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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • Having had similar hardware and reading about your preferences let me throw some cents in the hat:

    Sim stuff runs mostly ootb. I don’t have a fancy rig, but both my G29 and x52 pro work perfectly fine. At most, some games will map the axis wrong, but that’s easily fixable (eg. AMS2 swaps clutch and brakes and inverts all axis). The insullary apps such as TrackIR and controller stuff is already available, although not official. There’s Oversteer for wheels and GX52 for hotas.

    I don’t have a TrackIR device but I’ve used FacetrackNoIR with the neuralnet face tracker and besides needing a bit of background lighting, it woked fine.

    It’s not all perfect and depending on the games, it might need some tinkering. For example Mechwarrior 5 refuses to work properly with my hotas, and when I had a weaker CPU, Beam.ng was unusable with traffic/opponents. Some older titles are a pain to set up, like the older WRC games that had some obscure config files for the mappings. The upside is that you can back up your “fake windows C:” (aka as compatdata folder) once you got everything the way you like it.

    I mostly do office type stuff and vector graphics along with CNC, and the proprietary software I need runs 90% fine on wine/bottles, so I haven’t had much of any blocker issues with work stuff.

    I’ve been running Linux way before proton was a thing, and I’m really happy about how things are moving nowadays. I got used to the gnome workflow and now any other OS feels cumbersome and clunky, but YMMV.

    TL; DR:

    • PRO: most sim stuff just works
    • CON: some games perform a bit worse
    • PRO: most hardware runs OOTB and popular gear have apps for setup and options
    • CON: those are unofficial and might not support all bells and whistles
    • CON: some games are finnicky to set up, especially with external software addons (eg crewchief, ED companion, TrackIR)
    • PRO: you can save your games prefix so all that work is portable/reproducible
    • most office stuff is more than adequate for everyday work.

  • Unless the crook happens to be extremely nerdy or its law enforcement, already being a Linux formatted partition feels it should be enough for a rando breaking in and stealing a computer.

    That being said, something like a PiKVM connected to your server (and Tailscale) could let you enable both UEFI/boot password and propt for LUKS decryption upon boot.



  • I tried grocy but it was too cumbersome for day to day usage. Ended up using Nextcloud:

    • Created a set of calendars/todo lists and set them to shared. One for chores, another for appointments and last one for shopping list.
    • JTX board app for android phones (also davx5 for syncing, but that was already installed on most for personal info sync and backups).
    • Added those NC to my HomeAssistant and replaced the default shopping list with the NC ones.
    • (optional) added some geofence zones on HA on regular shopping spots, and an automation that sends the shopping list as a notification to whoever is nearby.

    Setup was a bit hit and miss until I figured stuff out but it’s been working fine for us for the better part of a year now.







  • the problem with FW’s docs is that they are too opinionated, they expect a strict user and directory structure that should not be required for docker deployments. I modified the example docker-compose to use volumes instead of binding to host locations (except for the music:ro folder) and it didn’t like it at all. I get that they prefer using ansible playbooks over docker, but even when starting from a fresh debian 12 install it’d fail, even though I followed that guide to the tee.

    As someone else said on the thread, it’s weird but there’s no much choice for multi-library music-centric servers. Guess I’ll have to wrangle Jellyfin into submission to tag my music properly.


  • tried jellyfin even before Navidrome: the problem with Jellyfin is that as good as it is tagging and managing movies and tv shows, it’s atrocious at music management. Even though I painstakingly tagged and sorted my music using MusicBrainz Picard, there are tons of albums misplaced, or entire artists catalogs set as a single album. Same music collection on Navidrome worked OOTB and was perfectly sorted.