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  • Heads up on the copyright thing. Copyright is different nation to nation. @ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world seems to be out of the UK or EU. Not sure what the copyright situation is like there but here in the US, anything you write is already protected under US copyright laws from the moment it’s published (such as when I hit “post” here), subject to any applicable agreements you’ve entered into, of course.

    You don’t HAVE to register your work for it to be under copyright protection, but to doing so would give you a stronger case if you ever decided to go to court over copyright. To register a work in the US you would do so through the Copyright Office.

    In general though, @ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world is right though, you should assume anything you put out in the wild will be used in a manner you never intended, and that you may not like.

    For examples of how helpful copyright protection is in a practical sense, might want to check out c/piracy.



  • As everyone else has said, if your time is limited, your best path is docker. You don’t need to learn all of docker, but understanding how docker compose works at a fairly high level will drastically speed up setup as well as administrative tasks like updating and backups

    As for what to run, you mentioned wireguard and a notes app. The notes app could be solved without needing a central server with Obsidian and I’m not seeing the use case here for Wireguard.

    I would start with what problem or pain point are you trying to solve for.

    In my case, I had a bunch of IOT devices all making excessive DNS queries and I wanted a network level ad blocker so I setup PiHole (2 in fact, they run my network’s DNS).

    I had a large music collection and burning mix CDs was no longer practical so I setup Jellyfin (Navidrome might have also worked), and use FinAmp on my phone.

    Google started being a pain in my backside so I setup Nextcloud.

    Someone got me some smart devices so HomeAssistant was setup.

    I needed a way to find these services so I setup Heimdel as a dashboard.

    I wanted some of these publicly available so I setup Caddy as a reverse proxy.








  • Not sure if it meets your needs but I’ve been using Audiobookshelf for pulling podcasts. The default web interface is simple and straightforward and you can create secondary rss feeds if you have another podcast app you prefer. Has apps for iOS and android, though the iOS app is TestFlight. As a podcast player it’s decent. Not sure if it does notifications, I tend to disable them.

    I started using it because one of the podcasts I listened to ended and I wasn’t able to go back and relisten to the episodes. Decided to start archiving the podcasts I was interested in.





  • Mostly good, though I’ve got a bug on my desktop. It’s a two monitor setup and if I am running a game like Minecraft full screen on the second display and close out the game Plasma crashes to the login screen. Works fine if I disable the second display. That system is running Plasma 5 - Wayland on Nixos 23.11.

    Otherwise, I occasionally run into an app that just doesn’t work, but that’s about all. Sometimes it’s a Plasma on Wayland thing (like with Element) sometimes not.



  • I’m American and our standard measurements drive me bugnuts. Especially at smaller scales. Me and fractions never did get along.

    A meter is approximately the length of my arm which is approximately 3 feet in American. A foot is roughly 33 centimeters, also as you pointed out, the length of my foot. A centimeter is roughly the width of my pinky nail. A centimeter is 10 millimeters. A millimeter is small enough I’m breaking out the micrometer.

    How far is it from my home to work? About an hour and a half going in to work, roughly an hour coming back. It’s roughly 50 miles, but expressing it as time makes more sense.



  • Duel booting has been a thing for as I have been using Linux, say 2004ish, and it has only gotten easier over the last 20 years.

    Some things to watch out for though. First, make sure that you have sufficient free space on your drive before beginning, and make sure that you have backups in case something goes sideways. Good practice anyways.

    Second, Windows likes to hijack the bootloader making it difficult to boot into Linux. I would make sure that Windows is installed first and have a live linux disk/jumpdrive available in case Windows decides to hijack the boot loader at a later date. That has only happened to me once, and wasn’t difficult to fix, but it was a pain in the butt.

    As for which distro, dealer’s choice. I don’t think that there is a bad distro out there currently. Currently, I’m using NixOS but I think highly of Ubuntu, Fedora and all of their derivatives. Really, it’s whatever boats your float.



  • It’s not as difficult as the length of my comment implies, and doing it in the terminal simplifies the explanation quite a bit.

    The average user though might never need to use the terminal. Most of what they want can be done in the browser.

    As for Linux mass adoption, that happened years ago. Just nobody noticed. Android, Chromebook, Steam Deck are all Linux based and MacOS (BSD derived) is a close relative. And Microsoft has even made it possible to run linux command line programs in Windows, with some caveats, using WSL. And that’s not counting the majority of servers, networking gear and space craft running linux or unix.