I feel like I’ve never genuinely enjoyed exercise besides swimming. It was the only sport that ever made me feel good instead of miserable, but because of a skin condition I haven’t been able to do it since I was a kid. Since then, movement has always felt more like an obligation than something I naturally enjoy. Still, about a year and a half ago, something clicked in me. I started eating healthier, going on walks almost every day, and doing small workouts at home. Nothing extreme, but enough to make me feel proud of myself for once. I slowly lost weight, felt lighter, had more energy, and mentally I was in a much better place. But during the last 10 months or so, everything kind of fell apart again. I was finishing the last year of my studies, constantly stressed, mentally exhausted, overwhelmed with assignments and pressure, and little by little I stopped taking care of myself. I gained around 11kg back, stopped moving as much, started comfort eating again, and now I feel stuck in this cycle where I want to restart but can’t seem to find the motivation to actually do it. The problem is that I know how hard the beginning feels. I know results take time. And right now I don’t really have that “spark” or discipline people talk about. Part of me wants to lose weight, feel attractive again, get stronger, have more confidence, improve my mental health… but another part of me is just tired and overwhelmed and keeps thinking “what’s the point if I’ll fail again?” I also can’t afford a gym membership right now, so I have to do everything from home with basically no equipment. That makes it harder because I feel limited and I get bored easily. So I guess I’m asking: How do you restart after falling off completely? How do you find motivation when you genuinely don’t enjoy exercise that much? And if anyone has been in a similar situation — mentally exhausted, low confidence, trying to rebuild healthy habits from zero — what actually helped you stick with it? Any advice, routines, mindset changes, or even honest experiences would really help

I feel like I’ve never genuinely enjoyed exercise besides swimming. It was the only sport that ever made me feel good instead of miserable, but because of a skin condition I haven’t been able to do it since I was a kid. Since then, movement has always felt more like an obligation than something I naturally enjoy. Still, about a year and a half ago, something clicked in me. I started eating healthier, going on walks almost every day, and doing small workouts at home. Nothing extreme, but enough to make me feel proud of myself for once. I slowly lost weight, felt lighter, had more energy, and mentally I was in a much better place. But during the last 10 months or so, everything kind of fell apart again. I was finishing the last year of my studies, constantly stressed, mentally exhausted, overwhelmed with assignments and pressure, and little by little I stopped taking care of myself. I gained around 11kg back, stopped moving as much, started comfort eating again, and now I feel stuck in this cycle where I want to restart but can’t seem to find the motivation to actually do it. The problem is that I know how hard the beginning feels. I know results take time. And right now I don’t really have that “spark” or discipline people talk about. Part of me wants to lose weight, feel attractive again, get stronger, have more confidence, improve my mental health… but another part of me is just tired and overwhelmed and keeps thinking “what’s the point if I’ll fail again?” I also can’t afford a gym membership right now, so I have to do everything from home with basically no equipment. That makes it harder because I feel limited and I get bored easily. So I guess I’m asking: How do you restart after falling off completely? How do you find motivation when you genuinely don’t enjoy exercise that much? And if anyone has been in a similar situation — mentally exhausted, low confidence, trying to rebuild healthy habits from zero — what actually helped you stick with it? Any advice, routines, mindset changes, or even honest experiences would really help

I feel like I’ve never genuinely enjoyed exercise besides swimming. It was the only sport that ever made me feel good instead of miserable, but because of a skin condition I haven’t been able to do it since I was a kid. Since then, movement has always felt more like an obligation than something I naturally enjoy.

Still, about a year and a half ago, something clicked in me. I started eating healthier, going on walks almost every day, and doing small workouts at home. Nothing extreme, but enough to make me feel proud of myself for once. I slowly lost weight, felt lighter, had more energy, and mentally I was in a much better place.

But during the last 10 months or so, everything kind of fell apart again. I was finishing the last year of my studies, constantly stressed, mentally exhausted, overwhelmed with assignments and pressure, and little by little I stopped taking care of myself. I gained around 11 kg back, stopped moving as much, started comfort eating again, and now I feel stuck in this cycle where I want to restart but can’t seem to find the motivation to actually do it.

The problem is that I know how hard the beginning feels. I know results take time. And right now I don’t really have that “spark” or discipline people talk about. Part of me wants to lose weight, feel attractive again, get stronger, have more confidence, improve my mental health… but another part of me is just tired and overwhelmed and keeps thinking “what’s the point if I’ll fail again?”

