I really appreciate the time you took to help me but seriously there is always issues even when it’s supposed to be simple/basic. Nevertheless I am in the mood to be wrong and pleasantly surprised so I follow your instructions. (Spoiler: It doesn’t work. But I am not trying to request further help about this, because I am fairly resigned to the situation. I am just showing you, that I tried.)

I already had docker and docker-compose installed; I was already in the docker group; and the service was already active per systemctl. I guess from last time I tried this (not too long ago). Create directory, file etc.

$ docker compose up
unable to get image 'zefhemel/silverbullet': Cannot connect to the Docker daemon at unix:///home/username/.docker/run/docker.sock. Is the docker daemon running?

So I find Troubleshooting the Docker daemon | Docker Docs. It has several methods to find out if docker is even running which now I am confused about.

reports as inactive: # systemctl is-active docker, # systemctl status docker.service, $ docker info

report as active: $ systemctl status docker.service, # systemctl is-active docker,
$ systemctl is-active docker, # docker info

$ env | grep DOCKER_HOST and # env | grep DOCKER_HOST have no output.

ps aux | grep docker and top | grep docker tell me dockerd is running by root. So I think maybe I need to start it as a regular user for this exercise?

Found Start the daemon | Docker Docs which advises the use of dockerd either with or without sudo depending on environment.

normal user:

Starting up
dockerd needs to be started with root privileges. To run dockerd in rootless mode as an unprivileged user, see https://docs.docker.com/go/rootless/

Oh it needs to be root. OK, try again with sudo:

Starting up
failed to start daemon, ensure docker is not running or delete /var/run/docker.pid: process with PID 3952 is still running

So it is running? 3952 was pid reported by top and ps. It is running. But it’s not running.

Who knows… honestly this is how it goes every time. Maybe I am running services wrong… maybe I set something up last time because I was trying to solve another problem and it was suggested and that thing is now causing me am issue. I could chase my tail on this all week.

Like I said I completely believe everyone that once you’re rolling with it, it’s great. I’m happy for everyone who is able to access this. I will continue to live without it for the time being.

I wish more projects would have cheap rate subscriptions. Bitwarden was my first floss subscription and I don’t even consider canceling it even though I don’t really need any of the premium features. (I think its more like 1€ per month.)

But these “its the price of a fancy coffee per month” ones… Girl I haven’t had a fancy coffee since like 2018.

I would love to remove non floss obsidian from my day but its just so gosh darn useful. I came across Silverbullet a while ago in one of my periodic searches for alternatives.

Main issue getting in the way for me to even try it is docker. I understand that once you are comfortable with it, its convenient, but I never got there. I have tried running it every so often and its always some kind of issue that makes me give up. I keep a list of docker-only software to try in the event I ever get over that hump and this is on it.

As a competitor against obsidian, Joplin etc the docker pre req is a very high bar to clear. Overwhelming majority of users of note taking apps have not and will not run docker.

Knowing this, it makes me less excited about this project as it exists today because the best thing about obsidian is the giant user base creating so many plugins and tools to work with it. I wouldn’t care for vanilla obsidian at all, it is made great by all the community generated add ons. So a small user base is kind of inherently a knock against any given project for me.

I don’t know or presume this projects goals. If they want to be an alternative to desktop apps for less technical user-base, this would have to be resolved. But totally legit if that’s not the priority.

hmmm I just tried this out and using cp -lr on a directory. I appears to have recreated the whole directory structure, hardlinking the files; because directories can’t be hardlinked. Is that correct? If so wow.

I don’t use *arrs. A few years ago they were way more than I needed and quite complex to get going. I get the impression they are more mature now. Maybe is time to check out again.

I will look through the website you suggest. At first glance I am at odds with the author as I’m not at all “picky”. But probably something to glean about how to work things out anyway.

Am also on linux. I have a bigger question about how to manage the downloaded files overall but I decided to start with a more specific post and see how that went. ;)

Previously I would move everything after done and a bit of seeding. Lately I’ve just been letting it accrue where it lands and seed indefinately. However that’s not really viable as I move past VLC as media player. Media management software (kodi, jellyfin etc) has file structure requirements, it wants to write nfo files and so on. Also I don’t have infinite HDD space so some stuff I just delete after watching.

Is there some kind of tool you use to manage the symlinks? Or you create them all manually in the cli or gui/cli/tui file manager? What’s the workflow?

Another benefit of leaving everything in the torrent client is remembering what I already have without doing a file system search all the time. I do really like that aspect.