Tiles are just BLE, they’re pretty dumb devices that basically just broadcast a BLE ID.

But there are dedicated standalone GPS trackers that use LTE/5G, the downside is you need a SIM card and data plan, and they are a lot bigger with shorter battery life.

Ah, yeah MX might not be the best choice of a distro for ease of use.

Yeah just copy the files to your games folder and run it from there, leave a copy for the torrent client.

Just pick the webserver you want (nginx, caddy, etc…) and check the docs for Debian instructions since that’s what MX Linux is.

Firefox or Ironfox with uBlock Origin? That’s how I use Youtube on mobile.

I want someone to prove his LLM can be as insightful and accurate as paid one.

Why would someone do that for you when they’re happy using their local LLM?

I think making it as easy and feature packed as the big commercial apps and services would go a long way.

Right now asking someone to switch to a more private service/app is not only the work of switching over, but also learning an often much more complex system.

Likely they were not allowed to by the terms they agreed to with apple.

I generally just use latest for most services. For critical stuff I pin the major version number. Also anything that doesn’t gracefully handle major version updates like Postgres and similar.

If something breaks I fix it, or restore from the nightly backup if I can’t.

Yup, I treat the ‘3’ as 3 copies of data, so the first copy is just my working system, and the other 2 are various backups.

Basically a backup is a point in time snapshot that you can restore from. So you’d run backups daily or multiple times per day and can easily get back deleted or changed files.

Whereas with a sync service if you delete that file or change it, the original is gone and you can’t get it back. Some will have versions and trash cans, which gives you some limited ability to restore.

Adguard Home has been absolutely rock solid for me, and it offers DoT and DoH servers so you can easily connect devices over those protocols if you want to.

You can do it with any router by manually configuring devices, but one that lets you advertise the PiHole IP as the DHCP DNS option makes it a lot easier.

Well one thing to point out is nextcloud and other sync programs are not backups, they’re sync software.

But syncthing would work fine for keeping changes in sync between systems.

That seems like a rather critical feature to have missing!

Well whatever the equivalent is lol, I didn’t see the last little line on the post.

apt autoremove will do it. Just double check what it’s removing for obvious problems.

Do you need nextcloud? Its resource heavy and slow on the best of days.

So if not you could run syncthing plus a web based file browser, and immich or similar for photos.

Always have backups! Doesnt matter what OS you use, stuff will break eventually.

I prefer bootable full system images to my NAS for easy restores, and online file backups, both running daily.

Just click skip? They just use it for traffic notifications on maps and stuff.