Not so much a quote I say out loud, but I often think of the scene where Lurr is buying human horn:

I'm just some guy... RULER OF THE PLANET OMICRON PERSEI 8.

zram and other compressed swap approaches can help too (with less of a performance hit) although I use real swap as a fallback. Some would recommend using zswap in that case, but I still want compression in ram to be heavily prioritised but YMMV.

You can use third party sites to find communities, if you're not seeing them in the search (because they haven't federated yet) with one of these:

https://lemmyverse.net/ https://browse.feddit.de/

But that's still going to a third party site so it would nice to have it integrated into the interface.

Personally I use Snapcast as an endpoint, plain MPD for local files, and navidrome for remote access to my library.

That's where I've been heading too. The snapcast client has been a bit unreliable for me on my desktop though (choppy and stuttering) but it's great in its unix-like flexibility and I'm sure it will continue to get better.

Honestly, I hope that mobile connections in my country are one day: fast enough, cheap enough, and reliable enough that I could just use snapcast remotely and get truly seamless self-hosted streaming but that's still a long way away I suspect.

I believe some use tailscale for this, although I don't entirely like having a third party store wireguard keys if I'm understanding it correctly.

Aliexpress has some reasonably affordable fanless mini PCs. Not quite as low power but you can run a heap of containers on them since they are more powerful and x86 and some of them have multiple ethernet ports which can be useful for router purposes etc

It's the power usage and physical space that puts me off those kind of solutions. Of course, that varies a lot based on your living circumstances (location, whether you own a house, etc).

I was just thinking that common forum software implementing ActivityPub would be a great way to link all of these disparate web forums that are still active and have useful content.

I'm doing it with openwrt x86, since I need SQM + wireguard (and at least the former still isn't supported on *sense last time I checked). Works fine in all honesty, and I can reboot the VM much faster than real hardware.

Keepassxc for passwords plus a big emacs .org notes file for documentation. The latter could be better organised but it's easy to search with emacs tools so it'll do.

Bandcamp are also one of the few that sell lossless FLAC files, and while I don't really care about listening to FLAC directly, it makes sense as an archive format.

No koreader support yet which is a deal breaker for me, but I'll keep an eye on it for sure.

It's a nice improvement on Kobo e-ink readers in particular, with much better usage of space and lots of options for tweakers.

Annoying side note: I'm getting like 5 notifications from comment replies on Firefox desktop, I think it might be one for every tab. Think I'll disable that for now.

Decent enough midrange devices and good custom rom support, but missing the features that some of their competitors have (headphone jack, SD slot, etc) although I get that is becoming increasingly niche unfortunately.

I prefer the way XMonad handles multimonitor workspaces, but left for Sway due to wayland support.

I'll throw in SWAG as another option which I found was easiest to setup, albeit it on a VPN/local only setup. It supports certbot for SSL and pre-defined proxy configs for various services (mostly linuxserver.io containers but there are others) and it's easy to edit them to make your own configs. I'm not sure about portainer support as I'm not familiar with that.

Emacs org-mode, although with minimal organsation (just a single tag typically, which org-agenda then shows in my calendar if I've scheduled it for a certain time). It does support priorities too, but I don't typically use that.

Maybe mopidy although I haven't used it myself. It's mainly geared toward jukebox mode (so plays on the server) but you can stream to other devices through HTTP or snapcast.

Xiaomi phones usually still have IR blasters at least.

It could be some pipewire weirdness on the client, I'm not sure. I'll probably also try using pipewire or pulse on the host and use their built in named pipe support. Maybe that will work better.

As a side note, how do people handle HTTPS with private networks (VPN or local) these days? I typically just stick to HTTP, but it would be nice to get rid of the warnings/lock (and I use HTTPS-only mode and firefox seems to require a fresh exception for every port).

I'm a big fan of these cooked in an air fryer. Usually a bit cheaper than black beans as well in my area, although I prefer the latter on balance.