What is wrong with the fork from F-Droid? I use it. I see no difference with the original, I’d say it’s even better. If you don’t trust them for some reason, why discard Syncthing as a project? I assume it can be built then. But I have no idea how.
By the way, I’m happy to use Sushi Train on iPhone. Works very well, and is lovingly polished. Now Syncthing is a centrepiece of my workflow to sync my files.
Have you tried a non-tech solution, like putting the drives into some noise absorbing materials, or isolating the sound with the hard case, things like that? That may sound not really obvious, but my guess is that you can at least get some noise off with a solution like this.
I won’t go with SSDs for a NAS as it’s very expensive. But if money of no concern, that Beelink thing looks impressive.
I wanted one to run Linux as on a smartphone (with a battery), and to use the keyboard. So, without any hardware modifications. But it looks like it’s not cheap, even if I’d find it somewhere. So I gave up on the idea. Maybe, I’d just buy some tiny laptop for that.
Thanks for not much, I have never heard of it before.
Did anyone try CLI clients, like (neo)mutt for that? I expect it can be set up on a server (if we consider self-hosting) and do this job automatically. While all the AI thingy feels like magic, my practical experience shows that there are just some keywords or even just the sender, with which mails can be sorted.
You select the text and it magically is in this second (or actually first) clipboard. I have a habit of selecting the text I’m reading, so this selection is always something, and sometimes contains sensitive data. There were countless of situations when I was composing a long message, scrolling it and accidentally, not even noticing (it’s long already), pasted the contents. I hate this ‘feature’ and in general don’t understand who wants it and why. Disabling it would be a huge improvement for everyone, as those who need it usually know they need it, so there’s no difficulty in enabling it back.
Actually, modern Linux software not that much power hungry. In my opinion this computer is very valuable for the 24/7 use case. I have a laptop with broken screen, could be a decent server, but it looks like with the essential services that I have, Raspberry Pi is just ample. That’s not for everyone, I have a friend who needs much more, but this computer can run at least some basics. To me that’s (as I’ve mentioned the names already) network wide ad block, syncing my files, having some simple web services. I’m thinking of hosting Immich, I’d just dedicate a more powerful computer to that. Which I plan to turn off and on (perhaps even via Wake-on-LAN) when needed. Not that convenient, but manageable. So, I’d recommend to start with the services you think of essentials and see what it can handle.
It’s not super powerful. There’s no much sense to run a desktop on it. Its strong side being underpowered, it barely sips electricity. If you need a cheap desktop, there’s plenty of used hardware to fill that place.
I run it headless, with an SSD attached for storage (perhaps my power supply was underpowered, the HDD wasn’t very stable, the SSD is stable for me). I’m running: syncthing, Pi-Hole and Unbound, web server with many small sites and services I made for myself, and a huge number of bash scripts for personal automations. They do render my static websites, the local versions. Also it runs Tailscale. Perhaps I have something else there, need to check, those came to my head first.
Overall, not that you can run everything under the sun with this board, but it’s quite capable, actually. I love it that it’s the most energy efficient (or one of the most) among Raspberry Pis, and it can do a lot. Another board worked with a TV having Kodi box (I installed LibreELEC for it), it was pretty capable too. It is able to play 1080P H264 content easily. It’s not that impressive these days, but ten years ago it was pretty impressive.
Raspberry Pi 2B from 2015 or so. That’s my main server for personal things. I have DietPi installed on it. It’s pretty usable, if you know what you do. Or even if you don’t, you can use it quite efficiently too. DietPi allows you to easily install the primary projects. Those that are most popular.
I wonder what about the Intel Macs. Did they have similar driver already, or would they benefit from that new driver too? My Intel MacBook Pro (2014) seems to work very well with battery management on Arch Linux, and as far as I remember Fedora was good as well.
Oh, thank you! The link is very detailed. I’ll try to hunt one down. I like to try this for text editing.
What’s the tiny laptop? I’d love to have one, especially if that’s available as a cheap useless piece of electronics I can slap Linux into.
Have you tried Gentoo? I’ve heard you can compile things for your hardware, I’d love to try it, but I have very little free resources lately. So, some day. I’m curios whether the impact is worth it, the whole compiling chore.
Thanks for the great reply! I’m sorry for the appearing of the elitism, I guess that’s rather the wording choice than a real attitude. Personally, I don’t feel like I’m very experienced, so there’s nowhere for the true elitism to stem from. I’m really interested in Arch based distros. But I don’t think I’m going to try them, purely because I’m happy with Arch. Hence, I’m asking others. It’s a curious case for me, theoretically. As long ago, I thought people go with Arch based distros purely because they couldn’t manage to install Arch. But that was quite easy, actually. For some reasons, I really disliked Manjaro, but I haven’t heard of it for a long time. Perhaps that’s my bubble.
There’s some idiotic comments like some guy who literally wasted my time by having idiotic replies, again and again, so I managed to block them. So, thanks for a thoughtful explanation.
I wonder what is the difference with these newer versions, as most of my hardware is Haswell era or even earlier. It works great with Arch + Sway. Or even Fedora with the default Gnome. As I understand it, you talk of the much newer hardware, like 5 years old.
I do agree with you, entirely. My point is, it was the easiest option. I guess self-hosting Headscale should eliminate that, if there’s nothing suspicious with the clients.
Also, I tried Netbird, and it was good, but a bit more complicated. I didn’t like it UX wise, but that could be me not having enough time to explore. I have it installed with my mum’s PC at her home. My infrastructure uses Tailscale now.
Also, there are other alternatives. I haven’t tried them yet. All I wanted to say, there are compromises everywhere, and dealing with the US is the compromise for now.
I’m located in Ukraine, so personally, I wish them what they want to push on me — this administration wants me and my family to die for the orange monkey to steal some more money for himself, betraying his own country; I guess that’s obvious for all of us.
But I just think for me personally that’s rather a vector of my movement rather than changing things momentarily. So, to me, Tailscale was a god send. As I struggled to get through this. Now I understand it a bit better. I’d love to setup WireGuard myself, I just lack some knowledge, and also time plus energy. I hope I’d do that this year. We’ll see. Thanks for enhancing my point, and happy new year.
I’d say the same. About money, I’d formulate this differently: most of the people here would be happy to help for free, I believe. And the author could just ‘thank with a coffee’ kind of thing, if they feel like it. I see that’s as a very nice option for everyone.
With the 3rd part, I’d recommend going with Tailscale, it really helps for folks who don’t understand many things yet, and is super easy to setup. The free tier allows 3 users and 100 computers, so even if you need more, it’s easy to start with that, learn things and then change this aspect.
Personally, I have tremendous issues with paper notebooks. I love them for random notes, but not structuring things. I started a blog a year or so ago, and it was very rewarding to document everything there. My blog is not online yet, but I plan to publish it within a month or so. If things are good, maybe the next week even.
I wanted to tell others that if you want any help setting up a simple blog for yourself, you’re welcome to ping me, I can help you with setting that up, and you may see what difference it makes! I so so so wish I had that done years ago, but at least I started already.
Oh, thanks, I missed it. It’s a very long thread. I’ve read only the first 40 messages so far, so I cannot really comment on that. But here is a nice advice from there: