Shertson

@Shertson@lemmy.world
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Joined 1 years ago

Interests: Linux, Fountain Pens, Rugby, Selfhosting, and a bit of boardgaming, rpgs, and Nintendo switch gaming.

If that is the case, then you should be very happy to leave Linux for a proprietary OS that Nvidia works on and properly supports.

A good start would be to implement quarter tiling by dragging window to screen corner, like half tiling is done by dragging to screen edge.

I have a 3840x2160 monitor specifically so that I can have four windows open at the best size for their content (email, document, web browse, and terminal) and can avoid the use of workspaces and see everything at once. Having to manually resize and place windows is a pain.

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I love my Framework. It may not feel as polished physically as the XPS. If you can find one in the wild to touch and try, I would recommend doing so.

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I'll add my voice to the chorus and recommend Proxmox. I've never tried xcp-ng; it looks nice and I'm interested, but Proxmox has worked well for me.

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This assortment is run under a combination of Proxmox LXC containers, docker containers, and Yunohost. Mostly I use it to play around, but most are heavily used by my wife and I. I'm planning to rebuild everything and making things more "official". Looking to convert from a "lab" to actually making it "production" with solid failure routes and backups. I am looking to move anything currently under Yunohost to docker/lxc and to start making use of podman. Recently saw CosmOS and think it might be a good alternative to portainer.

Hardware:

  • Node 1: Lenovo m93p tiny with 16GB RAM and 250GB SSD - Proxmox
  • Node 2: Lenovo m93p tiny with 16GB RAM and 250GB SSD - Proxmox
  • Node 3: Gigabyte Brix with 16GB RAM and 500GB Sata SSD, 128GB m.2 SSD - Proxmox
  • Node 4: Trigkey Green G3 with 16GB RAM and 1TB Sata SSD - Proxmox
  • TPLink managed switch
  • TerraMaster 2-bay NAS with 2x 2TB HD (NFS host for containers)
  • Synology ds220j NAS with 2x 8TB HD (backup of home desktops, laptops, cell phones, and lab systems)
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As others have pointed out

  • Nextcloud (in addition to calendar and contacts, has document sync, office suite, photo gallery...) I use this.
  • SoGo - I've never used
  • Radical - I believe just calendars and contacts
  • Baikal - calendars and contacts. Simple and light weight. I used this until I moved to Nextcloud.

Which ever you choose, your mobile will require another app, like DavX (android). This allows the phone to sync with the calDav server. Desktop clients should be able to sync directly with the server.

I am not familiar with Todoist.

My useless advice: Do it in phases as you learn.

  • Start off with Yunohost. It is simple to get started and works pretty well. Try different apps to see what you like and what might be worth using for real. Just make sure that you keep in mind this is more of a "proof of concept" for testing things. Unless you plan to purchase another mini pc later.
  • When you feel like you have out grown it and want to start learning more about things, you can move to something like Proxmox. This allows you to create virtual machines and play with containers (docker/lxc). If you plan well, you can back up your Yunohost data and configs to another drive, wipe Yunohost install and replace it with Proxmox. Then install a VM running Yunohost and restore your data and configs you previously backed up.
  • Then you can start playing with lxc containers and docker containers.
  • If you can get a second machine with multiple drives, install TrueNAS or OMV. Use that to store all of your data on NFS drive that you mount from your Proxmox VMs and containers.

Years ago I used to run a linux server with everything installed under Apache virtual directories and fought the constant upgrade cycle. Life got in the way and I gave up on it until the pandemic slowed life down enough for me to start playing again. So I went the Yunhost route on an old Mac Mini. I now have a 3 node Proxmox cluster with Yunhost in a VM (with a dozen apps running on it) and another 15-20 containers running under either lxc or docker. I eventually purchased a cheap NAS device for data storage so that I could make use of the Proxmox fail over capabilities.

If your mini pc has the capability for two drives, install the OS on one and store data on the other (unless/until you get a second pc/NAS).

Don't let elitism ruin the adventure for you. Enjoy your success while you take time to learn other crap.

Screenshots shouldn't be optional, and if dark and light themes are provided in the app, then show both. It'll help users decide to try out the app. In my opinion, a lack luster presentation will discourage potential users.

I do lean towards the guidelines being enforced. As a user, it'll give me more confidence in flatpaks.

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  • It's a Wonderful Life
  • The Day the Earth Stood Still
  • Roman Holiday

In all honesty, it is a hodge podge. Some are in my dokuwiki, some are plain text, some are markdown, some in my phone, lots on scraps of paper. Just about the time I get it all in one place I scrap my systems and start over.

I have a Synology NAS and use the Photos/Memories app from Synology to back up my photos from my phone. It works pretty well. Every so often the app will stop syncing unless you open it. I haven't had that problem in a few months, so it may be solved.

I just recently set up Immich and haven't tested syncing from phone yet. I did upload a bunch of photos through the web interface to play around. Face recognition "mostly" works. If for some reason it doesn't see two pictures of the same person as being the same person there is no way to forcibly merge. Likewise, if it sees two people as being the same person, there is no way to forcibly split them.

