Possibly. I don’t remember that being an option when I was setting things up last time.

From what I’m reading it’s sounding like it’s just acting as a slightly simplified DNS server/reverse proxy for individual services on the tailnet. Sounds Interesting. I’m not sure it’s something I’d want to use on the backend (what happens if Tailscale goes down? Does that DNS go down too?), but for family members I’ve set up on the tailnet, it sounds like an interesting option.

Much as I like Tailscale, it seems like using this may introduce a few too many failure points that rely on a single provider. Especially one that isn’t charging me anything for what they provide.

In my case, most things that I didn’t explicitly make public are running on Tailscale using their own Tailscale containers.

Doing it this way each one gets their own address and I don’t have to worry about port numbers. I can just type http://cars/ (Yes, I know. Not secure. Not worried about it) and get to my LubeLogger instance. But it also means I have 20ish copies of just the Tailscale container running.

On top of that, many services, like Nextcloud, are broken up into multiple containers. I think Nextcloud-aio alone has something like 5 or 6 containers it spins up, in addition to the master container. Tends to inflate the container numbers.

When others in your particular nitch are not posting. You may have a slightly better chance to trend that way.

Try looking for themes. It’s in settings. Just named a bit different as it does more then shift from light to dark.

Nice! I hadn’t thought of that.

It’s kinda an ethos thing that goes way back, and Microsoft keeps giving us examples of why it can be a bad idea. Essentially, it boils down to the idea that YOU should be in control of what your system is doing.

Most distros can (including Raspberry OS), and many of them will check for updates automatically, but none that I can think of will install updates automatically unless you purposefully choose to enable that function.

Raspberry OS is, imho, is not really representative of the desktop Linux experience. It’s a bit like Gentoo or Arch. Great OS’s, for their intended use cases.

While RPis with Raspberry OS can be a decent desktop replacement in a pinch (I’ve done it), it’s more intended for learning and experimentation.

If you’re intending to use it as your primary computer, I’d recommend using Ubuntu or Fedora. And running the OS on an USB3 external solid state drive.

With modern UEFI, it’s controlled by both the OS and the UEFI

I haven’t used Windows in a long while, but there is a setting in KDE that allowed me to disable the power button’s short press function and I think the long press as well.

Came in handy for me when my cat decided to start laying on top of my tower. Every now and then she’d decide to slap her paw down on the power button and abort whatever I was working on.

I was cursing the change away from mechanical toggle, and that button’s position on the top of the case, when she started doing that.

I would think they first would have to actually release the feature.

I’m also on SDF’s Mastodon server. Fairly small and largely general purpose. Seems to have pretty good uptime.

Burned, was probably a Linux ISO about 15 years ago. I still prefer to buy physical media (CDs and DVDs), just haven’t had a need to burn any in a while.

I have a ligit account I play with.

However, you can play in offline mode using Prism Launcher. Doesn’t require a Microsoft account. If you put up a personal Minecraft server, you can disable account checking. I’ve never tried it though.

I have almost no physical photos. I have maybe 10 physical photos, total. I was pretty early on the whole digitize everything bandwagon. And have lost most of them before I got the hang of how to protect them from accidental loss.

Every now and then I want to take a look at one of the photos I’ve taken. I’ll wind up spending a few hours going down memory lane.

Photos are a moment sealed in time. Young folks may not value them right now, but eventually they’ll value them more.

I’m an untrusting old curmudgeon, so I store my files locally, for the most part. Folks storing them online? Either they’ll get burned and lose them, or not.

I use FinAmp client with Jellyfin for music.

I agree the Jellyfin interface is not well optimized for music, but FinAmp negates most of that and my phone is how I mostly listen to music anyway.

I like Navidrone, but it’s a duplicate service that doesn’t really have a big value add over Jellyfin beyond the ability to share tracks with friends. A major feature upgrade, but not something I use terribly often.

And iOS app as well, though, it is in test flight

Off the top of my head:

• Paperless ( Digital filing cabinet, tagging is local LLM backed
• Immich (Google Photos replacement)
• Nextcloud (Replaces the rest of Google Cloud functionality)
• LubeLogger (Vehicle maintenance logger)
• Home Assistant (Home and other things automation)
• Jellyfin (Primary media server)
• Hoarder (Online bookmarking, tagging and summarizing service, Local LLM backed. I think this project has changed names)
• Audiobookshelf ( Does what it says on the tin. Audiobook server, kinda like audible but I can actually find the books I already own. )
• Navidrome (Not sure if I’m keeping this one. Like the features but it largely duplicates the music side of Jellyfin)
• Minecraft Server (Again, does what it says on the tin)

There are other services I run but those are the ones I use most often and can rattle off when I’m as tired as I am right now.

I needed that chuckle! Thank you.

Living in the US South for the last 30 years, my experience has been that most of the "Don’t tread on me " crowd are very much only interested in protecting themselves and their families. That often means keeping your head low when trouble is about.

Additionally, ICE seems to have been keeping a low profile in areas where that mindset is most prevalent. Still active, but keeping their wits about them.

Sooner or later, though, ICE will fuck up, knock down the wrong door, and multiple people (both ICE and citizens) will catch a bad case of lead poisoning. And then things will get bad.

Might want to take another look at Jellyfin. My experience has been that as long as the video file s are at least somewhat reasonably named and organized, Jellyfin has no problems identifying a file and looking up its metadata.

I’ve been using Private Email as my email provider. I think it’s owned by NameCheap, my domain registrar. While I’m interested in a decent spam solution for my particular setup, I was just as interested in hearing how everyone else handles their spam. And their choices for getting email, as it turns out.

I’ve gotten a lot more responses from people running their own email servers than I really expected. Back in the day it was considered a herculean challenge, almost impossible for your mail to be accepted by the big 3 email providers.

From the other responses I’ve gotten so far, it sounds like most email providers, including mine, might have decent built- in spam filtering. Others are saying to look into aliases. both are sounding like good plays going forward.

Gmail’s excellent spam filtering was the main reason I had switched to them way back when. When I moved away from them, I just never looked at it, assuming spam filtering at the provider level to be non existent, and used Thunderbird’s junk mail filtering as it was a known way to solve the issue.

One of the problems with getting old is that you wind up getting blind to advances that have happened while you weren’t looking.

I’m a geek who drives a truck and I learned a good chunk of what I know, tech-wise, almost 25 years ago. I try to keep up, but falling behind on tech just kinda goes with the territory.