Dosbox or some ports? You can run windows 3.11 inside that as well. Doubt wine support win16

Really

Never ever heard of

Thanks for quality post

(Luckly immich is much better quality than this post)

You actually WANT to be with low free memory. Provided that most of it is used by cache.

Free memory is a waste, when you could cache stuff for faster access.

That’s how Linux memory management works, and it make sense if you relflect on it. Better cache that page or that file that is used often, since free memory is just wasted. Cache can be freed and memory reclaimed in a fraction of a millisecond when needed.

So don’t bother too much. Unless your SWAP usage is high, don’t bother.

Also consider that Linux kernel will use your swap a bit even if you have lots of cache, because the kernel knows better than you how to improve your performances. Swapping out never used stuff is better than killing cached items.

Again, don’t oberthink memory on Linux, the best alarm is when swap is constantly happening, then yes you need more ram (or to kill that broken process that keeps hogging due to a bug)

My recent experience regarding questions on documentation:

• dovecot: shitty useless responses, totally made up
• Gentoo linux: to be checked twice and mostly wrong or fake
• godot: accurate and correct almost always, maybe examples not always 100% correct
• C++ standard 17: correct, never had a wrong reply from llm, also the exact ples where on point and correct

I think that’s all what I have used it for in the last six months.

Note: I used only Google search AI llm, nothing else.

So it seems that depends on what you ask.

Maybe you should check 5hat again. I never used llm before 2025, but proved itself useful for a few tasks. Yes check and verification still needed, but indeed made my life easier and got taken done faster. Quality was still a good as what I could do myself. Maybe that doesn’t speak well of myself I don’t know.

While you are correct, as all tools AI is not bad per se.

If you use ai to replace more lengthy documentation searches and write your own code that works out pretty well and speed up your work without degrading your coding. Granted, I got plainly incorrect answers as well, but at least I managed to be much more efficient.

Treat LLMs/ai as a glorified documentation aggregator and that’s how you correctly use that tool.

Like, use a knife to cut and cook meat, not to cut another person body, and that’s how you correctly use that tool too.

I run a setup very similar for many years. Upgraded progressively from 2x120GB to 4x4Tb, from mechanicals to sdds.

I can say don’t cheap out on the usb enclosures, the more you pay the better it is. I purchased a 4 bay JBOD usb3 box with a fan (150€+ nowadays) and that is the only enclosure that really worked out and still works (but retired) today. All single disk enclosures will fail sooner or later depending on how cheap they are, just take that onto consideration.

The setup itself is pretty good and stable, I would suggest standard Linux MDRaid 1, and on top of that something simple like ext4. I wouldn’t put anything that adds to the disk workloads like zfs, but maybe I am wrong.

Speed wise, I was able to stream movies without any hiccups, and that’s plenty I think.

Do not cheap out on the enclosures. Cheap ones will last 1 month, I don’t kid you.

And keep them cool… Fan… Air circulation… USB controllers will be killed faster than mechanical disks by heat. And 24/7 will generate heat… Those enclosures are not built for that…

Again, it’s pretty doable and I did it for almost 2 decades. DONT BE CHEAP ON ENCLOSURES (did I say so already?) And you should be fine.

If you don’t want to use postgresql for some obscure reason use MariaDB real open source MySQL drop in replacement.

This.

That’s why temping obscurity for security is not a good idea. Doesn’t take much to be “safe”, at least reasonably safe. But that not much its good practice to be done :)

My use case is much simpler. I access via RDP client and that’s all, not needing multi monitor

Plasma and Gentoo user here.

The transition has been so uneventful and simple that I didn’t even noticed. I run some 15 desktops with different mixed hardware setups and use VNC / RDP sometimes too.

One day I started noticing on some desktops Wayland was now in use, by chance. Then I started taking notice.

I can say the ones moved to Wayland are smoother, but might be aneddotical. Beside that, cannot care less about X11 or Wayland, they both work just fine for all my use cases.

For the sake of future, welcome Wayland!

/smallrant Sorry for X11, have to say I have been in the business since kernel version 2 and I DO NOT miss losing X11, its a bunch of half assed half baked spaghetti tech that has done its own time and would not have kept up with life. /rantover.

My server has 48gb ram and in top Lemmy doesn’t appear even in the 0.1% memory usage.

Disk space 10gb, CPU/ram not noticeable on my server (lots of other services using more than Lemmy).

I think it’s been up about one year. One user but I subscribe to all communities I find remotely interesting.

Yeah, good idea… After all, who needs copy and paste at all? Better remove it at the root…

/ssssssss

Running “my” own single user instance here.

Great! Love it! The whole idea.

I use endurain but mostly to backup my Garmin activities.

It’s nice, lots of development and efforts and very polished.

Love ha.

I suggest to purchase a home assistant gren device as its really well done and super stable. I moved to one of those after hosting ha on many different devices over time, and would not go back.

You also support the project, which is cool.

SAS drives tends to be top quality server stuff… I would keep them until the break then replace with cheaper sata.

Unless you need something less power hungry (SSSs?) or less noisy.

Also keep the hardware raid, why not. You should be able to remove the raid inside its bios and see the four disks individually.

Gentoo user since forever.

The most consistent and long time solid distro, IMHO.

I use it everywhere I can, from servers to laptops. It’s so flexible and predictable that I simply love it.

Nowadays emerging stuff is so fast that I wonder why bother with binary packages at all. Once, when compiling Firefox took DAYS well… But in today’s hardware, meh.

;)

Tried photoprism, then tried immich. Never went back.

Easier installation, easier management, more polished, just better overall