Going back through my github issues/comments, it was around May 2024 with the v1.105.0 release was my last attempt.

I’m happy to hear it is stable now, I’ll probably give it a shot again here soon. Again, I loved the app and I was hosting it for friends/family to share photos of my kids, so it helped immensely with everyone collaborating with uploads(though mobile uploads for individual photos wasn’t available at that time, had to direct people to use the website…).

To be fair I don’t think I used the docker installation back then, so I’ll probably make a stack for it this time around.

Way too late, at least for me.

I’ve switched over to CachyOS on three devices. My main laptop, a spare laptop(for the wife to try), and a gaming PC. All three are great and easy to use. No stupid pop ups, no AI, and I don’t have to worry about it not booting up compared to Windows(which this was the opposite 10 years ago!).

At this point even if they make a great OS and call it Windows 12 I have zero faith that they won’t reverse and make Windows 13 terrible.

At least with Linux I have a dozen or so options to choose from and they all work just fine. So if CachyOS becomes terrible(doubt) then I’ll switch to something else.

At this point Windows needs to go above and beyond and be stable for YEARS and multiple versions before I switch back, which big doubt.

This is what we use Jira Service Management for at work(break/fix tickets), but Jira, the core software, is used for stuff like code development.

Not sure what use case OP has for Jira specifically, but I could see it being beneficial for a homelab where you’re building out docker containers manually or tracking your own coding projects or you want an (overkill) way to do project management for your homelab.

I really want to use Immich but I’ve installed it 3 different times and each time an upgrade completely breaks my installation and I spend hours troubleshooting. And yes, I read the patch notes and do whatever changes they mark in bold red as a warning.

It’s amazing when it works and they’re doing a great job at adding features, but my God does it break if you just look at it wrong.

Didn’t the CEO say he wouldn’t even eat that shit?

Since others were posting end of life style docs, here is another: https://www.erikdewey.com/bigbook.htm

Cloud options:

• Microsoft Azure offers credits for edu emails I think, and I think you can renew it annually. Also check their B1 servers. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/students
• Google free tiers: https://docs.cloud.google.com/free/docs/free-cloud-features#free-tier
• AWS | Not sure on this one, their website is confusing, but look into it: https://aws.amazon.com/education/awseducate/
• GitHub “student developer pack” https://education.github.com/pack
• Oracle cloud “always free” options, bottom of this page: https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/
• InterServer(never heard of them before) offers 1 year of web hosting: https://my.interserver.net/student_signup.php

Self-Host locally options:

Honestly you can probably find a N100 or N150 miniPC online for cheap, like $200 USD or less. Install Proxmox(or just install Ubuntu or whatever), install Docker+DockHand, and then install Tailscale and from your laptop/computer with Tailscale on it. You’ll be able to remotely access it, spin up whatever servers you want, and I doubt your campus IT will even see anything due to the tailnet mesh.

If you’re not living on campus, then even better, just self host your own stuff.

without taking 30% cut

Sorry I must have missed something, do you happen to have a PC game distribution platform that has even half the features Steam does and takes less than 30%?

No?

Cool, just making sure.

Traitors are executed

It’s like that one video with the cop dropping to the ground doing barrel rolls and shouting shots fired, when an acorn fell and hit the roof of a car.

Bunch of untrained morons.

3 arm Tux, nice!

It’s all in moderation. Eating 8 or so eggs scrambled every morning probably isn’t healthy for you either. But 2-3 eggs, some toast with decent butter, and some fruit is more sensible. Maybe swap it with yogurt and granola one morning.

Personally if I’m even hungry in the morning I go light and have plain toast, or I get a loaf of rosemary sourdough from the store and have that untoasted. If I’m hungry I do the yogurt combo.

My main pet peeve is cooking and eating for hours…I don’t feel like cooking breakfast for 1-2 hours(pancakes from scratch, eggs, bacon, etc.) and then eat for another hour and now it’s already lunch time and I still haven’t cleaned up from breakfast.

If I do a “lumberjack” type of breakfast then I go out to eat because I ain’t dealing with the kitchen for that lol.

And it worked fine with finding the game’s folder under .steam?

I mostly mod Bethesda games, so MO2 is the defacto and it’s what I default to. So I’m kicking myself right now for not trying other mod managers if MO2 just wasn’t the right tool for the job…

I loathe gnome, so whenever I recommend “Ubuntu” I always specify Kubuntu for that reason.

The average joe has no idea what “desktop environment” means and will not understand how you can just swap DE’s even. So starting them off with Kubuntu specifically is ideal IMO.

Ubuntu is fine for grandma, or even Mint, but someone born in the last 40 years will probably appreciate Plasma more.

If you’re really wanting to use “Ubuntu” but don’t want any of the standard options then PopOS is fine from my experience.

I haven’t tried modding on Linux in a while, so seeing “SteamOS” support is nice to see as that probably means proton support.

Last time I tried modding Fallout New Vegas on Linux…it didn’t end well.

Not sure why anyone is still using Verizon.

US Mobile has access to their networks and it’s cheaper. Same service. Been with USM for nearly 2 years now. My parents and siblings all switched over too. Moved our numbers over with zero issues.

Verizon not in your area? Cool, USM also has access to T-Mobile and ATT.

People need to learn to shop around, especially in the current economy we’re in.

Yeah and the stuff releasing right now will be “old hardware” in 5 years.

I’m still gaming on a Ryzen 1700X. And my GPU is a used RTX 3080 I bought off eBay for $500 two years ago.

That 3080 was over $1000 during the GPU craze last time. And what was I using before that 3080? A 1080ti I bought at MSRP, which I still have and is my backup because hey, it’s nearly 10 years old and still works.

I’m not saying go buy a dual core Pentium, but “old hardware” isn’t some boogeyman and “we will eventually not have old computers” is like saying we’ll never have old cars.

And guess what, if everyone stopped buying all this overpriced crap then prices would come down, but we all know that isn’t going to happen.

Great post and I agree 100%!

something new shows up

Doesn’t even have to be a new thing either. Video games are still used as a scapegoat. Same as with music, and TV shows, and movies.

The “internet” is still killing teenagers because of social media bullying.

I wished our lawmakers were of a less senile age so we can write and pass more appropriate laws for this stuff…but not much we can do.

And new computers can break.

Might as well never buy anything because everything can break!

This is where I’m at. I’m selling off some old DDR3 RAM I have and I’m hanging onto my DDR4 stuff and systems.

Just bought a 3700X to replace an aging Ryzen 1700X. $100 on eBay, so not bad.

For your 5800X if it does die(*knock on wood) then at least you can snag a 5700X or 5800X on eBay for $200. Hopefully that stays consistent.