You can either decide by what is currently in demand in the industry and then pick a project that you can exercise that language with or you can think of a project you’d like to do and then go by what the best language is for a given project.

In the end, languages are just like different wrenches. First you have to learn how to use a wrench, size or features don’t matter much at this point (unless you already know that you want to become an expert with one particular wrench).

I think starting a new project is way easier than contributing to an existing one.

Best advice I have:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FPO4fm4nxc

Keep at it. Do actual projects. Actually use the tools for a while. It will eventually make sense.

I had some similar symptoms on a Fritzbox router, because by default the devices connected over wifi were unable to communicate with those connected by cable. Some routers also had this setting for the different wifi bands, 2.4G & 5G.

But I don’t think you’d be able to ping it if this were the case.

Check yoyr router settings anyway, maybe you’ll find something there.

For me the best learning came from actually working on huge, complex projects - then seeing the problems that come with that - then looking for ways to improve the situation.

How are we supposed to give you feedback if we can’t play the game yet, since it is not released?

With a Blazor (serverside mode) project you could have that with a nice user experience. Blazor has a tiny js which initializes something, otherwiss it renders the site on the server and sends the component updates to the browser, so the whole site does not need to reload, only the relevant components (which is kind of interesting).

Maybe there is some blazor serverside e-commerce project out there, I wouldn’t personally recommend it though.

Well, I don’t think thats what OP had in mind but there is WebAssembly as well.

For the site itself the most minimal thing you can do is an html file.

Then some software to act as the “server” that serves that file to a visitor. (nginx, caddy, apache - there are many options).

And your domain needs a domain record which points to your server.

As you want to use a home pc, you need to figure out whether your ISP gives you a dynamic or static IP.

If static, you can just use that.

If dynamic, you’d need some service like dynDNS to keep pointing your domain to your changing IP.

There used to be a kickstarter project that wanted to create that, but as a physical clock on the wall.

It was supposed to able to show your daily activities. But the key aspect was a 24h clock and visual presentation of day and night times.

I forgot what it was called.

Edit: found it, it was the life-clock, but there is nearly no matetial online on it nowadays.

https://24hourtime.info/2013/02/24/the-life-clock-kickstarter-campaign/

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1410952956/24-hour-life-clock

You can start by checking out the e-commerce list on awesome selfhosted. At a glance there are multiple which seem to be easy to set up, and require no code, so you should take a deeper look and decide based on your needs.

https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted?tab=readme-ov-file#e-commerce

If you find something there that suits your needs make sure to let us know why you chose it :)

Not sure about debian, but the archlinux iso has ssh on per default, so if you have no other bootable drives in your server other than the usb with the iso, just fire it up and try to connect to it via ssh.

I’m pretty sure chatgpt caught mistakes like these for me recently and in the past. Just always slap in all your code into the prompt and tell it what you want the code to do step by step. Like with rubber ducky debugging.

Sorry I didn’t read your post in depth. But if you need switches, especially with lots of ports or PoE, older Alcatel-Lucent switches are rock-solid and relatively cheap off ebay, cause lots of companies that used them are upgrading. Just make sure to find one that fits your requirements per port.

Don’t worry, the world does not revolve around the US of A.

Nevermind, I just looked it up and it is chromium. I thought it wasn’t. My bad.

Check out Falkon browser

Packaging a service for StartOS is a challenging, exciting, creative, and rewarding experience.

Yeah no thanks I’ll just run it on Ubuntu or Arch Linux then, where a package is already available.

Depends on what yoy install I guess.

It only broke twice for me from updates during the 5 year period. 1. grub 2. openjdk

and the openjdk one simply didn’t update until I uninstalled the old one and reinstalled the new one.

I have been on arch professionally for ~5 years.

I am a GUI fan and I don’t like fucking around with the OS. In fact, I don’t even want to think about it at all.

So far it hardly required any maintenance (much less than Ubuntu, Windows or Mac, at least for my workflows).

And the only fucking around I did with it was the first two days setting everything up just the way I like.

To be fair, I already had extensive linux knowledge at the point of switching to arch - through ~4 years of constantly breaking my Debians and Ubuntus every couple of months.

Article: https://doi.org/10.1145/3591280

Supplementary archive: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7804200 (Badges: Artifacts Available, Artifacts Evaluated — Reusable)

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