bluGill

You can run docker in docker. I do that all the time (but via scripts so I know it does docker in docker, but I don’t know how they do that).

But again, I wasn’t even trying to run HA in docker, I was running in a VM container and still the above is refused by default.

Maybe, but the documentation says it can’t be done.

note too that I wasn’t running docker but instead a vm.

https://www.home-assistant.io/installation/ Home assistant container - the version for docker - doesn’t support add-ons. If you go through a lot of effort you can make it work, but you won’t get help. (easiest is to install some linux in the docker and then home assistant supervised on top of that)

There is no reason HAOS couldn’t run just fine in a container (qemu not docker), but they intentionally detect that and break it (I tried, I probably could make it work but I don’t have that much time)

Home Assistant insists that it must run on bare metal hardware and will not work well. This is a purely artificial limitation that home assistant puts on you. You can work around it with a lot of effort, or the limitations might not matter to you, but it is a limit to be aware of. I personally went to OpenHAB instead, but YMMV.

Since you have Proxmox why would you switch? If you don’t like it, then by all means, there are lots of other options. However there is a good reason Proxmox comes up a lot. (I don’t personally use Proxmox so I don’t know those reasons, but the people who recommend it give every indication they are smart people who understand the problem and so I trust them enough to say it is a good option)

Best is a subjective question. There is no objective way to say what is best. We can argue about pros and cons. We can argue about what we prefer. However that is all subjective and there is no one best answer.

I finally gave up. iiwant to keep in touch with what distant friends are doing. Finding and sharing memes is not doing something and that seems to be all I ever saw. Some people need to get a life. (unless you are confined to a hospital bed there are better things to eo with your life.) Too bad - I miss the rare contact with those distant friends.

It is really hard even when you know this to not pass over ugly people who are otherwise good at their job.

A part of it is when you get old you realize the “kids” are doing the exact same thing you did 20 years ago, but they gave it a different name and changed some tiny details so they can pretend it is different. The real question is how do you get kids to see this - most don’t (including me when I was a kid - and I was aware of the issue and tried to guard against it)

The more important part at my age is to remember that kids today are just like me. Sure the exact style and what is in/out has changed, but kids are the same as we were. I didn’t even have the option of a smart phone, but I had my own addictions, and the older generation complained about them… Sometimes the old people have a point, but often kids these days are just like kids in the past.

There is a reason a lot of web apps run on the JVM - while it does have high overhead, once your app is running it is fast and you get some nice advantages. Plus Java has a large system of helpers and libraries. Even though you can do everything in Rust, you will end up writing a lot more code just because in Java you can just download a library to do something while Rust forces you to write it.

Hating the code is normal. After a while you start to realize all the hard to change decisions you made long ago. What you don’t know is if those decisions you wish you had made would be better. There have been a lot of fads over the decades, some of them are complete junk, but the majority have some good points. However all of them have some negatives as well, and there is no obvious answer to which negative is right to accept for your projects.

The ideal answer is spend 20 years learning lots of different options, then find a time machine and go back in time to and restart the project based on what you have learned. Of course at the end of that 20 years you will hear about some new thing you didn’t try, but you have to draw the line somewhere. (finding a time machine is left as an exercise for the reader)

Rust is an interesting language with some nice memory safety guarantees. As a C++ developer it speaks to some of the problems I have - but most of my problems with C++ are with 15 year old code from before I was able to use C++11. ( had to put a lot of effort into getting this good with c++ though, Rust is likely a lot easier to learn to my level). The Ada/Spark advocates have long been saying things that really speak to me as well - formally proven code sounds great, though there are others who tell me it isn’t as good as the advocates claim. Go has some advocates saying interesting things as well, though they don’t speak to the issues I personally have as much it might be better for you.

If you are writing all new code then I would put Rust high on the list. However most programs are adding to something that exists and the friction of writing Rust to existing code is often high enough that I’d stick with what the other code is written in.

Ann reason you choose authenik? There are a nmber of options and I’m not sure why to choose one over the other.