I also wholeheartedly recommend Restic. Hetzner Storage Box or Backblaze B2 are great storage backends and directly supported by Restic.

Borg is great too, though I’ve never used it because I’ve discovered Restic first.

It’s packagekit which is slow. I’ve used Gnome Software on Fedora Atomic and it is quite fast (since a few big optimizations about two years ago) because it only has support for flatpak enabled.

Niri already had support for X11 through xwayland-satellite, although $DISPLAY and xwayland-satellite had to be started manually.

That said, being enabled by default is great and the other changes are awesome too.

Interesting. I’ve had a worse experience with my music library because of how Navidrome didn’t support multi artist tags properly until recently. But while writing this comment, I checked again and they merged it in 0.55.0!

So I’d recommend giving Navidrome a try too. Symfonium is a great client.

waypipe is a proxy for Wayland clients. It forwards Wayland messages and serializes changes to shared memory buffers over a single socket. This makes application forwarding similar to ssh -X feasible.

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mstoeckl/waypipe

Interesting. I feel like 2021 might be the time I first noticed this freezing/crashing on my PC, but not my laptop. I always thought it was the GPU, but after switching to another AMD GPU it still happens.

The freezes happen irregularly, i.e. there’s been times I thought it was fixed for it just to happen again.

Some game servers, some ISPs don’t provide IPv6 for (some of) their customers.

I’m using zram on all my systems, be it 4GB or 16GB. Usually swap is empty, so there’s no compressing for the CPU to do anyway. If a RPI is capable of ZRAM, your PC won’t break a sweat.

ZSTD is really fast. I’m using btrfs compression too, and don’t notice any performance impact either.

Sadly they’ve gone up in price over the last 6 months.

Mindfactory had 16TB for 160€ (10€/TB), but now they want 240€ for 18TB (13.3€/TB).

On eBay there’s sellers like HMCW, which are now also more expensive. But returns/warranty are questionable to say the least.

Edit: I wanna punch myself because I didn’t get one at the time.

Yeah. There already are arbitrators by law: public courts.

Yes, even IPv4 was intended to give each device in the world their own IP, but the address space is too limited. IPv6 fixes that.
Actually, each device usually has multiple IPv6s, and only some/one are globally routable, i.e. it works outside of your home network. Finding out which one is global is a bit annoying sometimes, but it can be done.

Usually routers still block incoming traffic for security reasons, so you still have to open ports in your router.

If you go with IPv6, all your devices/servers have their own IP. These IPs are valid in your LAN as well a externally.

But it’s still important to use a reverse proxy (e.g. for TLS).

Many places don’t enforce those laws for simply torrenting.

Some countries (US) ask the ISP to send warning letters and might disable the internet. In other countries law firms get personal details from the ISP and send a costly letter of a thousand Euro for a single infraction like in Germany.

I would ideally like to convert the library to h.265 or even AV1 if I can make it work.

Unless you’ve downloaded remuxes (which I doubt), I’d seriously recommend redownloading instead of converting your existing files.

h.265 and especially AV1 take a long time to encode by CPU, and hardware encoding won’t give you any space savings, unless you’re okay with losing much details.

Redownloading is most definitely faster, will result in more space savings for the quality you’ll get. PS: Unless you’ve got data volume limits, but even then I’d recommend slowly upgrading over time. It’s quite simple with TRaSH guides and giving h.265 a higher score.

• ActualBudget for finances.
• Radicale for calendar/contacts.
• Immich for photos/videos.
• Redlib as a frontend for Reddit (LibRedirect ftw).
• TheLounge as an IRC client.
• Bitwarden/Vaultwarden as a password manager.
• paperless-ngx for documents

NixOS in LXC works great, although I switched to bare metal NixOS a few months ago. I didn’t see the need for proxmox as it hindered my ability of declaring the whole system.

Creating NixOS LXC’s is a bit of a pita. Some links that helped me two years ago:

• https://wiki.nixos.org/wiki/Proxmox_Virtual_Environment#LXC
• https://web.archive.org/web/20230818134729/https://blog.xirion.net/posts/nixos-proxmox-lxc/

Regular btrfs scrubs is a good idea to detect data loss/drive failure early. I have a monthly sytemd timer run it automatically.

Btrfs balance can also free up space but I don’t run it regularly.

“given the same source code, build environment and build instructions, any party can recreate bit-by-bit identical copies of all specified artifacts”

NixOS does not guarantee bit-by-bit identical results. NixOS hashes the inputs and provides a reproducible build environment but this does not necessarily mean the artifacts are identical.

E.g. if a build somehow includes a timestamp, each build will have a different checksum.

It’s great to see another open source OIDC provider (with more features). I’ve set up Pocket ID which is awesome because of it’s simplicity and it’s great.

I found the guide/examples on their website a bit irritating at first (that’s on me) but it works well once understood and configured.