At home, I use Blocky to proxy DNS4EU, with the addition of Steven Black’s hosts file to deny known adware and malware domains.

I’m very tempted to turn this into a public service for people who don’t know how to do this themselves.

Anyone interested?

Redirecting

I am playing with deploying this to Hetzner. Just getting familiar with it right now by migrating existing stuff from DigitalOcean, but it’s going well so far.

Looks like nixos-infect works pretty well for replacing Debian with NixOS, so I’ll be going with that.

@samir I really try deploying NixOS to a VM on my Promxox machine. Tried twice already and failed miserably. There is something I am obviously missing.
@rysiek What failed, do you remember?

@samir I used a NixOS minimal ISO and this guide:
https://nixos.wiki/wiki/NixOS_Installation_Guide

Installation finished fine I think, but the VM is not booting, stuck on "Booting from Hard Disk..." message from BIOS.

NixOS Installation Guide - NixOS Wiki

@rysiek Ah, classic Linux-on-VM problems.

I haven’t used Proxmox, so I am not sure what the problem could be, but I do hope you figure it out.

@samir thanks. Each time I try to dive into this I end up in some Reddit thread with five solutions that don't work, half of them from a year ago but marked as "deprecated". 🤷‍♀️

Kinda wild that official docs don't provide a reliable procedure of installing NixOS on a VM.

@rysiek The official NixOS docs are… something.
@samir @rysiek they're an excellent example of that old thing about the architecture of a software system mirroring the structure of the organization that produced it, is what they are
@samir @rysiek from a casual glance you might think there's three groups that don't really talk to each other or care about each others' work, and we're pretty sure that's exactly right