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  • Ive been trying to get rid of YouTube for over a year now, but haven’t found a solution im happy with so still sticking with revanced YouTube.

    Got rid of Spotify 2 years ago and self host navidrome and it’s perfect for me. I use dsub2000 on my android and feishin on my Linux desktop pc.

    I’m UK based, so fairly strict internet laws and I torrent to supplement my owned media. I don’t use flac, I’m sure if I tried I could hear the difference from 192kbit MP3, but honestly I don’t care. 192kbit or similar mp3’s are more than good enough for me.

    Self hosting costs money. Hardware setup initially is expensive, both in money and time and effort. It’s only a solution if you believe there is a problem that needs fixing.

    For me it’s well worth it for music. Video not so much, not yet anyway. I listen to the same songs 100s of times, but videos only once or maybe twice at most.








  • Backups, backups, backups and backups. You will nuke your system drive by accident at some point. You will nuke your data storage by accident at some point.

    I used a pi4 for a while and found storage speed was too slow as the usb c speed is too poor. I also found nextcloud too heavy for it to handle. Immich was great when I disabled ml, when I enabled it, it was ok. I moved to a mini pc and kept my pi4 as a 2nd server running just a few lightweight services and to ping wake on Lan signals to my mini pc in the event of a power cut.

    Regards actual security, I can’t comment on your path as I chose the nginx reverse proxy option with my server fully exposed to the big scary www. I have 3 ports open on my firewall (ISP provided router) and on my server firewall with ufw for 80, 443 and a randomly selected high numbered ssh port. I have all unused ports closed, and I have fail2ban running very strict to block ips after failed login attempts. The way I say it is if nginx or ssh get compromised, then the world is gonna burn, and I will be 1 in a billion+ affected.



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    After over a decade using systemd in arch and Debian, I never had any direct issues with it. However, I never truly got my head around it or got comfortable with how it functioned. I recently swapped arch for void which uses runit, and after over a month using it I to an amazed both how clean and simple it is, how everything just works, how easy to interact and use runit is and am blown away by boot and shutdown times. My arch / systemd setup was heavily optimised for boot, and I thought was quick, but runit starts in about 4 seconds and shutdown is about 2 seconds.





  • I was just speaking from experience and asking how the data accounts for non de setups. I have never liked qt, and always preferred gtk, having been from openbox to hyprland and now sway. I currently use gtk, and all my apps are based on gtk and they don’t draw their own decorations for me. I find gtk integrates really well with my setup and every time I have tried qt I have found it a mess and it never feels cohesive.

    My point though is not to say gtk is better than qt, as it’s not, and vice versa, but just to try to highlight the fact that just because KDE is the most popular de, doesn’t mean qt is the most used toolkit compared to gtk. I bet they are fairly evenly split.



  • I don’t think there is a problem with it. It’s a piece of software that people can choose to use if it fits their specific use case. It has a long list of features and abilities, and lots of people find it sufficient for what they want.

    There are also a lot of people that don’t find it suitable for what they want and they can choose to not use systemd and use some other options.

    I personally don’t use systemd. I have used it for a while, originally I used sys v for a long time, then arch adopted systemd, I tried to get used to it and understand it but never felt comfortable with it, so I moved to void Linux which uses runit plus other items to replace systemd, and I feel a lot more comfortable and happy with this.

    You do your research and testing and find what fits your use case.