Sorry that's on me. That's one thing I removed from the pastebin file on purpose, it's here in the real one. I copy paste my path to be sure it's correct.
You can already do something similar manually with an app called Grocy.
I tried it and didn't last two week, too much time spent scanning barcodes and dealing with inventory. I was hoping to save time to generate grocery list faster, not spend my life on it.
If you edit the password with the typo version, then the typo effectively becomes the truth and you don't make a typo anymore, thus don't have to correct the typo anymore.
Just jump. I went Linux a month ago and never had to go back for gaming. I still have windows installed but I've used it only twice because music plugins are not compatible with Linux.
Once I find a good guitar amp for my needs I can nuke windows entirely.
Thanks a lot! I certainly need to learn about permissions and docker mapped directories in general. This is still very unclear in my head and it prevents me from troubleshooting my own stuff which is frustrating. You're all very cool but I'd like to not post a lemmy every time an app has wrong permissions haha.
I'll have a read.
Good idea! I tried sync with my other computer and the software complained about not having permissions on the postgres folder. I investigated and found out postgres directory is owned by user:70. I have yet to find where that comes from. I changed it with a sudo chown but it reverts to the wrong owner when I restart the container.
That's basically what the author of the app told me to do. I'm having wrong permission issues I believe and I haven't found yet who/what assigns the wrong permission when I start the container.
I tried using tar as you said, and it didn't work. Which led me to investigate and realize the owner of the postgres folder is unknown to me. Changed it back with CHOWN but it reverts back to the weird owner when I restart the container so I'm missing some knowledge and know-how.
I'm trying to figure out who sets that permission in the first place.
I thought so, too. I played around with the tar idea and it led me to discover the permissions are wrong on the original computer.
I have added new info on the main post about it but basically the owner is "user:70" and I have no idea where that comes from.
I tried using CHOWN to reset everything to my own user, which is the same on both computers (1000:1000 uidguid), but whenever I restart the container, it locks again.
So far I've tried Debian12 on my old laptop and Mint on my self hosting rig. I think I'll sping so VMs and test new distros before commiting to a full install.
I wasn't too happy with Mint because its boot time is much slower than Debian on a comparatively better machine so I'm not too tempted to go for it again. But maybe I messed up something and caused slow boot times.
Yeah I'm not worried about encryption, it's more about convenience to not start from scratch every time, but whatever is critical is duplicated in several places and wouldn't be lost if I were to lose the entire machine.
It's more me being lazy and wiling to avoid transferring games and music again if possible.
Cool! And how do you proceed to switch distro then? Let's say I have done as described above and separated the distro in its own partition. I plug a new USB distro, go through the setup and at the partitioner screen, I reassociate the new distro to where the old one was, and /home to where /home was, etc? And it just picks up that there are files there?
I think I have a fairly good idea of where I'm going. I've been using my old gaming rig as a Linux self hosting server for a few months now, I'm confortable with the Terminal and SSH. Kind of understand the file structure, but not as instinctively as Windows for sure.
I'm more worried about the friction of not having every software I wish for instantly available.
For instance, I use MusicBee to listen to my music library. It's been the case for over a decade, so I'm not sure where I'll go.
I've had the desire to leave for a while, that's why I thought creating a linux server to self host apps with my former gaming PC would be a great way to get started with Linux and learn the basics while still relying on Windows for my main stuff for a while.
Games were my last point of resistance, but I don't play as much anymore so I think I should just take the plunge.
Can you elaborate the /home on a different partition part?
How do you split your partition and does it mean you can switch distro and still have your stuff laying around as if you plugged an external disk?
Is there a command to check that?