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I guarantee this will cost more and be less hackable than the offerings from ClockworkPi

I’m currently self hosting Gitea and have had a great experience so far. Only took a day to setup and migrate all (6) of my repositories.

God, I’ve seen this monstrosity in person. While absolutely an engineering marvel and impressive in its own right, it’s also uniquely disgusting, taking all that beauty and displaying corporate faff on it almost exclusively. It’s weirdly almost impossible not to look at it when it’s in view because your brain refuses to believe a screen that large could even exist.

I’m usually on roughly a 5-6 year cycle. I typically aim for one or two notches below the best available and that tends to get me about 3 years on high-ultra, and another 3 on medium-high.

Just mentioned this in another thread, but the XTEInk X4 is one of the most focused and portable e-readers I’ve come across. Less than $100 and isn’t locked down so you can load custom firmware on it. For anyone like me who finds most e-readers go unused because they don’t go with you, I’ve yet to find a better option.

I can imagine the guy having to print this at the factory just pictures someone with schizophrenia making the board somewhere out there.

Thankfully I didn’t need to read it because the headline was something I knew when the program was initially announced.

I’ve heard the explanation being that it’s a defense against treating dead bodies as alive and spending resources on them at a primal level. Just imagining when we first developed empathy and tried at length to care for those who we lost and evolution needed us to focus on the live ones.

I’ve bounced around for nearly 15 years in the world of Linux. Some of the ones I’ve used over the years:

• Ubuntu
• Linux Mint (+LMDE)
• Debian
• Arch
• KDE Neon
• Bazzite/SteamOS

The one I use currently is EndeavorOS. I landed on it because it’s been the most reliable and consistent for me personally at running games out of the box without extra configuration.

“Go sit in the corner and think about what you’ve done, Tim.”

A/S/L?

Yeah, that tracks that people without mental health issues are about as interesting as a solid block of marble.

Interesting. I’ve changed my hostname on a few machines throughout the past and never ran into this. Good to know of I ever run into this in the future.

Which is why I only recommend it when people need the bleeding edge for gaming stuff. It’s my recommendation if they need more than Mint and Bazzite doesn’t work well with their hardware. And even then, I try to avoid Bazzite since it does a lot of non-standard stuff with the setup.

Arch is good if you already know what you want, but if someone needs the bleeding edge and don’t want to configure Arch, it’s the most straightforward route.

Well there’s your problem. But really, it’s because long-time distro hoppers will finally find the one that meets all their needs and assume it meets everyone else’s needs as well.

About the only thing other than Mint that I recommend to beginners is Endeavor or Bazzite if they need gaming. And even then, is lean toward Endeavor first just because it’s less modified and they’ll get more consistent results during troubleshooting.

But yeah, new users really don’t need anything other than the bare minimum otherwise they’re likely to get turned off pretty quickly by documentation not lining up to their distros edits.

I know I didn’t mention it in my post, but I do have a couple requirements:

• Self-hosted
• Web client
• Voice/video conference/group
• Private messaging

Nice-to-haves:

• Native mobile/desktop app
• Modern UI
• Lightweight

I have my sights on Snikket at the moment, but that was one I couldn’t get up and running. I can reach out with errors and maybe get it running, but my point stands that Docker Compose is supposed to be as hands-off as it gets, but some devs seem to not get that.

I’ve gone through like 5 different services trying to set one up. Am I dumb or does no one know how to make a straightforward docker compose? I thought the whole point of Compose was to copy-paste a config, change a few variables and hit go. Several of these assume you know so much about how to setup these services and then just leave you to your devices.

I want like 5 or 6 variables in an .env file. No reason I should have to spin up my own database and link it when you should be containerizing the entire thing in the first place. The only services so far that I’ve had any success setting up are Mattermost (which doesn’t offer group calls) and VoceChat (which I can’t get the voice to work in).

All the others either don’t offer voice at all or I can’t get past the setup.

What about 2 Raspberry Pi 3s?

I tried to get one (1) friend to move from Windows because he’s constantly experiencing crashes, but “needs” his competitive shooter games with kernel-level anti-cheat. I’ve all but given up trying to fix his crashes.

I also suggested he move away from Discord, and they just went and found instructions for how to fake the age verification. Most people just can’t be convinced.

They are the only person I know that I could imagine even considering the switch away. These platforms have our social interactions and our friends’ service by the balls.