If you have the RAM for it, I would recommend going the Promox route. I made the switch this year, and now running daily container image backups is a doddle.
Andrzej
joined 11 months ago
Ok, no worries. I'm not sure how I can explain to you what I meant tbh. The context is that Apple hardware that recent is unlikely to have fully Linux support yet, simply that. It is a relative claim, but you seem to have parsed it as an absolute?
Dude, there are so many contexts in which 2016 could be considered 'recent', including the one I was speaking in, and yet you march into my mentions with the patronizing bullshit. I don't know, maybe you think you're being friendly, but it doesn't feel friendly to me.
8 years is recent if it's apple hardware and you're expecting Linux to work flawlessly out of the box. Maybe things were different back in your day though
Ok, fair cop, I'm misremembering things — I had issues with a realtek card recently though. The point is that, as good as first party support is these days, you can't just buy anything and expect it to work, especially if it came out in the last couple of years.
I do check in on it every now and again, and it is impressive! I reckon they'll be able to offer a seamless transition once Apple stops servicing M1 Macs, which is really good going. But, depending on your use case, making the leap now would mean sacrificing some functionality
But plenty doesn't e.g. Broadcom wifi cards. If you just buy whatever new hardware and expect Linux to work out of the box, you're likely to have problems ime.
There are always options of course, but you have to shop wisely!
Learn to read.
On the contrary, it's often new hardware that causes the problems because the drivers won't have been reverse-engineered yet
It depends. I installed mint on a 2011 MBP a couple of years ago and it was a breeze. I installed arch on it recently and the only snag was having to install the proprietary Broadcom driver to get wireless. It runs great though — which is just as well because it would actually be more difficult to install OSX on the bloody thing, seeing as they no longer support it.
A 2016 MBP is still a bit recent, but, as a general rule of thumb, by the time a Mac stops getting software updates, Linux will be ready for it.
Worth pointing out that 'they' here is the Jewish artist Eli Valley. A lot of his work is about subverting the language of antisemitism e.g. he'll use typical tropes to depict gentiles, and then e.g. the Jewish figure here has a tiny nose. It's certainly edgy at times, but he's engaging with the terms of his own oppression as a Jew
Sure. The hardware is a cheap little beelink with an n100 and 16gb of RAM. Proxmox can do VMs, but is primarily focused on LXCs, which are Linux containers. They share the kernel with the host, so they're very lightweight — you can spin up basically as many (say) Debian systems as you want. So I have Jellyfin on one container, Sonarr/Radarr on another (though you could put them on separate containers if you wanted), transmission has a container, sabnzb has a co- ... you get the idea lol.
The cool thing is that it's easy to mount drives/directories from the host, and have your containers share them that way.
Wrt backups, Proxmox had some built in functionality you can run from the web ui. So I back up images of the LXCs to the external hard drive daily, then have a borg container that backs up the back up directory to cloud storage.
It's also very convenient to make a quick backup before making any changes to a container — you can restore to a previous image with the click of a button.