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I think Cloudflare Tunnels will require a different setup on k8s than on regular Linux hosts, but it's such a popular service among self-hosters that I have little doubt that you'll find a workable process.

(And likely you could cheat, and set up a small Linux VM to "bridge" k8s and Cloudflare Tunnels.)

Kubernetes is different, but it's learnable. In my opinion, K8S only comes into its own in a few scenarios:

• Really elastic workloads. If you have stuff that scales horizontally (uncommon), you really can tell Amazon to give you more Kubernetes nodes when load grows, and destroy the nodes when load goes down. But this is not really applicable for self hosting, IMHO.

• Really clustered software. Setting up say a PostgreSQL cluster is a ton of work. But people create K8S operators that you feed a declarative configuration (I want so many replicas, I want backups at this rate, etc.) and that work out everything for you... in a way that works in all K8S implementations! This is also very cool, but I suspect that there's not a lot of this in self-hosting.

• Building SaaS platforms, etc. This is something that might be more reasonable to do in a self-hosting situation.

Like the person you're replying to, I also run Talos (as a VM in Proxmox). It's pretty cool. But in the end, I only run there 4 apps I've written myself, so using K8S as a kind of SaaS... and another application, https://github.com/avaraline/incarnator, which is basically distributed as container images and I was too lazy to deploy in a more conventional way.

I also do this for learning. Although I'm not a fan of how Docker Compose is becoming dominant in the self-hosting space, I have to admit it makes more sense than K8S for self-hosting. But K8S is cool and might get you a cool job, so by all means play with it- maybe you'll have fun!

Thanks for the long writeup!

I've been using a BlackBerry Bold, Classic, KeyONE... then the Titan Pocket. Keyboard shortcuts for apps never seemed superuseful for me, while I longed for keyboard shortcuts in apps (e.g. ctrl+l to open the URL bar in a browser).

There's a distinct lack of information on Clicks and other ways to have a phone with a physical qwerty (e.g. the Minimal Phone), esp. about the things that really matter about keyboard usage. Hopefully more people publish their experiences as you did.

https://programming.dev/post/36053940/18886266 looks good.

I haven't tested this, but I would expect there to be ways to do it, esp for VMs if they are not LXC containers.

(I try to automate provisioning as much as possible, so I don't do this kind of stuff often.)

The Incus forum is not huge, but it's friendly, and the authors are quite active.

Oh, that's precisely the combination that was tempting me. Have you written somewhere about your experiences?

Came in here to mention Incus if no one had.

I love it. I have three "home production" servers running Proxmox, but mostly because Proxmox is one of very few LTS/comercially-supported ways to run Linux in a supported way with root (and everything else on ZFS). And while its web UI is still a bit clunky in places, it comes in handy some times.

However, Incus automation is just... superior. incus launch --vm images:debian/13 foo, wait a few seconds then incus exec foo -- bash and I'm root on a console of a ready-to-go Debian VM. Without --vm, it's a lightweight LXC container. And Ansible supports running commands through incus exec, so you can provision stuff WITHOUT BOTHERING TO SET UP ANYTHING.

AND, it works remotely without fuss, so I can set up an Incus remote on a beefy server and spawn VMs nearly transparently. + incus file pull|push to transfer files.

I'm kinda pondering scripting removal of the Proxmox bits from a Proxmox install, so that I just keep their ZFS support and run Incus on top.

The problem with the standard Gboard non-ASCII method is that you have to use the touchscreen.

What the article mentions is that on iOS, you can hold E, then press 2 on the physical keyboard to enter É.

When I used a Blackberry, I could type out longish messages without even looking at the phone, but I had to rely on autocorrect for the accents (which worked pretty well for Spanish). If this method works, I could do the same, but not relying on autocorrect.

Do you, by some chance, write in any language that requires non-ASCII characters? (Such as ñ in Spanish.)

You can apparently touch-type non-ASCII characters with Clicks on IOS, I'm wondering if it works similarly on Android.

My phone died last week, and I was very tempted by the Razr with Clicks, but I haven't seen much about using it outside English. In the end I went cheap and bought a Pixel 9A :(

Touch keyboards suck, but double so if you type in multiple languages, need non-ASCII, and on top of that you want to use shells. GBoard is not bad at detecting the three languages I regularly type in, but my BlackBerries were superior.

If you speak Spanish, a month ago or so I was pointed at https://foro.autoalojado.es/, might be interesting to discuss the in-person stuff, although it doesn't seem like it's reaching a critical mass of activity :(

Yup, came here to mention PaperWM. I used xmonad in the past, but I executed it on top of Mate to have an "easy" desktop environment.

Nowadays Gnome extensions providing tiling is the equivalent "easy" method. Gnome is not for everyone, but it works out of the box- then you add the fancy tiling window management on top.

For people who have bounced off systems that require much more set up, I think they are a good option.

Incus has a great selection of images that are ready to go, plus gives scripted access to VMs (and LXC containers) very easily; after incus launch to create a VM, incus exec can immediately run commands as root for provisioning.

Nextcloud is in EPEL 10. You'll get updates along with the rest of the OS.

I have been using EPEL 9 Nextcloud for a good while and it's been a smooth experience.

If you want specifically Docker, I would not choose an EL10 distro, really. I have been test driving AlmaLinux 10 and it's pretty nice, but I would look elsewhere.