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A nice, simple solution of having a file and an app that can read that file. Hard to believe people are suggesting setting up a whole e-mail server to read one file.

Like your house is a big, complex PC case.

Consider also the energy and water they use to cool the datacentre equipment, which doesn’t usually happen at home.

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They might be talking about the Peertube app.

I find curating the collection quite relaxing, so I agree there. I have all the automation set up for new media that’s not released yet, but the other main benefit I get is using it as a search interface for multiple public and private trackers without having to visit any external websites.

With this many PCs, just for the fun of it I’d set them up as Kubernetes or Proxmox, passing maximum storage to one of the guests as a NAS. Then your hardware is pretty flexible for the future.

In vanilla GNOME, you can turn on Window List system extension which is like Windows’ task bar and shows your open apps. It also has a system tray, if that’s what you mean. Obviously you can add a lot of other stuff with user extensions.

I also use GNOME pretty vanilla and like it that way. I add the Tiling Shell extension though, just to snap windows to corners and not just sides. That’s the one thing I’d prefer.

Indeed, and you can pick up the basics in just a few minutes. Bottles recently implemented automatic .desktop files, so you can even get Windows app icons easily without the garbage!

A 10,000 song library can be smaller than a AAA game install these days. The point of a large library is not necessarily to listen to it all, but can be to just listen to what you want when you want. I mean, do what you like, but I work from home full time and listen to music for most of it so it suits me.

Sure. Synology DSM is a Linux distro for Synology hardware. DSM includes Docker CE, so you can just use that from the terminal if you want but they also include a “Container Manager” GUI app. I mostly use the app but need to sometimes dip into the terminal when the app gets stuck on updating container images.

There’s not much to mention about Home Assistant specifically, just that you have two options: Docker or the SynoCommunity app. Docker is easier to migrate somewhere else, but with Home Assistant’s backup/restore you’re not locked in to either option.

Anyway, for the pros: it works fine and has the advantage that it has fast access to my data since it’s on the same hardware. It’s also a small power footprint at 50W for 5x3.5" disks, 40GB RAM and 4 CPUs, especially compared to my previous setup of 3 Proxmox nodes using the DiskStation as SAN storage over iSCSI. It’s not as powerful for compute obviously, but much more efficient.

The main con is that it’s Synology, so you are to some extent captive to whatever they are up to. I’ve looked into alternative distros for DiskStations and there aren’t really any options that seemed better to me at the time. YMMV.

Not sure if this is standard GNOME behaviour but on Fedora Silverblue under the control centre (where volume, bluetooth etc are) there is a Background Apps section if an app is running in the background.

Indeed, it is aggressively hostile. I thought setting up an allowlist of subscribed channels would be a simple ask. That plus an adblocker and job done, right? No, Google’s algorithm is what you get–despite your subscriptions you will get plenty of other things and they will push your kid towards some inappropriate things.

What I do instead is block YouTube on my kid’s devices and download selected videos to host on Jellyfin. It’s a bit of a pain and not legal, but much better than trying to monitor YouTube use.

In Docker on a Synology DS1522+, works well. I used to use the Synology HA app, but it was always some versions behind, and I was pleasantly surprised that backup and restore was easy to move it to Docker. I’d say that if you change your mind about how you host it in future that it will be fairly easy to change.

I don’t really understand your point here. I have to micromanage my kid’s media consumption because on YouTube it’s Google’s algorithm and my kid is not their customer.

https://archive.org/details/Strong-Female-Protagonist-webcomic-online

You can download it as a 320MB zip, but maybe best to torrent it and seed for others.

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Peertube version: GNOME 50: a MASSIVE release that delivers what users asked for!

The censoring increases engagement

Hello from Fedora Silverblue 43 on a 2009 HP Z600 workstation. Can’t believe how smoothly GNOME runs on this thing.