It depends on what service - some, like Jellyfin, are accessed only from home IPs which are static (for music through Jellyfin I use offline mode to prevent too much mobile traffic), so I can add those specific IPs in the whitelist. Otger services I need to access from elsewhere, and I can add entire subnets (i.e. for my phone carrier network or VPN servers). Those change once in a while and that is annoying. Other services I want publically available.

Jellyfin especially still has some unsecured endpoints where it would be wise to take some.extra precautions. I think the risk some people seem to think this poses is a little overblown (i.e. rights holders finding your instance and reverse mapping your entire library and suing you to oblivion), but better not risk it.

I use Ledger (https://ledger-cli.org/, seems to not be available at the moment).

It is so-called plain-text accounting so it is as future proof as you can get it.

What kinds of things are you planning to expose? What I expose I hide behind a reverse proxy with IP whitelists. Whatever I don’t need access to on the go I don’t expose.

Battery fuel guage is almost ready for FP4 at least:

https://fosstodon.org/@z3ntu/115435804332775702

And there has been recent successes by the same guy (employed at Fairphone) on getting cameras working (main post of the thread linked above).

These are recent improvements, and I really hope they can solve the audio stability and GPS stuff so I can move. Thinking of trying out Ubuntu Touch before a mainline distro is ready.

I put encrypted backups (borg or restic) on a storage box from Hetzner. One local copy on a different drive and one remote. Keep your encryption passwords safe though, otherwise they aren’t worth much.

Oh, and I plan to report status of the cron jobs that run these backup scripts via MQTT and display backup status in Home Assistant. But haven’t started that yet. So far I dump the logs and view them occasionally.

I don’t think you bypass the age checks with the alternative front-ends? I’ve been using FreeTube for some time, and whenever there has been an 18+ video, I would not be able to view it as I would not pass the age check. If this is a more general check that is being rolled out, I guess there will be less and less videos that will work through these.

I think I need to start hoarding video tutorial series and self-host them. Would something like TubeArchivist be my best bet for that?

I’ve been meaning to try this out for ages as a way to get into vim shortcuts. I have completely forgotten about until this post. So far I love this!

Oh, this was a general issue? It was driving me crazy as I was certain I hit “shut down” instead of “reboot”. I am soon getting a Linux laptop at work anyway (I’ve only been waiting about 5 montha for it now, so any day now!) - so I will hopefully not experience this fix.

I installed Mint on a newly acquired used Thinkpad for my mom, to get her used to it as her Macbook is showing signs of giving up. So far it was smooth sailing until one day the package system broke due to some conflicts (I had set up Signal via their PPA). I had already set up remote access so I could easily fix it for her in a matter of minutes, but she would never be able to fix it herself even though the instructions were clear. Other than this though, she enjoys it. But I still need to set up a couple of additional things, in particular file sync and some way of managing her photos.

Alright, that’s fair. I have been planning on trying the CAD-plugins for Blender as well. I love Blender, and it is easy to use except when it comes to CAD-stuff. I’ve also been wanting to try out OpenSCAD.

I like that FreeCAD seems to have quite some steam and hopefully it will only improve going forward.

FreeCAD is insane. It is absolutelty unworkable and unintuitive for me.

I find it pretty workable for most of my cases, but have to look up how to solve certain things. I am doing fairly simple stuff though, and I don’t have any other references except some SolidWorks back in high school ages ago. But it gets me fairly easily to where I want to be, and it is FOSS which is important to me - I don’t want to lock my workflow into a software suite that may do a major rugpull at any given moment. I have experienced that before.

I didn’t start using it until after the 1.0 release - apparently there were some major improvements to the usability with that release. Did you try it after?

I’ve been generally happy with FreeCAD for my use. If I am doing something less parametric and more organic in shape, I will use Blender.

I was planning to get the OpenWRT One. Any reasons that would be a bad idea?

My go-to! There’s a Python version, bpytop, as well - not sure why you would want that over the C+±version though.

Nice, thanks - I’ll check out Unfa! I hope to get started soon, but I tend to be slow starting these things, so don’t expect any DMs just yet - but I’m saving your post for future reference, so perhaps something will tick in eventually :) Thanks for the offer in any case!

I want to get into using Ardour. I tried setting up my stuff via the Flatpak version, but it seems I should probably avoid that to get stuff to work properly, so I am planning to pay for the precompiled binaries soon.

But I am new to DAWs in general - do you or anyone else know of a good introduction to DAWs via Ardour?

I use my WF-1000XM5 on Linux fine, paired normally IIRC. Any reason your set would be different?

I think their point was to make sure they are done in order, i.e. update before upgrade, not the other way around as in OPs example.

After finding Lemmy and the rest of the fediverse, I’ve realized more and more that the internet is still very much fun. It’s just that these new things that were fun in the 00s, and which we got stuck on as they grew worse and worse (Google, Facebook, Apple, Digg/Reddit etc.), was for a long time too hard to get rid of. We 1) either forgot that the fun parts of the internet still existed or just assumed they didn’t and 2) felt locked-in to these services because all our real-life friends were on them still and reluctant to move / understand alternative technologies. But these friends were not on the fun internet to begin with. The internet was a lot smaller before it become extremely mainstream. Do I want to be able to have the best parts of social media with my real life friends? Sure, but until they are ready for the fediverse there are plenty of fun parts for me to visit without them.

I love this so much :')