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I have successfully setup trojan / trojan-go on my server. It uses port 443 and will return a standard website if the connection is not recognized as an authorized trojan-go client. As stealth as it can get.

https://azadzadeh.github.io/trojan-go/en/

Thanks. Yes, it was actually quite good.

I had a look at the recipe you followed. This looks quite far from a paella to me. I believe in freedom of ingredients because there a lot of variations. But as others pointed out. The timing important and the use of basics in my opinion.

A must is olive oil, crushed tomatoes, fish stock and some round rice, not the long one. After that you decide what you like.

The following is not a recipe I followed but it is closest to what I do most of the time. Sometimes I add chicken, others I do shrimps and some fish and no meat at all. But the order in this recipe is the one I use.

https://www.cookipedia.co.uk/recipes_wiki/Paella_alicantina

Happy cooking!

Is it really that hard? I agree that timing is important as well as controlling the amount of stock and the heat so it evaporates at the right time. Getting it right is not easy the first time but after 2 or 3 you start feeling it. At least I do. Not sure if I can upload a picture from the one I made yesterday but I will try.

As you can see, I failed or forgot to fry the bell pepper while frying the rest of vegetables and shrimp leading me to not have them nicely done (and a bit burned). Busy day so I forgot.

Still. The whole dish was done in 40 min.

So… never give up until you master (or get what you expect). ;)

I really don’t feel like working, and I don’t want to apply for jobs either. It’s so terribly exhausting.

This sentence makes me think that OP doesn’t want to work at all but I may be mistaken.

Regarding living on welfare in Germany. Yes, it’s not much but if you compare that to the U.S.A. then you are good off.

I never lived there so my opinion is purely based on reading and videos I’ve been seeing over the years. From having a job and a roof over your head to being homeless seems to be just a step away. Then you have those stories of people having 2 or 3 jobs. Are those cases really so isolated or is it a reality for lots of people?

In Germany this is unthinkable.

That’s the keyword. American. OP is most likely living in Germany where you get money from the government even if you don’t work. It may be little but enough to survive. This is the reason that people there may choose to not work at all. Quite sad I must say.

I would not be able to vegetate like this. I need and want to work. It’s not fun but a part of life.

Anyway. Hope things will someday get better where you are so you don’t have to work only to survive but can enjoy life a bit more.

I was living in Spain for 25 years and there we would definitely use vosotros. Ustedes is used in middle and South America.

You are not an asshole but your sister is. I can’t imagine my sister getting angry at me for declining. Most likely she would pay for me if she had the money and I don’t and it was so important for her for me to show up.

As a side note. I would never attend a wedding where I would have to invest such amount of money just to be part of it. That’s a show off, not a wedding.

If your server doesn’t rely on docker I would give FreeBSD a try. I’ve been using Debian for 20 years and moved to FreeBSD a few years ago. Now I can never go back. Not that I don’t like Debian anymore but FreeBSD is a true server system. Simple, fast and stable. And with their jails implementation (something like docker but less obscure) you can easily isolate your services from the rest of the system.

True. Getting a TB of storage is not affordable nowadays. And we know why. F*©k AI.

But here in Poland you can still find some used Q920 with the same specifications.

If you are located in Europe they would most likely send it even to your country.

This one would be like the one I have.

https://allegro.pl/oferta/solidny-i-kompaktowy-komputer-micro-fujitsu-q920-i5-16gb-2000-ssd-w11-praca-17993236542

I haven’t. They only provide docker deployment which I’m not fond of. If they would offer an alternative installation method I may would. Heard a lot of good things about it.

At present I use Nextcloud client on my phone to backup photos and the Memories app to nicely browse them.

I don’t know exactly what you want host but I have an old Fujitsu Q920 i5 with 16 GB of RAM and a 2 TB SSD drive which cost me around 200 Euro.

I’m serving around 20 services on it including Nextcloud, Navidrome, Paperless NG, Emby, Matrix, Friendica, Wireguard, Zabbix, DNS blocker and a few VMs. Processor utilization is around 5% most of the time and it uses about 8 GB of RAM.

I admit that Nextcloud could be more responsive and faster but for the family it is enough.

I haven’t exactly checked how much electricity I’m using but I would have noticed a bigger change on my bill.

For backups I have a remote node at another location that retrieves ZFS snapshots periodically.

Anyway. I have this setup for 2 years now and I’m happy. It does what I expect it to do.

As a side note. i use FreeBSD with jails and bhyve for this. A Proxmox running VMs with nested Docker apps may need something more performant so be aware.

I’ve been living in Poland for the last 13 years and can only say good about the country. The language barrier still exists after all that time but luckily most younger Polish speak English. It’s definitely a nice place to life.

I cannot comment about living in Italy as I have only visited it for vacation a few times. It’s a beautiful country and people where nice everywhere but if it comes to work, I’m sure Poland has more to offer. It’s the outsourcing country of Europe. Good wages and highly qualified people.

The Nobel Peace Price is purely political and a big joke for decades already.

Maybe https://selfh.st/ ?

IKEA customer support https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-YC3jUV-O4

That’s just the best game ever!

When I heard harris give speeches I always thought “well, you have a direct ear to the president and are one of the highest ranking democrats in the US. Why don’t you use this to make change now?

Well said!

Stop using Chrome!

I settled on a Fujitsu Q920 with 16 GB of RAM and a 1 TB SSD. Runs FreeBSD 14.1 and each service has its own Jail.

Services:

DNSmasq - local DNS and adblocker Wireguard Navidrome MPD - Media server Vaultwarden - password save Radicale - cardav and caldav server TinyRSS - RSS aggregator Zabbix - server and service monitoring Postgresql Gitea - git repository Emby - jellyfin alternative Mariadb Bhyve VM with Debian running 2 apps (invoiceplane and leantime) which use a quite old php version and I never had time to port to Freebsd.

A second machine that starts daily and creates a backup of machine 1 by using ZFS autobackup.

Nothing fancy but it does what I need.

My feeling is that there is. I think it all started with the speed I can login over ssh. Debian always seems to have a short delay but FreeBSD feels instant. When it comes to rating FreeBSD as a better OS for servers I may be biased as Debian has served me so well over the years. I was never a Docker fan but instantly liked Jails for isolating services. Then we have native ZFS support which simplifies my backup needs. A simple zfs send | zfs receive and you have an exact copy of your service instance on a remote node. Everything feels integrated and not stacked. Again, just a personal opinion.