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  • Self-Hosted Document & Budgeting Automation: Paperless-ngx, Firefly III, and n8n – Good Idea?

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  • First my context: I'm also running multiple Proxmox hosts (personal and professional), and havea paperless-ngx instance (personal/family). I tried Firefly, but the effort required to get it to a point where it would be if use to me was too high, so I dropped it. Haven't used n8n.

    For the setup I'd just use the Proxmox community scripts, if you haven't heard of them. Makes updates trivial and lowers the bar to just trying something to basically zero.

    Paperless-ngx I actually use, cause it means I can find something when i need it. It's all automatically ocr'd and all you have to do is categorize them. With time, it'll learn and do this for you. You can (manually) setup your scanner to just directly upload files to the "consume" folder and it just works. PC/server power is near irrelevant, it just means OCR takes slightly longer, otherwise it's a web server. You can run this just fine on a raspberry pi.

    I don't have any real automation setup, so I can't really comment on that. My advice is to just install it, see what it does and how it feels. Try to anticipate if and how much automation you need. Many aspects of all this are of the "setup once" variety, where once it's working, you don't have to touch it again. Try to gauge if the one time effort is worth it for you, then go from there. As I said, it was fine for paperless for me, but not for Firefly (but I might need to revisit this).

  • Upcoming exFAT Linux Driver Patch Can Boost Sequential Read Performance By ~10%

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  • You asked a very loaded question, implying seeing no use for the file system and/or no point to these optimizations as a result.

    If you genuinely didn't know what exFAT is used for, or what is a common use of it is, you could've asked just that. Like "what is exFAT used for" or "I've never heard of this, an I using this and just don't know it?".

  • Google is taking over your Gmail inbox with AI

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  • Also a great example of a service "mired in controversy". Some (including me) consider those controversies bad enough to avoid them completely. The CEO openly agreeing with and actually supporting Trump is just one of the more egregious ones.

    For EU citizens it's also noteworthy that it isn't actually hosted in the EU (but Switzerland).

    Edit: just to be clear, obviously a lot better than Google. But which service these days isn't? So that's a pretty low bar. So why settle for that instead of picking something without all the baggage?

  • Valve amended the Steam survey for December 2025 - Linux actually hit another all-time high

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  • I mean there's isn't anything to fix. Could just be an unlucky month in selecting people for the survey. As the other person said, it does seem to be a statistical anomaly or actual error. But that is still a pretty massive dip for either of those two options. In and of itself also kinda statistically unlikely, hence my question.

  • Valve amended the Steam survey for December 2025 - Linux actually hit another all-time high

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  • The heck happened in March?

  • Help me ditch windows?

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  • On Linux, running Jellyfin through docker with GPU acceleration works fine, yes. But you need some options/flags to pass access to the GPU to the inside of the container. Guides and/or docker tutorials exist and should contain that, as that's basically the default setup these days.

    As for Bazzite and Docker (I just checked), no it isn't part of the base image and you can't easily install it. That's the downside of an immutable distro. I think podman is available, which is compatible and FOSS, but there may be caveats to using that. There is a bazzite version called bazzite-dx intended for developers, so that one would probably work fine for you out of the box. There shouldn't be any real downside to using that compared to the mainline image, apart from being slightly larger cause all dev tools are installed, but do check that. My practical experience with Bazzite is limited.

    My real recommendation is: just try it. Slap in a small/cheap SSD (~20 bucks) instead of whatever you got in there now, install CachyOS and try it out. Then install Bazzite and try it out. By "Try it out" I do mean setting up a copy of or a test-install of your required services (arr stack, jellyfin, ...), to see if everything is as you'd expect. Possibly install more distros to try them out, then make up your mind and actually fully migrate, or if it doesn't work out go back to your currently installed drive. Installing a linux distro takes like 10 minutes these days, then play around with however long you need. Since you already have it narrowed down to only 2 options anyway, that is most likely the best solution.

  • Help me ditch windows?

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  • There's a lot of well meaning but not too well informed advice in here. Since one of your goals is gaming, stay away from Mint. It can be made to work (well), but you have to get there. It's basically the recommendation people gave for decades, but there have been massive improvements through many distros while mint just kinda stood still. There's still some things they do rather well though.

    CachyOS will do what you want it to, and it is what I switched to like 8 months ago. It isn't maintenance heavy at all if you don't want it to be. I think I had to intervene once since I started using it, but that intervention was necessary or it wouldn't have booted after updates. The official updater will tell you when that's the case, as it lists critical news like that. Otherwise it just works, and it's pre-configured and optimized for gaming. Under the hood it's basically Arch, just without the fiddling of getting it to a usable state. Because of that they're is also an enormous amount of information out there (Arch wiki) on how to do stuff.

