Relay for Reddit app stays as one of the few remaining third party apps for Reddit and they are forced to go to a subscription model but the cost of such a subscription is related to how many API calls per user are done.

This screenshot was taken from the yet working patched Sync for Reddit app.

  • somedaysoon@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Proxmox Helper Scripts are an easy way to get a homelab setup, I’ve found its as complex as you want it to be:

    https://tteck.github.io/Proxmox/

    I wouldn’t recommend inputting online scripts into bash to anyone without reading through it and understanding it firstly. It’s okay for you to make that risk assessment and decision for yourself, but I just couldn’t recommend it to another person. And I definitely would not want to condition a beginner into those kinds of habits.

    In reference to beginners, I think the entire concept of proxmox and VMs and LXCs is a lot more to take in and understand than any of the other platforms that I mentioned using docker containers. It’s much easier to understand, this docker container provides this one applications/service instead of organizing and configuring LXCs to do different services. It is quite a lot more manual configuration (unless you are using the scripts you mentioned, which I would not recommend). You also have to manage your VMs and LXCs system resources, among other things that you don’t have to do in these other platforms using docker containers. It’s just a lot more to take in, for benefits that I don’t think most beginners are going to ever take advantage of. And many of those benefits can be seen with TrueNAS Scale in regards to using ZFS, expandability, etc. while not dealing with the aforementioned LXC/VM headaches. TrueNAS Scale, UnRaid, OMV are docker ready out of the box within a couple of clicks in the UI… and that’s how most home selfhosters are spinning up services. Think about what it takes to get docker ready in proxmox without those user helper scripts. Also in regards to hardware passthrough, docker can also do hardware passthrough with the --device flag on any of these other platforms.

    I think proxmox is great as an overall management tool if you have server grade hardware or very powerful machines where you’ll be running multiple VMs or LXCs. But for beginners that just want to spin up some docker containers or selfhosters that are conscious about power consumption and want to purposely run lower power machines, than I still wouldn’t see myself recommending it.