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It's not Nix-specific, but I use Mailcow-dockerized and it is completely hassle-free, been using it for 4 or 5 years now without a bobble (though I've run my own mailserver for 30 years).

I would agree that a static IP is necessary, but I don't have one and I get by, even without a PTR record. That's probably due to a fairly small ISP with not many spammers having found it.

Make sure you set up your DKIM and DMARC right from the start and pay heed to the reports. But I've never had to fight to get off a blacklist, even with new domains I've added to it.

Just get one, put it on and use it yourself, you can get one that spins on the supply line and hangs off the side of the tank for like $40. Once you've started washing your asshole instead of suffering with TP and a constantly dirty chocolate starfish, you'll never go back. She might use it and realize the same.

Huh, I've never noticed that with maple boards and I don't oil ours. Maybe that's a peculiarity of bamboo? I have an annoyingly good nose and don't smell anything on them after they're washed and let dry.

Yes. You can just get by with 2 devices but you need to set expected_votes=1 in the cluster config somewhere, don't recall where, and I've encountered issues with stability with that solution, seems like it'll get undone though I haven't used it for years to say if that's still the case.

The q-device will work on anything Linux that's available when the second node is down. Not having the tie-breaker isn't the end of the world, it just means you have to go in after you bring up the second node and start some things manually, and if you're replacing nodes in a 2-node cluster, it's much nicer to have the q-device.

Drownin' in da pussay

Proxmox uses a voting system to keep cluster integrity.

Check it out, it's free and does a lot of things out of the box that take a lot of manual work otherwise. And the backup server is stellar. It does take a while to wrap your head around the whole way it does things, but it's really powerful if you spend the time to deep dive it.

It works well. I have my docker hosts on HA as well because they're almost as important as the router.

If you just use 2 nodes, you will need a q-device to make quorum if you have one of the nodes down. I have the tiebreaker running on my Proxmox Backup Server shitbox I3.

Proxmox is basically just debian with KVM and a better virt-manager. And it deals with ZFS natively so you can build zpools, which is pretty much necessary if you want snapshotting and replication, which are necessary for HA.

I run OPNsense on a 2 node proxmox server and have for a few years now. I have HA set up and have had it fail over gracefully when I've been away and not even noticed it having failed over for more than a week. If I want to upgrade it, I snapshot it, and if I upgrade the host I live migrate it, and I've done this all remotely more than a few times with no issues.

It takes some planning and I'd say you'd want a cluster (at least a pair of nodes) where you can do HA. But I wouldn't do it any other way at this point. If you have only one port, you can VLAN it for using on both LAN and WAN.

I've just kinda stuck with Henkels over the years for butchering and boning, and Gerber for hunting/gutting. I have a Global kitchen knife but frankly I find I use some cheapshit ceramics quite a lot, I'm very surprised how long they've lasted. I have heard of people sharpening them with carbide, but I've never bothered.

And yes, serrated knives are at best for bread, so they never need sharpening. Anyone using those for cooking needs their head examined.

Our water is so hard here I periodically take the kettle into the shop when it doesn't boil water very quick, and use the needle scaler on it to knock big slabs of scale out of it.

Was it 4? I thought it came around for the 5 release. I think I switched DEs for almost the entire 4 debacle then switched back at 5 when it stopped sucking.

Edit: NM, I see I just missed it by skipping 4: https://dot.kde.org/2009/11/24/repositioning-kde-brand/

Never make the mistake of letting people know you can sharpen knives. Apparently it's a lost art, you'll end up with a tray of them in your lap when you're over for movies, in my experience.