Immich is the GOAT! I can’t wait for it’s stable release.

Local send has worked really poorly for me, and so has every program similar to it open source or not. The only network file sharing program that has always worked (mostly) floorlessly for me is AirDrop.

tag studio It’s a file manager designed to use tags instead of files because tags are a much better system. It’s still in alpha and I haven’t actually tested it yet but I plan to use it instead of regular file managers once it becomes stable and well supported.

I’m not saying I’m very knowledgeable but as your asking for the consensus. I think Bluesky is much better than twitter but it doesn’t properly embody the ideals of the fediverse: that is a decentralized network of instances but it really only has one main instance. It’s also heavily viewed as an alternative to twitter, people who like twitter but don’t like X or the way elon musk is running things so the same people who don’t like twitter go to X and therefore the community isn’t so much better.

But who am I to say this I don’t even use twitter mastadon or Bluesky.

I get your point. It would be better to save the money and use it for actually developing the platform because it needs to be worked on.

Matrix is actually really good. It’s my only hope for using iMessages in a cross platform manner, I can self-host my own iMessages bridge.

Since most of my friends use iMessages and they are not super willing to change.

Blender is half the reason I believe in open source. They continue to innovate and compete with companies that have orders of magnitude more funding.

The enshitification is real. Thank goodness it’s federated, just use a different instance or self-host your own.

Yes the node 804 is exactly what I’m looking for! It’s a bit outdated in terms of looks but I don’t really mind that much for a home server. Aside from that it seams pretty much perfect.

This is really cool. And I would say a good replacement for current cloud setups. Since it’s unreasonable to expect everyone to self-host. Although I think this could only really be a cost saving measure since there are already services like protondrive that offer end 2 end encryption. And I would probably trust the reliability of proton drive over the community hosting my stuff.

I can second this. When I first installed Linux I partitioned it to work on the same ssd as my windows install. I must have made a mistake (I don’t know what) because my windows install ended up being formatted and I lost a copy of a video game world I had put over 100 hours of work in with a friend, it was very sad.

I thought I had a backup but I didn’t test it properly so I actually didn’t have a backup. I guess everyone needs to make this sort of mistake once.

That’s pretty cool, maybe I should do that.

That’s interesting, and unexpected. Thanks for sharing.

I will second this.

I’ve found the only real way to find good media to watch is to talk to others with similar interests and ideas and they generally have good recommendations.

Well I say it’s no wonder people gravitate towards it but I don’t actually like it myself. It sucks that they make it basically impossible to upgrade snything. And that there storage and RAM upgrades cost several times more than they should.

I have a Macbool air (not by choice) and I installed asahi linux a couple of weeks ago. Main take away is that it’s really good except for software support. I’ve had a bit of trouble finding programs that work well on arm even open source projects often don’t compile there programs to work on arm.

Wait do you put all of your posts under a CC license?

I think generally macos users would feel more at home in gnome where as windows users more in kde.

Linux is so much more stable than windows and its free+open source so everyone uses Linux on servers.

It’s no wonder people gravitate towards apple, it’s almost impossible to find a good laptop amongst this mess.

Generally intel has the best idle power consumption although amd won’t be terrible either. unless you already have an amd motherboard or cpu lying around I would recommend grabbing a 11th gen i5.

If you want to reduce your power idle power consumption undervolting won’t help you there, it will only reduce power consumption while under load. Generally the biggest killer for idle power consumption is actually your motherboard and for that reason try to find a smaller motherboard. Mini-itx is best but you’ll probably find that micro-atx is a lot cheaper while not sacrificing too much power draw.

I can’t say how useful your gtx 960 will be, I’d test it to see if it can encode/decode/transcode video fast enough for your needs and just be weary that it will likely use a fair bit of power even at idle. If it is fast enough then you can easily get away with an 8th/9th gen intel cpu you’ll find they are a lot cheaper, you could get an even older cpu as per Jellyfins hardware requirements but you’ll sacrifice some power consumption and probably not save that much money. 8th/9th gen CPU’s have pretty good power idle power consumption which is of course what should be targeted here.