Could be a difference in how they’ve set up charging cut off points.

Could try Fedora based like Bazzite or just regular Fedora. Obviously a sample size of 2 isn’t saying much, but Bazzite is less buggy with the hardware on my HP laptop, and my destop with an Nvidia GPU.

Tax credit vs tax rebate/refund probably. As I understand it tax credits you can only take advantage of if you pay enough in taxes, as it’s essentially a discount on federal taxes that you owe the government.

Batch mode is great! I didn’t realize it was added until just now hah

Often the hotkeys on laptops for screen brightness, mute, etc will either not work or be wonky, on my HP Elitebook on Debian distros the brightness keys both mute the speakers instead, they work fine on Fedora though.

https://github.com/kd2org/karadav

Nextcloud client/app compatible WebDAV server with a lightweight file browser webUI, and multi-user support.

Should be the closest thing to Google Drive without actually running Nextcloud.

The only issue is it looks like the Nextcloud iOS clients don’t work.

Yeah, I have local proxmox backups to an external HDD for stuff like “oops I broke it” or a drive failure, but the online backups are for something catastrophic like the house burned down with the server in it, so I’m not particularly worried about them being more work to restore.

My cloud backup method is running Restic inside any VMs or Containers with important data (I use Backrest to manage it easily).

The reason is I don’t want to be backing up caches, logs, and other junk that isn’t important to cloud storage, since it’s just wasted storage space and bandwidth.

It’s pretty easy, you can browse files in an LXC backup and restore specific parts. For VMs you can just restore the whole VM and copy out what you need.

I back up all the directories and docker-compose files using Restic (via Backrest) stored on Backblaze B2, and also the whole Docker LXC via Proxmox’s backup function to a local HDD.

There’s a chance some databases could be backed up in an unusable state, but I keep like 30-50 snapshots going back months, so I figure if the latest one has a bad DB backup, I could go back another day and try that one.

I also don’t really have irreplaceable data stored in DBs, stuff like Immich has data in a DB that would be annoying to lose, but the photos themselves are just on the filesystem.

For testing Restic I pull a backup and just go through and check some of the important files.

Proxmox backup is really easy to test, as it just restores the whole LXC with a new ID and IP that I can check.

Probably something 7th gen Intel or newer so you can use Quicksync for transcoding on Jellyfin and HW accel on Immich for ML, face recognition, resizing, etc…

Tons of 7th/8th gen PCs pulled from offices on ebay for around $50-80, if you do some creative mounting inside a Midtower (MT) sized one you can fit a couple 3.5" drives and 2.5" SSDs.

NP! That’s how I do it on proxmox, I’ll start the VM every so often and update it. Only takes a few seconds to clone so it’s nice and quick to do.

Simple method is just keep a ready to go VM and clone it.

I just don’t see how smaller social groups like forums or fedi stuff can survive if they need to potentially fight legal battles too.

Yeah it makes sense that they’re good at finding similar things.

Not super reliable, one road near me is 25mph and google says it’s 65mph.

It’s not because they’re dumb, it’s because it’s easy and because it’s the OS a computer comes with (with the tiny exception of some systems where you can choose linux).

Pinchflat is what I use.

You can either:

A) Use a different port, just set up the new service to run on a port that’s not used by the other service.

B) If it’s a TCP service use a reverse proxy and a subdomain.

30 years of data and no backup system, sheesh.