I’ll have to give this a shot. I’ve tinkered with Monica a few times over the last several years, but never really stuck with it since their mobile interface wasn’t exactly…good.

Optionally you can also activate the CardDav server to sync contacts to and from your phone.

This right here is going to be incredibly helpful. Manually adding contacts is a serious chore. Syncing with my phone makes that process 100x easier.

I’m not exactly an expert, but I’m comfortable enough that I can figure out most things.

I still prefer a GUI option for a lot of things.

This. OMV is no-nonsense.

Barebones with a wide selection of useful plugins. That’s kinda how OMV operates, and it’s fantastic.

Matter is a shit-tier standard. The fact that big tech companies put their weight behind Matter and that several have already walled it off behind mandatory account creation tells me all I need to know about their intentions with it.

Right on. I actually saw your response to the other person down lower right after posting this 😂

I’m curious to see how you tackle this puzzle. I usually just text myself with this kind of thing, but I know that doesn’t work for everyone…

I find that just texting myself does the trick for things like this. But that’s how I operate. I’m curious to see how you tackle this puzzle.

Edit: disregard

The .io TLD that tech startups love to use is assigned to the British Indian Ocean Territory.

KeePass2Android is a fantastic project. I’ve been using it for 10+ years on my Android devices. Every once in a while I’ll try a different variant, like KeePassDX, but I always return to the spartan look of KP2A. It “just works”, with no extra fluff.

merging changes from different clients is part of the keepass database format and “just works”.

This is the best thing about KeePass in general.

This bit from the heise.de article stood out:

Kiteworks, on the other hand, is less than enthusiastic about – a closed group of developers who are now using the same code in their own company that they already developed under Kiteworks or ownCloud? For Kiteworks, this smells like poaching, so the company is going on the offensive: in an interview with heise online, Kiteworks CEO Jonathan Yaron stated that he intends to sue Peer Heinlein under German and US law: “We love open source, but we won’t let anyone steal from us”.

facepalm

I’m hesitant about OpenCloud. Their parent company is Heinlein Group, whom I know nothing about, nor can I find anything about their reputation. The website uses a lot of marketing fluff, which puts me off already.

I’ve been using KeePass for almost 20 years now, used to host the database on Google Drive. I started using Syncthing about a year or so ago, including Syncthing-Fork on my Android devices. It’s nearly flawless - I sync the database across 6 devices (two phones, two laptops, gaming PC, NAS [which is backed up regularly]), so there is the occasional conflict maybe once every few months, but I think that’s more user error than anything else. It’s fairly easy to resolve since Syncthing clearly labels the affected file.

It’s very important to remember that “Syncthing-Fork” IS NOT the official Syncthing project. Syncthing-Fork uses Syncthing under the hood while providing a mobile-friendly wrapper.

Edit - Re: Syncthing Fork “drama”:

Catfriend1 (the original maintainer of Syncthing-fork) recently put in their 2 cents.

TL;DR - The new dev is fine.

For me personally, the fact that 1) devs from both F-Droid and Syncthing itself have reviewed and confirmed that the code is safe, and 2) the original maintainer vouched for the new guy, is good enough for me. There will always be those who refuse to trust anything, even from the original developer, and they are often the most vocal about it - i.e. the “vocal minority”. Whether or not you want to listen to their criticisms is up to you. IMO, they’re just beating a dead horse.

Aegis Authenticator hits every one of your points. I know because I have the same requirements for a TOTP application.

I also use KeePass for all of my passwords. KeePass can do TOTP, but I prefer that to remain separate.

Hmmm.

Under LMDE7, the HP Spectre does great with the games I’ve thrown at it so far (BeamNG.Drive, Hollow Knight, Factorio, Universe Simulator, Minecraft, etc), but despite exceeding the minimum specs, it really struggled with running anything in RPCS3. Stuttering, frame drops, graphics simply not loading, etc… I ended up writing off RPCS3 in general as “too heavy for a laptop” and tasked my desktop gaming PC as the dedicated PS3 emulator - works great.

Sounds like I might have to give Bazzite a shot again on the HP. I use that laptop for a lot of things, including diagnostics software for my cars, but I also have a perfectly-capable AMD Thinkpad T14 G1 hanging around that needs a purpose, too.

It was Space Engineers 2. Even made a post about the journey.

What was the actual issue you ran into though? I didn’t see it in your post. I believe you, but my curiosity is piqued.

It’s a bit buried in the documentation, but

Frigate summed up perfectly in a single statement.

Wonderful application, awfully convoluted documentation.

I’ve yet to run into major issues with gaming. But I’m curious what issue you ran into that caused the switch to Bazzite? I actually tried Bazzite briefly on my latest laptop acquisition (HP Spectre x360) before going with LMDE 7; I didn’t like the immutable aspect. I’m a tinkerer at heart and can’t handle not being able to get under the hood, so to speak.

Yep. Debian. I like apt, and I like shit that just…works. I’m very much a form after function kind of person. Plus, Debian was the first Linux distro I became most familiar with at a young age. So what if a bunch of packages are on “old” versions. They work. The kernel works. KDE Plasma works. I can do everything I want to do without having to constantly be on the bleeding edge. If you prefer newer things, that’s great. I prefer older, more proven things. That’s also why I drive Toyota cars and old Honda motorcycles.

My Proxmox cluster runs…uh…Proxmox, which is based on Debian. NAS runs OMV which also runs on top of Debian. Laptops all run Linux Mint Debian Edition 7, and my 5800X3D/7900XTX gaming PC runs LMDE6 (will be upgrading to 7 soon). The only non-Debian machines in my house are my wife’s iMac and Macbook Pro, and the Home Assistant mini PC.

Whatever happened to vBulletin? That was peak forum software. Simple to use, no frills, and no bloated tracking shit.

All the car community forums are operated by Fora at this point, and they’re trying to push some bullshit AI assistant called “ForaFrank”. I blocked it on every car forum I’m a part of, and have encouraged others to do the same.

I just remembered that I have a Wyze Doorbell v1 flashed with Thingino sitting on my desk. It was going to be my next test before my wife vetoed Frigate (she gets final say if it replaces something she uses).

Pretty sure Thingino supports ONVIF. My FIL has a UDR with Unifi Protect, I can try it with that.