    Bazzite is a stark contrast in many ways as it's an immutable distro, but also pre-configured and optimized (maybe not quite as much as CachyOS). It will also do what you want just fine. It is relatively "safe" due to the immutability, and updates are much rarer (and by definition always whole system updates). I don't know exactly how you'd run your services, but assuming they are dockerized or similar that should be just fine, but please do some searching before if it does contain what you need in the base image (presumably docker and docker compose).

  • Renewables are the biggest energy investment class now

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  • It's wild to me that coal still went up by like 15% in absolute numbers.

  • Fish Shell 4.3 Released With Scripting and Terminal Improvements

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  • Yup, that's a great summary.

    I just wanted to add that the reason it's good, specifically better than bash, is that daring to create something that drops compatibility after I don't know how many decades allows to actually apply the lessons from an this time. The lack of portability is basically the reason it can be better, but also obviously a bummer.

  • An almost inexhaustible reserve of lithium discovered in Canada

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  • Isn't that already allocated to Greenland? So 52nd it is!

  • What free to play games can run smoothly on my old laptop?

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  • Many people look at the game graphics and think it's a joke, but the gameplay is actually great, even by today standards. If you're even a little into transportation games, just give it a go. It'll also run on a toaster.

  • Why GrapheneOS is Almost Impossible to Crack (Forensic Teams Have Tried)

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  • You can set that on any android. Pin is just the default, but it's up to you to use a full password, then you need the full password for first unlock after boot.

  • Valve is stopping production of LCD Steam Deck models, once sold out they will be gone forever

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  • I got the 64gb intentionally to just put in a 512gb myself. Was no problem to do, and saved quite a bit on the price difference. I'm extremely happy with the device, but don't use it nearly enough.

  • Steam Replay is live and notes only 14% "of playtime spent by all Steam users" was for 2025 releases

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  • First you state I'm "absolutely incorrect" then you repeat and confirm what I said:

    I can run them on higher settings usually

    This seems awfully close to the "at least on high" in my comment, so what is the problem with my statement?

    I also purposely kept it relative and vague, because personal preferences differ wildly on what is meant by "I can run xxx", which you've basically doubled down on. I specifically do NOT expect 100fps in a triple-A on maxed out settings with ray tracing, and I thought that much was clear. But I can get to 100fps, with somewhat reduced settings, if that's a game where I'd need that. To be specific this time: my general target is usually around 60fps for more visual titles, but it can dip a bit below in busy/dense/hectic areas. It also shouldn't leave the 50s for significant amounts of time though.

    That all being said, I also only rarely actually play AAA games. But I do play some indie games that are more on the demanding side, but then there's most games I play that should run in a toaster... Which is another reason I never upgraded. It's all still good enough.

  • KDE Internet of Things Development Restarted For Home Assistant Integration

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  • The main idea is that the state of your computer/desktop is known to home assistant and you can react to it. Media starts playing on PC, so mute the tv. A meeting starts (camera in use), so dim room lights and turn on the ring light.

    PC turned off: wait 30s, then turn off the whole outlet to act as a master/slave power strip and save power on monitors and otherpc associated standby devices. Or just turn off desk lights.

    Finally you can have scripts on the PC that do whatever you want, and you can trigger them from home assistant. Movement detected in the garden, so open the camera preview on the corner of 3rd monitor. Backup server just came online (or was woken up by wake-on-lan from ha), so run a backup if the PC is on.

  • Flip flop

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  • Dual booting is perfectly fine. Just try to not use the windows boot partition for both OS or Windows will occasionally "lose" the Linux entry... "Oops" I guess.

    If Linux is on its own drive, or at least has it's own uefi partition, it's just fine and dandy. Just chain load windows from it and there's basically nothing that can break.

  • Steam Replay is live and notes only 14% "of playtime spent by all Steam users" was for 2025 releases

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  • The general trend, yes.

    But then again, my computer is now many years old (some components more than others) and I'm pretty sure I could play every release from this year on the highest graphic setting (or at least on "high") without performance issues.

    What I'm trying to say is not "my PC is so great" but you you don't actually need a current-Gen, high end PC to play even recent triple-A titles. Eventually it'll get too old, but that is a very long time: probably close to a decade or something, if you individually upgrade some things occasionally.

  • Over 100 Netflix Titles Leaving Netflix Throughout 2026

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  • I think Gilmore girls is already on Disney+, at least in some regions? I assume their contact just ran out.

  • Mozilla's new CEO says AI is coming to Firefox, but will remain a choice

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  • Just use librewolf, no need to faff about with scripts and be worried about the next release or whatever.