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title: "The_migration_to_arch"
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date: 2023-08-15T02:04:21-06:00
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draft: true
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tags: ['arch linux', 'git', 'self host']
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summary:
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tocOpen: true
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cover:
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image: "/images/arch-logo.png"
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alt: "Arch Logo"
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caption: "I Use Arch Btw"
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relative: false
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# I finally did it
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A post after such a long drought. I've been busy working on lots of little projects, and I realized that I really ought to take the time to write on the blog sight
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I take such pain to keep up and running.
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You might be thinking to yourself, pain? Shouldn't this be like a set and forget sort of ordeal? Well, it would be, except that I tinker too much for my own good.
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As they say, there are two wolves inside each man, one that craves stable, calm waters, maintainable code, reproducible builds, and the other wants to look under
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hood, fat finger `rm -rf /` and other monstrosities that I don't care to joke about because they hurt me too much.
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So, I moved off of the Raspberry Pi Zero W2, and on to a much more legitimate pc build. The blog could have run fine on the pi, but it didn't take long for me to
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feel justified in spending some money on a faster machine. Bought it second hand from a crypto mining rig, swapped out the pentium for a respectable i7 of some
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recent generation, and I had an upcycled machine ready for some data crunching!
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## The Services
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Eventually, I envision a whole bunch of services running in my 'home lab', as home-labians have taken to calling their piles of processors, but for now, I have a humble three:
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- fosscat.com
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The wonderful website you find yourself on currently
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- git.fosscat.com
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My newly hosted gitea instance to host all of my current and future repos! This was a bugger to setup, but I ended up [figuring out the issues _WRITE ME_](https://fosscat.com/)
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- sub.fosscat.com
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I don't want to say what the subdomain is (though its probably discoverable) just because the project using it is still WIP, but my wife and built a budget app together, and
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this machine hosts the REST Api I wrote in Zig.
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## The Alt Timeline with Guix
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Arch Linux was not actually the first OS I put on this new (to me) machine. I had drunk from the FSF goblet and got it in my head to try out
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[Guix System, or Guix SD,](https://guix.gnu.org/) or whatever its officially called. I recommend checking it out. It was a couple month adventure, but I think my lisp-less mind
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couldn't handle the parantheses required. It has some really cool concepts similar to NixOS, your whole system (users, installed packages, mount points, etc) is defined in one or
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more files. Despite its great documentation, it is hard to understand what is going on without some good Guile / Scheme fundamentals, which I lack. So, back to what I know: Arch (btw).
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## What Did I Learn?
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I am not exaggerating that I have completely nuked my machine (server, work and/or personal) many times. But, I've learned a whole lot from it: mostly that I need to
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setup proper backups as soon as my system is running. So, with this new machine, especially because I am going to start storing all of my code on it, I am following the 3 - 2 - 1 rule:
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3. Copies of the data
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2. Storage medias (harddrive, usb, ssd, nas)
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1. Offsite
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I decided to go with Hetzner's [Storage Box](https://docs.hetzner.com/robot/storage-box) solution for Offsite. And its waaay offsite (for me), the company is located in the EU.
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But, for only ~$5.00 a month, I get access to a sftp server with 1TB capacity, which mirrors the server's nvme drive running the OS, and then I also am backing the nvme drive up
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to a HDD drive connected to the computer. I have lots more to say about so many of these things, I spent pretty much all day configuring everything and getting it all to work, but I
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told myself to prioritize frequency over comprehensiveness, so I will leave it at that.
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Oh! I almost forgot, if you want to use the gitea instance I am running as an alternative to having your code fed to AI models, please email me! Im no enterprise company with infinite
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backups and resources, but I'd love to share what little I have if it would be useful to you!
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Thanks for stopping in :)
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