I agree with the public spaces. Just put https and we’re good.

The worst part of Matrix is needing to copy recovery key onto each new device or install, or else you will lose access to all your messages in public servers. Its been discouraging and I rarely use Matrix because of this inconvenience, but I really want to – but it’s too exhausting and time consuming. And I lose track of conversations if I lost the key, which isn’t practical if I’m working on something and getting help.

I like the alternatives, but they mean nothing without being federated.

This bot is annoying.

Is it identical to Tailscale?

I’m liking seeing both these opinions side by side. Both sound great.

Someone wants to spoon feed me curl commands, like thanks :-)

Someone wants to spoon me a UI which I can’t curl, thanks eh :-)

This is interesting. I’m excited to hear more about NetBird.

if you’re only hosting Immich for yourself, it might be better to look into setting up internal VPN only access to it for remote connection.

If you’re Canadian, you can get free and cheap .ca domains https://www.cira.ca/en/why-choose-ca/

Debian is fine, but if you have technical troubles you don’t want to deal with, then go straight to Ubuntu. Either Kubuntu (Ubuntu with KDE), Ubuntu, or some other Ubuntu variation.

As a new Linux user, I would recommend Ubuntu over Debian. It is easier to setup, has a lot more online documentation, provides various apps to make life a bit simplier like integrations and AppStore (even though you should try to away from Linux app store because of broken apps)

Arch is really the king diamond in desktop Linux in my opinion, due to their rolling releases (I love new stuff even if it may break things), but especially because for the Arch Wiki (which is good for other OS users to read too) and the Arch AUR. If going Arch, I recommend using arch-install to make installing it much easier. Update the default arch-install after booting pacman -Ss arch-install then just run.

Also as a new or intermediate Linux user, I strongly recommend LTS (Long Term Support) versions. For example, Ubuntus latest version is not LTS, and has been out for multiple months, and there are still a huge amount of apps not ready to easily install – and you either have to spend a lot of time to figure it out yourself, or lose the chance to use some apps.

The Hackernews company gets shit on a lot by Lemmy and Reddit. From my understanding, they have a lot of bad people who run the company.

I would just use Lemmy and Reddit instead.

Edited, thanks @Björn:

Whatever destination computer you’re looking to connect to, install Sunshine.

Then on the source computer, use Moonlight to connect to the destination.

That’s misinformation. Tailscale is Canadian. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tailscale

Toolbox?

Edit: Oh cool! Thanks for sharing.

https://github.com/containers/toolbox

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Toolbox

https://containertoolbx.org/

I use Cockpit which comes with many other awesome features too.

Raspberry Pi 5 exists?

Oh neat! https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/raspberry-pi-5/

Thank you! I was wondering if there would be one soon. Glad some people were already offering to do the job.

I use a Navidrome server and ProjectBlue app on my Android. I haven’t figured out how to download music for offline use by using my ProjectBlue app though.