I started with Plex, but I would say it wasn't until I spun up Nextcloud and got it running that I really would say my life changed. My entire family now has Nextcloud accounts, a family calendar, instant upload of pictures from my phone, all my recipes, and I even have OnlyOffice document server running for editing documents in Nextcloud.

OpenMediaVault (OMV) is a Debian server with a very user-friendly web interface. It also has solid documentation and a robust community. I've been running it for 6 years, and I am very happy with it.

Fucking nosy ass neighbors, man.

I think this is the root cause. Anecdotal evidence to support:

I'm white, my parents are white, and they lived in a posh neighborhood outside DC. For 3 years, Dad was working/living in England, so my sister and I would check on the house and/or I would go up to DC for a long weekend (I was living in NC at the time).

I arrived on a Friday night, unloaded the car, and was cracking open a beer to relax... And there was a ring of the doorbell. It was the cops. They said a concerned neighbor called, I told them my parents were currently living in England and came up for the weekend. I ended up digging through paperwork of my Mom's looking for something tying me to the address. While the cops were waiting, they saw multiple pictures of me and my sister hanging on the wall. They said "this will suffice. Enjoy your weekend."

The neighbor apologized the next day and asked if I had bought a new car.

Every time I end up with a finicky bluetooth pairing process, I turn off bluetooth on all devices other than the one I'm trying to pair to. Usually fixes any problem.

Ahhh, it seems like you're experiencing the dichotomy of Linux. The best part about Linux is the community, and the worst part about Linux is the community.

I've been using Linux off and on for over 30 years, and have been using it full-time for the last 7 or so. I'll try to cut through some of the elitist bullshit out there and answer your questions, and hope it helps.

Distro: Honestly, what really makes a distro a distro (from a new user perspective) is the package manager, and the DE. Yes, I know you can change the DE, but a new guy won't. I would try a bunch of distros in a Virtual Machine and try out the various different package managers (apt, yum, dnf, etc) and see which one clicks. Of course, this is only going to be used at the command line, but at some point - once you get your feet under you, you'll be using the command line. I prefer apt, therefore, I use an Ubuntu based distro.

Gaming: Honestly, it's hit or miss. A lot more hits as of late. However, if you're into online multiplayer games that enforce a kernel level anti-cheat, you'll be sorely disappointed. Look at protondb.com and look up the games you play, and see how well they work. If it's silver or better, you'll probably be happy with it.

Nvidia: This would tend to get into the weeds. AMD has native drivers in the kernel. Plug and play, unless you want to install proprietary drivers for Machine Learning, and even that can be a hassle sometimes. Nvidia has open source, but not great. Their proprietary drivers are better, but the compositor may cause problems.

Dual Boot: If you do (I do), do it on a separate drive. Microsoft can fuck with your bootloader if it's on the same drive. I've had no problem dual booting.

Easy to Learn: Depending on distro and hardware, you don't really have to know how to do anything other than install via a usb drive. You can do everything with a GUI if you want. It's not like you have to jump in feet first, set up a VM and play around.

Everything works OOB: This is mostly true. However, it is important to understand that most stuff's drivers are written for Windows. As you build/buy hardware, you'll get used to looking to see if it works with Linux. Some stuff does, some stuff doesn't, some stuff needs some "hacking" to get it to work.

I love Linux, would love for you to join us, but if you're getting overwhelmed, I can understand. I would start fiddling with them in VMs, see if you even like the idea of it. After that - start looking at your hardware and see if it works with Linux and you want to go bare metal - go for it. But keep your windows drive ready to swap in. Eventually, you'll be calling guys noobs and bitching about them not reading the Arch wiki... :D

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The Eaton TR5260 has a line/load side and their technical documentation says it provides downstream protection for the other outlets.

I think once people start to figure out just HOW the Fediverse works, they'll start spreading out. I joined beehaw originally, then they defedereated from lemmy.world, which is where most of the communities were that I had subscribed to. That's why I joined lemmy.world...

I have a Fresh Roast SR-500, with the extension tube (long story about getting that after it had been discontinued). Usually get my beans from homeroastcoffee.com but I just ordered some from coffeebeancorral.com

I get pretty consistent results, but it took a lot of fiddling to figure out my process for best results. I now get a pretty consistent result with 8 oz of green beans.

