Maybe you can use some client to navigate your share in a more pleasant way instead of hosting something new? I never tried that so I can’t recommend anything for that unfortunately

If you are already hosting Nextcloud, the Memories app might fit your needs well.

Immich definitely isn’t a bad option either. It doesn’t take ton of resources, has a clean user interface and is multiplatform. Just like Coolie4 said, you can just try it out with a small collection first before committing to anything.

If you don’t want them on cloud providers because you’re not comfortable them being able to see those pictures, you can also pay for Ente.

Self hosting Ente is also an option, which is what I use for my family

You might also be able to get away with hosting something like Seafile and use directories as albums. But you won’t get random shuffling in that case (My bad I can’t read. This isn’t much better than what you’re doing currently)

Don’t tell me you actually read through the millions of lines of driver code in the Linux kernel

The Bitwarden client, extension and app keep those locally as well. So unless you have a prolonged power outage, you should be fine. Though if you don’t have anyone you need to share passwords with I’d recommend KeepassXC with Syncthing. You can set keybindings with the browser extension

Heyhey, nice overview, though on the “just works” thing on atomic/immutable distros I want to say that that’s not the case by virtue of a system being atomic.
I’m on Fedora Atomic (which Bazzite layers on) and the codecs you’d expect being on there aren’t because of licensing (just like all of Fedora’s distros).
I also don’t believe Fedora Atomic does anything in particular in regards to drivers. So the advantages you’re talking about are there because of the people who worked on Bazzite.

On breakage, it’s definitely not a bad thing for a system to *gently* push users into installing software in user space and with some isolation, but it’s far from a requirement for a stable system.

And if you’re going to be layering everything anyway (so installing basically only installing using rpm-ostree), you’re not gaining much by choosing an atomic distribution. Those layers can conflict like with any other distro packages

Fedora KDE, which I ran for almost a year, has not given me any issues except for the codecs which I had to install myself.
It’s actually more of a pain to get codecs to work on Fedora Atomic because of how RPM Fusion needs to work with layering (https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/OSTree), which wasn’t an issue on standard Fedora.
So you’ll end up needing to manually updating the repository RPM Fusion repository every 6 months.

Also some software, like Steam, is also a pain to work with when using the Flatpak. \

VanillaOS (which *doesn’t* use rpm-ostree since it’s based on Debian) and Bazzite are both good atomic distros if you really want that, while having those kind of annoyances handled for you.

It’s fairly clunky. The developer is a nice guy and responds really quickly, but files sometimes didn’t sync and I got an error twice where it just completely stopped syncing.

There also isn’t a proper setup guide or documentation (but you can always add the help flag halfway through your jar usage to know what parameters you’re missing). The developer has been kind enough to help me through that though.

It might just be a skill issue on my end of course. Though needless to say I moved back to something else after a couple of months (In my case to Seafile)

Also its Dutch translation is acceptable (I did that)

Yeah fair, I’ll do that then. I hope you’re happy with whatever you end(ed) up picking

I bought four Ultimate 2C’s for our couch gaming setup. Though we’re going to be unpacking everything for that setup in the weekend of the 25th. So if you can wait I’m happy to share my experience with those.

I have the original ultimate for about a year. I don’t know how relevant it’s going to be, but I never had any issues with it. The triggers and the stiffer sticks definitely feel cheaper compared to the Xbox One controller. The lighter weight might also be the reason. I’m overall really happy with it considering the price. I paid the same for the controller and dock combined as the Xbox controller.

I also bought their Gamecube controller for my Switch a while back, I think three years. The B button stopped working a couple of months later but they sent a new one shortly after I reported it. They didn’t even bother to let me ship the broken one back.

At the very least you’re misguided or don’t know what you’re talking about. Passkeys are not vendor locked in and of themselves.

You can make the same argument against password managers because most iPhone users that use them, use Apple’s one.

Wow, really thanks for the insight. That was already more than I expected! We’ll definitely take that into account

Thanks for the recommendation! If it offers some relief, It’s one of those “free” (as in easy) courses you have to take my university if you choose cybersecurity. It’s admittedly fairly empty course and I didn’t feel like I learned much

No, I currently use Syncthing to sync my documents and music folders between my devices. If there’s something else, like the clips I make when playing with friends, the computer automatically syncs them to my Seafile instance with their sync client.

That way I can easily share the folder and check it on my phone using the app. If you don’t encrypt the drive it will show up and be navigable in your files app, without taking space (at least if you use the stock gos files app)

I just started playing it for an hour after I read this and it’s amazing! I wouldn’t have minded paying the 5€ if it just had a demo to try it out. But luckily there is an OST I can pay for to at least give some support

Personally I’m more than happy to cover the Dutch translation if you have the time to get translations working. Thanks for the project!

I have GOS, you can’t remove it unfortunately. Those kind of people are everywhere online but never forget it’s your device. You can do with it whatever the hell you want, regardless of what the “point” of anything is.

I’m currently using a Pixel with GOS on it. But I “went away from Google” (stopped using their services) because I don’t trust them to keep the telemetry about me they store safe. (Or use it in a way I’m fine with).

And altering the physical hardware in a way to spy on a phones users, irregardless of the operating system, isn’t a reasonable concern (I believe you can think of a fair few reasons).

There are very few phones that actually have open firmware, which is unfortunate, but in most peoples cases (like when you don’t trust Google to use your data responsibly) they can accept that risk. They have done it with every other phone they used as well. And those were (probably) a lot less open than Pixels are.

You can also make the more meta-argument that since the police in Catalonia and French law enforcement saw those phones as a threat, you can be sure you have secure phone in your hands.

p.s. This was a lot less concise than I expected. Sorry for the text wall :)

I’m severely alarmed by the amount of people arguing whether or not Steam is a monopoly. You don’t need 100% of market share to have monopoly position. Pure monopolies are extremely rare and are almost always state-run companies like for public transport. No anti-monopoly legislation is written in a way to only break up firms with literally 0 competition.

But how does this tie back to your original statement about GOS security and tying itself with Google? The issues you’re raising aren’t even a GOS specific one. I also find it strange to not call it secure because services themselves are reliant on Google’s services. That is not an issue any OS can solve. I say this as someone who does not rely on any Google services on my phone. I also believe you might be conflating security with privacy.

I don’t really see the issue. So you don’t really care about robust and trustworthy hardware. That I get to some extent considering you’re more worried about your data itself. But if you’re flashing your device with GOS, there is no data being shared to Google unless you specifically want to use Google Play Services or the Play Store. Both of which don’t come pre-installed

Edit: I added the if

Just wondering, do you have a problem in the sense that you don’t want to support Google or more that you’re worried the actual hardware is not safe or trustworthy?