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+Title: Why I still use Unity
+Category: Blog
+Tags: /dev/diary, linux
+<!-- Date: 2018-04-04 -->
+<!-- Status: Draft  -->
+
+In early 2016, AMD announced a new graphics driver for Linux: amdgpu. I was incredibly curious what they had been doing and as such, I installed Ubuntu 16.04 on my workstaton/ gaming PC and bought an R9 380X graphics card to test the new driver (previously using an older NVidia card). Over the following months I played around with custom Kernel modules, tested driver flags and did *so many benchmarks...*
+
+Late 2016, after I finished Google's [summer of code]() program, I bought a 4K display. This would turn out to be more complicated than I initially thought. Using Ubuntu with Unity I had absolutely no issues with the new resolution. I switched the UI (not just text) scaling to `1.25` which made elements large enough to interact with without cluttering the screen. Performance was nice, even with an (at the time) experimental graphics driver. I was pretty happy.
+
+Until...the summer of 2017, when I decided that I didn't really want to use Ubuntu anymore and installed Arch on the desktop computer, the same OS I use on my laptop and two servers. But, this would turn out to be a lot more complicated than initially thought. There were a few problems that I encountered because of this and this blog article is meant to both track and inform about them. A lot of things are happening in the Linux desktop environment world and maybe this could be considered a snapshot of a changing ecosystem at some point in the future.
+
+## The competitors
+
+There were two desktop environments I tried. `gnome` and `cinnamon`. Both are Gtk+ based which is why I chose them. Note that KDE is being excluded for exactly that reason; I *really* don't like the way that Qt applications look and feel. 
+
+GNOME and Cinnamon both share some common components. In fact Cinnamon started as a fork of GNOME but has since moved a bit further in their own direction. The most important component (in my opinion) is the window compositors: `mutter` and `muffin` which is a fork of the former made by the Cinnamon project.
+
+#### Compositor?
+
+Now, you might be asking: why a compositor? Can't you live without flaming windows or stupid transition effects? And my response to that is...well...that's not really all a compositor does. In a modern operating system the compositor provides windows with an off-screen buffer to draw into, then later blipping all the windows together onto the screen. The X server handles the screen and coordinates on it, the compositor is responsible for laying out the windows, scaling and moving them. Most bugs and performance problems with windows are at the compositor level, not X itself.
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+Title: Making my server completely replacable
+Category: Blog
+Tags: /dev/diary, linux, ancible
+<!-- Date: 2018-02-08 -->
+Status: Draft 
+
+**This is mostly a draft so far, so maybe pad it a bit more 😉**
+
+I have a virtual server running Arch Linux hosted somewhere in Germany which I want to use to host some personal services and toolchains. Currently this is done via LXD which I was a fan of for quite a while. I am using Zfs as a backend for these containers which means that I can do quick snapshots and deduplication between the base systems. But...I'm not really sure this is a nice way to do it anymore. I would like to run services in Containers just because it means that the host can be setup in a more clean way.
+
+But right now there is a lot of manual configuration required because I'm struggling with the new way that LXD handles network taps. And while I'm gonna have to touch my configs anyways, I thought: why not go a bit further?
+
+# Existing setup
+
+```
+ ☁ (icarus) ~> lxc list
++-------------+---------+----------------------+------+------------+-----------+
+|    NAME     |  STATE  |         IPV4         | IPV6 |    TYPE    | SNAPSHOTS |
++-------------+---------+----------------------+------+------------+-----------+
+| betakookie  | STOPPED |                      |      | PERSISTENT | 2         |
++-------------+---------+----------------------+------+------------+-----------+
+| dcmerge     | RUNNING | 10.130.123.13 (eth0) |      | PERSISTENT | 0         |
++-------------+---------+----------------------+------+------------+-----------+
+| dns         | STOPPED |                      |      | PERSISTENT | 1         |
++-------------+---------+----------------------+------+------------+-----------+
+| gitlab      | RUNNING | 10.130.123.20 (eth0) |      | PERSISTENT | 2         |
++-------------+---------+----------------------+------+------------+-----------+
+| hazelnot    | RUNNING | 10.130.123.12 (eth0) |      | PERSISTENT | 0         |
++-------------+---------+----------------------+------+------------+-----------+
+| partkeepr   | STOPPED |                      |      | PERSISTENT | 3         |
++-------------+---------+----------------------+------+------------+-----------+
+| spacekookie | RUNNING | 10.130.123.10 (eth0) |      | PERSISTENT | 2         |
++-------------+---------+----------------------+------+------------+-----------+
+| stats       | RUNNING | 10.130.123.22 (eth0) |      | PERSISTENT | 0         |
++-------------+---------+----------------------+------+------------+-----------+
+| turtl       | STOPPED |                      |      | PERSISTENT | 0         |
++-------------+---------+----------------------+------+------------+-----------+
+| vpn-core    | STOPPED |                      |      | PERSISTENT | 0         |
++-------------+---------+----------------------+------+------------+-----------+
+| wiki        | RUNNING | 10.130.123.23 (eth0) |      | PERSISTENT | 0         |
++-------------+---------+----------------------+------+------------+-----------+
+```
+
+Ultimately I want to run a few core services:
+
+ - My website (Also available in early access on Github 😱)
+ - A friend's static website
+ - Gitlab
+ - Bookstack (my wiki)
+ - Matomo (previously Piwik)
+ - Partkeepr (a tool for managing electronic components)
+ - Turtl (a cool evernote clone)
+ - My own Quassel core (instead of using my ex-girlfriend's one 😉)
+
+And maybe some more that I haven't setup yet. Including a VPN between my server, my NAS and all of my other devices.
+
+
+# Future setup idea
+
+I have two servers running pretty much all the time:
+
+ - My cloud server
+ - My NAS at home
+
+What I want to get over is having to manually configure containers and 
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