I don’t work but I use a script using w3m to print HTML as text. You can find those in the aerc repo.

aerc with mbsync and msmtp and neovim for composing

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

Alpine is great on the desktop too! I use it on all my desktops, laptops and servers.

I kind of prefer mini flux but I maintain the freshrss package in Alpine so I have an instance to test things.

A molex to PCIe adapter with an 850w power supply. I only have like 10 watts of headroom but usually only one gpu is running at a time so it works fine. I would have bought a better one but my dad accidentally bought 2 for another project so he had an extra one and it works fine.

I have been running wayland with sway for around 6-10 months (I forget when I switched). I have a 4-monitor setup and hated the default workspace management but swaysome convinced me to switch. I heard a lot of stuff about how manual tiling is bad but I actually don’t mind it and kind of prefer it to automatic tiling from AwesomeWM which I used before sway, .

I have a 6700xt for Linux and an old 2070 that I pass through to a windows guest. I might get a usb card too to pass through but not sure if I have any more space in my mid tower for another pci card.

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I have 5 servers in total. All except the iMac are running Alpine Linux.

Internet

Ziply fiber 100mb small business internet. 2 Asus AX82U Routers running in AiMesh.

Rack

Raising electronics 27U rack

N3050 Nuc’s

One is running mailcow, dnsmasq, unbound and the other is mostly idle.

iMac

The iMac is setup by my 3d printers. I use it to do slicing and I run BlueBubbles on it for texting from Linux systems.

Family Server

Hardware

• I7-7820x
• Rosewill rackmount case
• Corsair water cooler
• 2 4tb drives
• 2 240gb ssd
• Gigabyte motherboard

Mostly doing nothing, currently using it to mine Monero.

Main Cow Server

Hardware

• R7-3900XT
• Rosewill rackmount case
• 3 18tb drives
• 2 1tb nvme
• Gigabyte motherboard

Services

• ZFS 36TB Pool
• Secondary DNS Server
• NFS (nas)
• Samba (nas)
• Libvirtd (virtual macines)
• forgejo (git forge)
• radicale (caldav/carddav)
• nut (network ups tools)
• caddy (web server)
• turnserver
• minetest server (open source blockgame)
• miniflux (rss)
• freshrss (rss)
• akkoma (fedi)
• conduit (matrix server)
• syncthing (file syncing)
• prosody (xmpp)
• ergo (ircd)
• agate (gemini)
• chezdav (webdav server)
• podman (running immich, isso, peertube, vpnstack)
• immich (photo syncing)
• isso (comments on my website)
• matrix2051 (matrix to irc bridge)
• peertube (federated youtube alternative)
• soju (irc bouncer)
• xmrig (Monero mining)
• rss2email
• vpnstack
  • gluetun
  • qbittorrent
  • prowlarr
  • sockd
  • sabnzbd

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.

IP changes are not your concern. It is likely that your ISP blocks outgoing port 25, you can check with nc gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com 25 and if you don’t get any output its blocked. If you don’t have very many users on your Pterodactyl server, I would suggest just using a gmail account with SMTP in pterodactyl. If you have port 25 unblocked and want to selfhost email, mailcow is a great option and really easy to set up.

JavaScript is worse than COBOL.

apk upgrade -U in a cronjob daily and hope it does not break.

Not iTunes, but you can use libimobiledevice to backup an Apple device on Linux https://docs.mvt.re/en/latest/ios/backup/libimobiledevice/

I am currently working on this. I got a static IP and port 25 unblocked from my isp. I am trying to do opensmtpd and dovecot with dkim signing.

Ok so yesterday I had a static IP installed from ziply with business internet. I have not gotten a chance to test it yet (longer story below).

Ok so when they installed the static ip it went well until I had to setup the static ip on my eero router. I think I have been paying for 100/100 this whole time but it was not working because my house had a 15 year old fiber box. That was all replaced with a fiber running into the network room going to the ONT which has an ethernet that connects to the router. When I tried to set up the static ip it just bricked my eero and it would not connect to the internet. When I factory reset it it would not get past the setup screen even when I connected behind another router with a dhcp server. The internet technician tried for 3 hours to debug the eero and I tried for a few more hours. Today I just got a new Asus router system and it has been working well so far though I regret not documenting the port forwards required for each server and service better. I only have 2 routers now but I get full 300/300 speed inside the house and 100/100 outside on the edge of our property. I bought it with the best buy promotion where if you trade in your old broken router you get 15% off of a new one.

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.