I also can’t afford a gym membership right now, so I have to do everything from home with basically no equipment. That makes it harder because I feel limited and I get bored easily.

So I guess I’m asking: How do you restart after falling off completely? How do you find motivation when you genuinely don’t enjoy exercise that much? And if anyone has been in a similar situation — mentally exhausted, low confidence, trying to rebuild healthy habits from zero — what actually helped you stick with it?

Any advice, routines, mindset changes, or even honest experiences would really help

I'm getting tired of relying in the Zero Trust Cloudflare tunnel. It's usefull but u know sometimes the domains become inaccesible for hours (specially in weekends). Not really a cloudflare's fault but still a problem :(

The thing is that i can't open ports on my router (internet company router) and i can't afford buying one right now

Also i cant find a decent VPS that doesnt cost an eye but I still wanna self-host my services from my homelab

What would u do? Any cheap or creative alternatives?

I'm currently doing an internship in the systems department of a company. The department is full of men... and then there's me.

I feel like everyone execpt my system-boss (who is always busy and doesn't really talk much in general) is excluding me for no apparent reason. I'm a friendly person. I always try to smile and be nice to everyone, but I just can't seem to connect with them. (Even if I tried really really hard). Now I don't speaks first and it's like I don't exists.

Is this something common in tech companies? Or is it just an unfortunate situation in this particular place?

Hi everyone,

I'm looking for some honest advice because I feel a bit lost right now.

I have a degree in History and I'm also a writer (but I earn no money for that, difficult thing in Spain). I've just finished FP (I htink it's called Vocational Training Program out there) in System Administration and Networked Systems (ASIR). I have a good level of English. I learn quickly (or I try hard to) and I genuinely enjoy trying new things. I put a lot of effort into everything I do, and I like learning when something interests me (well, I think that's normal for everyone).

The things is, I don't wanna a job where I have to live and breathe IT 24/7/365. I love technology, but writing is also a very very important part of my life (such as videogaming) and I want a career that lets me have a good balance between working - writing - enjoying little things. Ideally, I'd like a job that makes me feel happy and fulfilled (because that's really what I want in life).

Remote work would be ideal, although I know that as a junior it can be difficult to find. I'm open to different paths, but I'm not sure which branch of IT would fit me best. Or what kind of company I should try to get into.

I've also always thought it would be amazing to work on story creation for videogames, cause I have tons of ideas and I love storytelling. I know it's a very difficult field, but with my background, maybe there's a way to move in that direction someday?

So... The point of all that is that I'd really appreciate any advice from people who know the industry better than I do.

What IT path could suit someone like me?

What kind of companies or roles should I look for?

And... Is there any realistic way to combine IT with creative writing or storytelling?

Thanks a lot for reading, and for any advice you can give me. I really really appreciate it.

P.D. I also enjoy coding even if I studied system administration

Hey, I’m a bit stuck with a setup I’m trying to build and I’m not sure if I’m doing something wrong or if I’m just overcomplicating it.

What I want is basically:

Internet → Traefik on the VPS → NetBird server → NetBird tunnel → VM1 → Traefik on VM1 → services inside my Proxmox LAN

So the VPS would be the public entry point, then VM1 would act as the bridge into my local network, and after that I’d like a second Traefik on VM1 to route traffic to different VMs inside Proxmox.

Just to clarify: Mantrae is not part of the actual traffic flow. On VM1 I’m running Mantraed, the agent, which sends the labels it reads to Traefik. That part is only for proxy management.

The issue is that Mantraed keeps picking the local/private IP of the machine instead of the NetBird tunnel IP. So Traefik ends up pointing to the wrong place.

I also tried skipping the labels from Mantraed completely and using a dynamic .yml config in Traefik instead, manually forcing the NetBird IP of VM1 there, but that didn’t work either. Traffic still does not reach the service properly.

What I have

VPS

• Traefik
• CrowdSec
• Zitadel
• NetBird server
• Mantrae

VM1

• NetBird client
• some services like Dashy
• Mantraed

What I tried

• letting Mantraed auto-detect the backend IP
• forcing the NetBird IP manually
• using a dynamic Traefik config instead of Mantraed labels
• forcing VM1’s tunnel IP there
• checking that the tunnel is up
• running the NetBird client in host mode

Still no luck.

