On deployment side, Portainer seems to fit your needs. Can run arbitrary containers and docker-compose stacks, but unsure whether it can do image builds on the server.
Agents are being deprecated and now moving to Grafana Alloy
but agree. a bit steep, but easy to start with. Grafana cloud can take you really far. (you don't really need all metrics for all running services do you?)
I wish they have built in ping scraper instead of having to run yet another service to do it.
afaik you can use prefix to explicitly do search. for example no direct search but you can use "g paris" to search for paris on google or "w paris" to search paris on wikipedia
afaik this was intentional in that they stopped training runs and changing parameters for other employee training runs, and even joined in on the debugging group trying to solve the "issues".
believe me, i wish the portable monitor setup thing is solved. yeah you can put it on the desk next to a monitor, but the best case scenario is you still have a cable going out to it, and packing is a hassle. A complete setup like this or a folding-screen laptop (like Lenovo ones) is much easier.
I know it's almost impossible but I wish Apple does this. Or somebody can tack on the MBA motherboard with a custom display assembly.
This is solved, for me... the monitor slides right into my backpack next to the MBA. It's about as thick, and only slightly wider/longer as it's a 15" monitor.
The cable I use is a6' USB-C cable. The monitor is both powered and driven off of the MBA whether or not I have that plugged into the wall.
OTOH if you do want to use the ESP32, I find using AI assistance is great to help translate codebases/programs/apps across languages/usecases (or outright generate it).
While I am sure nothing is more optimized and battery conserving than C code hallucinated by an LLM, I really prefer writing my code my self when I work with my personal projects
do you or anyone else happen to know an extension that allows getUserMedia to work without https? i just need a photo from a webcam (a la <input file capture> that opens a camera on a smartphone) for a local network webapp. configuring https just for this is fickle.
Home Assistant + plugins/extensions ~might be the easiest. Unsure about the VPN part. If you want to tinker and do some sysadmin work, then go install Proxmox and have separate containers for each as you wish.
Tailscale VPN addon for HomeAssistant is relatively simple to set up. You can use it to access your home network remotely ("site to site networking") or to proxy your network traffic through your home network when you're away ("exit node")
Yeah Tailscale is great. I assumed VPN as in tunneling the whole network external traffic through the machine. I haven't searched for something like that. Might even need a full blown router service/VM.
I was jealous of my CS classmates touch typing when I got into uni 10 years ago. I was the same as you. I took the hard and weird road of learning to touch type Dvorak instead. Took me 6 months of on and off until I switched full-time. Forces me to not look at the keyboard. Works pretty well for me until now.
