X11. Luckily those days are over thanks to Wayland but, Jesus, are X.org config files a fucking, fiddly PITA to configure!
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Setting up Alpine or Mutt with multiple SMTP accounts is an exercise in frustration.
Cloud-init. The config yaml is rather straight forward, but I can't convince my VM to execute it, and it's driving me nuts.
Getting Keycloak and Headscale working together.
But I did it after three weeks.
I captured my efforts in a set of interdependent Ansible roles so I never have to do it again.
Nextcloud requiring me to set the actual domain when I just want to run it locally was pretty frustrating
I don't know, I had Nextcloud for a year on a local network and I didn't have to set an address. The bigger problem was that some applications do not accept self-signed SSL, so I had to change their code, and I don't really know how to code for Android...
hostapd. I have no idea how you’re supposed to figure out the 50 or so options OpenWrt outputs for an AX card that I just ended up copying. And why doesn’t it detect those on its own?
Skyrim mods.
Btw, anyone got the new reshade working on wine?
For skyrim, I'm using vortex in lutris, and install the mods this way. This requires a more bit of actions but works fine.
Wabbajack still doesn't work in wine?
it's embarrassing but for me it's thinkfan. Instead I wrote my own solution in bash.
Rootless podman, PostgreSQL, redis, nextcloud, nginx, iptables in one....
Motion on my RPI. I didn't want it to save videos or photos, so I turned it off in the config. But it still saved them. So I tried a few other places in the config to turn it off, but nothing worked and I'd run out of space within a day. So I changed the save directory to /dev/null.
Then I tried to upgrade the pi, and the new version of motion has a different config, incompatible with the old one. So I'm running the old one.
Caddy. The config and docs suck.
Eg. I thought I configured it to limit some sites to an allowlist of IPs. Turns out (months later) the config did nothing, but ran anyway.
xorg.conf. The (wrong) example from Arch Wiki works but following the official documentation doesn't.
Anything to do with dns
I gave up trying to setup a Mastodon server in docker. Lemmy was pretty tricky at the time as the docs were wrong. My email server was a bit tricky, but I've not really done much to tinker with it in the proceeding 6 years, so was worth it.
I was trying to get wine to run something the other day and couldn't figure it out.