I’ve mainly been looking up some good ways to backup my Podman services. I manually copy my volumes every couple or months or so. (Which I was thankful when my hard drive started failing on me). I saw a post about Portabase here last week and figured it’s time to look into something less involved.

I also used that as an excuse to start moving my 5 mysql containers that each service ran themselves into a single mariadb container.

The updates from the last CVEs were seamless. Nothing surprising since I have very little installed on my Debian server.

I didn’t change my view on anything from the recent CVEs. I always assumed my server can be compromised, so everything sensitive is encrypted anyway, and I update all my systems/software often or automatically. The latter of which comes with its own set of risks I’m willing to take

It’s alright. I actually was on a similar, albeit just a month long, phase when I switched to KDE. I used VSCodium before and switched (back?) to VSCode after two weeks.

The main reason was extension support. I didn’t notice how much I leaned on those before switching. For example taking notes became more cumbersome and journaling in Typst became impossible (from the editor at least). I have been expecting a lot from my IDE that aren’t really its responsibilities.

Actually programming was a perfectly fine experience so I kept trying to make it work. But at some point a project required me to run dev containers. I had VSCode installed for that anyway so that was the end of it. Though by now I have basically completely switched to Neovim.

I recommend trying out Neovim (Maybe Emacs but I personally never tried it). Or if you prefer a GUI, or don’t want to learn their system, definitely give VSCodium or VSCode a shot. Those four have a much greater assortment of plugins so it’ll be a lot easier to get your editor to behave how you want it to. Though this comes at the cost of a higher memory and cpu footprint.

I’m stoked, thanks for the work you guys put in!

Thanks for putting it up there but why did you copy the entire article over?

In Belgium at least it is illegal to circumvent copy protection. This isn’t even exclusive to the US, so I’m not sure where you got that idea from. So it is perfectly legal here to rip a cd from the public library but not necessarily for a Blu-Ray you bought

• https://economie.fgov.be/nl/themas/intellectuele-eigendom/intellectuele-eigendomsrechten/auteursrecht-en-naburige/auteursrechten/gebruik-van-beschermde-werken/privekopie-en-reprografie
• https://blog.iusmentis.com/2017/01/31/mag-dvds-digitaliseren-auteurswet/

Edit: dvd’s can have copy protection so in that case it would depend on the specific dvd

I might be missing something but the paid tiers don’t include something like theming either, nor did the developer include theming/branding as part of the list of features he wanted to put behind some enterprise plan in the original post you’re commenting on. I’m mentioning this because of the “In Relation to Monetization & Enterprise Plans” section. There seems to be no such instinct you’re mentioning there.

From the issues I found on Github I did find some related to what you asked for:

• https://github.com/go-vikunja/vikunja/issues/502
• https://github.com/go-vikunja/vikunja/issues/3590
• https://github.com/go-vikunja/vikunja/issues/479

The issues seem to be something with Bulma, finding a way to do it cleanly, and it not being a high priority right now. But from the conversations in those issues it does seem like a pull request would be welcome.

After reading the “Developer perspective” section, I also wanted to note that for a lot of projects like this, the developer does the brunt of the work. I know commits aren’t always the best metric, but the developer has 819 and the next one on the list (excluding the bots and Claude’s 5 commits) has 4 commits to their name. That difference more than makes up for the inaccuracies of counting commits. So sure, some people may have considered contributing, but most don’t. Let alone fork the project.

Basically, the reasons the features you want aren’t there are because:

1. The developer didn’t have time for it/didn’t want to spend the time on it (which is fair enough; he is doing free labour from our perspective as self hosters), and
2. nobody else bothered to do it yet. (With an exception to issue 479, because someone injected css from the client a couple of months ago)

I just spun up a container and works well. Same story for the Android app. Are there plans to put the app on an F-droid repository? Currently I keep it updated with Obsidian. Also, are there plans for Kanban support?

Overall I’m a big fan. I might replace my Vikunja container with this in the weekend!

Also to nitpick: the purple top bar looks perfectly at home on the Android app, but it does feel out of place on desktop when accessing the website

I run Silverblue on 2 devices (my main computer and laptop) for half a year. It works and I didn’t have any major issues with it. Though as you might have experienced with other immutable distros, some things like configuring gdm might be a bit more work. But for most things there is a flatpak. The only software that couldn’t be installed that wat was my vpn.

If you want to try out something new, NixOS or Guix might be more up your alley

I don’t know what they could put on the table except for something like Big Picture, which is not nearly as fleshed out on Heroic.

And even then, Big Picture is already available for most gamers, because Steam is already installed.

I think it would’ve been a better use of resources to just officially support Heroic. GOG support exists because of their open distribution system. So why make use of that software?

