That was my exact setup as well until I switched to a different router which supported both custom DNS entries and blocklists, thereby making the pi-hole redundant

Not OP but a lot of people probably use pi-hole which doesn’t support wildcards for some inane reason

Maybe they added new ones since I last looked

Extra hard drive space is good and all but the last time I looked at their lists, all decently sized torrents had a good enough amount of peers while the large torrents which aren’t as manageable were the issue.

I typically use EndeavorOS because I enjoy how well documented and organized the arch wiki is.

I tried switching to fedora on my laptop recently but actually had some issues with software that was apparently only distributed through the AUR or AppImage (which I could have used, I know).

When I also had issues setting up my VPN to my home network again, I caved and restored the disk to a backup I took before attempting the switch. The VPN thing almost definitely wasn’t Fedoras fault since I remember running into the same issue on EndeavorOS but after my fix from last time didn’t work I was out of patience.

My servers runs either on debian or Ubuntu LTS though.

Why not skip ahead in time a little and call it farmarr?

I sometimes prefer light mode, for example on my laptop in bright environments because I find that it gives me better contrast and keeps more of the screen viewable

I know you didn’t mention video but if you think you might want to host jellyfin in the future, make sure your CPU supports hardware decoding for modern formats.

For example, my lenovo mini pc with an i5-6500 has support for h265 but not h265 10bit or AV1, which makes playing those formats on some devices basically impossible without re-encoding the files.

Mainly kernel level anticheat, though that is obviously not really linux fault.

My other personal gripe is probably stumbling across a GTK based app that works for what I want it to do but clashes extremely badly with my Plasma DE.

For example, I wanted to set up automatic file backups to an SFTP server using borg. The two common UI interfaces I found are vorta and pika-backup. Vorta only supports SSH and local backup repositories while pika allows SFTP through some kind of compatibility layer with gvfs.

Seems like pika is the right choice for me but the UI felt incredibly dumbed down and really did not match with anything else on my PC. Since both programs were kind of out, I found another backup tool in Kopia.

The reason I was looking for a backup tool at all? I was previously using synology active backup for business, which is available on all linux distros except arch.

The one thing I can’t get set up on Kate is leaving temporary text files open between sessions.

Probably a bad habit of mine but I sometimes end up pasting some info into a notepad++ file without saving it and then come back much later to check it out again

Heh, I guess I was one of those downloads. I wanted to set up an old PC I had lying around for gaming over the holidays at my parents place.

In the end I forgot that I maybe would need an internet connection and didn’t have a long enough ethernet cable to actually use it but I did install the distro at least. No idea how well it works though since the PC has a GTX 1050 ti and officially the image only supports RTX cards and the GTX 16xx series.

I’m afraid that philosophy doesn’t quite work when you are part of a friend group that’s playing together and you are the only one who even considers using Linux. I actually do play a lot of games on my dual boot Linux install but since we are currently playing a lot of battlefield I usually start Windows instead

Unfortunately I tend to like games that are still among the damn 10%, like battlefield 6.

Out of curiosity, do yoy know how Jellyfin handles network failures with mounted network drives?

I had a navidrome server where once my network machine failed to start properly, the entire database was deleted because it looked to the server like I deleted all of my files. I luckily had my favorites cached on my phone client and was able to restore most of my playlists from there but it was still an incredibly annoying thing to go through. I have since turned off automatic scanning of files for that service since that seemed like the only way to prevent this happening again

I have a pretty similar setup currently running but I bought a public domain that I use for my certificates.

I used to have a pi-hole as my DNS server where I entered all subdomains and pointed them at the right address, namely my reverse-proxy.

My reverse-proxy, Nginx Proxy Manager, got the certificates from my domain registrar and forwarded the requests to the correct services based on subdomain.

Honestly I found plex a lot simpler to set up when I started out.

In Jellyfin I had to wrangle the settings a lot when trying to set up hardware encoding since my streams kept crashing due to some codecs not being dupported by my CPU.

Depending on the specific model it is either an SSD or eMMC storage but you won’t be able to get to it without major disassembly of the device which includes removing the glued-on screen.

This surface is an absolute bitch to repair

Did you manage to set up port forwarding with this setup? I believe there was an issue with the forwarded port from the VPN connection being random and qbit not knowing which port that is

This might be a bit overkill for what you want but you could try using a selfhosted music server like navidrome and streaming to your phone. I use symfonium on on phone which can be configured to request the streamed music to be transcoded to a smaller size for streaming from mobile network or for caching it on your phones storage for offline listening.

Given that symfonium supports a lot of self hosted media providers from which to pull, you could also try sharing your music locally using samba. I’m not sure if the transcoding still works in that case though (it would obviously have to be done on your phone)

Works great for me on my pixel 7 but you have to be aware that you loose some stuff too unfortunately.

Not all banking apps work and payment using your phone is completely out.

If you care about it, the health stuff also isn’t available