After reading through some of the comments, here is my opinion.

C would be a good language IF you know your students plan to get into IT, specifically a sector where the low level knowledge is useful. Beyond that, I assume your students probably use windows and I personally always find it a pain to work with C on windows outside of full IDEs like jetbrains and Visual Studio. It’s also a lot more work till you get some results that you are happy about. Unless you start with an Arduino, which I find pretty nice to get students interested in embedded stuff.

I don’t like JavaScript because I find it a mess although it is very useful for anything web related.

Given you said in another comment that this is meant to be a general purpose skill for your students I would strongly recommend python. While I dislike the dynamic type system, it is a very powerful language to get stuff done. You can quickly get results that feel rewarding instead of running into hard to fix issues that turn your students off of programming in general. Also it’s very useful outside of IT as a scripting language for analyzing data in basically any field or for generating nice plots for some document

I remember building something vaguely related in a university course on AI before ChatGPT was released and the whole LLM thing hadn’t taken off.

The user had the option to enter a couple movies (so long as they were present in the weird semantic database thing our professor told us to use) and we calculated a similarity matrix between them and all other movies in the database based on their tags and by putting the description through a natural language processing pipeline.

The result was the user getting a couple surprisingly accurate recommendations.

Considering we had to calculate this similarity score for every movie in the database it was obviously not very efficient but I wonder how it would scale up against current LLM models, both in terms of accuracy and energy efficiency.

One issue, if you want to call it that, is that our approach was deterministic. Enter the same movies, get the same results. I don’t think an LLM is as predictable for that

Thanks. I’ll keep this in mind in case my new stack causes issues again

Hey, just wanted to let you know that my updated stack has been running perfectly since I changed it based on your setup. Thanks

I guess I missed that.

Anyway, I updated my stack to be similar to what you pasted and so far it seems to be working. I’ll have to check tomorrow if the reboot issue persists.

I know that the port forwarding command can be simplified. In my case its this complex because the way it is listed in the gluetun wiki did not work even though I disabled authentication for my local network. The largest part of the script is authenticating with the username and password before actually sending the port forwarding command.

I’ll definitely try adjusting my stack to your variant though. I’ve also tried the healthcheck option before but I must have configured it wrong because that caused my gluetun container to get stuck.

One question regarding your stack though, is there a specific reason for binding /dev/net/tun to gluetun?

As far as I am aware, Mullvad has removed port forwarding support a while ago. While I am not sure which VPN providers except proton still support it, I kind of remember seeing a small list of them some time ago which listed Proton among one of the few trustworthy ones left.

Good thing I decided against switching to it, even though my main reason is that my weird book organisation scheme isn’t feasible with anything but calibre or manual organisation currently as far as I know

I use a MikroTik Router and while I do love the amount of power it gives me, I very quickly realized that I jumped in at the deep end. Deeper than I can deal with unfortunately.

I did get everything running after a week or so but I absolutely had to fight the router to do so.

Sometimes less is more I guess

That was my exact setup as well until I switched to a different router which supported both custom DNS entries and blocklists, thereby making the pi-hole redundant

Not OP but a lot of people probably use pi-hole which doesn’t support wildcards for some inane reason

Extra hard drive space is good and all but the last time I looked at their lists, all decently sized torrents had a good enough amount of peers while the large torrents which aren’t as manageable were the issue.

I typically use EndeavorOS because I enjoy how well documented and organized the arch wiki is.

I tried switching to fedora on my laptop recently but actually had some issues with software that was apparently only distributed through the AUR or AppImage (which I could have used, I know).

When I also had issues setting up my VPN to my home network again, I caved and restored the disk to a backup I took before attempting the switch. The VPN thing almost definitely wasn’t Fedoras fault since I remember running into the same issue on EndeavorOS but after my fix from last time didn’t work I was out of patience.

My servers runs either on debian or Ubuntu LTS though.

Why not skip ahead in time a little and call it farmarr?

I know you didn’t mention video but if you think you might want to host jellyfin in the future, make sure your CPU supports hardware decoding for modern formats.

For example, my lenovo mini pc with an i5-6500 has support for h265 but not h265 10bit or AV1, which makes playing those formats on some devices basically impossible without re-encoding the files.

My group never left fortunately. We still have a dude paying to host a ts3 server and we always get weird comments when we occasionally invite people we play with

I talked to Microsoft Copilot 3 times for work related reasons because I couldn’t find something in documentation. I was lied to 3 times. It either made stuff up about how the thing I asked about works or even invented entirely new configuration settings