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Quick takeaways
- Using modular components in home automation setups can simplify troubleshooting and replacements.
- Fresh RSS is a self-hosted RSS feed aggregator with a user-friendly interface.
- The choice between Jellyfin and Plex depends on personal preferences and specific use cases, considering concerns surrounding Plex's data scraping and business model.
Deep dives
Managing Home Automation Setup Issues
It can be frustrating when something goes wrong with your home automation setup, such as a controller malfunctioning or a light bulb refusing to work. However, a possible solution is to use modular components, like an LED light strip with a replaceable controller, to make troubleshooting and replacements easier. This approach is especially useful if you have many devices and want to avoid major disruptions or extensive system changes. By planning ahead and choosing modular devices, you can minimize the impact of failures and simplify maintenance.
Improving User Interface and Organization with Fresh RSS
Fresh RSS is a self-hosted RSS feed aggregator that provides a clean and intuitive interface for managing and reading your favorite blogs and content. It allows you to import and organize feeds from various sources, including podcasts, and offers features such as easy navigation, mass editing of feed names, and quick access to related entities. With its responsive design and convenient integration options, Fresh RSS provides a powerful tool for staying up to date with your preferred online content.
Combining Jellyfin with Plex for Media Streaming
While Jellyfin offers a self-hosted media streaming solution with excellent offline capabilities, there are instances where Plex can provide a more reliable experience. Plex's robust feature set and broad platform support make it a suitable choice for remote streaming and watch-along sessions. However, it's essential to remain mindful of the concerns surrounding Plex's data scraping and business model. Ultimately, the choice between Jellyfin and Plex relies on personal preferences and specific use cases.
Benefits of using Nix for system configuration
Nix allows for easy system configuration by storing all necessary information in a single file. It provides reproducibility by maintaining a repository with every version of packages, making it ideal for developers building development environments. Nix also allows for mixing stable and unstable versions of packages, providing flexibility while managing dependencies.
Simplicity and advantages of Nix config over Nix flakes
Nix config offers a simple and easy-to-understand approach to system configuration compared to the more complex Nix flakes. While flakes provide hermetic sealing and reproducibility, the steep learning curve and lack of standardized solutions may discourage newcomers. Nix config, on the other hand, offers sufficient flexibility and already offers more than other distributions. Overall, Nix OS provides a managed and controlled Linux experience, reducing the need for manual troubleshooting and offering a streamlined configuration process.
Alex shares a suite of self-hosted apps that replace Reddit. Chris is struggling with Jellyfin, and we discuss where NixOS is killing it and where we think it falls down.
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Links:
- ⚡ Alby: Your Boost companion for the web — Create an Alby Account to get a lightning wallet for payments wherever you go.
- ⚡ Self-Hosted on the Podcastindex.org — Send a Boost into the show via the web. First, top-up Alby, then head over to our entry on the Podcast Index.
- wallabag — wallabag is a web application allowing you to save web pages for later reading. Click, save and read it when you want. It extracts content so that you won't be distracted by pop-ups and cie.
- wallabag/docker: Official docker-composer for wallabag.
- FreshRSS, a free, self-hostable feeds aggregator — FreshRSS is a self-hosted RSS and Atom feed aggregator.
- linuxserver/freshrss - Docker Image | Docker Hub
- Selfhosted show wiki: The official Wiki of the selfhosted.show Podcast. — This repository contains the backend for the Self-Hosted podcast wiki.
- dust: A more intuitive version of du in rust — du + rust = dust. Like du but more intuitive.
- duf: Disk Usage/Free Utility - a better 'df' alternative — Disk Usage/Free Utility (Linux, BSD, macOS & Windows)
- dua-cli: View disk space usage and delete unwanted data, fast. — dua (-> Disk Usage Analyzer) is a tool to conveniently learn about the usage of disk space of a given directory. It's parallel by default and will max out your SSD, providing relevant information as fast as possible. Optionally delete superfluous data, and do so more quickly than rm.
- Nixhub.io | A Nix Packages Registry — Search over 400,000 granular versions of nix packages
- The NixOS Foundation's Call to Action: S3 Costs Require Community Support — TL;DR - Kicking off an effort to secure long-term funding for our S3 costs and exploring alternatives. This comes after multiple years where Logicblox has been graciously sponsoring the S3 costs for Nix! An enormous thank you to them.
- Alex's configuration.nix
- Postmoogle · GitLab — An Email to Matrix bridge. 1 room = 1 mailbox.
- The Everything App — Imagine an app where you can do everything.
- Self-hosting - any tech docs — This article will help you to self-host Any-Sync on your own infrastructure for personal use and configure Anytype clients to work with your nodes.
- Outline – Team knowledge base & wiki — Lost in a mess of Docs? Never quite sure who has access? Colleagues requesting the same information repeatedly in chat? It’s time to get your team’s knowledge organized.
- Taiga — For cross-functional agile teams to work effectively
- planka: The realtime kanban board for workgroups built with React and Redux. — Elegant open source project tracking
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