Proper logging, to easily identify problems.

Exactly. Using CalyxOS myself.

I stopped using Plex when I needed an online account to access my local instance.

Pine64 has a RISC V tablet

I sometimes find my mind wandering when I'm reading a book out loud to my kid. I also feel bad about it.

I moved to Emby, then to Jellyfin. Also, the other thing that bothered me was that with Plex I noticed I had an online account where I could access all my files. In other words, Plex was using my local data, which was the straw.

I just don't bother with all the categorizing and tagging. I just dump the files in a per album folder and that's enough for me to find what I need.

Rsync script that does deltas per day using hardlinks. Found on the Arch wiki. Works like a charm.

Excellent, thanks!

Why do you find Matrix bloated?

They are also irl. Are they too far away for you?

I just wrote a book in Latex and it's really easy. You just learn as you go. The only problem was when a publisher required a docx-document. It was possible using pandex, but my end notes were all screwed up.

I use Kanboard.

No. Rsync works fine, and it is easily testable (untested backups are no backups)

I wear my bangle.js smartwatch daily. Even better than the pinetime, and tons of apps.

I'm self-hosting my mail server for all kinds of neat tricks, like turning mailing lists into RSS feeds and putting attached bills in the right folder. But it is tricky to pull off, because 90% of all email is spam so you must take that seriously because otherwise nobody will accept you mail. One thing I learned quickly is not to use PGP. They almost always and up in spam boxes.

I switched from radicale to baikal because vdirsyncer (which I then used) didn't agree with radicale on the caldav standard. And I'm very happy with Filestash. It's fast and does the only thing I need it do do, stash files.

BTW I used to use NextCloud, but that was way too much work and I really like tools that do just one thing and do it well.

Mail server, pi-hole, mediawiki, kanboard, Tiny Tiny RSS, Baïkal, Minetest, Transmission, Jellyfin, Filestash and some homebrew.

I use Wireguard to access all that from outside my network. This way, my mail server only exposes smtp.