When you say AI, do you mean you’re vibe coding this, or like you’re using AI as a learning tool?

Portainer is a container management system. It’s purpose is to allow you to manage containers in an easy to use GUI.

ZaneOps is a PaaS that allows you to automatically build and deploy web apps into containers without having to configure the underlying infrastructure at all.

For example, to deploy my static site on Portainer, I’d have to build my static site, containerize it, upload the container image to a registry (or directly to Portainer), then use Portainer to configure the environment and deploy the container. Then I’d have to configure a reverse proxy or web server to serve the contents of the container. If I wanted to continue working on that static site I’d need to configure some kind of CI/CD pipeline to try and automate all that previous work.

With ZaneOps, I store the Astro/11ty/other SSG files in a Git repo, and on any commit ZaneOps will automatically recognize the SSG framework I’m using, use Docker Swarm to spin up a container to build the site into static files, containerize the resulting files for me, and deploy the container. It then uses Caddy underneath to serve what’s in the container including provisioning SSL certs for the site. It will health check the new container before deploying it in a blue/green deployment model so that the old site is removed only after the new one is up and available. It’s the same workflow as deploying a site to GitHub Pages using GitHub Actions if you’ve ever done that.

Ultimately. You end up with the same result, a containerized workload, but ZaneOps takes your GitHub Repo and turns it into a built, running, containerized workload automatically. Automating the deployment of my own web apps using Portainer would be at the very least clunky and require a lot of surrounding infrastructure. It’s not something Portainer just does out of the box.

Cockpit isn’t much like either, it’s just a web based server management tool.

This was the peak of human civilization.

Yes and it’s so funny to me as somebody that works in datacenter and cloud infrastructure for public apps for a living. All the gatekeeping is done by hobbyists without the faintest clue but all the confidence in the world, or click ops internal IT sysadmins grossly overestimating their self worth.

Be safe, ask questions, and fuck what the haters think.

Mini PC. Beelinks with the N100 chip are absolute beasts at doing video encoding at low power.

Each bookmark card does not make enough room for the title of each bookmark, so they’re cut off with an ellipses at the end. The readability while looking over your bookmarks is pretty bad as a result. Like after a certain point that’s unavoidable, but it doesn’t help that the spacing and margins in each card are excessive.

KaraKeep uses a similar card layout and handles it much better as a counter example.

I can see from the screenshot they still haven’t fixed the title text being cut off in each bookmark.

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I’m pretty sure that’s the point.

Black Friday is a decent deal if you’re buying a larger volume of drives. If you’re only planning on buying a few, you don’t have to wait for to. That being said, a ln unimpressive sale is better than no sale.

Have they fixed the titles of saved links being clipped for no reason?

I found Linkwarden entirely unusable because of this and switched to KaraKeep the moment I realized they’d mastered the ancient magic of “Make sure the link titles are actually fully visible”

EDIT: It would appear not since I can see they’re clipped in the thumbnail lol. All that wasted space sitting there doing nothing when it could be… containing the title of the link.

I’m going to go out on a limb and say they probably just want a comparable solution to Ollama.

I’m just using the app. I think it’s the nicest, most functional, and best looking music app outside of PlexAmp… however I absolutely agree with you that I really really wish it was just its own app… you can make this easier on yourself by editing the quick bar at the bottom of the app. When I open the Emby app it’s one tap to get to the music and then at least I don’t have to “dig through” it to get there.

I have an AppleTV4k Hooked up to my tv and 5.1 sound system so I can Airplay to that with my iPhone. Same goes for my HomePod in the kitchen when I’m cooking. If you’re not on iOS you can also cast to any device with an Emby app but there is less flexibility there.

I am in the same boat as you in that I’d love a dedicated app, I’m just waiting for one to come along that doesn’t suck. The FinAmp project had gotten me excited since it was ostensibly Jellyfin’s take on PlexAmp but it looks god awful and the functionality isn’t there. They have a beta version that’s a complete redesign but it also sucks terribly in my opinion.

Since you mentioned podcasts, AudioBookShelf as a back end with the “ShelfPlayer” app on iOS has been phenomenal. The ShelfPlayer app even works with my Oauth connection which is so awesome. Wish Emby or Jellyfin did that lol.

Emby. It is so far, the nicest music client on iOS that I’ve been able to find.

There are tons of apps that you use that are just well packaged PWAs, packaged as an app store app

So… native apps, that interface with a PWA using a web view or something.

There’s the kicker.

Half of the equation is that those making the PWA need to make it well. The other half is that the platform you install it on has to support it well. And Google and Apple have decided to support PWAs as little as possible (in some cases removing support for them altogether. See Apple removing the ability to use them entirely in the EU). And since those two companies make the two most commonly used mobile OS’… well it’s better to just go with a native app.

The #1 biggest problem with PWAs on iOS for example is the lack of push notification support, which for a lot of apps is a nonstarter. Is that the PWA makers fault? No. Does it make that PWA suck anyway? Yes.

I’m well aware of why they’re terrible, (Safari as well). However the unfortunate result is that they are terrible.

Because PWAs are terrible unfortunately.

• CasaOS
• CosmosOS
• Umbrel

I believe all of these are actually just running Debian as the actual OS underneath, but they give you a webui that makes deploying apps easier.

Of these three, I like the look of Cosmos the most. Seems to be security focused and comes with a reverse proxy and a built in SSO solutions. That’s something that’s usually a pain in the ass to set up yourself.

There’s technically that stupid ass LTT OS but I’m purposely leaving that one out.

It’s very unusual. I consider myself a domain hoarder as well but that’s literally hundreds of dollars a year in domains.