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I think it comes from the fact that a lot of communities and projects use Discord basically like they would with IRC, with voice chats often not even existing in some servers. I have to assume the people who recommend Matrix are only ever in that kind of server.

I’m in 2 or 3 servers with different friend groups and of course each one is full of friends of friends of friends. Even the smallest is over 30 people, but I only regularly join VC with 3-4. If I had to call all of them to be in a voice call I would literally never do it.

Same goes for chats, in Matrix the closest things to channels and servers is rooms and spaces. The difference is that you don’t join a space, you just view rooms in the space and join them. Most of my servers have a ton of different channels for different things, I want to be able to see what happens in all of them without having to join each one, announcing to them that I’ve joined.

I like Matrix for FOSS project discussions, but I don’t think it’ll ever be the right pick for just hanging out with friends.

This is just a link to the branding repo. There isnt much to maintain in there.

Drop-in voice channels are a requirement for a discord alternative, Matrix does not have them. AFAIK you still need to call an entire channel to start a voice chat.

Ngl I did not think about that at all. There are loads of sites with social in the name, like the flagship mastodon instance.

It seems kinda silly to stop using social as in the name for social websites because of them.

Theyre currently completely reimplementing it, so maybe itll be better once thats done.

Heliboard is the best I’ve used. Florisboard is great if you like swipe typing.

Yeah, I wasn’t trying to say SQLite is universally better. I shouldn’t have said best option, I really meant best default. I don’t think the majority of users are running a central db, most will just spin-up docker compose files for each service and end up with multiple SQL versions running.

I’ve had a lot of problems in the past from software crashes that left sqlite files in a corrupt state

I have had this issue, but it was always easily recoverable. I haven’t had the same issues with backups, although a lot of the software I use that’s running SQLite has a builtin backup feature, then I just backup that directory to a cloud service.

Besides that SQLite really doesn’t play nice with NFS, which is the basis for quite a few cloud storage providers. Also a good point, I just don’t think the majority of users are using NFS for their DBs.

When an app is using an ORM already, I think they might as well make sure it supports both SQLite and a hosted DB like Postgres

SQLite doesnt require you to have any service running, the DB is just stored in a file which the program accesses through an SQLite library. I think its the best option for selfhosted software, as its very lightweight and more than performant enough for 99% of these use cases.

Do you know if it will work with SQLite? I’d like to try it but I hate spinning up more postgres instances

Those media management apps look great. Sonarr and Radarr have both annoyed me a bit recently, I’ll definitely be looking into them.

Thanks for the info! For some reason I had thought VoidAuth also only used passkeys, not sure where I got that lol. I’ll definitely give it a try when I have the chance. I want to look into creating a NixOS module for it.

I am glad you like the interface and logo, it is inspired by my own black cat who right at this very moment is yelling for pets 😹

Cute, I’m writing this with my black cat sitting next to me :)

Its a design choice of Navidrome: https://www.navidrome.org/docs/faq/#-how-can-i-edit-my-music-metadata-id3-tags-how-can-i-renamemove-my-files

Is there any feature comparison between this and pocket-id? I think they fill a very similar gap, but I’m tempted to try VoidAuth, mainly cause the aesthetic is way cuter imo

I also just started the process of migrating to a self hosted music server. I’m using navidrome, but a big feature I want is being able to easily add custom tags to songs that I can later use to search and filter for what I want. Navidrome will only open your library in read-only, which is a smart security measure, but means it cant support this. I’m going to try Koel next and see how that goes.

Fair enough, I just don’t want others to read that and assume the software is unreasonably hard to learn.

If you haven’t tried FreeCAD and are just going off sentiment you’ve seen online, I’d recommend you give it a try. It’s a good program, just a different workflow. Lots of people just refuse to learn it, instead trying to force a workflow from whatever software they used before. When I was a complete beginner, I was able to make multiple functional prints in a couple of hours with MangoJelly’s videos. I was also trying both it and Onshape at the time, and preferred FreeCAD in the end.

It’s really your only option besides Blender if you want something FOSS. The most recent release also improved a ton of things, and it’ll just keep improving.

You could also take a look at AstoCAD, a soft fork of FreeCAD by one of the maintainers. It’s 4€/month a month to get the binary, otherwise you’ll have to build it yourself. The money of course goes towards helping develop FreeCAD. The main upside is UI polish, but that comes at the cost of having a different UI than pretty much any tutorial online, so I’d still recommend at least starting with FreeCAD.

Edit: fixed wrong word, grammar

Sounds like either the video you watched was badly made enough that they didnt even use the out of the box configuration, or you were using a completely different freecad version than in the video. Either way that hardly sounds like freecads fault. I watched MangoJellys guides and have had zero issues making models.

I have all my services behind a reverse proxy and use Crowdsec to monitor and block automated attacks. I also have pocket-id for auth, I use SSO for apps that support it and others just require authentication to access them at all. The docs are pretty solid, it was easy to set up.

Make sure you know the services running on your server, the most likely way you could get attacked is by just leaving some vulnerable or misconfigured software running and accessible.

Also I’d probably set up account lockouts on any software you can, I know Jellyfin supports it.

If your goal is simply having a backup then Immich is probably overkill. Why not just use something like Syncthing?

Looks nice! I’m getting it set up on an old Pi right now for a new media center in my basement.