No, absolutely not! When you’re a manager you are supposed to stop doing actual work and instead spend your time in meetings, making PowerPoints and “navigating office politics”.

Nice - I’ve done a similar thing for my mom, except she was transitioning from macOS (but had used Windows a lot previously for work). So far she has had a package conflict that broke the package system (Signal was installed from their PPA) which raised a rather ominous error message for her (“Your package system is broken”). I could fix it easily as I had set up VNC via SSH, and that worked as expected first time I needed it, but it’s not something she would be able to do by herself. And I still haven’t installed Singal in a way that won’t break things later yet…

She still uses her old Macbook on and off, and there are some things she only has access through that machine. I want to set up better cross platform solutions for her. Especially file sync and images needs to be fixed, but I’ve not landed on a way to do that. I could set her up with an account on my Nextcloud, but I don’t like having access to her files and I also would not want to be liable for her files disappearing. Same with images. I use Nextcloud for images myself, have thought of setting up Immich. But same thing here, don’t really want to have access to her stuff (not sure if Immich can be set up to be E2EE?)

I’ve been running tge AIO container for several years now and it is running perfectly fine. I only enable whatever I use, so for instance no Collabora.

But for Collabora, while it should be good for single-person use, if you require some kind of collaborative simultaneous work, you should probably set up the high-performance backend. I did this at work for a NC-instance hosted via Hetzner and it works well when we tried it, but we don’t really use those kinds of tools much in our daily work.

I see no such artifacts on my Core One. I am only printing with Prusament PLA so far.

It depends on what service - some, like Jellyfin, are accessed only from home IPs which are static (for music through Jellyfin I use offline mode to prevent too much mobile traffic), so I can add those specific IPs in the whitelist. Otger services I need to access from elsewhere, and I can add entire subnets (i.e. for my phone carrier network or VPN servers). Those change once in a while and that is annoying. Other services I want publically available.

Jellyfin especially still has some unsecured endpoints where it would be wise to take some.extra precautions. I think the risk some people seem to think this poses is a little overblown (i.e. rights holders finding your instance and reverse mapping your entire library and suing you to oblivion), but better not risk it.

What kinds of things are you planning to expose? What I expose I hide behind a reverse proxy with IP whitelists. Whatever I don’t need access to on the go I don’t expose.

Battery fuel guage is almost ready for FP4 at least:

https://fosstodon.org/@z3ntu/115435804332775702

And there has been recent successes by the same guy (employed at Fairphone) on getting cameras working (main post of the thread linked above).

These are recent improvements, and I really hope they can solve the audio stability and GPS stuff so I can move. Thinking of trying out Ubuntu Touch before a mainline distro is ready.

I put encrypted backups (borg or restic) on a storage box from Hetzner. One local copy on a different drive and one remote. Keep your encryption passwords safe though, otherwise they aren’t worth much.

Oh, and I plan to report status of the cron jobs that run these backup scripts via MQTT and display backup status in Home Assistant. But haven’t started that yet. So far I dump the logs and view them occasionally.

Oh, this was a general issue? It was driving me crazy as I was certain I hit “shut down” instead of “reboot”. I am soon getting a Linux laptop at work anyway (I’ve only been waiting about 5 montha for it now, so any day now!) - so I will hopefully not experience this fix.

I installed Mint on a newly acquired used Thinkpad for my mom, to get her used to it as her Macbook is showing signs of giving up. So far it was smooth sailing until one day the package system broke due to some conflicts (I had set up Signal via their PPA). I had already set up remote access so I could easily fix it for her in a matter of minutes, but she would never be able to fix it herself even though the instructions were clear. Other than this though, she enjoys it. But I still need to set up a couple of additional things, in particular file sync and some way of managing her photos.

Alright, that’s fair. I have been planning on trying the CAD-plugins for Blender as well. I love Blender, and it is easy to use except when it comes to CAD-stuff. I’ve also been wanting to try out OpenSCAD.

I like that FreeCAD seems to have quite some steam and hopefully it will only improve going forward.

FreeCAD is insane. It is absolutelty unworkable and unintuitive for me.

I find it pretty workable for most of my cases, but have to look up how to solve certain things. I am doing fairly simple stuff though, and I don’t have any other references except some SolidWorks back in high school ages ago. But it gets me fairly easily to where I want to be, and it is FOSS which is important to me - I don’t want to lock my workflow into a software suite that may do a major rugpull at any given moment. I have experienced that before.

I didn’t start using it until after the 1.0 release - apparently there were some major improvements to the usability with that release. Did you try it after?

I’ve been generally happy with FreeCAD for my use. If I am doing something less parametric and more organic in shape, I will use Blender.

I was planning to get the OpenWRT One. Any reasons that would be a bad idea?

My go-to! There’s a Python version, bpytop, as well - not sure why you would want that over the C+±version though.

Nice, thanks - I’ll check out Unfa! I hope to get started soon, but I tend to be slow starting these things, so don’t expect any DMs just yet - but I’m saving your post for future reference, so perhaps something will tick in eventually :) Thanks for the offer in any case!

I want to get into using Ardour. I tried setting up my stuff via the Flatpak version, but it seems I should probably avoid that to get stuff to work properly, so I am planning to pay for the precompiled binaries soon.

But I am new to DAWs in general - do you or anyone else know of a good introduction to DAWs via Ardour?

I use my WF-1000XM5 on Linux fine, paired normally IIRC. Any reason your set would be different?

I think their point was to make sure they are done in order, i.e. update before upgrade, not the other way around as in OPs example.

If you are already into, or want to get into self-hosting you could set up a media server like Jellyfin or Navidrome and use a mobile client that works with the one you choose. I am using Jellyfin with the Finamp beta on Android. I use it only in offline mode when I am out and about.

I sometimes hear people complain about some issues with Jellyfin, although I have not had any of those myself (I have a comparable collectiom to you). I run all music through Musicbrainz Picard before adding it to the server, so I think that may be a pre-requisite for a smooth experience. Navidrome is perhaps more forgiving.