i did this for a good while. Obsidian did great.
i only migrated to mealie because I wanted a better way to share recipes in my household and quickly share them with a shared tablet in the kitchen. Needed to get it out of my personal docs.
I also kinda liked the ability import from url which saves a good 10min transcribing and cleaning up in markdown. Not that i still dont have to cleanup recipes, just it starts in a better place so its quicker.
if only there was a software concept that anticipated this and gave you the ability to own and modify your software…
a number of years ago we got server that had a internal usb connection for the OS and an “enterprise” usb drive with redundant flash storage. so its an option and we tried it to get the extra exposure space since it was vendor supprted.
But also, the third time we went to replace the storage the vendor said they no longer supported that as an option… which they had never told us before. Even 10 year old servers they’d find parts for it.
so, maybe an enclosure with a traditional drive, but in wouldnt trust traditional usb or flash card usb storage for your os. just arent reliable enough for constant storage access.
Runners? If MS is providing free dinners I might have to rethink my thoughts on github.
I walked him through how things worked once
And there’s why it worked.
Ok, let’s dig in to it.
Let’s say he was installing windows 20 years ago. First, you have to find it. you’ve got 20 versions of XP Home, Enterprise, Media Edition. You can’t really get most of them online legit so you’ll have to steal it or head to the store. Hopefully you end up with some version of XPSP2. You might not and SP1 was not great. Then hopefully your network drivers work or you’ve got the disc hanging around because none of your drivers are going to work. Otherwise you’re going to need another computer to find the drivers from the manufacturer if they even exist. Maybe one of the sketchy driver sites has it… And hopefully your video card works because that’s not a given, you might have to side load the drivers into the installer or figure out how to boot into safe mode and copy the drivers off a floppy. Then you’ve got to figure out all the random places to find slyour software and where your copy of office is.
Contrasted with “yes mint will work. Yeah Belinda etcher. Yeah the hidden one is your hard drive the only option is the USB drive. Yes those formatting options are fine. Yes that’s the right time zone, our city isn’t directly selectable. Ok you’re done. Yeah everything is just working. Yeah no drivers. Open the software center. Yeah that’s it. No really it’s working. Yeah just type in steam there and install it. No really that’s it it’s really working.”
My son installed Linux last week and I’ve been close to a help desk for close to 20 years so I feel comfortable commenting on the experience vs windows.
I walked him through how things worked once, and gave him some suggestions for software. Like heroic launcher for non stream games. Then he installed it himself. Everything just worked when he logged in.
So install, choosing a distro is overwhelming but otherwise easier than windows 20 years ago.
Post install, he saw lutris was cool for one of his games. It didn’t work (shocker). I reminded him to use heroic, walked him through, epics login sucks, but after fighting through that it just worked and he saw a bunch of other games he could just play.
The one problem he’s had is X crashes when he jumps back and forth between discord and games 50 times a second. So I showed him how to switch to wayland and it’s rock solid but his mouse software doesn’t change acceleration anymore and one of his games (roblocks) treats shift as a button press instead of a modifier like it should. This is also a problem for Wayland.
X is a disaster. Wayland is an awesome display server but its input is a shit show for legacy software and software built around MS Windows quirks and this is a problem.
But let’s be honest, if he’d started in Wayland, his mouse would have a broken non essential feature and a weird game would have a bug. Is that really worse than windows at any point? Probably not.
Since then, he’s not had any other problems that I know about.
So are there problems. 100% Is it worse than windows? That’s pretty debatable IMHO.
I think the biggest problem linux actually has is that it’s not Windows. People have spent their entire education and careers and personal lives using Windows. They have a lifetime of tacit knowledge on how to fix and avoid its weird quirks. They’ve had help desks, friends, family, and mentors guiding them. Leaving that behind and trying something they’ve been told is hard their whole life is hard. But maybe not because UX is broken, but because it’s just a hard thing to do.
So we need to be patient, listen, deescalate their frustration, and welcome them to a cool new way of using their devices.
I remember several decades ago when I dug into wine things asynch io was a thing there was a lot of discussion over. Apparently windows actually has a very robust asyncio interface that’s emulated with a bunch of epoll and other logic.
I believe a lot of games did tricks with this and the hacks sometimes had performance costs.
A quick Google says that’s still a thing being worked on and there’s a newish io_uring but apparently that has problems. So maybe that’s a place we can see improvements in the future.
Same. I’m kinda half migrated running both but plex is convenient and (for me) still free.
When plex initially exploded in popularity, the alternatives required like manual xml config, constant babying the database, and generally barely worked.
Plex had apps on all the devices from wii to your phone and just worked. There was also lots of promises of privacy, you owning your data, segregating accounts to coordinating direct access, etc etc. It was almost a no brainer because there was no alternative that could deliver that experience.
Now is very different. The vibes at plex are very different, the world is a lot more hostile to privacy, and there are open source alternatives that get very close to the same experience.
So for a lot of people, yeah, plex doesn’t make sense anymore.
Yeah I was wanting more. This looks like things that support development. Being open-source, a lot of developers have day jobs elsewhere so kinda makes sense the line items for paying them might be small.
Was this coming from within the kernel community?
Sounds like Debian is probably your goto based on experience you stated. KISS to start.
My advice is choose something as stable as your requirements allow. Debian, Ubuntu LTS, etc. It can be fun to try new things but generally your homelab stuff you just want to work and spending a ton of time fixing broken updates isn’t the fun part.
Similar to above, isolate and guard your data from your OS and programs. It lets you be flexible to trying some new things if you want. But if things go bad, reinstalling a different OS is easy. remount your JBOD or NAS or what ever and you’re back rolling. Backing up and transferring tons of files sucks and recovering them is worse.
Declarative infrastructure can be your friend. Ansible, docker compose, etc. Again, when things go bad, getting things back up is that much quicker and you can keep doing the fun stuff not spend your weekend finding that old blog post, figuring out that weird ai promp, what ever .
Ive recently replaced my docker setup on Linux with podman and as was said this isn’t entirely true. Running as user is actually a good thing but Podman machine allows root like you’re probably used to and the docker compatibility seems pretty good.
The networking seems a bit less stable with like wifi network changes and stuff but its definitely something to keep an eye on and give a shot as a more open alternative.
Also they only half work in Linux I guess? Something about not being able to create something.
Are we bring back gopher://?
LET’S GO!
Honestly if you do know what you’re doing that’s still true. They’re really good at looking like good code which makes it not always obvious when it’s not, even to an experienced developer.
Or maybe more bluntly, they’re really good at volume, not necessarily quality.
Plex logins go through their login server so you’ll also have login throttling and probably other bot protections.
Definitely.
But I think more than copium it’s them understanding their users. It’s advice for people that will figure out how to run Jellyfin but won’t stay on top of updates, setup a waf, use a firewall/reverseproxy to limit access, etc. There are surely a lot of those that just one clicked an installer etc and for them it’s good advice.
Like… Fredesktop clipboards or is there some Wayland feature causing trouble. B/c my understanding was wms define clipboard functionality generally using freedesktop spec as the base so curious how Wayland is causing trouble.
Easier to get features you didn’t even consider, shared testing and bug finding, and shared maintenance burden.
You even shared your code like you where inviting all of those things…