BartyDeCanter

Well, fuck. Immich has been a solidly good piece of software for me. Any recommendations that aren’t Nextcloud?

Ahh, I see. I missed that part and was thinking of a KVM that could be controlled via a remote or ssh. Cary on then.

Here’s the secret that KVM makers Don’t Want You To Know: Nowadays KVMs are almost always redundant if you have a monitor with multiple inputs. A simple USB KM switch plus a script that can call https://www.ddcutil.com/ will take care of almost all use cases.

Only 33% downtime? Damn, that must be nice. I really need to get a hardware update.

Don’t bother with excellent passwords, just never allow password auth on anything remote.

Or run your own headscale server, which is what I do.

Just set up a basic ssh connection, using key based authentication. You don’t need anything past that for a basic short term connection. I used one for years with port forwarding through my router to the ssh port on my desktop.

Now that I have a more complex setup with several services I use Tailscale and run my own Headscale server for it. But still, basic ssh will get you a long way and should be the first thing you do.

Either a NAS, or a direct storage box plugged into your server. QNAP and Terramaster make reputable ones. Then you can setup your own storage pool across whatever drives you have.

My first thought would be to try and fix it, then you have a nice laptop or get to be the family hero when you return it working to your brother.

Past that there are several services you might use that can take advantage of the video card: Immich image recognition, Paperless OCR, some of the local Whisper servers.

Or you have a nice set-top PC for big screen gaming and media playback.

You definitely don’t have to go full LLM for this. There are a wide variety of local spam filtering tools available, depending on what email application you use. If you really want to use modern ML, I’d go with something like Laya as it is tunable and runs locally.

Easily! My Pi runs PiHole and a print server and I’ll could probably run almost my entire stack in it if I wanted. Jellyfin would be the hardest due to transcoding CPU usage, but it’s probably ok for one stream at a time.

The other issue for me would be storage. Since I have a 32TB NAS I run everything that requires large storage on it, but a USB RAID attached to a Pi would probably work just fine.

The other issue is RAM. I rarely hit 8GB, but do use more than 4GB fairly regularly.

I have a git repo with all my docker files, config, notes, etc. I have a main overview file covering the overall system and then a directory for each machine. I edit things on my local machine, then scp and ssh to the various remotes. Once I’m happy with my changes, I commit and push to my Forgejo install on my NAS in case my main computer fails. Secrets, passwords, and keys are in my Vaultwarden.

I don’t use AI for it, but a local model could probably give me the commands to do whatever I wanted based on the repo.

Or you can go straight to the source and use the Trash Guides

N2 here. It was mild all my life, down at the “quirky” level, so I wasn’t diagnosed. Everyone who had ever lived with me knew something was weird with how much I slept, but not enough to be a concern.

Then a year and a half ago it ramped up to devastating over the course of a couple weeks. I lost my job but luckily was able to find a new, less stressful one. After cycling through multiple sleep doctors and multiple tests that take months to get, I’m finally on two daytime meds. They help, but nowhere near enough. I have another in December and then hopefully I can get on Xyrem and/or oveporexton.

Anyway, I just want to say I get it, it sucks how much of your life it takes away, and I hope that better treatments are found for all of us.

If you want to have a fun “before times” theme, try something BeOS flavored. Or go really obscure and try to find one that matches the Dano leak.

Hi! I’ve been seeing your questions here and I think some basic terminology and background will help you out.

I’m going to try and avoid too much “whell acktully”, but there will probably be some.

A kernel is the core of any operating system, it usually provides basic hardware support for programs to use, and in the case of Linux, hardware drivers, filesystems, low level networking protocols and other very close to the hardware support.

But a kernel can’t really do anything by itself, so we run programs on top of it. Some of these are also very low level and most people don’t deal with them or know they are there, while others are things like web browsers, video games, and whatever else you directly use every day.

For Linux, there are often multiple programs that provide the same or similar functionality, with different features and tradeoffs, at all levels of the system. With Windows or Mac, there is often only one version of the low level programs that they provide and you never know is there.

Because of all the options, different groups have put together different sets of these programs together, along with configuration files, and installer programs. These are called distros, short for distributions. Different distros make different choices for at least as many reasons as there are distros. Also in Linux, a program plus whatever files it needs are often called packages.

Since even a small distro may contain thousands of packages, management of them is very important. Most distros have a package manager program to help deal with that and the package manager is how you will install most packages, though as always there are other options. A package manager is similar in some way to an app store from Mac or windows, only not shitty.

Some distros make a lot of package choices for you, others make you make basically every choice. Most are somewhere in between. So-called beginner distros are usually ones that have made all the choices for you, and aimed those choices at being easy to use for people that have only experienced Windows or Mac.

A desktop environment is an integrated graphical interface that has a bunch of programs that all work together and have a similar look and feel. You may also hear about a window manager, which is like a very minimal desktop environment that doesn’t come with a lot of features by itself.

Different distros provide different desktop environments by default, or maybe none at all! Some make it very easy to switch from one to another, but some don’t.

Most DEs try to look like either Windows or Mac in order to feel friendlier to new users. Window managers generally don’t, as they are assumed to by used by people with a lot of experience who want something very specific and will take the time to make it happen.

Some common DEs and what they sorta look like are:

• Gnome - Looks a lot like Mac, not particularly customizable, good keyboard only support
• KDE - Looks a lot like windows by default, but quite customizable.
• Cinnamon - Also looks like Windows, but forked off of an old version on Gnome a long time ago
• LXDE - Also looks like windows by default, often used on very low end hardware
• Cosmic - Looks like Mac but very customizable

And here are some common distros and their default DEs

• Fedora - KDE
• Mint - Cinnamon
• Debian - Offers a choice, but defaults to Gnome
• Ubuntu - A custom version of Gnome, but also comes in a KDE and LXDE version
• PopOS - Cosmic

I hope this helps!

Wow! I could not have asked for a better example of this. The quick insult that might just be a simple attack on my intelligence but might also have a specific in-group meaning? It’s perfect! chef’s kiss

You sir/madam/theydam have made my day. I salute you.

Have you ever had the experience of having a short conversation with someone but you can’t figure out what they mean? Like, the words they are saying make sense, and you can parse their sentences, but the meaning is incomprehensible?

Then you realize that they are part of a religion, political ideology, or some other subculture that you’re not deeply familiar with and it’s pretty clear that you just glimpsed 1% of the mental framework that they operate in, but because you don’t know what the other 99% is you can’t figure out if you agree, disagree, or just learned something?

Have also ever noticed that they tend to get Real Mad when you ask them question because the conversation quickly switches to in group/out group dynamics and you just revealed that you’re not in whatever group they are? And they also probably have very specific definitions of words and phrases as part of their mental framework that you don’t know, so both sides completely misunderstand each other?

Anyway, what I’m trying to get at is, what the fuck are you talking about Jessie?

I’m not certain of the last time I had hardware where sleep didn’t just work in Linux. It’s fine in my oldest laptop that only has limited hardware support for sleep modes and extremely good on everything else.

In short, yes, Fedora, Ubuntu, or whatever will be able to install on your laptop just fine. Since you seem relatively new, I would suggest Mint as it is aimed at new users.

App installers, the way you are accustomed to from Windows, aren’t really a thing in Linux. Most applications are installed by your distro’s package manager. For those that aren’t, there is often a choice of either downloading a package for your distro ( debs in the case of Debian-derived distros like Ubuntu and Mint, rpms for Fedora and friends ) or using something like Flatpack. But really your package manager will handle most things you are looking for.