Post #4395908
2026-08-05 21:16 UTC
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@siblingsofthevoid@void.lgbt 2026-08-05 21:27
@alis@tech.lgbt @ShadowJonathan@tech.lgbt Because I know how to do the basics and I want my software to not be dependent on docker. I like to minimize my dependencies and resource usage. It gives a smaller attack surface and for me, docker doesn't work with the way I think about stuff. Sure, my server has 96GB of RAM, but that doesn't mean I wish to waste the resources it has, especially CPU. Docker is heavy, can't truly be run without root, has obscure setup scripts that I often have to dig through and docker compose has often been nore annoying than helpful to me and besides: why run docker? I run a server with NixOS. I don't need a whole container daemon clogging up the system when I manage the server from hardware to networking to software. I don't have to scale, since I have 4 users at most and my storage is currently local to the server. Docker also always requires babying it and docker containers tend to be huge. I found bare metal with NixOS or unprivileged proxmox LXCs a much nicer fit for how I personally think about machines like this and I've found them to be much less resource intensive. The less this server does at idle, the better.