Taasz/Woof

Some rare stuff is on brew but you also need to know that it’s there somehow, it’s a pain to deal with. Especially since Bazzite doesn’t tell me where the safe version of the package exists, just warns me “don’t do it that way!”

Jellyfin has plenty of issues with public instances too. It’s just the reality of exposing to the public internet, unless it’s something that has a lot of dedicated work going into security it’s going to have problems.

If it breaks I either fix it (often it’s just an issue where the new version needs extra config added), or roll back to a backup and pin the old version temporarily if it really went wrong and I can’t recover otherwise.

Backups run early AM before any auto updates start, and no one is using services and changing data then, so nothing should really ever be lost by rolling back.

It’s easier to setup and use for less technical people, also just more widely known.

I run Jellyfin but logging in is definitely a pain, have to manually enter the URL (including https:// for some crazy reason, why doesn’t it just default to it??) and username and password using a crappy TV remote.

Wildcard SSL does help a lot, since every subdomain isn’t broadcast publicly in the issuer logs.

It’s where the users are.

Bazzite was such a pain to use, I get the concept and it sounds nice, but in practice just a super simple thing like needing say the gdu tool in my CLI was a hassle, plus it had warnings that I shouldn’t install things or I might break the supposedly stable immutable system (???)

I mean I would hope so, but losing a password manager database sucks regardless if you used passkeys or not.

I think using Firefox or a fork, and just degoogled Chromium if you need WebUSB is a better idea.

So far I’ve never come across a site that doesn’t work in Firefox, a rare few need the chrome mask addon enabled, but it’s been awhile since I’ve had that happen.

Hm, so similar to websites blocking user agents now.

As far as I know using a password manager such as KeePassXC or Bitwarden solves all of these problems?

It’s especially frustrating because I don’t think I’ve seen a single app store on a distro prominently show when the last update was for a flatpak app. Even flatpaks own website requires scrolling all the way down to the bottom of an app to see that info.

Plus the app store interfaces/apps are terribly slow and bloated, gnome software will sit in the background doing nothing useful and consume 700MB+ of RAM, searching for an app takes forever, and it will lock up sometimes while installing so you can’t continue browsing/searching for more apps. I’ve tried other stores and they all share the same issues for the most part.

Overall the whole situation is just pretty bad and frustrating. I use the terminal for flatpak updates and such, but it’s not any good for finding new apps.

That’s fair, shutdown service + backup everything is certainly more guaranteed to work properly.

With Immich I’m not too worried about the DB potentially being off since it can rescan the filesystem, but I also backup at 3am when nothing is happening on Immich because I’m asleep!

If you have someone far enough away, with fast/reliable internet, and a safe spot to put it.

Immich uses user/YYYY/MM folders on my setup, and I exclude any thumbnail directories from the backup too. So not many dirs/files to check for the backup software and it’s very quick.

You don’t need to shut it down, pg_dump works fine while it’s like if you want to make sure it’s a good database backup. The files side of things are fine either way.

I have a storage box with hostbrr for my ~800GB of files. They have deals sometimes with 4TB boxes for like $9 a month or so. Hetzner storage boxes are also sometimes on sale.

I run Immich on a cheap dell desktop I got off ebay (7th gen i5 CPU in it), it has 2 HDDs in a mirror and sends encrypted backups to online storage at Backblaze using Restic.

People abusing cloudflare workers.

I think it’s worth it, but you could move to one of the VPS deals on racknerd (or another lowendbox.com deal), for like $10-20 a year and save a bunch.

Sounds like an utterly terrible idea.