Good that they’re fined but I expect it was worth it when you only get a fine that small compared to the branch’s size

I was a bit unsure of contacting them because of self hosting it. Thanks for telling me! I’ll edit the post to add the fix if I/they found a way to resolve it.

I don’t get what you mean by organic process. But sure, if you don’t think many people getting into self hosting would look something up like that, I get that you don’t think it’s worthwhile for a self hosting community being present on those platforms.

It’s fine if you disagree with me, but please keep it civil. The reason I’m saying they won’t go to Lemmy is because those hyperlinks will usually lead to the relevant docs, a couple of blogpost, or Reddit. I personally have never seen a Lemmy or Piefed instance in my search results when I looked up a problem.

To give an example: I went to Google and I put in the query “how to start self hosting on a linux server”, which is what I assume someone getting into it would look up. The top site (skipping the AI response and for some reason, Youtube videos?) was Reddit. That’s why it makes sense to me to offer help on a more conventional platform for people getting into self hosting. The people among them who get into federated services will naturally find their place here. They are not forced either way.

They won’t go to Lemmy. Anybody getting into self hosting will not just know what Lemmy is. Nor will they per se care for FOSS to the same extent you do. So having people helping around on conventional platforms seems perfectly valid to me.

They could always advertise a Matrix room and bridge conversations if the moderators really wanted to as well, instead of isolating themselves.

I personally like Cryptpad. It can be self hosted, but you can also make an acount elsewhere considering you don’t want the hastle of maintaining.

Overleaf can be self hosted too

Gnome with a ton of extensions and a Catpuccin theme for gtk apps

I’m mainly going into the negatives because the positives are fewer in number. Though those few do outweigh the negatives I’m about to write about. In my opinion at least

From what I’ve read it’s a lot better than what it used to be, but you can still bump into some weird issues that require more knowledge of your computer (compared to Windows) to get it fixed. Usually it’s audio, Flatpak permission issues or some application that comes preinstalled but crashes anyway. (i.e. Kontact on Fedora’s KDE spin). And in one case NetworkManager just disappeared on the family computer.

Gaming can be an issue, depending on what you like to play. AAA games with an important online component usually don’t work on Linux because of their anti-cheat. Not all of them of course like CS2, Rivals, and Dota 2. It was a bummer since I switched to Linux with the expectation that I’d still be able to keep on playing League, only to see it being unusable after a year. But if your friend group doesn’t play those kind of games (and I got lucky on that part), you’re fine. For example Peak and Gambling with Friends just worked on launch. I didn’t even bother looking at ProtonDB

I’ve seen a lot of people downplay the fact that you may not be able to play the games with invasive anti-cheat. But if that’s the game you (or your friends) like to play, that’s the game you like to play. No shame in that, especially if you don’t care/mind the anti-cheat. It’s your computer, you don’t have to be fully into foss to use Linux and you should (in my opinion) be able to weight the pros and cons yourself.

Another con (for people who just want to use their computer) or pro (for those who like to thinker around) is choice. There are so many distro’s with a ton of DE’s and ways of customising those DE’s where a new user will probably get stuck just deciding what they want to pick. Or you can just as easily look at something more technical and decide what compositor or init system you want to use. It’s a lot and for many users the deeper stuff doesn’t really matter to them.

I wasted* at lot of time tinkering with my Nix configs and my Arch install to not even use either distro anymore. It can get a bit much, especially if the thing you’re tinkering with is your main computer. Now I just have a separate second hand laptop to mess around with now so it doesn’t get in the way of actual work.

All of my most painful issues wouldn’t have been too bad if I just had someone to guide me in the right direction. This became really apparent when a friend of mine bumped into a lot of the same issues I did when he switched. He got his fixed fairly quickly since I was there to explain, for example, what was wrong with his fstab config and why he got into emergency mode because of that.

*It was a ton of fun looking back at it (and educational). But if you go into it with the idea that it’ll help you (in part) with productivity, you’re going to have some regrets with the time you actually spent on it in the moment

Just so people know, Belgium has one-party consent laws regarding the recording of conversations. I’m Belgian, see Art. 314bis in our penal code.

Maybe you can use some client to navigate your share in a more pleasant way instead of hosting something new? I never tried that so I can’t recommend anything for that unfortunately

If you are already hosting Nextcloud, the Memories app might fit your needs well.

Immich definitely isn’t a bad option either. It doesn’t take ton of resources, has a clean user interface and is multiplatform. Just like Coolie4 said, you can just try it out with a small collection first before committing to anything.

If you don’t want them on cloud providers because you’re not comfortable them being able to see those pictures, you can also pay for Ente.

Self hosting Ente is also an option, which is what I use for my family

You might also be able to get away with hosting something like Seafile and use directories as albums. But you won’t get random shuffling in that case (My bad I can’t read. This isn’t much better than what you’re doing currently)