There are a lot of references to Firefly in Castle. It’s quite entertaining.

My go-to for “server” hardware:

• Old office desktop: Dell Optiplex SFF, HP Elitedesk SFF, Lenovo Thinkcentre SFF
• CPU: 7th, 8th, or 9th gen Intel i7, preferably something with vPro (really neat OOB management - keep it local)
• RAM: At least 8GB
• OS drive: 256GB SSD at the minimum
• OS: Debian
• Media storage: Something large enough to store your media. 3.5" HDDs are great for this, but SSDs are better if you can get your hands on a large one.

I also have a NAS based out of an old HP Proliant ML110 tower server case from 2004, outfitted with some modern-ish parts. I like it quite a lot. Very server-like, it does the thing.

Oh god. I guess I never looked at it that way, but that is awful.

I’m curious, then. What about Liquid Glass is so repulsive? Genuinely asking.

Good to know! I’m still relying on Google for my calendar and contacts, but synced to my Pixel via DAVx5 to the Fossify calendar app. I’ve been looking for a way to manage it all without google.

Portainer is clamping down on their “free” licenses. It used to be free for personal use, then they changed it to 5 “free” licenses, now you only get 3.

You can probably see where this is going.

Dockge is also developed by the same guy who does Uptime Kuma.

Don’t use portainer. They are rapidly enshittifying.

Dockge is what I use for Docker. It works alongside existing Docker environments and doesn’t fuck up the structure. Unlike Portainer.

while flagship open source projects have realised the need for dedicated UX teams

KDE comes to mind. I remember when KDE was the laughingstock of Linux DEs. And now it’s one of the most polished and customizable DEs you can find.

HOWEVER - with this new “Liquid Glass” bullshit, they have completely lost it. The latest iOS is complete garbage. One of the many reasons my next phone will not be Apple. It will be a Linux phone. Period.

People say that about every single redesign ever. Remember when apple went from skeumorphism to flat icons? Ho-lee shit the amount of people who were foaming at the mouth over it…

I’m not a huge fan of this “liquid glass” either, but I use my iPhone like a phone, not a status symbol, so I really couldn’t give less of a shit, and frankly I grow extremely tired of seeing people losing their goddamn minds over a fucking icon. Fucking christ, get over yourselves.

I recently put Graphene on my no-longer work phone. I think what makes it extra tough is that it feels familiar and simultaneously alien.

Almost like Android is a direct competitor to iOS. Who’d’ve thought??

There’s an action centre, and you can edit toggles, but there are no editable sliders for audio and brightness.

The brightness slider is at the top of the quick settings panel. Audio slider comes up with the volume buttons and can be quickly expanded to control media/call/ring/notification/alarm volumes, all independently, no matter where you are in the OS.

A lot of the icons feel like buttons but aren’t.

Every icon in the quick settings panel is a button.

Then there’s the gestures. They feel a little off.

They’re virtually identical to iOS.

The back motion can be done forward too

And I can’t stand the fact that Apple didn’t implement this.

and there’s no preview of what “back” is.

Why would there be? You know where you came from.

I’d argue that Apple’s implementation of the “back” gesture is laughably terrible in comparison, what with the hilariously tiny back button and the back gesture doing separate things for some reason unknown to anyone.

And I loathe the settings pane.

I loathe all settings that require the use of a search bar to locate a setting that shouldn’t require a search bar on the first place. I’ve used Android since the Eclair release, so I watched it evolve over the years and quickly figured out where the important settings ended up.

TL;DR - Skill issue

Its been damn near 20 years of Apple vs Android, why are we still whining about stupid shit that doesn’t matter? If it bothers you that much, use something else.

And I was having difficulties with my iphone, ipad, and linux devices syncing with Nextcloud.

Apple does this on purpose to keep you stuck in their walled garden. iCloud is so deeply integrated into the OS that it’s damn near impossible to use anything else.

This sounds very handy.

Sometimes I don’t want to use command line. Sometimes I just want to use a mouse.

Tailscale is just wireguard with a central management console.

Yes, and it’s very useful. Cockpit, too.

I would never expose either of them to the internet.

I have like 150GB of DDR3 spread over multiple 2/4/8/16GB sticks, I wonder if I can get that working for something like this 🤔

strix halo (128GB)

googles

Jesus christ

I don’t trust it to be accurate; I’d have to reference the sources it pulled from. Extra work for little payoff.

I wouldn’t mind running a model at home, mostly to help document my setup. But I just don’t trust it. So no.