Finally starting my self hosted journey. I have everything I need I’m setting up a 6tb nas for linux iso’s photos and files. And I recently got a “broken” laptop that works perfectly fine that I will use for running all my applications in proxmox such as immich, jellyfin and nextcloud. And probably many others in the near future.

Consider that with the latest hardware your processor is under 1% or 2% load running a bloat machine like windows even if you used the lightest weight distro without any desktop environment at all the maximum possible performance gain would be 1% or 2%.

Shouldn’t torrents be used for large files?

Any word, if you look at it for long enough.

With you first point i disagree. I think public transport is often just fine or even preferable for people with mobility issues. If they are wheelchair bound then they cannot drive. And public transport has come a long way in terms of supporting disabled people such as most trains trams buses from were I come from now support wheelchair access.

Although I would be interested if there are any examples were taking public transport is infeasible or unhelpful to specific situations.

Oh your right I wasn’t aware that box buddy is just a gui for distrobox. I thought it was a reskin of the boxes program built into fedora.

Although from my experience box buddy in bazzite doesn’t work super reliably.

OK so a lot of people are recommending bazzite. I have been using it for a while and I do not recommend it. Mainly due to the fact you more or less can’t install any program other than through the software centre unless you use a vm with the included “box buddy” program which for me has been very hit and miss for which programs work.

Go ahead and try bazzite for yourself but I would recommend either fedora or Linux mint both with the xfce desktop since a lightweight desktop seams to be what your looking for.

Mmm delicious.

Kubenetes or k3s and some volunteer computing programs. Or mine monaro to offset the power bill of your other servers.

It’s not really a battery killer at all. It would never fit or be useful in a car, phone or anything portable. It’s more of a possible replacement to pumped-storage hydroelectric.

OK thanks for the point, I should probably try and use wifi networks wherever possible ig.

Why us mobile data such a privacy concern and wifi is so much better? I understand using standard calls and text is bad but if you use mobile data and not your phone number whats the difference between that and public wifi?

I get the controversy about the CEO being controversial but the services that proton make are still very good for the most part. And since they’re open source and encrypted you don’t need to trust proton anyway (aside from the VPN).

I don’t recommend bazzite. I am using bazzite right now it is great for gaming. But it is a nightmare to install any software via the terminal often times you have to use a virtual environment and even that doesn’t work very well.

If your a little familiar with fedora then it is a very good distro still and it has a kde veriant. (take my advice with a grain of salt I am pretty new to linux as well)

After trying out many different app launchers on f-droid Kvaesito is what I found to be the best. Kvaesito is very good and is what I use it allows you to swipe down and eminently start searching for apps.

My biggest problem with it (and it’s a big one) is ocasionally it will just freeze and stop working until I lock the phone and turn it on again. (maybe you won’t have this problem just try it out)

I honestly don’t see the big deal with people hating on proton. It’s still open source it’s still encrypted and doesn’t mine your data that seams to check most of the boxes for me. The only problem I had with it was the default main client which shows upgrades to go unlimited all the time but I just use Thunderbird now.

Not sure, I’ve never used session but I think less tech savvy people would want to use signal because it is similar to Whatsapp, which they are used to.

Fare enough. I can finally get rid of one drive from my Samsung phone!

Cryptomator is open source.

Fair point actually. I didn’t think of that.