It’s funny to me that people have such a problem with YouTube Premium. There are a LOT of reasons to criticize YouTube/Google, but YouTube Premium is about as close as it gets to the platonic ideal of a video subscription service. It completely banishes any ads you’d get without paying, and it provides the creators you watch with more value than someone watching without premium. If showing ads is unacceptable, and paying to not see ads is unacceptable, then what’s the alternative? People have to make a living, and servers don’t run on magic.

Yep, that’s the one. I can’t speak to the compatibility though because I got the one without a dedicated GPU.

I have the 16 and use NixOS. I haven’t had any issues. I’m able to use the fingerprint scanner and all of the function keys do what they’re supposed to.

If you’re not already aware, there’s a nixos-hardware repo with common settings for various devices that you can import. All of the Framework laptops have a module there. Although, if I recall correctly, everything worked fine before I pulled that into my config, so it seems like the hardware scan did a good job making everything just work.

Funny you should mention that.

I’ve always been hesitant to host any services on a device with a non-removable battery. Having a battery constantly charging and discharging isn’t great for it and could potentially be a fire hazard. I know modern devices have gotten much smarter about how they charge, so maybe it’s not as much of an issue anymore, but still something to be aware of depending on how old your phone is or how you modify the firmware.

Personally, with how cheap you can find a mini PC or SBC, I would just save up a bit (maybe even sell the device you’re planning to host on) and keep an eye out for deals. You’re going to get a lot more freedom and power with those devices, and not have to try to hack around the limitations of a mobile OS.

My advice for security is don’t expose anything to the Internet unless you’re sure you know how to secure it. If you want to be able to access self-hosted services remotely, setting up a VPN is the way to go. OpenVPN is gonna be the most widely supported way of doing that. In fact, based on a quick Google search, it looks like your router has an OpenVPN server built in. If you’re willing to put in some effort for something more modern and performant, look into WireGuard.

Another benefit of having a VPN is that if you set it up to allow access back out to the Internet, you can use it to mask your internet traffic while you’re connected to an untrusted network.

That sounds interesting. Thanks for the recommendation!

It’s rough in the US. Most iPhone users will insist that iMessage is better and refuse to use anything else, and then whine when an android user is in a group chat and none of the features work.

Part of me is starting to wonder, honestly. I will say that the web UI for TrueNAS Scale is leagues better than Unraid’s, which to me always felt confusing and hacked together. ZFS is also really nice, although Unraid did recently add support.

One pain point I’ve run into with TNS is that access to Docker or Kubernetes seems to be intentionally locked down from access anywhere but the built in apps catalog. As someone who works with Docker and various orchestration engines professionally, I much prefer being able to define and stand up my own services to using a list of predefined templates. There are obviously ways of getting around the restrictions in TNS, but with Unraid, I could install something like Portainer or simply drop into the terminal and run docker commands myself. Not having that is frustrating.

Overall though, I think TrueNAS is a much cleaner and more modern user experience, so long as you stay on their rails. Which I suppose is the point.

I looked at doing two vdevs but was put off by the lower usable storage. At a certain point, maybe that’s not as important as I think though.

Yeah, the choice for 6TB wasn’t my best. I got the two older drives a few years back on a Newegg flash sale, and it seemed like plenty, especially considering Unraid’s model of 1 parity drive and 100% usable storage on the data drive(s). Then, when I decided to upgrade, I was too cheap to go buy 4 whole new drives, so I just went with more of what I already had (to add insult to injury, they’re all WD Red drives…).

You might give kbin a shot. I haven’t used it much myself, but it has features from both Mastodon and Lemmy, so should interop well with both of those.

I find it useful in a lot of ways. I think people try to over apply it though. For example, as a software engineer, I would absolutely not trust AI to write an entire app. However, it’s really good at generating “grunt work” code. API requests, unit tests, etc. Things that are well trodden, but change depending on the context.

I also find they’re pretty good at explaining and summarizing information. The chat interface is especially useful in this regard because I can ask follow up questions to drill down into something I don’t quite understand. Something that wouldn’t be possible with a Wikipedia article, for example. For important information, you should obviously check other sources, but you should do that regardless of whether the writer is a human or machine.

Basically, it’s good at that it’s for: taking a massive compendium of existing information and applying it to the context you give it. It’s not a problem solving engine or an artificial being.

Ars Technica seems to really be embracing the fediverse. They have a very active official Mastodon account. https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica

Taking the opportunity to get on my soapbox and remind everyone that free software still requires someone’s time and effort to maintain. If you’ve been using a free app for a while and you and you enjoy it (and you have the means to do so), consider sending a donation to the developers/maintainers! It’s a good way to help ensure that the great, free app you enjoy stays great and free.

Here’s a list of all the official and third party Jellyfin apps

I used reddit pretty much exclusively on my phone through the Boost app. When that went dark, I didn’t really feel the need to go out of my way to download a far worse app, so I stopped checking reddit.