I’ve been biting the onion recently so I just assumed this was another artical from them… fml NASA is one of my favorite organizations, I’d hate to see things fall apart anymore then they already have

I think a far better option for you then is building your own router, duel ethernet nuc + cheap ethernet switch or a rasberry pi + switch would both run fine and leave some headroom for running a firewall+dns+vpn+etc

Any reason you won’t use OpenWrt? If you’d prefer linux then Tomato might be a better project for you. Routers that can run Tomato most likely can run libreCMC with some tweaks or patches from tomato applied

The “a” series is googles budget phones, they also use budget storage (ufs 3.1), its by no means super slow but definitely could be a contributing factor if your archive is very big with lots of random writes and reads

If your using a budget phone, storage tends to be slow

Even on some higher budget phones using slower storage is a regular cost cutting move

This should be a well know, but often misunderstood thing. Lots of reddit selfhosting threds urge people to buy a new mini-pc for its “low power draw” when usually its the same or 1-2watts less then a laptop from 2012. However performace to watt is much higher, so if you need massive preformance new is much better, if your system is idling most of the time anyway, basically no diffrence in buying old

The thing about Guix (and Nix) is that there doesnt need to be a package in the repos. You can either make your system automatically compile from source (which is how many AUR packages work) or use something like distrobox, bottles, flatpak to run extra software

Had the same problem on fedora (no issue on bazzite, nobara, or arch). First time it was xwayland that kept crashing without a display present for some reason, second time I never solved since I was distro hopping the fedora family of distros but it seemed to be a problem with SDDM

Everything except the compositor has been ported! Xfce recommends running xfce over labwc or wayfire for now

“Home Edition: Designed for daily use” - from their website

Something tells me it might be practial for daily use

Rpi uses 25watts? My old acer 6th gen laptop has a 15watt TDP and remains around 8watts 24/7 even with my services and without disconnecting the internals. My 8th gen laptop pulls 6watts with the screen on. People here saying older laptops arent a good choice are insane considering the ~$100-300 diffrence between an ewaste laptop and dedicated minipc + backup power bank (laptops have internal batterys you can easily replace when they go bad)

Might genuinly go with this idea, as everyone has pointed out putting plants there isnt a great idea but I can at least add some color!

Don’t worry you have a very valid concern! However there are 3 other fire escapes on the basement floor, making mine technically not a mandatory fire escape. But even so I don’t see how stepping on plants would prevent me from exiting the window and using the ladder

Currently switching my desktops from alpine to void just for the fun of it. Servers will always be alpine but void just feels right on the desktop!

If your looking for a diffrent desktop experiance the OS doesnt matter outside of if it has packages or not. You might want to try KDE plasma with custom themes if your not a fan of the way xfce works. Although xfce is also extreamly customizable in the way it works too if you take some time to read the docs

I don’t have any proof on the music (im sure its out there tho) but the font they used is traced from a popular paid font. However copycat/traced fonts are not illegal as long as they don’t steal the original vector code, so technically not piracy

Sounds like you (or your distro) setup a portal wrong, they should read your theme configs and settings the same as any native application

Alpine just feels like everything on my system is there for a reason (and somehow makes arch feel “bloated”) so I 100% understand wanting a full config file for everything on your system. But DAMN THE DOCS SUCK. Also NixOS locks you into systemd…

Imo theres a massive diffrence between using a massive companys software that only runs on their servers and generates money for them, and a completly FOSS tiling desktop that the creator almost quit because they get literally nothing from people using the code. The entire point of open source is to make software that benefits everyone nomatter the original creators views

You can try bass to run bash scripts in fish