Unrelated but how do people feel about the ai images when used for something like this.

The font is very telling for being DallE

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“Bloat” the less system there is (while still working as a modern system) the better. If i need something i can install it myself.

If your library is on other platform like gog, epic, amazon or off platform .exe you can use heroic launcher and for most stuff it works just as well.

For some games there is a little more learning curve because you have to translate custom steam configurations found on protondb to do the same thing in heroic but overall you actually have way more control then steam.

The only reason “id think twice” is if you play lots of games with anticheat which does not work on every distro (like arch btw).

Psa: the reason Microsoft makes these tools linux friendly is because the know thats where the developers are at and they want them to stay familiar with their tools.

It also lowers the amount of fuss developers make when work forced them to use powershell etc because at least they can remote control and script from linux.

Whispers “try proxmox”

I cant find any information about wether this does include phones that where already being sold because i would be surprised if those that don’t comply on a hardware level will just disappear.

Fml when i bought a new phone last month out of fear the upcoming ones would get a price jump from tarrifs…

Every time i see something about android 16 i can only think of one thing.

What even is this? Whatever is beyond that cannot be worth it.

Its like the riddles of ancient mythology but the reward is yet another website

Dont give up on it! Its very feasible that yt starts attacking yt-dlp. Invidious is already obfuscated. The more alternatives the better.

So does anyone know a proper alternative that doesn’t scare every non-tech person on my server?

I already lost people when we initially moved from a facebook group to discord.

I believe i can self-host a matrix client but no idea how well it will work with people currently having notifications by discord bot on their phone

I am running a few lxc which all run a docker container each.

What taxon said.

Most of my services have their own lxc with docker.

A few that need it are vms

It works so well i often forget how i set things up because its very leave and forget about it, Keeps working.

Proxmox all the way, cannot recommend it higher. I was very scared to try it in the beginning but its the best server choice i ever made.

You dont need to choose between lxc or docker. You can just run docker in lxc many helper scripts set you up like that by default.

Super technically they dont recommend doing so but i know others who do this and have never encountered a problem with it.

I am, that works really well actually and it even knows when the same file was moved.

But to add new files to that external library, which is in fact the only main library. We need to dig in immich file structure which at the very least enforces different directories per individual user and also uses those to store some forms of metadata.

We tried sharing a user in the beginning but the app did not seem to like that.

Now its not the biggest deal, just an annoyance. the fix i am currently thinking is to move the immich directory to somewhere hidden and us systemlinks to get all uploads centralized under a single directory for further processing.

Very subjective but there is literally only one for me and its Navidrome

The one obstacle is you have to know how to selfhost, but i know for proxmox servers there are single line commands that will install and run everything automatically

• Free open source software.
• Free from enshitification
• You own the music and therefore you set the quality. (Supports flac)
• works with different players on different devices (open streaming protocol)
• no bandwidth when used local, and stays working at home even when there is no internet.

Why people pay monthly to then not even own music when you could use that same money to just buy music while having a better quality experience that cant be taken away is beyond me.

I am aware and actually use this but it appears too restrictive for our needs.

The structure we were already using cannot be recreated. Honestly i could live with the default. But my partner who is less into computers likes to make their own backups on external hard drives and uses shared network drives rather then the immich web viewer.

This does not help you but it makes me think of this:

I understand why it makes technical sense to do so but immich storing things in a database in general is more nuisance then practical.

We want those fotos accessible in our own file system where we have full control of what is what.

Immich job is to put the pictures from a phone to the server and also to display all pictures within a certain directory.

It does a good job at both. Having your own file structure is not a problem and it seem to even know and adapt if pics get moved around.

But we have to manually move the photos out of its own structure into our own every time we do a big upload.

Maybe i can set something up with syslinks so it all appears centralized as a big “upload” folder to be sorted.

I am not sure whos advocate i am being here but theres class of vibe coding enthusiasts that get heavily demotivated by being told to do things a certain way.

The trade of for this chaos is. At least they how to code and participate in open source projects and once in a full moon some creative actually designs something nova and inspiring.