A little disengenuous considering the article is a blatant plug for e/OS. They’re not wrong though. It might be written plainly enough to share with average Joes who just don’t understand the threat data harvesting poses to them.
Edit: typo
Not quite the same actually; mine’s the mid-2012 MBP with a more generic Intel GPU. Yours is slightly better, but that Nvidia hardware is sometimes harder to drive properly on Linux. Bazzite should make that a breeze for you tho.
I run boring, stable Debian on mine, but I have plentry of experience adding the non-free (not foss) drivers not included in the core distro. For gaming with lots of native hardware support right out of the gate, Bazzite is really popular.
No matter which distro you settle on, see if you can install the ‘linux-headers-generic’ package to avoid broadcom wifi issues after every kernel update.
Rclone is super sweet. I use it to backup Google Drive volumes, automatically converting the proprietary web-doc formats to OpenDoc files. It’s powerful & awesome!
Originally coming from free-level VMware before Broadcom happened, I really like Proxmox. Proxmox gives you a relatively easy to use web interface to “spin up” container services and VMs as needed. There are also community repos with plenty of pre-built containers for popular self-hosting services. I find this setup generally easier to use and maintain than Docker (tho I’m sure die-hard Docker fans heartily disagree). I really appreciate that I can update my services at will without waiting for someone to build an updated docker image first.
FinAmp is a fantastic JellyFin music player, and even supports offline downloads for on the road. Sadly the interface isn’t really AndroidTV-friendly, but it works great on android touch screens, iOS, linux, and macOS (probably Windows too, but I’ll never know).
I’m looking for a good AndroidTV player as well, because the official JellyFin app doesn’t background well. We like to play music in parallel with a screensaver or fireplace app, but JellyFin pauses after about a minute when hackgrounded.
I run Adguard Home containers (the primary auto-syncs to the secondary) and use redirect filters to assign hostnames to each of my containers. I have a “services” folder of bookmarks for each container host so I don’t have to remember each service’s port number. I use KeePassXC to track all my passwords and certificates so authentication is a breeze (someday I’ll get around to setting up an SSO solution). I also keep a .txt file with my basic network info that doesn’t always translate well to dns hostname redirects in adguard. I occassionally remember to update my hosts listed in the file. My individual config files aren’t backed up beyond my automated container backups, but so far none of my services have been that complicated I couldn’t just rebuild from scratch.
It’s not perfect, but combined with my automated backups I have barely enough to rebuild if/when my hardware fails.
As far as I could tell: yes, and yes.
I wonder if this post has anything to do with the unmanic API outage earlier today, lol. I was pulling my hair out trying to figure out what I’d done wrong until I finally convinced myself there must be a cloud-side outage impacting the plugin browser. By the time I figured it out they came back online and the plugins were browsable again, but I lost hours over this stupid problem.
Today’s outage perfectly illustrated why we choose to self-host in the first place. I too would love to see a completely self-contained foss solution for this service. Some clever shell scripting is probably all you really need to perform automated ffmpeg calls, but individually containerized services are clearly what we all prefer. I do wish I had more time to code…
Thanks for sharing! A human-friendly summary of the gist of those results would be super helpful. This looks interesting, and you may have rekindled my interest in LibreWolf over BetterFox-hardened Firefox again, but I’m not entirely clear on what your results mean in human terms.
FYI, you can run LineageOS on your Nvidia Shield. There’s a small loss of functionality, but maybe that can be minimized if you install gapps (I didn’t, and I still have sufficient functionality to warrant the inconvenience).
afaik airtags are apple-proprietary, so someone would need to reverse-engineer them first. that’s probably not a small ask. i haven’t personally looked into it though, so here’s hoping! 🤞
Came here to suggest SumatraPDF as well
That graphic: something inside me really wants to offer Georgie a balloon…
qemu vm. I really wanna run this with the first fairphone to become readily available in US (fp6 i assume) but there’s still a ways to go…
“That’s Wrigley Field!”
Yup! Kali is a rolling distro built on Debian Testing, not Stable, annual releases. It can be used as a desktop OS, but still has pen testing and other security tools as their main focus
check out Floccus to sync your bookmarks across all browsers & devices. It improved my workflow significantly!
interesting… I was not aware of that. good to know; thank you!
I really want to run wayland but there are still some missing bits required for my workflow. Of particular importance to me, the ability to connect to RustDesk auto-launched on a headless server, and clipboard sharing in DeskFlow. My understanding is that these are still broken only because the devs are still waiting for wayland back-end additions to be implemented.
I’m all for wayland, but they need to catch up first.