I can't be the only one that gets giddy when I see Jeremy Soller or Michael Murphy post... My LemurPro is eagerly anticipating the upgrade to COSMIC.

One question, Gnome has an extension that makes turning on my selfhosted wireguard VPN a simple toggle. Is there a plan to integrate something similar?

1TB hard drives were on sale, and I wanted to digitize all my DVDs and stream them to my Xbox 360. That was 15 years ago.

OpenMediaVault is a Debian server with a Web UI.

I bought the lowest level Steam Deck, cracked it open before I even turned it on. Replaced it with a 1TB Sabrent drive. Couldn't be happier.

There's a lot of benefits, at least for me. I got into home roasting because I wanted Jamaican Blue Mountain (after a friend had gifted me some). Found out how much it cost, then as I went down the rabbit hole, I found out that I could get green beans for significantly cheaper than roasted.

Now, I find that I enjoy trying all different kinds of single-origin that I've never heard of/seen from bigger roasters. I've had coffee from Nepal, Puerto Rico, Yemen, Java, Sulawesi, and countless other farms around the world.

Cost is also a factor. I can get a pound of Jamaican Blue Mountain for as little as $20, whereas roasted (depending on estate) can be $40-$80.

It can be a pain in the ass, if I realize I'm out of roasted beans and want a cup of coffee. It takes a good 30 minutes to roast and cool, but in the end, trying something new is worth it!

I have an Ender 3V2 that I converted to direct drive with linear rails and CR Touch, and was pretty happy with the reliability of it. I've been wanting to build a Voron forever, but the amount of hours to build/cost of a kit (I can't print ABS) was a barrier to entry.

I just picked up a Sovol SV08, which is a derivative of the Voron 2.4 (there are some proprietary parts on it, but $579 vs. $1000-1200 for a kit, I'm OK with that). I'm pretty happy with it thus far, although it did require some initial tinkering. Here are the highlights:

• Core XY
• Enclosure Ready
• Fast (printed something that took 26 hours on the Ender, and it took less than 4 on the SV08).
• Finicky for the initial z-offset. Heat soak the bed for 30 min at 65 degrees, then run the automatic z-offset.
• Got super frustrated why I couldn't figure out the inconsistent extrusion/shitty prints. Tightened the tension screw on the extruder. Problem solved (rookie move).

Time will tell if it's a long term printer, or more of a tinkerer. However, they open sourced it all - and there's already a ton of mods. Printing the housing for the BTT 5" touchscreen, saving me $50 over buying a touchscreen from Sovol. It might be worth a look.

The problem isn't with Nextcloud (I had the same issue happen with me). The problem is with the default sync settings on Thunderbird and DAVx5 (at least for me). Thunderbird defaulted to a longer than I wanted synch schedule, so I dropped it down to syncing every 15 minutes. DAVx5 was set to 240 minutes unless the event was created on my phone. Once I updated both schedules to every 15 minutes, I haven't noticed an issue.

Oh, and forgot to mention - green beans also last significantly longer. 8-12 months versus 1-2 months for roasted. I can buy in bulk, save money, and have fresh roasted for the week!

I use Antenna Pod from F-droid on Android Auto. You have to turn on developer options (inside Android Auto on your phone) and select Unkown Sources for it to work.

I use Pop!_OS on my desktop and laptop. Prior to that, I would distro-hop like it was my job. I bought a system76 laptop and figured, why not. So, I had Pop preloaded on it instead of Ubuntu. Here's the reason I ended up settling on Pop as my one-and-only distro.

• Based off Ubuntu/Debian, which I am most familiar/comfortable with
• No Snaps
• Flatpak supported out of the box
• Relatively rapid deployment of updated kernels (currently on 6.2.6), so no need to worry about hardware support
• Tiling windows that are well implemented
• Backed by a company, but one that shares the same values as me
• Stable, even with semi-rolling release nature of it

The downsides are that their choice of colors are god-awful. I get it, it's their company's colors, but I don't think it looks really all that good on an operating system. I've gotten used to it, and don't care as much anymore.

Gpodder Sync

I don't think he was saying that he thought System76 abandoned Pop. I think he was saying he was running Pop on a System76 laptop, and the laptop gave up the ghost.