I'm considering switching my personal servers (on Digital Ocean) from Ubuntu to Debian. I essentially just need something running Docker for most of my projects.
Debian seems to require upgrading less often. Any opinions?
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Looking at how my servers update themselves and the recent Copy Fail vulnerability, I'm considering an automated weekly restart to make sure services and kernels are up to date. It'd also ensure that services are correctly configured to start on boot.
Any thoughts? Feels crude.
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I'm considering using WebP more: for example, my websites would load faster and browsers have supported it since 2020: https://caniuse.com/webp
That said, GitHub just added support in August 2025, so I suspect I'd still find use cases that don't work yet:
It's rare to see ANSI escape codes for URLs in the wild, but cargo has it!
This example links to https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/profiles.html#default-profiles, describing the different profiles.
Considering releases vs debug is a source of confusion for new users expecting better performance, this seems wise.
