Yeah, and after having dealt with the “I missed a few updates and then the last one put my files out of sync with my schema” Docker issues, I’m very much happy to use the snap. Been on that a couple years and it’s been quite solid, even if I did have to install snapd on my Debian base for it

The civil war merged with the cold war, essentially

I run backups to a USB drive which is way to grab in the event of an emergency. Just make sure you test them every more and again, and possibly only connect it when needed if you’re at all worried about malware (a cryptolocker will happily take out any attached storage if your machine is infected).

A lot of that stack looks similar to mine, though I’m running bigger hardware for various reasons. You might want to go with something with more cores than an i5 depending on how much you find yourself utilizing.

Have you considered Nextcloud for documents and syncing functionality? I went through a few ways of running it before ended up with the Snap package which has been fairly solid for over a year now (Docker was good for setup, but upgrading was problematic if not kept up with religiously)

Vaultwarden is Excellent.

Calibre-Web is good, especially if paired with the application to “extract” books, and an app like Moon+ on mobiles

Audiobookshelf is pretty solid. Pairs well with Libation.

HASS I initially ran on my server in a container but moved to dedicated hardware so updating and reboots didn’t break automatons. Got a HASS Yellow for the PoE and Zigbee.

If you’re looking for audio/video library management, JellyFin is pretty easy to get running and has apps for phones plus many TVs. Finamp is a good mobile app for the music part

Watching their recent coverage of LA and NY I was kinda astounded by the slant on it.

That sounds kinda cool. I’ll have to check it out. It’s kinda hard sometimes to push FOSS stuff in a largercorporate environment but this looks like something I could recommend/build for small-mid private SOHO clients.

Used to run OpenVPN. Tried Wireguard and the performance was much better, although lacking some of the features some might need/want fit credential-based logins etc

I didn’t really get the allure of it TBH. For most home-based nerds a simple Wireguard host (or OpnSense, OpenWRT etc running such) should be fine, and there are better options for commercial from better-known vendors in the network security space

The ones with fans would be “convection” ovens, which cost more this side of the pond

Yeah it “works” on LG TVs but only if I don’t use SSL, possibly due to the (perfectly valid) LetsEncrypt certificate in my case.

That’s not a huge deal for my LAN access but it’s still pretty dumb. It would be nice if more devices properly supported it.

Mine, no, but I definitely know people who went from very happy with their lives to deep depression in a shorter period then that.

That doesn’t necessarily equal suicidal tendencies in all cases but there’s certainly common ground been the two.

I’d imagine that they good l could also be converted into decent power banks for homes during outages

The French Foreign Legion is actually pretty badass

No. I paid for all my books but so not use Audible etc to access them

It really depends on the mods. Stock Minecraft and even many mods would run fine on a potato, but some of the bigger mods actually require quite a bit of CPU/overhead.

There are also various mods that require certain (older) versions of Java etc to run, and those versions of Java may have known security issues.

Also apparently told Europe that they’re pulling out of there unless they accept the deal for Ukraine’s surrender…

I mean, Canada might but given that I’ve of the issues is being in the crosshairs for annexation with “the largest land border” between us… how safe is it going to be?

Trump’s handing Ukraine and Europe to Russia while planning his own play from their book.

Subtitles would be easier

“Because I know that [incoherent blathering] [nonsensical mouth noises] and then we”

I used to think so but frankly the infection seems to have spread pretty far up here.

I dunno, reducing them to being not-billionaires and even not-millionaires would actually be a pretty just sentence IMO. I bet being reduced to a regular Joe would hurt some of them more than the death penalty