Make sure you enable airplane mode too, even without a SIM it’ll still be connected to the cell towers.

Opnsense kinda has a webUI for HAProxy, but it’s also not very good.

I recommend learning the config files, since HAProxy is probably the best option for a HA load balancer.

Yes some, but the power consumption is extremely high. A cheap $40 PC with an i5-6500 CPU would out perform it at about 1/15th the power draw.

This thing is mostly just interesting to play with.

Probably quite expensive, and when doing something as a hobby it’s often hard to get the funds.

when selfhosters can just help each other storing parts of others backup.

That’s essentially what Storj, Sia, etc… are for, they’re decentralized storage systems where users can contribute storage to the network which automatically distributes data over all the ‘hosters’.

It’ll do a reboot if there’s a bad crash of something important, I’ve had my S21 do that once or twice.

As long as they leave the local backup option that sounds like a good idea to me.

Probably not by much, since CPUs have had hardware acceleration for AES encryption for a long time now.

I always prefer software over hardware for encryption, RAID, etc… Because it’s portable and not tied to a specific piece of hardware.

The power draw will go up when a device is drawing power from it, but there will be base/idle draw of course as well.

There’s an official Flatpak, and an official external Ubuntu repo you have to manually add, so they probably did get an unofficial build of some kind if they just ran apt install on Ubuntu since it doesn’t come with Flatpak support.

It’s definitely confusing when you’re new to Linux until you learn what all of that means, compared to being used to windows where you go to the website and click the installer.

This is very similar to my experience, including the sleep battery drain issue on my laptop which I did eventually find a fix for (bios setting, had to disable ‘deep sleep’ mode of all things), why it works fine in windows but not in linux with that setting enabled I don’t know. The battery drain is still substantially higher in sleep but it at least lasts a few days instead of being dead over night.

My desktop is still on Windows because hardware compatibility just isn’t there yet, after waking from sleep I can’t click on anything or type letters, but moving the mouse cursor works, as does the windows key, tab, etc… It’s fixed by reconnecting both KB/Mouse but that’s a PITA. And the other is my audio interface only partially works, the 1st output is fine, but the 2nd output is very quiet even with volume at 100%.

A more minor thing that still bugs me a lot is it takes absolutely forever to resume from sleep mode, sometimes 30+ seconds before the screen comes on.

The problem is these just aren’t easy bugs to solve, searching for help is tough because they’re such weird ones, and I don’t really have the time to spend trying a bunch of random potential fixes.

The difference I think is in windows basically everything is just download the installer and click it, it’s very easy and people are used to that. And most apps have their own update system that takes care of things after install.

It would be nice though if the app stores were more complete on Linux, and showed all the available packages. I run into this on Fedora where the app store (discover) won’t show a package but I can install it with DNF on the CLI. And if it had a way to add external sources like a github release that auto-updated, like Obtanium does on Android that would make it a substantial step up from the windows experience.

It can be really frustrating to fix a bug, especially one caused by a huge change like switching to KDE because so many things have changed and could be the cause. Especially if you’re not someone who likes to do that kind of stuff (me), and would prefer things just work in the first place so re-installing a KDE version is the way to go.

LXCs are more an alternative to VMs if your use-case supports it.

Docker is its own thing with pre-made application images.

VMs barely use more resources than LXC, debian minimal probably needs another 50MB of RAM in a VM vs LXC and that’s about the only difference. It matters at scale but for home use it really doesn’t IMO.

That said LXC has some benefits over a VM of being able to pass through mounts and parts of devices, those can be useful for Frigate where you want to use Intel Quicksync or OpenVINO and still share it with the host and other containers, because you can’t do that on a VM unless you have a device you can dedicate to the VM only. You can also bind mount a directory on the host to a directory inside the container which is useful for sharing files between multiple containers.

Ok I’ve been trying to understand what you mean and one-line snarky replies are not helping your case.

I did I must be missing something…

Also what is “Accrescent spreading software”? I searched for it and it looks like it’s just an app store like f-droid?

I like the concept. But something without any central admins is probably going to be full of all kinds of awful stuff, and I don’t want to have to spend time strictly moderating my own feed, because if my client happens to cache anything illegal then I’m now potentially distributing that illegal content P2P which is a huge problem.

The mention of cryptocurrency or blockchain also provokes quite a negative feeling, it’s basically just a haven for scams and useless things, and any kind of integration with it I do not want to be involved with.

Why does including a text file have anything to do with control?

Yeah Exos are enterprise drives, so there’s no point in making them quiet like they do with lower speed desktop stuff.

You can add your existing photos as an external library after starting from scratch with Immich, they’ll show up just like before.