Relevant config

VPS NetBird server docker-compose.yml

services:
  dashboard:
    image: netbirdio/dashboard:latest
    container_name: netbird-dashboard
    restart: unless-stopped
    networks: [proxy]
    env_file:
      - ./dashboard.env
    labels:
      - traefik.enable=true
      - traefik.http.routers.netbird-dashboard.rule=Host(`<redacted-domain>`)
      - traefik.http.routers.netbird-dashboard.entrypoints=websecure
      - traefik.http.routers.netbird-dashboard.tls=true
      - traefik.http.routers.netbird-dashboard.tls.certresolver=letsencrypt
      - traefik.http.services.netbird-dashboard.loadbalancer.server.port=80

  netbird-server:
    image: netbirdio/netbird-server:latest
    container_name: netbird-server
    restart: unless-stopped
    networks: [proxy]
    ports:
      - '51820:51820/udp'
    volumes:
      - ./netbird_data:/var/lib/netbird
      - ./config.yaml:/etc/netbird/config.yaml
    command: ["--config", "/etc/netbird/config.yaml"]
    labels:
      - traefik.enable=true
      - traefik.http.routers.netbird-grpc.rule=Host(`<redacted-domain>`) && (PathPrefix(`/signalexchange.SignalExchange/`) || PathPrefix(`/management.ManagementService/`))
      - traefik.http.routers.netbird-grpc.entrypoints=websecure
      - traefik.http.routers.netbird-grpc.tls=true
      - traefik.http.routers.netbird-grpc.tls.certresolver=letsencrypt
      - traefik.http.routers.netbird-grpc.service=netbird-server-h2c
      - traefik.http.routers.netbird-backend.rule=Host(`<redacted-domain>`) && (PathPrefix(`/relay`) || PathPrefix(`/ws-proxy/`) || PathPrefix(`/api`) || PathPrefix(`/oauth2`))
      - traefik.http.routers.netbird-backend.entrypoints=websecure
      - traefik.http.routers.netbird-backend.tls=true
      - traefik.http.routers.netbird-backend.tls.certresolver=letsencrypt
      - traefik.http.routers.netbird-backend.service=netbird-server
      - traefik.http.services.netbird-server.loadbalancer.server.port=80
      - traefik.http.services.netbird-server-h2c.loadbalancer.server.port=80
      - traefik.http.services.netbird-server-h2c.loadbalancer.server.scheme=h2c

VPS NetBird config config.yaml

server:
  listenAddress: ":80"
  exposedAddress: "https://<redacted-domain>:443"

  reverseProxy:
    trustedHTTPProxies:
      - "<redacted-docker-network>/32"

VM1 NetBird client

services:
  netbird:
    image: netbirdio/netbird:latest
    container_name: netbird
    hostname: vm1
    restart: unless-stopped
    network_mode: host
    environment:
      - NB_SETUP_KEY=<redacted>
      - NB_MANAGEMENT_URL=https://<redacted-domain>
      - NB_HOSTNAME=vm1
    cap_add:
      - NET_ADMIN
    volumes:
      - ./netbird-data:/var/lib/netbird

VM1 Mantraed agent

services:
  mantraed:
    image: ghcr.io/mizuchilabs/mantraed:latest
    container_name: mantraed
    restart: unless-stopped
    network_mode: host
    environment:
      - TOKEN=<redacted>
      - HOST=https://<redacted-domain>
      - TZ=Europe/Madrid
    volumes:
      - /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock

VM1 interfaces

ens18 -> 192.168.x.x
wt0   -> 100.x.x.x   # NetBird tunnel

So yeah, that’s where I’m at. It feels like either Mantraed is choosing the wrong interface/IP, or Traefik is not happy with how I’m trying to force the backend through NetBird.

Has anyone made something like this work? Or is there a cleaner way to do it that I’m not seeing?

Any help would be appreciated, because right now I feel like I’m fighting the setup more than building it.

Just for context, I’m doing this as part of my internship, so I have a few constraints.
Everything has to run in containers (docker-compose, etc.), and ideally I’d like to keep the whole routing flow through Traefik.

Also, NetBird is using port 51820 because that’s the one that was already opened on the VPS from a previous WireGuard setup, and I can’t change the firewall right now.