Ok, so reading the replies I see that it was meant for me.

All the relevant volumes are mapped to the actual filesystem on disk (like you do in docker compose, ig it's called a volume bind-mount?), so when I have to take backups I stop the docker container and manually cp/rsync/whatever from the directory.

The github and codeberg services are nothing but HTTPS checks for both of them

Well, as I mentioned, I don't think I can host an XMPP server without having a fixed IP address and exposing it to the public internet and allowing inbound connections.

So it's probably a no-no (for now) 😅

Also, idk if xmpp is lightweight, but as a user, I quite like matrix

I've heard good things about SearXNG. I'll be sure to check that out.

I don't see the need for cryptpad, since SFTPGo serves my purposes.

I'd look into mealie, since I'm going to live alone and need to figure my own meals out. Perhaps Sure/Actual too!

I am still looking at container management, right now I just manually update/backup everything.

I don't have anything against Pihole. It's wonderful! I don't have additional resources (like RPi), and I want to keep everything on one system, and my usecase is simple enough that netbird covers it, and I don't know if I should pass all my DNS requests on both my phone and PC through my server (because iirc it's finally the pihole system that'll make the request?)

Also I hate ads lol

Oh wow! I didn't know home-assistant can work in a closed network, but now it makes sense

What does leafwiki do exactly?

I also read your backup strategy below and that seems pretty interesting. My strategy differs. Have nothing in the volumes, unless it's like docs or whatever lol. I do think that'll change with things like Paperless, since I'd want to persist and carry over the tagging strategy or whatever.

Took me a while to realise that the link was shared with Saotak themself. I love your articles Saotak (even if I'm not a furry) and I've learned a great deal of crypto from you

I'd be surprised if the majority of folks on arch aren't using tiling WMs.

The clients for XMPP are really bad. Also, matrix sells itself in a variety of ways, discord alternative, corporate usability, e2ee signal replacement, all that. Although matrix client implementations aren't that great, the publicity does work. And IRC has historic relevance.

Thanks for the kind words! For dotfiles, I used org-babel for a long time, keeping a literate config. Now I use a git repo to hold everything with a script to pull in whatever I think is necessary. That said, one of the long term plans for supac is to add dotfile management as well, something like nix-wrapper does it. Although it will certainly take some time before we get there.

Thank you!

Right now, you can do it in two ways:

• Don't have the Arch key at all. supac will silently skip it.
• You can write a small wrapper in package.nu that checks the presence of your preferred arch package manager in $env.PATH, if it's there then it'll insert the key and value, and not otherwise.

I'd mostly go with 1 unless you're sharing your non-arch config with an arch config on two separate machines.

Dcli looks interesting! The long term goal of supac is to support many different relevant package managers as backends, so that all sorts of packages and language toolchains can be managed. Besides, nushell being a scripting AND shell language massively helps with that.