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Applications: Self-hosting With Proxmox, PKGget, Neovim vs Vim Comparison, and Newelle
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Thibault Martin: Cloud tech makes sense on-prem too
In the previous post, we talked about the importance to have a flexible homelab with Proxmox, and set it up. Long story short, I only have a single physical server but I like to experiment with new setups regularly. Proxmox is a baremetal hypervisor: a piece of software that lets me spin up Virtual Machines on top of my server, to act as mini servers.
Thanks to this set-up I can have a long-lived VM for my (single node) production k3s cluster, and I can spin up disposable VMs to experiment with, without impacting my production.
But it's more complex to install Proxmox, spin up a VM, and install k3s on it, as compared to just installing Debian and k3s on my baremetal server. We have already automated the Proxmox install process. Let's now automate the VM provisioning and deploy k3s on it, to make it simple and easy to re-provision a fully functional Virtual Machine on top of Proxmox!
In this post we will configure opentofu so it can ask Proxmox to spin up a new VM, use cloud-init to do the basic pre-configuration of the VM, and use ansible to deploy k3s on it.
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Barry Kauler ☛ Improve PKGget sync with APT
PKGget is now a GUI frontend for APT; however, it is a long-term project, only partly complete.
Today I discovered that APT wants the full 'less' utility; not happy with the busybox one.
If you want to install it, APT won't, as I created an "equivs" 'less' .deb, which is an empty package that prevents APT from installing the real 'less' .deb The reason for doing this was that busybox provides the 'less' utility.
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Neovim vs Vim Comparison – Which is a better Editor?
If you are looking for a powerful terminal-based emulator for a long time then Vim is your go-to software. It is deemed to be one of the oldest open-source projects. We have many good terminal editors such as Nano but they don’t lie close to Vim regarding functions, modes and extensibility.
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Unicorn Media ☛ Newelle: The Hey Hi (AI) Helper App for Linux
With Newelle, you get the power of generative Hey Hi (AI) right on your GNU/Linux desktop—no cloud required (unless you want it). Switch language models on the fly, all on your terms.