I do have Piwigo setup to host other images. Didn't know about plugins for syncing; I'll have to try that out.

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Mine in in the mail. Got the shipping notification last night. So excited! I didn't the past year saving up for it. I'm glad to see that everything works out of the box with Fedora.

LOL

No, just a hobby. Been playing around for about a year. It started small with an old mac mini and Yunohost. Then I decided to play with Proxmox and bought a used m93p. Then I read about Proxmox clusters, so I got another m93p. I was going to use the mac mini in the cluster, but it was getting too slow, so I bought the Brix. Then I decided to migrate the Yunohost setup over to a VM in Proxmox. Then I figured I should learn a bit about docker. And it spiraled.

I spend maybe 10-12 hours a month on installation and configuration. I spend way more time using it. A couple of weeks ago I spent about 15 hours over the weekend importing/uploading my audiobooks into AudioBookShelf. Last year I spent several weekends getting my Calibre library in shape and moving it to the web.

I figure this is a much cheaper and safer hobby than drinking.

gpodder.net selfhosted.

https://github.com/gpodder/mygpo

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Agreed ,glad to see Karma go away. Not that I was active enough to actually get any :)

I lucked out. When I was ready to pull the trigger it was just a couple of weeks before the next batch shipped. Got mine in just a few weeks.

Does Obsidian support audio/video?

Great stuff! How about WindowMaker?

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I use MediaTracker.

I mostly watch stuff on Netflix and Amazon prime, never thought to see if there is a way to auto update my watch history. I'm terrible about remembering to update my watch history.

Laptop and Workstation run Fedora. Servers run Proxmox.

Can't say that there is anything new and exciting. Big change for me has been that I have accepted flatpacks. I've gotten to the point where I don't care about being a purist, don't care about customizing and theming everything. I just want to use my computer.

I got this last year and it has traveled up and down the East Coast, as well to the South West. Gone by plane and car. I have used it with my Surface laptop running Windows for work, my personal Framework 13 running Fedora Linux, and my Nintendo switch.

Is it great? I don't know, but it works.

ZSCMALLS Portable Monitor 15.6 Inch Full HD https://a.co/d/0Tx4km5

I don't run the immich server on my Synology. That is my safe back up of files before going to could storage. If hate for a glitch in immich to wipe out my local backup.So I really can't say for sure.

Ok, so it isn't my imagination.

And if you're replacing one, you could possibly pull the ram and SSD from it to use in the frame work.

Beautiful, brilliant bot!

I have tried it. It resizes windows weirdly. I haven't dug through the settings for it, so it could be fixable. No matter how I resize my terminal, it always snaps to smaller than a quarter of the screen. Thunderbird seems to always resize bigger than a quarter of the screen. It's still better than nothing, but I'd love for it to be built in.

This is the first I've heard of Kroki. A quick glance at their site and wow! So many options for markup. I'll be trying this out for sure

Wow, what a blast from the past! Thanks for digging this up

Odd, I don't see it.

I use Joplin for keeping various notes and would rather not combine it with my journal.

I'm looking for something like DayOne or billthefarmers Diary app that is easy to use from mobile, but then has a selfhosted website I can use to go back and review/relive/edit the experiences.

dotfiles please. Would love your xresources

There were some good pieces on Groklaw back in the day about the history of unix and Linux.

I keep my books in AudioBookShelf and use the android app to download to my phone. But, AudioBookShelf doesn't work on Android Auto, so I use Voice to play the books in my car. They can share storage which makes it nice.

I'm in the same boat.

Past: My notes are all over the place. Some are in paper notebooks, on scraps of paper, index cards. Some are plain text files, some are markdown; dumped into random folders (had some in my yyyy/mm/dd folders for my journaling, some in project folders) some are on a wiki, some in redmine, some in openproject. I've tried different bug tracking apps, but as mentioned, they (like project management apps) are too burdensome.

Current: For now I am using Joplin for my active notes (and slowly migrating historical notes as I have energy). I have a top level notebook for my homelab, then a subnotebook broken down by subject (infrastructure, app/service, hardware), then individual pages for each specific item (host os setup, vpn, application, etc). On those individual pages, I have it sectioned out; Goal, Research notes, Actions taken, results.

  • Personal Notes
  • Journal
  • Inbox
  • Homelab
    • Infrastructure
      • Host OS
      • VPN
      • NFS
    • Services
      • Radicale
      • Audiobookshelf
      • etc
    • Hardware
      • node 1
      • node 2
      • node 3
      • router

Future step: Once I have something figured out and ready for "prod", I will be wiping it out and redoing it all through ansible. I'll take that playbook and a clean markdown doc with the important details and put them in git. That way I can rebuild it later if there is a tragedy.

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Joplin has a plug-in that can grab todos and reveal them all in one spot. You can use tags with it as well. Although I believe it only works on desktop? I haven't tried on phone/tablet. https://github.com/CalebJohn/joplin-inline-todo#readme

Don't leave us hanging, what is this mystical notes app that syncs over imap?

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I hope they really do it. I'd love notes in Thunderbird.

I was thinking a desktop app. I've played with imapnotes3 and jtxboard.