Proper logging, to easily identify problems.

The more plugins you use, the easier you are to profile. If you value your privacy, try to limit your plugins.

Exactly. Using CalyxOS myself.

I stopped using Plex when I needed an online account to access my local instance.

I'm self-hosting my mail server for all kinds of neat tricks, like turning mailing lists into RSS feeds and putting attached bills in the right folder. But it is tricky to pull off, because 90% of all email is spam so you must take that seriously because otherwise nobody will accept you mail. One thing I learned quickly is not to use PGP. They almost always and up in spam boxes.

I switched from radicale to baikal because vdirsyncer (which I then used) didn't agree with radicale on the caldav standard. And I'm very happy with Filestash. It's fast and does the only thing I need it do do, stash files.

BTW I used to use NextCloud, but that was way too much work and I really like tools that do just one thing and do it well.

I just wrote a book in Latex and it's really easy. You just learn as you go. The only problem was when a publisher required a docx-document. It was possible using pandex, but my end notes were all screwed up.

Pine64 has a RISC V tablet

Loved it too. Easily most enjoyable book that year.

Sorry for necrobumping this, but perhaps after two years we can in fact see where this is going. While 9to5Google claims Google is going full speed ahead with the os, Ars Technica reports that Fuchsia was hit among the hardest during all the tech lay-offs at the start of this year, losing 16% of its workforce, while Google averaged 6%. Perhaps that means there's hope.

It seems unlikely that any os, even by Google, would be able to pose a serious threat to Linux' current over 99% server dominance. However, it could be a threat to the FOSS community were it to replace the Android kernel. Google has been moving functionality from Android to Google Play for quite some time already. If they continue this, Android will eventually end up being only a Linux kernel, which can than be replaced by the Fuchsia kernel with a mandatory update to all phones with Google Play. No end-user would be impacted by this, since all the apps would simply move over too.

This would however be problematic for /e/, GrapheneOS, CalyxOS and the like. They would be left behind with AOSP, and no apps except the ones found in F-Droid. That means no banking apps, no mandatory government apps (think Corona) and nothing else that is only provided by official institutes and corporations. In fact, they would be worse off than people using Ubuntu Touch/PostmarketOS et al. now, because using Waydroid they can still use many apps from the Play Store.

I sometimes find my mind wandering when I'm reading a book out loud to my kid. I also feel bad about it.

no and nope

I moved to Emby, then to Jellyfin. Also, the other thing that bothered me was that with Plex I noticed I had an online account where I could access all my files. In other words, Plex was using my local data, which was the straw.

Rsync script that does deltas per day using hardlinks. Found on the Arch wiki. Works like a charm.

Honestly any distro will be fine for this, but if you're new to Linux except for WSL, Ubuntu might be a good choice.

Never knew about the SMS until I bought a PlaySoniq, an expansion card for MSX computers that make use of the comparable hardware to make many SMS games playable on MSX. I never played the native MSX Outrun again.

Not as far as I know

Mail server, pi-hole, mediawiki, kanboard, Tiny Tiny RSS, Baïkal, Minetest, Transmission, Jellyfin, Filestash and some homebrew.

I use Wireguard to access all that from outside my network. This way, my mail server only exposes smtp.

I use Kanboard.

It's a Pinephone Pro with Manjaro as it came. It's not that I need help with this, because I know what to do, but thanks anyway!

Why do you find Matrix bloated?