite Im getting the hang of the differences between it and workstation. I installed #bazzite on my #asus #zephyrus and I think I might actually end up preferring this. I’m gonna give it more time […]

Hey fellow #fedora users: anyone switched from #kde Plasma Desktop to #kinoite? It looks pretty cool, and I’m thinking of giving it a go.

https://bsky.app/profile/stephenfroeber.bsky.social/post/3ld2wcjqsn22m #opensource #k8s #sustainability #greenenergy

It feels good to be putting things out into the world again. It's chill, and totally for fun, and that feels right. youtu.be/bq87T_n7tMs

Wow. I used to build custom PC's when I was younger. I haven't done it in a long time, just because I have been with Apple for so many years...but I've started seriously considering it again after daily driving @fedora for a while. My Synology NAS is getting long in the tooth, and I've been […]

Calling all fellow #homelab #k8s nerds: Is anyone running #k3s with the #pi5? (Especially those running multi-node) Any issues or gotchas with #arm64? I was thinking of running something like @fedora #coreos unless PiOS is fine. I was also gonna run #etcd on my #nas to get some #ha going […]