This is why 95% of my communication at work (that isn’t just banter) is via text and/or email.

Why do you want to ditch KeePass? I use it with Syncthing between at least six different devices without an issue.

The other maintainer, nel0x (who does the Play Store releases), has started distributing a degoogled version of their own. nel0x is arguably more trustworthy.

Could you tell me more about the non standard implementation? Coz I just use composerize to convert docker run commands to compose (or if I find compose files then hooray!) and pop those into portainer. Seems to work fine.

Portainer is generally fine, but if you decide to migrate away from it, you will basically need to rebuild your whole compose stack setup.

I don’t like that a lot of features seem to be hidden behind a costly subscription, but thems the brakes.

Yeah, that was a big reason I moved away from it myself. They used to be way more flexible, but started really clamping down on free users a few years ago.

As for proxmox… is it lighter weight than Debian?

Proxmox uses Debian as its base OS, and since Proxmox is built to run full VMs, it isn’t really comparable to running Docker containers on bare metal. You can run multiple Docker stacks inside a VM (including Portainer) - I do this with several VMs. But running a full VM inside a hypervisor on top of already-stressed hardware is probably a tall ask. So in your case, I would stick to Debian with Docker on bare metal.

The other thing I’m curious about - are you running a desktop environment on this machine? Or is it running headless? A DE will take up a lot of resources that the N5095 is already short on, and that CPU isn’t exactly a great contender for streaming, either… It tends to fall on it’s face if running much more than a single stream - including other services.

Portainer is just a docker container that manages other Docker containers. IMO, it’s going down the enshittification hole. They chose to use a non-standard implementation of compose files, so you’re stuck using Portainer unless you reconfigure your whole setup.

Proxmox, by contrast, is a hypervisor meant to run VMs and LXCs. The Proxmox devs have explicitly stated that nothing else should be running outside of it.

Home Assistant.

If you want smart devices but not the data collection that goes with it, then Home Assistant is your friend. Just be forewarned that it is a seriously deep rabbit hole.

My only gripe is that there isn’t a good Android app to go with it. I’d like to receive notifications on my phone, too.

Home Assistant can do notifications for Frigate that are very similar to Ring’s notifications.

Adderall and Zoloft for me.

I use Home Assistant’s own Connect ZBT-1 and ZHA. It works well with my ~40 zigbee devices.

I used to run Wyze bulbs over wifi, but they were too unreliable and didn’t always respond to commands. Switched to ZigBee with Thirdreality bulbs, they respond much quicker and are far more reliable than the Wyze bulbs ever were.

Instructions unclear, stairs are now impassable.

Oh no!

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Fair.

This is part of why I have a robot vacuum. Press a button on my phone, done.

Then it eats the socks that my kids didn’t pick up like I asked…

Me: “Ah, I’m finally set in this routine”

My brain: “lol what routine”

It’s the fact that you have a calendar you check regularly; whatever service you use is irrelevant. Before smartphones were a thing, paper-based planner books were the go-to. If it wasn’t in the planner, it didn’t exist.

This is the kind of attitude that drives people away from open source.

Yes, people should read the manual, but at some point they will have questions, and there are a lot of projects that aren’t clear on certain things. Such as YAML changes.

Oh fuck off, dipshits. You chose this route despite the community that built you.

Could it be a competitor for that particular product? Hired some foreign entity to hit anything related to their own product?