This is really useful. Thanks a lot! (Agree about the wiki).

I’m in the same boat as you, but haven’t tried making my own packages. Is there a guide somewhere I can follow?

Immich is the must for self-hosting photos. Bye Google.

OK, good points. I’ve had lots of hallucinations and fake info tho.

Actually the summaries are good, but you have to know some of it anyway and then check to see if it’s just making stuff up. That’s been my experience.

Yeah that’s interesting.

I hadn’t considered this. It’s interesting stuff. My old doctor used to just Google stuff in front of me and then repeat the info as if I hadn’t been there for the last five minutes.

This is the part that bothers me the most, I think.

Tillix is the way.

Or ditto

Ah sorry man. I didn’t spot it.

Currently running NixOS with Debian and Arch containers in distrobox. Certain apps in NixOS (e.g. Calibre) don’t respect the scaling in Gnome, but work perfectly via distrobox. Btw, there’s a nice GUI for distrobox called Boxbuddy that works really well.

I’m going to drop a recommendation for Skiff here. Paid but their free tier (which I’m using) has plenty of good stuff.

Get a room.

Yeah there are very good reasons why it’s a stupid idea. It’s equally stupid to privatize areas of strategic economic importance, such as energy, transport, core infrastructure etc. Which happens all the time. Arguably the army is the most important service for a state. If the private sector was innately more efficient you’d have thought the neolibs would be queueing up to flog it off.

If private companies were more efficient than the public sector then you’d want to privatize the armed forces. The fact that no serious person argues for this tells you all you need to know.

If you’ve got a spare USB stick laying around then you could install Ventoy on it (https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html) and run Linux in a live environment. Just (1) install Ventoy on the USB (this will wipe it, btw) (2) download any live Linux ISO (Mint has one of these) and put it on the USB (3) change your BIOS boot order to USB first (4) reboot and select the Linux you want to test drive from the Ventoy menu. (5) When you’re done, just shut down, unplug USB and reboot normally.

Docker makes it easy to set up and remove apps. Simply (a) create folder, (b) download/copy-paste the docker-compose template into the folder, © run ‘docker-compose up -d’ and watch the magic happen. And if you want to remove the image just do a ‘docker-compose down’ followed by ‘docker system prune -a’ and poof, it’s gone (although this command will remove any docker container that’s not running, so be careful! (Otherwise remove manually with ‘docker ps’ and then ‘rm name-of-container’). I’m in a similar boat to you and my L2 now runs Plex (media), Immich (photos), Mealie (recipes), Kavita (books), OwnCloud (files), PaperlessNgx (important documents) and Joplin (notes). It also runs Nginx Proxy Manager so I can access some of these apps outside my network (you can grab free domains from duckdns.org), and the others I access via Tailscale for extra security (highly recommend looking it up). Enjoy your journey. It gets very addictive!

I reckon Kagi is the best search engine out there. It’s paid though. Second I’d have Qwant followed by DDG.