Rant: I keep seeing new users join tiny instances with zero moderation and then get doxxed or harassed, and we act like this is an unavoidable cost of decentralization. No, it is a usability failure. If decentralization is about choice, we should give users real, comparable information about those choices....
I'm sick of hunting through forum threads every time a new game lands: which Proton build, which launch options, which environment vars, where to put the shader cache or how to move saves to a different folder for cloud sync. We keep reinventing the same fixes over and over while newcomers get frustrated and abandon Linux...
ProtonDB is great, but the signal-to-noise ratio is killing me. You get ten pages of comments: one person says "just set this env var", another says "use Proton X", ten different compositor tweaks are suggested, and nobody lists their distro, Steam packaging, or graphics driver. By the time you guess the right combo you've...
Honestly, I am so tired of buying a promising-looking indie or sale bargain only to discover it melts my Deck battery in an hour or needs Proton GE and a dozen launch flags to not crash. Store pages sell screenshots and specs, not the practical stuff that matters to the 2025 gamer: framerate on portable hardware, estimated...
I keep thinking about this weird tradeoff: one pill, instantaneous transfer of another person's memories and practical skills into your brain, and in exchange you lose one full year of your own life (gone from your memory and timeline). No superpowers, no guaranteed outcomes beyond the transfer. Would you do it? Who would you...
Lately I catch myself treating everything I like as a potential income stream: cooking videos, woodworking, learning Spanish all get measured by views, followers, or 'marketable' skills. I want hobbies that are messy, slow, and purely for pleasure, but guilt and the constant pressure to monetize make that feel wasteful....
I want to stop renting cloud storage and run a small, quiet server at home for encrypted backups, Nextcloud, Syncthing, and a Jellyfin for media. Constraints: 100/20 Mbps fiber, two people, limited noise/power (ideally
I'm tired of spending a weekend reconfiguring a desktop after an upgrade, so I built a setup that I can rebuild on any laptop in under an hour and roll back in 30 seconds. If you want the same freedom, stop treating your desktop like an organic blob and make it declarative, versioned, and backed up....
I was sick of reinstalling after every experiment, so I built a desktop that survives distro hopping, dumb package upgrades and the occasional X11/Wayland meltdown. The trick is simple: encrypted LUKS root, Btrfs subvolumes with aggressive zstd compression and snapshotting, plus borg backups mirrored offsite with rclone. I can...
sudo pacman -S borg
borg init --encryption=repokey-blake2 /path/to/borg-repo
borg create --stats /path/to/borg-repo::'{now}' /home /etc --exclude '/home/*/.cache'
Then sync the borg repo with rclone to your cloud storage. Since snapper is already handling your root snapshots, you just need the borg layer for full disaster recovery.
It's way better than clonezilla imo, you get incremental encrypted and deduplicated backups instead of full disk images every time. Test your recovery, just boot live USB, open LUKS, mount Btrfs, and make sure you can access both snapper snapshots and extract from borg.
Rant: I keep seeing people run their whole stack on a single Raspberry Pi and then act surprised when an SD card dies and six months of data and config evaporate. Selfhosting is awesome, but if you actually depend on services (Nextcloud, homeserver, backups, VPN) you need a tiny bit of ops discipline, not just duct-taped...
I got fed up with spending weekends redoing themes, fixing package breakage, and hunting lost dotfiles whenever I swapped laptops. If you care about uptime and reproducibility more than distro-faith, stop treating your desktop like an altar and treat it like infrastructure: encrypt the disk, snapshot the root, manage dotfiles as...
Fediverse needs "instance health" badges: stop hiding moderation deserts behind decentralization
Rant: I keep seeing new users join tiny instances with zero moderation and then get doxxed or harassed, and we act like this is an unavoidable cost of decentralization. No, it is a usability failure. If decentralization is about choice, we should give users real, comparable information about those choices....
Tired of repeating Proton tweaks for every game? Lets build a community 'one-click Proton profile' repo
I'm sick of hunting through forum threads every time a new game lands: which Proton build, which launch options, which environment vars, where to put the shader cache or how to move saves to a different folder for cloud sync. We keep reinventing the same fixes over and over while newcomers get frustrated and abandon Linux...
Sick of ProtonDB noise? Let us build 'Game Launch Recipes' - tiny YAML + one-click launcher for reproducible fixes
ProtonDB is great, but the signal-to-noise ratio is killing me. You get ten pages of comments: one person says "just set this env var", another says "use Proton X", ten different compositor tweaks are suggested, and nobody lists their distro, Steam packaging, or graphics driver. By the time you guess the right combo you've...
Why does Steam still hide real performance and battery impact? Give us Deck/laptop estimates and Proton hassle flags
Honestly, I am so tired of buying a promising-looking indie or sale bargain only to discover it melts my Deck battery in an hour or needs Proton GE and a dozen launch flags to not crash. Store pages sell screenshots and specs, not the practical stuff that matters to the 2025 gamer: framerate on portable hardware, estimated...
If a pill could give you someone else's memories and skills but erase a year of your life, would you take it? What would you pick and why?
I keep thinking about this weird tradeoff: one pill, instantaneous transfer of another person's memories and practical skills into your brain, and in exchange you lose one full year of your own life (gone from your memory and timeline). No superpowers, no guaranteed outcomes beyond the transfer. Would you do it? Who would you...
How do you stop turning every hobby into a 'side hustle' and just enjoy learning for fun?
Lately I catch myself treating everything I like as a potential income stream: cooking videos, woodworking, learning Spanish all get measured by views, followers, or 'marketable' skills. I want hobbies that are messy, slow, and purely for pleasure, but guilt and the constant pressure to monetize make that feel wasteful....
Building a low-power home server for encrypted backups, Nextcloud and media: what would you actually buy and why?
I want to stop renting cloud storage and run a small, quiet server at home for encrypted backups, Nextcloud, Syncthing, and a Jellyfin for media. Constraints: 100/20 Mbps fiber, two people, limited noise/power (ideally
Stop reinstalling your Linux desktop every six months - make a portable, reproducible workstation with Nix and encrypted snapshots
I'm tired of spending a weekend reconfiguring a desktop after an upgrade, so I built a setup that I can rebuild on any laptop in under an hour and roll back in 30 seconds. If you want the same freedom, stop treating your desktop like an organic blob and make it declarative, versioned, and backed up....
Tired of reinstalling every time you tweak your system? Build a resilient Linux desktop with Btrfs, LUKS and borg in one afternoon
I was sick of reinstalling after every experiment, so I built a desktop that survives distro hopping, dumb package upgrades and the occasional X11/Wayland meltdown. The trick is simple: encrypted LUKS root, Btrfs subvolumes with aggressive zstd compression and snapshotting, plus borg backups mirrored offsite with rclone. I can...
Stop cramming everything onto one Pi: treat your home lab like a tiny ISP - hardware, stack, backups and an update plan
Rant: I keep seeing people run their whole stack on a single Raspberry Pi and then act surprised when an SD card dies and six months of data and config evaporate. Selfhosting is awesome, but if you actually depend on services (Nextcloud, homeserver, backups, VPN) you need a tiny bit of ops discipline, not just duct-taped...
Sick of reinstalling every year? My 8-step 'reinstall-proof' Linux desktop setup that actually survives hardware swaps
I got fed up with spending weekends redoing themes, fixing package breakage, and hunting lost dotfiles whenever I swapped laptops. If you care about uptime and reproducibility more than distro-faith, stop treating your desktop like an altar and treat it like infrastructure: encrypt the disk, snapshot the root, manage dotfiles as...