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Not OP but thanks for bringing n8n to my attention, wasn’t aware of it. At a glance it seems similar to Node-RED but leaning more heavily towards the IFTTT/Zapier side of things with tighter integrations, definitely an interesting project.

Yeah, as a Zenfone 9 owner, the 10 basically fixes the few small nitpicks I do have with it. Agreed though, don’t see it ever getting officially supported any more than I do any other non pixels.

Not to mention Pixel phones aren’t available at all in several countries, don’t think I’ve ever seen one myself

As per the documentation, pools are basically just resource groups to make permission management easier, so they aren’t really supposed to handle anything like that. Maybe look into a RAID setup of some sort or mergerfs if you just need file level pooling.

I’m also interested, sure can be tough to find dubs for the fam. Pretty sure we got a few private trackers kicking around but I’m not really familiar with any reliable publicly available source off the top of my head.

I’ve always wanted something like that, very cool!
Any plans to incorporate customizable cloud saves? I’m envisioning listing files and registry keys, maybe fetch a starting point off PCGW to give users an idea of what to expect and whatnot.
Linux client support would be great too, the Steam Deck could make great use of this.

I’ve gone through Gnome 2, Unity, Cinnamon and nowadays tend to favor KDE and honestly, I pretty much always try to replicate a traditional experience no matter which of them I’m using, so pretty much the opposite of what you’re asking, I suppose. I’ll say I did appreciate the top left corner quickly exposing all windows, so that feature I try and replicate whenever possible.

Lol sure does if you ask me. I hadn’t even realized until you brought it up, but Gnome 2 was my first ever DE way back when I tried Ubuntu for the first time nearly decades ago. Time sure flies!

So it sounds to me like you have a IPv4 only address behind CGNAT, which makes port forwarding not work anymore. It’s how my connection is set up, but luckily it does support IPv6 fully and that doesn’t require any forwarding so I make do.
If IPv6 isn’t an option for you or you’d like to access your services from IPv4 only networks, I’d just go with Tailscale myself. I’ve been a happy user for years and it just works so well, should be good in your situation as well.

Yup, that’d also be the case for people like me who stick with Windows for gaming compatibility/convenience reasons and critical GPU features the Linux drivers just don’t implement (looking at you, DLDSR). That, or just anyone with a GPU, I suppose, assuming the hardware market would look remotely like it does nowadays by then.

In my very limited experience with my personal instance, I’ve had to give federation time for it to start working as expected. When I started out, sometimes I wouldn’t find posts or my comments wouldn’t show on the instance a post came from and whatnot, don’t notice that anymore. Could easily be something wonky on my end though, I’m not sure.
One thing that I still find extremely confusing and unintuitive is searching for a not yet federated community doesn’t return any results, but also immediately makes the community visible in the “all” view if it does indeed exist. I was under the impression it’d just show the community link there and then so I assumed it was broken for the longest time, for all I know that’s actually how it’s supposed to go and I still have something broken somewhere lol.

Damn, that’s impressive. You’ve got me beat there for sure!

Thanks, actually it made a big strides towards being less hierarchical, you can put everything in a folder and use internal links now, plus it has relationship links that are very useful some times.

Ah, good to know!

Regarding it using a database instead of a file system it has a bunch of pros but has its cons too, in my opinion there should be a feature were you can use both and if you use the file system in one of your notes, the note is less powerful so that you can use both the database and the the file system.

Yeah, I 100% understand and respect the reasoning behind doing it that way but it’s just not something I can get fully behind myself. As a developer myself, I wouldn’t want to support both code paths so I also get why it isn’t really a priority.

Lastly the phone app is a bit of a sore point for me too, I just write stuff in markdown and then import them in as soon as I can.

That’s fair, do you just use something like Obsidian or GitJournal? I need to look into those at some point.

That all said, I think I’m entrenched too deeply into my current solution to reconsider but I might spin up an instance to check it out. Thanks for the heads-up!

Node-RED is amazing! I find it strikes such a good balance between usability and user friendliness, been using it for automations alongside Home Assistant for a while. Outside of the usual IoT scenarios, you can also use it kinda like Android’s Tasker if you get creative enough, as in for general purpose automation. Closest alternative of sorts I’ve found for PCs so far.

I remember using it to expose my (dumb) keyboard’s RGB lighting as a controllable entity within Home Assistant at some point lol, that was a convoluted setup. Had a Windows PC where Node-RED would call a DIY python script that would then use a library to interface with the keyboard. I then managed to wire that up to HA somehow. Fun little project, for sure.

I used it for a while and right up to the point I actually set it up to give it a go, I’d never even heard of it before. Definitely feels like it flies under the radar.
I loved the idea behind it, but a few points ended up sticking out so I ended up dropping it at some point. Namely, I didn’t like the markdown editor much, plus it was very awkward to use on mobile (which, granted, is an issue with most competitors). I also don’t like how it’s dabatase based, vastly prefer using local markdown files. Plus, it’s more of a personal thing but I came to prefer graph based implementations better than hierarchical ones. Still, really impressive project and I very much appreciate that it’s open source and fully self hostable, not much in the way of competition there when it comes to second brain alternatives.
After exploring a few options, I’ve ended up on Logseq. Shame that one isn’t self hostable, not fully anyway, since last I checked you still need to open a local folder even if you do host it yourself.

Sweet, definitely not a type of implementation I’d expect on top of the fediverse so that makes it even cooler!
Looks super well thought out, especially love the robust import feature and federated book metadata. I’ll have to check it out sometime soon.

As someone who’s used pretty much every solution out there at some point, I have thoughts on the main contenders:

• Traefik is great if you’ve got a purely docker setup. It’s extremely powerful and the dashboard is quite nice, but it’s quite complex and it’s got a lot of moving parts. Docker integration works great but the whole label configuration thing is clunky, and the documentation can be confusing.
• Caddy ingests a dead simple config and just works. Can easily handle cert renewal behind the scenes without you even having to think about it, drop the dynamic DNS one in and you basically have it all covered. There’s even one that gives it Traefik-like capabilities, although I can’t speak for how well it works in practice.
• NPM works great if you’re more of a GUI person, very straightforward and impossible to screw up but a bit more annoying to go off the beaten path imo

Just checked and was able to get it to install on my end, OP might have updated it in the meantime.

It’s a neat project and it definitely helps in specific cases, but I don’t think it’ll change much when it comes to the overall picture because it’d still require coordinated effort by the folks managing their discord servers.
Server admins/mods would have to go out of their way to manually set this up so it’s effectively opt-in, and I have a hunch there isn’t much of an overlap between people who care about open, searchable discussions and people who choose to host them on discord servers. Maybe for discoverability’s sake? Not sure.