Nano is the easiest most straightforward to use, and it’s what I always use. I have nvim setup and I really believe it is better but I have had 20 years using nano and I really struggle forcing myself to switch and get used to it as it’s so completely different.

No, not at all as far as I am aware. It runs itself periodically.

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.

iPhone isn’t a phone for doing things of your own choosing. The whole concept of iphone is you slot into the apple way. Apple knows best 👍

It’s on my mother in law’s iPhone, and connects to my server running syncthing. It’s very reliable. Been running for around 6 months with no issues. I have 4 mobile devices connecting to my server with syncthing, 3 android 1 iPhone

Mobius sync is syncthing for iPhone. It works really well.

I just put appimage files in my $PATH. what else does this do?

Totally agree, he worded it very clearly to say he knows there needs to be changes, but as they have won the initial development race, doesn’t want to lose that advantage through a rules change. He, understandably, would prefer to continue to fairly compete in the development race, and find a fair way to change the rules without changing the competitive landscape. Think every team principle would have the same perspective in his position.

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.

I use steam with no issues with runit on void. Plays all the games just as performantly as my previous arch build did.

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.

Radicale on my server and davx5 on my android to sync contacts and calendar.

You don’t need separate disks for this to work. I have my main distro and a recovery one all in the same disk in different partitions, and no grub. It is called efi stub and it’s really easy to set up and use. You can have as many boot options as you want.