Thank the gods for these Indian men. They’ve saved me countless times with their simple solutions to incredibly specific problems.

Have got two of my family members onto bitwarden and even that is a lot for the tech-illiterate. Couldn’t imagine Keepass+syncthing.

Ultimately, bitwarden is better than using hunter12 for everything like how they were.

Which ones would they paywall? The ones which would be the hardest sell for them would be the big meme subreddits, given how many other sites can be searched for memes.

I could potentially see them having some success paywalling all of the sub’s where technical questions are asked looking for solutions to particular problems (think r/DIY). But then again you wouldn’t pay just to have 1 question answered, and would generally just try a different forum if it could be answered elsewhere.

Agreed. Clearly it must do simply what is said on the tin, otherwise why ban it?

Just to add to the noise… I’m shocked that Obsidian is not the number one app that people are talking about. Didn’t even know there were so many other great options, to be honest.

Edit: it’s because it’s not open source. The plugins all have to be open source, and it is free as in beer. I’m keeping this comment up.

I think there’s an obsidian extension that allows you to basically save the notes in a github repository, making it cloud based kind of.

I use chatgpt a lot and think AI is a really useful disruptive technology. I really don’t want it crammed into every piece of tech I use, without a choice to opt out.

They used the phrase AI and humane in the same sentence. Investors who aren’t very technical would get very excited about it of course.

Yeah that’s the other thing. To get decent battery life you run the device at lower TDP also, which puts performance as no better than the Steam deck.

Just seems to me that some of these decisions were driven by the marketing department and not engineering sense.

Battery life seems to suffer because of it.

Good points. Its worth mentioning that while SteamOS is based on arch (a famously unstable distro), it is immutable, so the user will have a much harder time bricking their system. KDE plasma was the right choice I agree, considering the number of windows users Valve is marketing towards.

That update bugwas so ridiculously poorly timed for the Linux community. Especially considering he said Pop OS was beginner friendly

For people interested in tech edutainment he’s alright and has mass appeal. My favourite videos have been more of the interesting ones showing how fast his ridiculous fibre connections are in his house.

So much terrible click bait has meant I haven’t bothered clicking in a year or so though.

Tumbleweed is great. I just started using it after getting bored of PopOS (and it breaking on me after system freeze during updates). Really like the automatic snapper backup feature.

The whole thing if it being semi-bleeding edge is sensible, at least there is some automatic testing before updates are released.

Oh damn, that’s disappointing about the subscription.

Yep Docker is currently possible, but there’s plenty of threads discussing that it is being phased out.

But yeah, I suppose the solution could be a VM running Debian and then Docker within that.

I think the IX Systems would rather Truenas scale be an enterprise OS, and have short patience for people learning the ropes.

Kubernetes to me is a lot more complicated than Docker, but I’m sure in an enterprise environment where you have many systems to administrate it is superior. Docker would be a better, simpler solution for a person at home with one computer being used for their personal virtualisation.

I think going back in time I would go for Unraid, and use Docker containers. Apparently it is better documented, more beginner-friendly. It is a one-off payment, but it is reasonably cheap. Community seems much friendlier too.

Bear in mind I haven’t used unraid, so potentially there is a grass is always greener situation going on here.

That said, I have thought about running a VM in TrueNAS so I don’t need to muck around with kubernetes and using a discord chat for troubleshooting.

All the best!

I use Truenas scale.

For virtualisation, most people use a community run set of apps called Truecharts. I will say that documentation/support for this is rubbish. They have a discord server only really there. Very hostile community in general.

Not sure why kubernetes is used. Docker is being phased out and will stop being supported in the future.

Also, the latest version of scale broke onedrive backups, which were handled by the gui, and now you’re on the own to run rclone via the cli. Definitely, the devs are not working on a fix as stated in forum posts. This is a pretty fundamental requirement of an at-home NAS for anyone using onedrive for photo backup say.

Ix system forum devs are rude. I haven’t posted there but searching through other people’s threads for solutions to my problems show dismissive unhelpful answers by the devs/users.

All this is to say Truenas virtualisation is compromised, poorly documented, and run by a hostile community of devs both in true charts and the ix systems forums.

I regret not trying a different nas os, but I’m a bit invested now.