I had hopes, too. I like more choice, but I guess not.

And it starts……. The decline and the eventual death of the “project” 😂

Just imagine if Meta just disappeared. A man can only wish.

Oh shit. Ok. Thank you for bringing that up. I only really use their official apps, but I’ll find another one to donate to.

Thank you for the reminder to donate to them <3

Easy, call down there, Sherlock.

Is the custom launcher you use called “Projectivity”? That’s the one I use and it’s great.

A couple of years ago, I complained about not many options for PDF editing on Linux, now there are too many of them and I’m 100% ok with that. Thank you for this.

Elonsbitter.net sounds like a good replacement to nitter

Good on you for protecting them from social media. My 12 year old son has no access to any social media. I got parental control everywhere. Google’s family link even has this “school time” function where it minimizes distractions. I honestly wouldn’t even mind if schools said “no phones in class”.

Why not use existing lockers?

First Epic Games Launcher, and now this. If this isn’t the year of the Linux desktop, then I don’t know which one is. Next, all the adobe and Microsoft garbage 😄

Bachelor of science in molecular biology here. Never had any computer/programming courses, not even in college. I come from a 3rd world country, so our “computer lab” naturally had two desktops that we were only allowed on for half an hour a week for basic windows tasks. I’ve always been a curious person, though. Moved to the US in 2010 and started messing around with a laptop I had that was struggling to run windows. Ran into this thing called “Linux” and the rest is history.

I’ve had countless sleepless nights fixing things on my broken Linux installs and/or to make some things work. That is the thing that built what I know now.

Being the same curious dude I am, I wanted to dip my toes into self-hosting, and I just discovered that it’s just a whole new world that is even more fun. Been doing things in this realm for around 1.5 years now and still dabbling.

Edit: forgot to mention that I now work as a software developer at a big company. Yes, my microbiology degree is sitting in the drawer sleeping. lol

If you have an android phone, you’re welcome to use my app Stillshelf. It has two shells, one for audiobooks (audiobookshelf specifically) and the other for music (Navidrome).

Only theft I’m actually ok with.

NASes are so annoying. I had so many issues with my Synology NAS with plex and jellyfin. I ended up spinning up a debian server on a small Dell optiplex micro and then mounted my Nas as storage through debian. Installed Jellyfin as a normal debian package. No docker or anything like that. I’ve never used (or even heard of) QNAP, but are you able to reach it through SMB? If you can, then you can do it like I did

Man, this is Ouroboros feedback loop.

Welcome aboard. You’re going to feel so fulfilled and accomplished when you got all your things hosted on your own. It’s such a peaceful and safe feeling. I have a tiny dell optiplex that runs Debian and it’s been a host for all of my services. Navidrome, audiobookshelf, jellyfin, pihole, own DNS with unbound… Etc. Even built my own android app for music/audiobooks.

Then got me a domain from cloudflare for $10 a year and now I can access my stuff anywhere I got. My son and wife are both loving it.

Did you feel the smack on the back of your hand? Stop it. Don’t spend money you don’t need to spend. If anything, and you’re really, really bored, save your files and redo your work/reinstall the clean way you wish you had done to begin with. That’ll get you through a couple of weeks of busy work.

I want your “clinically deaf” part. There are so many people in this world I’d rather not ever hear their voices. Lmao.

Jokes aside. If your current machines are working fine and the $35 a month isn’t breaking the budget, then why replace them? I’ll only replace this one I have when something major fails in it, like the motherboard just dying or something I can’t fix. I’ve already replaced the fan on it. It was like $7 from eBay or something like that. But I’m that guy who never replaces things unless they absolutely need replacement. So, if you’re not that guy, ignore my dumbass. lol