This game and Cities Skylines… I’ve banned myself from them lest I become a complete goblin.

Minecraft was actually bought by Microsoft from the original creator who had similar views, if you catch my drift.

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/04/online-conduct-leaves-markus-notch-persson-out-of-minecraft-10th-anniversary/

Dude was promptly scrubbed by big corpo.

Tailscale -> Headscale after you get comfy.

These services are a scam.

I’ve felt like Courage the Cowardly Dog until the last year or two.

I, for one, feel a lot less crazy now that people are seeing what I have been seeing for a long time. I hear about it more even from old folks, my in laws now ask more questions as do my own parents. That gives me a lot of hope. Change is inevitable.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44287043

StirlingPDF is basically 1 size fits all.

StirlingPDF does this. I’ll dm you the one I host for my writing group.

You can pick the project you want to participate in. :)

Because of a few strategically placed wait commands.

Reddit feels like walking into a creepy anamatronic exibit alone at night. You keep looking for someone to ask where the exit is, and occasionally you bump into another warm blooded creature that is sometimes human, but you slowly start to realise that most of those shadowy figures aren’t alive. You’re trapped there until you start listening for the real music softly calling below the ambient noise of the exhibit in the distance.

Thanks for your baby! It’s great.

Can you expand on these later when you have time?

I was using it for auto tagging of categories. I haven’t tried immich but I just moved my photos to my snapraid, so I might give it a shot. It looks like it’s come far since I looked last.

I just introduced my partner to this a week ago. Trying to slowly convert him into a Linux user haha. It works with Windows too!

Media & Content Management

• FreshRSS - Self-hosted RSS feed aggregator with multi-user support, mobile API, and custom tags.
• AudioBookShelf - Self-hosted audiobook and podcast server with mobile apps and progress syncing across devices.
• PhotoPrism - AI-powered photo management platform with facial recognition, geo-tagging, and automatic organization.
• Jellyfin - Free media server for streaming movies, TV shows, music, and photos with no licensing restrictions.
• Karakeep - Personal data backup and synchronization tool for maintaining local copies of online content. AI tagging, lists, easy to use interface. Really good stuff, especially combined with a browser plugin.

Productivity, Documents & Task Management

• Vikunja - Task management app with Kanban boards, Gantt charts, multiple views, and team collaboration features.
• Memos - Self-hosted memo hub for capturing and sharing thoughts with markdown support.
• Docker Obsidian - Containerized version of Obsidian knowledge management app for browser access.
• Stirling PDF - Comprehensive PDF manipulation tool with 50+ operations including merge, split, convert, and OCR.
• Paperless-ngx - Document management system with OCR, tagging, and full-text search capabilities.
• LanguageTool - Grammar and spell checking service with support for multiple languages and integration APIs.

Good Deeds

• Archive Team Warrior - Docker container for contributing computing power to internet archiving projects.

Yea this is great ty!

Aside from ones listed here:

System Tools

• WinApps - Run Windows applications seamlessly integrated into your Linux desktop environment, like native including Adobe products.
• Waydroid - Run Android applications in a container on Linux with full hardware access.
• Topgrade - Upgrade all your system packages and dependencies in one command.
• AM (AppImage Manager) - Easy AppImage management for installing, updating, and organizing portable applications.
• Starship - Fast, customizable cross-platform shell prompt with Git integration and status indicators.
• InShellisense - IDE-style IntelliSense autocomplete and suggestions for your terminal.
• Tabby - Modern terminal emulator with tabs, split panes, and extensive customization options.
• Zeit - Qt GUI frontend for scheduling tasks using at and crontab utilities.
• KWin Minimize2Tray - KDE extension that allows minimizing windows to the system tray instead of taskbar.
• Flameshot - Feature-rich screenshot tool with built-in annotation and editing capabilities.
• CopyQ - Advanced clipboard manager with searchable history and custom scripting support.
• Safing Portmaster - Free open-source application firewall with per-app network control, DNS-over-TLS, and system-wide ad/tracker blocking.

Productivity Tools

• DSNote - Offline speech-to-text, text-to-speech and translation app for note-taking.
• NAPS2 - User-friendly document scanning application with OCR and PDF creation capabilities.
• Morphosis - Simple document converter supporting PDF, Markdown, HTML, DOCX and more formats.
• Obsidian - Powerful knowledge management app with bidirectional linking and graph visualization.
• BeeRef - Minimalist reference image viewer designed for artists and designers.

Media & Entertainment

• Popcorn Time - Stream movies and TV shows via torrent with built-in media player.
• Nicotine+ - Modern Soulseek P2P client for sharing and discovering music files.
• XnView - Versatile image viewer, organizer, and converter supporting hundreds of formats.

Happy to list out the self hosted stuff too if there is interest.