Genuinely curious, what would the advantages be?

Also, what if the Linux distro does not have systemd?

Yes.

All my self hosted containers are bound to some volume (since they require reading settings or databases).

True.

But I assume OP was already running docker from that user, so they are comfortable with those permissions.

Maybe should have made it clearer. Added to my other post. Thanks!

You shouldn’t need sudo to run docker, just can create a docker group and add your user to it. This will give you the steps on how to run docker without sudo.

Edit: as pointed out below, please make sure that you’re comfortable with giving these permissions to the user you’re adding to the docker group.

For the littering part, just type crontab -e and add the following line:

@daily docker system prune -a -f

I see you already have an answer using podman.

But don’t be afraid of the command line. If you can copy/paste a few commands, it’s pretty easy to set up.

I honestly find installing docker harder than to start a locally hosted searxng instance.

Also, something like self-hosting your own email is way harder and requires a lot more maintenance. I’d leave that project to further down the line.

Not sure it will solve your problem, but if you’re not happy with the public SearXNG instances, you can run your own instance of SearXNG on your local machine, and even set up custom filters and redirects to get rid of SEO junk.

Thanks! Giving it a try, so far it’s my favorite.

If you don’t want to fully host it yourself (which I think it’s wise), then it’s a good solution.

If privacy is important to you, ProtonMail has a good reputation, but I haven’t been keeping up with the latest developments in the area (there might be other providers that suit your needs / budget).

Do you mean buying your own domain, and forward email sent to it to an email provider?

A lot of email providers have that option (with paid plans). For example

https://proton.me/support/custom-domain

I just noticed, that keyboard was created by one of the Lemmy Devs.

Quite fitting to see it posted here

That is really out there!

Probably not going to use it (since I’m already too used to normal keyboards), but props to the devs for developing something different.

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Congrats, and thank you for releasing this!

Maybe there’s a couple of personal projects I could use it for…

Meta was talking about adding Mastodon federation to their Threads app. So I very much doubt it.

They’d probably take an Embrace, Expand, Extinguish approach.

A lot of people thought this was the case for VMs and docker as well, and now it seems to be the norm.

Yes, but docker does provide features that are useful at the level of a hobbyist self-hosting a few services for personal use (e.g. reproducibility). I like using docker and ansible to set up my systems, as I can painlessly reproduce everything or migrate to a different VPS in a few minutes.

But kubernetes seems overkill. None of my services have enough traffic to justify replicas, I’m the only user.

Besides learning (which is a valid reason), I don’t see why one would bother setting it up at home. Unless there’s a very specific use-case I’m missing.

Yes, those are all great uses of it. But could all still be achieved with docker containers running on some machines at home, right?

Have you ever had a situation where features provided by kubernetes (like replicas, load balancers, etc) came in handy?

I’m not criticizing, I’m genuinely curious if there’s a use-case for kubernetes for personal self-hosting (besides learning).

Seems a bit overkill for a personal use selfhosting set-up.

Personally, I don’t need anything that requires multiple replicas and loadbalencers.

Do people who have homelabs actually need them? Or is it just for learning?

You can get both qwant, duckduckgo, and Google with SearXNG, unless the instance you used had a config to not have them as an option…

That’s why I just prefer to use my own.

Went with linode since it was reasonably priced and popular. But might move if something better comes along.

I have all the server setup done with ansible, so it’s super easy to reproduce everything in a new machine.