Espanso? That’s what I did.

OS choice and hardware are a lot of it. I built a desktop in 2019 and it was the best experience I’ve had yet with Linux. Everyone works.

Nvidia 2070s, and ryzen 3800x, 64GB RAM. Even wifi and Bluetooth on the motherboard worked fine out of the box.

I used to have so many quirks once in a while on my last system and it was always to do with an update and an Nvidia driver, I’d have to drop to shell and manually reinstall it, or download a new one with cli browsers and install it lol.

But I persist because I love the idea and the mission.

While I use Windows for work and a steam deck mostly for gaming these days, any time I boot my desktop I’m blown away at how incredibly snappy it is compared to the windows of today.

Like I knew things were getting bad when the windows calculator started showing me a splash screen and needed to “load”, and when the start menu started showing similar quirks. Now we have AI shoved in everywhere and it’s just a gross OS to use.

But, I digress…

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True, the answer to that is more hardware unfortunately. I guess there are Linux options, I forget what they are though.

Any old hardware and run opnsense or pfsense (the former preferred)

What? It already doesn’t have most of the gamers.

Normies can use it easier than gamers. Linux on the right hardware is stable as fuck and Linux has always been good at running a web browser, which is like 99% of what normies do on computers these days.

Libgen. Not torrents but books are all over.

Also audiobooksbay, you don’t actually need an account for these torrents if you take the hash from the site

Sounds like the easiest method lol. At least that way I could add in something to delete photos after copying them if they’re X days old.

I saw the compose earlier, doesn’t it call for an external db, among other things?

If it’s just that compose I’ll probably implement this tomorrow.

I figured it out. It gets a little more complex when you’re using a reverse proxy and inter-vlan routing lol.

Too much of a hassle for me, unless I dump the instance on my wifi network but if I set this up I’d like the option to use it for my other vlans too.

I think it’s because I have 150GB of photos on 2 different phones and don’t clean them out often.

This works well, but not when you have 13k/150GB of photos lol

This is cool, unfortunately for me I’m too lazy to set up like 5 dockers for immich right now lol.

I wasn’t aware that either of these had a syncing feature. How well does immich work? I’ve been looking to switch to it from phptoprism for a while

Immich supports image uploads from a phone?

And my god, it’s amazing how each UI iteration gets worse. How is that even possible? My shits never been so buried in menus.

Jellyfin still so buggy though. The UI is garbage too. I want to love it… I run both lol.

Amateur! ncdu! 😂

Don’t bother with a hot spare. For household needs you’re just spending money to have a drive that will always be on. If you set up your notifications and your array right, you can have plenty of time to order a replacement.

I went RAIDZ2 both times (dual disk redundancy, any two can die and its all good). Had a few spewing warnings over the years, and just replaced them.

Anywho, my data array is about 10 years old but earlier this year I relocated to bigger disks and less disks. ZFS is worth it.