Nitin Khanna

I write at nitinkhanna.com (personal blog) and everyopsguy.com (professional newsletter about DevOps, MLOps, Cybersecurity, M&As; do subscribe!)

Nitin Khannanitinkhanna
2025-06-12

Just found that mastodon.social was taking only 11 GB of RAM on my computer. That's one way to ensure you don't addicted to social media - you have to keep closing the tab!

Nitin Khannanitinkhanna
2025-05-29

@raboof interesting! I'm always treating Linux as a server solution, so almost never have a desktop environment on there. Perhaps one of these days I should go for that and discover opinionated... wayland compositors... ☺️

@Edent

Nitin Khannanitinkhanna
2025-05-29

@jws query both at the same time? Oh, that's what you meant by there being no priority order... Well, that doesn't solve my problem of trying to reduce NextDNS calls.

Maybe I'll set it up so that at home, my calls go to PiHole+Unbound (which forums are telling me is a good idea) and outside (where I'm almost always connected to my tailnet via VPN), I'll rely on NextDNS...

Nitin Khannanitinkhanna
2025-05-29

@jws oooh nice!

and good on you for setting up a test tailnet 😄

Nitin Khannanitinkhanna
2025-05-29

@jws also, how did you break your pihole config regularly?

Nitin Khannanitinkhanna
2025-05-29

@jws thanks for the reply, Jay. I like NextDNS too, but I realize that I'm going over the 300k queries limit every month. So by the end of the month they're not blocking ads anymore.

When I went to add pihole and then NextDNS to tailscale, it gave me -

"You can’t mix NextDNS with other global resolvers. Are you sure you want to delete all your other resolvers?"

So maybe it's just a deal they have with NextDNS to drive people towards paying for NextDNS?

Nitin Khannanitinkhanna
2025-05-29

@raboof someone needs to make a t-shirt that says

"Open Source ≠ Free Support"

@Edent

Nitin Khannanitinkhanna
2025-05-29

@raboof ok that is very detailed. Weird.

Also, what's volare?

@Edent

Nitin Khannanitinkhanna
2025-05-29

Folks, can I use *and* in ? Perhaps PiHole with NextDNS as its backend?

But I do need a fallback DNS if my pihole is not accessible...

Nitin Khannanitinkhanna
2025-05-29

@Edent @raboof could also be a proof of concept to showcase how many of their “suggestions” are accepted. Except… how are they coming to define what the problem statement is? Is it a common complaint (‘on this day’ not working) that other “issues” also raise?

Nitin Khannanitinkhanna
2025-05-29
Nitin Khannanitinkhanna
2025-05-28
A screenshot of two posts on the fediverse, one after the other. The top one is from Ben "hype dancer" and just says "secret raspberries" and the bottom one is from pomological, aka fruit toots - it's a painting of strawberries and the text says "amanda strawberries, 1912". The poster has found the coincidence to be quick mirthful.
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JA WestenbergDaojoan
2025-05-28

RSS never tracked you.
Email never throttled you.
Blogs never begged for dopamine.
The old web wasn’t perfect.
But it was yours.

Nitin Khannanitinkhanna
2025-05-28

@cathos hah! So you're looking for a PKM system that... either reflects the mess in your mind while making it easier to search? Or you want one that sorts the mess and helps you think in an orderly fashion?

Also, "hah" because all our minds are mush. That's why we're all in the PKM space 😅

Nitin Khannanitinkhanna
2025-05-28

@cathos hmmm. That sounds like an interesting problem!

Is the interface heavy because of the UX elements or the number of plugins you use? Maybe changing the theme will help a bit?

Incidentally, what theme do you use? I use AnuPpuccin since I set this up a year and change ago and haven't used anything else since. What else is out there, I wonder...

Nitin Khannanitinkhanna
2025-05-28

@kapsar sounds good! I've had it on my TBR since a while now, it seems. Guess I'll bump it up!

Nitin Khannanitinkhanna
2025-05-28

@pixouls @cathos what in the UX doesn’t work for you any more?

Nitin Khannanitinkhanna
2025-05-28

@kapsar huh. Library at Mount Char was on a whole new level for me. So I wonder what Piranesi is all about? 🙂

Nitin Khannanitinkhanna
2025-05-27

@kims @GiftArticles I love it too. Such a wonderful service. I end up reading most of the articles I come across on this account!

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2025-05-25

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