I didn’t love the idea of the Proton basket for all my eggs. Besides I already self host alternatives to the whole g-suite, so I didn’t have the need for a drop in replacement. So I went with Fastmail. I am a huge fan of the alias and masked email options, and beyond those it works as expected for an email service. The mobile apps are decent, and I was able to get them on a de-googled android device. No complaints.

Great music choice. Free Ireland. Free Palestine.

Something something something China bad. It’s a bit overblown, but there was some drama about the dev earlier in its lifespan. I think something to do with not all of its code being open source? Like the official servers were running a closed version or something. I’m definitely butchering the information. It’s good software and works as intended.

I personally use Sunshine and Moonlight, but not because I have any particular problem with RustDesk, just couldn’t get it working well, and Sunshine also works for in house game streaming if I want.

Unfortunately can’t help with Ableton specifically, but I’ve been using Ardour for some audio tinkering and from what I can tell it’s free and pretty full featured…

I’m not remembering the exact name, but there is a self hosted “FindMy” alternative type thing. I’m pretty sure it includes breadcrumb style tracking and a whole bunch of other datapoints. Could probably just reference the csv from an interface designed for runners.

No quite Fedi, but could be incorporated…

+1 for btm

Idk, something about its name really resonates with me 🤣

I low key predicted this a few months ago when GPUs were all the craze, and balled out on 128 gigs of ram for my primary PC. No regrets now.

Ohhhh! Right! I remember reading a post about that now you say it.

swww is good for this as well!

I don’t know if this is the kind of feature that really fits Lemmy. I feel like it would be better suited as part of a video streaming platform or a stand alone piece of software. Owncast is a self hosted live streaming platform. Just keep in mind that you will essentially be running an IPTV service, which broadcasters really don’t like and if it gets big enough you might get a knock on your door.

Thanks for the kind words! Good luck to you too! I’m white, so honestly my day to day as a trans person is pretty neutral (not for long probably), it’s just odd being around people that I know struggle with actually seeing people as they want to be seen, especially when they knew the “old” you.

I’m unmedicated (working on it) and work is brutal. It doesn’t help that I disagree at a deep philosophical level with a lot of the people I work with, and I’m trans sill working the job and with the people I actively transitioned around. Every day is a fucking marathon. Only saving grace is that for half my day I’m able to wear headphones and am doing something that is both very physical and somewhat creative. That alone makes me want to keep the job even though the pay is shit (the reason I’m not medicated).

Dropping to the display manager would kill your desktop session, as far as I know. I think what you maybe want is Hyprlock. Setup whatever style you want, and than spawn both the Hyprlock daemon and activate it on login.

I already use Unix pass as my password manager and have a private git server for it. Is there a nice way to get that working with secrets in my config? I know that directly goes against the suggestion of SSH vs GPG, but I’ve already got lots of data saved within that system.

Lots of good suggestions from people, and replying individually was going to be a mess. Please see the comment I added.

Lots of good suggestions from people, and replying individually was going to be a mess. Please see the comment I added.

Lots of good suggestions from people, and replying individually was going to be a mess. Please see the comment I added.

Lots of good suggestions from people, and replying individually was going to be a mess. Please see the comment I added.

Lots of good suggestions from people, and replying individually was going to be a mess. Please see the comment I added.

God, I wish I could just do like a live coding session with a group to explain what I know and like and how to translate that into flakes and hm. Lots of good info and suggestions from everyone, but I feel I could explain myself better with my system in front of me. I get the flakes concept of locking a program to a particular version. I like that idea, but I also think I’m still in a stage of building out my system, discovering which packages I want. And I understand home manager is for handling my home folder and config within nix.

I can’t place it, but for some reason I don’t mind my config files living in .config, and keeping my system (for now) up to date and running the latest version of most software. That being said I of course see the value in both of these in the long term, especially as I work to build out a config I can install on all my systems and automatically toggles the correct modules based on device and user. I want that, but my repeat failure to get the flakes I want working, working, tells me I need to learn more base nix before I tackle that.

In fact I could tell I learned a lot when I had to figure out how to remove flakes and hm when I kind of got them working. While I had moved my config into home manager, I also broke a bunch of other things, rendering enough of my desktop environment non-functional (audio mostly lol), that I needed to do something. The solution I knew I could pull off was completely rewriting my config as a sort of in between of my single file Hyprland based config, to a directory of files and niri. Learning to properly import other files, learning about needing to include default.nix and how I can toggle which files are imported very easily with comments. The broader nix ecosystem started to make more sense.

I finally got good about using git, I made a folder structure that makes a lot of sense to me as far as parts of my config that are interoperable or machine specific. It’s clicking. I know the next step from that is probably flakes and hm, but again, the last time I tried to add those to my config, I broke way more than I fixed.

I feel just dumb enough with this that I’m not sure I’m comfortable sharing my config publicly yet. For example I haven’t implemented a secrets setup, so things like my syncthing IDs are in my config still.

As far as clearer goals. I’d like a config I can distribute across 3 machines (for now).

• A desktop running niri, and kind of for fun as much other rust based software as possible (iron bar, helix, etc.). I know there will have to be exceptions, but it’s been fun engaging with a lot of recent work using rust.
• A home server/nas/router using Podman for containers like Tailscale/wireguard, Jellyfin, audiobookshelf and such. If this can also handle my pihole/local dns and firewall that would be awesome, but I also have a RespberryPi I can dedicate to those.
• A living room PC that boots straight to steam big picture, and has all the emulator platforms I could ask for.

There’s many more thoughts prancing around in my head, but I don’t know how to prompt them.