Chewy @ Chewy7324 @discuss.tchncs.de

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For newcomers I'd recommend docker and images like gluetun for setting up the VPN. It makes it easy to forward ports (for remote access) while keeping the torrent client behind the VPN.

Yeah, OLG Hamburg is known for making bad judgements. There's a reason many companies choose to file a lawsuit at this court.

Thanks to image-based distros like Fedora Atomic, I skipped the asking to update step. They download and apply updates in the background, and then the new image gets selected on next boot.

Given Fedora doesn't do major changes in point releases, nothing breaks (until I do a manual upgrade to a new (half-)yearly major release).

Not having a terminal does not make sense (unless in a business context). For some people (my mum) it's as if it doesn't exist anyway, so why remove it.

Real-debrid does filtering based on the torrent name. Media uploaded to usenet is already obfuscated and split into many tiny pieces, the location of which are stored in a .nzb file.

This means eweka can't filter downloads based on the title. Once media companies get a .nzb file, they can use copyright infringement notices to make usenet providers delete the files, but that does not work preemptively (like filtering based on torrent name).

At some point Settings will support keyboard shortcuts by pressing them. They just didn't come around to it.

The correct keyword to add a shortcut for "Control" is "Ctrl". E.g. "Super+Ctrl+X".

There are issue trackers on Cosmic's github repos, and they welcome any bug reports.

1. The "Application" menu isn't a list, but all apps are available to scroll through in the library home.
2. Suspend works, maybe search for an existing bug report (likely for cosmic-comp).
3. Might be a bug in cosmic panel. The .desktop file has the correct icon in it, as well in the launcher.
4. If you use a app image manager (or install a theme with more app icons), they should work flawlessly. Cosmic follows the freedesktop standard for .deskop file, so if you put them at ~/.local/share/applications, they show up like any other installed app. I guess an appimage manager is in scope for cosmic.
5. A bug worth reporting to the comsic-comp issue tracker.
6. PWA's do have an icon in the app launcher.
7. How does it break? For me, date and time each take up two lines, but they are shown correctly imo. Or you want both to be shown in one line each, which could work for larger sizes of the panel?

I remember taking my first selfhosting/Linux steps a year or so after the launch of Let's Encrypt with a Pi 3. At the time, most tutorials didn't set up https at all, and if they did, they were self signed certificates (resulting in browser warnings).

Self-signed certificates are annoying and creating them was a series of copy pasting long, weird commands, usually using long exspiration dates (manual renewing sucks).

Not long after, guides started recommending certbot. Nowadays reverse proxys like caddy set up TLS automatically.

At least that's how I remember it, given my complete lack of knowledge about Linux at the time.

Yes, the restriction to a single VPN client is annoying.

Blocking ad/telemetry domains can be done by adding Adguards DNS servers in the OS settings. Sadly blocking apps Internet permissions completely is not possible (except on OS like LineageOS, CalyxOS or GrapheneOS).

Symphonium is a great Android music player which connects to a Subsonic or Jellyfin server (or any other protocol like SMB).

Navidrome is a music server which implements the Subsonic protocol. This means apps like Symphonium can connect to it.

Any old PC is enough, even a Raspberry Pi is fast enough for a music server.

1. Install Navidrome on the server/pc
2. Configure Navidrome (open ports, add your music library/folder)
3. Connect a subsonic-compatible music app to to the server (I.e. type in IP or domain as well as the port).

Anything more like SSL (https) and a domain is optional for getting it working, and only a benefit if used outside of your home network. Using Tailscale makes a domain/SSL unnecessary and also no longer needs messing around with networking (e.g. no opening ports on the router).

The Samsung Galaxy S5 mini has a IP67 rating and a removable battery.

It's possible to produce water resistant phones with removable Batterien, but manufacturers would rather sell new phones instead of batteries.

https://m.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_s5_mini-6252.php

It's difficult to know how much of a difference it makes, but I also think it's at least a reason. Given Nintendo is also going after sites like Vimm's Lair, which does not host recent consoles ROMs, it's not the only reason.

Yes. 1TB SSDs can be bought new for 50€, 500GB for even less. For some people this is expensive depending in the region (e.g. I also know someone who uses an HDD). But given the price of other pc parts it isn't something to cheap out on (a 1TB/2TB HDD is also 50€).

The survey was originally sent out on reddit /r/selfhosted, so I expect most respondents are from there.

Global hotkeys have been addressed on KDE, but no applications actually support it — one of the reasons being that no other desktops support it. Typical chicken-egg problem.

No, I haven't connected a Pi to a 4k TV.

Like others've said, Bitwarden is awesome if you want a (selfhosted or hosted) server (e.g. as a much better replacement for LastPass).

If you want an offline password manager, KeePass is the way to go (i.e. KeePassDX/KeePassXC for mobile/pc).

Analogue likely doesn't emulate the hardware at the transistor level, as it's far more difficult than doing what most software emulators do.

From an interesting (altough non-conclusive) HN-thread [1].

Without seeing the code, it's impossible to know where Analog's implementation falls on the spectrum of software emulation vs hardware simulation. There is nothing magical about FPGAs that automatically makes anything developed with them a 1:1 representation of real hardware. In fact, there are plenty of instances where the FPGA version of a particular console is literally just a representation of a popular emulator only in verilog/vhdl. In many instances, even the best FPGA implementations of some systems are still only simulating system level behavior. Off the top of my head, one famously difficult case is audio, where many chips have analog circuitry that cannot be fully simulated.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37901381

Agreed. Being able to customize all elements of the top bar is one of the great things about Firefox.
I don't see a reason why it shouldn't be possible to remove newly added elements. Even the "Open a new tab" button can be removed, as well as the recently added "View recent browsing across windows and devices" button.