I like FullHost. They were my pick when I did an in-depth review of several Canadian VPS providers last year…

https://lukecyca.com/2025/canadian-vps-review.html

SilverBullet is absolutely solid, with a simple and elegant architecture. SPA app, offline support, flat file backend, etc. Highly recommended.

I tried SilverBullet and it was really good and really neat, but not for me. Now I’m using Obsidian, which is easy enough to self host, but the company that makes it is small and indie and I decided to support them with a subscription.

I also switched to Asahi Linux 5 months ago. After decades of being an Apple fan, they are most unappealing these days.

Is this working? Mine always gets reset to 100% after each reboot.

Edit: According to this post this is supposed to be fixed as of the latest update from a few days ago. Yay!

Toshy is an interesting piece of software that remaps keys to Macintosh conventions.

I’ve been running my own email server for 15+ years. One year ago I needed to change VPS providers and thus get a totally different IP. I worried about this a bit, but actually had no issues whatsoever. Of course, I wasn’t starting completely from scratch as I had the same domain, all my personal experience, and a battle-tested configuration for docker-mailserver. But yeah, the lack of IP reputation itself didn’t seem to be an issue at all. Maybe I got lucky. Or maybe it’s because I chose a relatively small Canadian VPS provider rather than one of the global cloud giants (I assume their IP address space gets pretty trashed with scammers).

Oh this is one to watch! Thanks for posting. I’m currently running docker-mailserver (which is quite mature and stable) but xmox looks very interesting.

All MTAs have retries baked in, so running a self-hosted email server that receives mail is actually one of the most forgiving services in this respect. If your server is offline, the sending server will retry several times over 24-48 hours before it gives up. Even the big cloud email providers will do this.

That said, there are other aspects of running an email server that require some extra rigour, but they’re more on the sending side (making sure emails you send to other people actually land in their inbox). Doable, but one of the more challenging things to self-host.

OpenProject is what you’re looking for.

I don’t have a big problem with CloudFlare (and use their service myself for some things). But so much of the internet infrastructure is already consolidated with them. There are so many good options for domain registrars. Let’s spread things around a bit.

I hope TransLink will send OneBC the invoice for chartering that bus that whisked them off campus.

Hover.com is my favorite. Good prices and no shenanigans.

I’ve tried dozens of clients and Arpegi is my favourite. I’ve been using it for a year.

for personal use

A key part of his argument is that these laws should be repealed so that small companies could legally develop hacks and alternatives. For example a startup could develop (and support) an alternative firmware for John Deere tractors, which they sell to independent tractor repair shops around the world, creating more competition, more options, and cheaper/better services to end users. The “for personal use” version of that is fine for us hobbyists, but prevents similar freedoms from being accessible to regular people.

Borg is a solid choice, but over the last couple years I’ve transitioned to Restic which prefer slightly. It seems a lot faster, has better usability/ergonomics, and easier to configure a write-only setup (so your server can write snapshots, but is incapable of deleting and such).

Some fascinating ideas. Thank you!

Future goal: Shared partition between OSX and Asahi

Yes, this should be doable. It’s straightforward to make a partition that’s visible to both OSes, but choosing a filesystem that has good support in both is difficult. MacOS has no support for any linux filesystems. In the past, as a mac user needing to share external drives with linux, I often resorted to exFAT or NTFS.

Fortunately, I’ve been having good luck lately with fuse-apfs, and even used it to restore my mac TimeMachine backups. Unfortunately it’s read-only.

Just now I was able to mount several unencrypted APFS partitions from my internal NVME under Asahi. But the main APFS partition (which is encrypted) does not work. It seems that fuse-apfs supports encrypted APFS volumes, but not hardware-encrypted volumes (see limitations). So that’s unfortunate.

HFS+ might be an option, since its Linux support might be better, and MacOS still supports it very well.

How are you doing now, after 23 days? Looking forward to your next post. :D

After 1.5 months, I’m happy and productive. My remaining pain points are:

Power use during sleep

I’ve been shutting down a lot more than I used to. This isn’t a huge deal since the machine boots fast. However it’s clear that Apple didn’t expect this machine to be fully shut down much. It’s hard to know when it’s fully shut down (and what that even means for a machine that has so many always-on systems such as the haptic trackpad).

USB-C hotplugging, docks, and PD

I often have devices failing to enumerate, PD not working, etc. I guess my USB tree is pretty big, with about a dozen devices connected via various USB hubs and such. It works perfectly if I boot with it all plugged in, but hotplugging tends to have issues, which leads me to try other ports (more hotplugging) which multiplies the problems. I haven’t found much of a pattern yet, so I keep retrying, flipping connectors and running lsusb -tv until it works. And eventually rebooting if all else fails.

I’m now trying to rig up a serial debug cable so that I can better see what’s happening out-of-band, especially while booting or while “sleeping”.

I’m a month in as my daily driver, and much the same experience as you. I’ll be sticking with it despite a few shortcomings.

Regarding the sleep power consumption, I’m interested to know what you find. Im plugging it in overnight in the meantime.

Regarding the USBC ports, does the mismatched functionality reset with a reboot? I’m finding that my HP USB-C dock sometimes brings a port down, particularly if I plug and unplug multiple times while sleeping, and then switching ports (or even just flipping the connector) can fix it. A reboot always fixes it all though. I updated my dock firmware and so far it is much improved so maybe it’s more about my dock.

What if you rent a bare metal server in a data center? Or rent a VPS from a basic provider that expects you to do your own firewalling? Or run your home lab docker host on the same vlan as other less trusted hosts?

It would be nice if there was a reliable way to run a firewall on the same host that’s running docker.

You may say these are obscure use cases and that they are Wrong and Bad. Maybe you’re right, but personally I think it’s an unfortunate gap in expected functionality, if for no other reason than defense-in-depth.

Thanks for your comments! I’ve fixed the RSS file now I think.