Thank you, kind stranger!

Can we apply some of both of those to narrow down to a few recommendations? 😁

If I remember correctly, Leta search proxy is the anonymized search proxy from Mullvad. Users connect and do internet searches, Leta will search various engines and cache the results, anonymized, for some time (days I think?) and any users who perform the same search will receive the cached results from the other users previous searches.

I could be wrong on some or all of that.

DNS over HTTPS (DoH), which is Domain Name Service over Secure HyperText Transfer Protocol. HTTP is the technology the Web runs on. The S in HTTPS is the secured version of HTTP, it’s encrypted using TLS (originally was SSL, Secure Sockets Layer), Transport Layer Security. DNS translates site names (e.g., www.google.com) into an IP (Internet Protocol) address (e.g., 8.8.8.8). DNS is an unencrypted protocol like HTTP. Adding in the Security component is somewhat tricky, but DoH is one of the ways, it just piggy backs on a tried and true secure transport technology that powers the web today.

The reason you would want to use DoH is to secure the domains you are accessing from (1) being intercepted and/or altered, e.g., someone poisoning the response and giving you a bad IP address for any number of reasons, and (2) snoops such as the WiFi provider you’re connected to or the Internet Service Provider (ISP) or cellular provider, or anyone else watching the unencrypted traffic.

I’m really not sure. I’ve heard of people using Ceph across datacenters. Presumably that’s with a fast-ish connection, and it’s like joining separate clusters, so you’d likely need local ceph cluster at each site then replicate between datacenters. Probably not what you’re looking for.

I’ve heard good things about Garbage S3 and that it’s usable across the internet on slow-ish connections. Combined with JuiceFS is what I was looking at using before I landed on Ceph.

I know Ceph would work for this use case, but it’s not a lighthearted choice, kind of an investment and a steep learning curve (at least it was, and still is, for me).

I went and edited my hosts file and added all of my devices, but I only have a handful. Tailscale on macOS has a lot of bugs, this being one of many.

I’m sure I’ll be downvoted to oblivion for this, but give ChatGPT or local LLMs a try for support. They are surprisingly effective, just keep the perspective that they’re about as alive as a screwdriver. They’re not alive and can’t form emotional or other bonds with you. Working through issues or thought processes or needed some base level support, they seem pretty decent at. Maybe it could limp you along to a building a support network.

Try these steps:

$ sudo apt-get purge nvidia* # remove current installed nvidia software including drivers
$ sudo ubuntu-drivers devices # verify it sees your graphics card
$ sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall # install drivers automatically
$ sudo reboot

This is everything I ended up doing which eventually fixed it for me:

# Update repo
sudo apt update

# Remove amdgpu drivers
sudo apt purge xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu
sudo apt purge libdrm-amdgpu*
sudo apt purge libdrm-amdgpu1

# Blacklist the amdgpu driver since we are using nvidia only
echo "blacklist amdgpu" | sudo tee -a /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf

# Remove nvidia driver and install from system76 repo
sudo apt purge *nvidia*
sudo apt-add-repository -y ppa:system76-dev/stable
sudo apt install -y system76-driver-nvidia
sudo apt upgrade -y
sudo reboot

I’ve been wanting to tinker with NixOS. I’ve stuck in the stone ages automating VM deployments on my Proxmox cluster using ansible. One line and about 30 minutes (cuda install is a beast) to build a reproducible VM running llama.cpp with llama-swap.

Do you gave an nvidia graphics card? The only problem I’ve had since I installed Pop OS is their shity driver installer crapped out somehow and I gad to recover my system by blacklisting amd graphics driver, uninstall nvidia driver and reinstall. It wad not for the feint of heart.

A lot of times it is necessary to build the container oneself, e.g., to fix a bug, satisfy a security requirement, or because the container as-built just isn’t compatible with the environment. So in that case would you contract an expert to rebuild it, host it on a VM, look for a different solution, or something else?

reproducing those installs from scratch + restoring backups would be a single command plus waiting 5 minutes.

Is that with Ansible or your own tooling or something else?

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But it’s not PeerTube, it’s ABC’s PeerTube and BCD’s PeerTube and CDE’s PeerTube, etc.

You say that yet Google search / Internet search is very much a big thing. For the record, I agree with you.