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Right now using a pfSense router, it’s been working well but I’ll eventually replace it with hardware to run OPNsense (pfSense fork) when the time comes.

If you’re mainly just worried about wireless I’d just look into something to run OpenWrt or maybe FreshTomato if you’re sticking to older hardware. I have an older Linksys wireless router that is compatible with FreshTomato firmware so it’s been running on that and works well for my own usage, nothing fancy.

I was reading into this recently too. My understanding is that Debian + LibreOffice install the Liberation Fonts by default so usually you don’t need to worry about documents using Ariel and Helvetica (Liberation are metrically compatible replacements).

After further reading I ended up also installing the Crosextra fonts, the advantage of those two is that they are metrically compatible with Microsoft’s Calibri and Cambria. Once installed in theory LibreOffice should be able to open documents that had those Microsoft fonts and auto replace them with the open versions. (there’s a setting in LibreOffice to force font replacements but it didn’t seem like I needed to do that in my case)

Some more info on that

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croscore_fonts#Crosextra_fonts

The Crosextra font packages in Debian

https://packages.debian.org/trixie/fonts-crosextra-carlito

https://packages.debian.org/trixie/fonts-crosextra-caladea

Also interestingly - if you do really, really want some of Microsoft’s fonts they are free to install but I don’t think you actually get a license to distribute/publish with them. I didn’t bother installing these but could be useful for someone with tons of old MS Office documents with lots of random MS fonts.

https://packages.debian.org/trixie/ttf-mscorefonts-installer (need to enable contrib in your apt settings to be able to apt install those)

but a friend told me that to get one I either need a VPS with a public ip (which just takes all the fun out of selfhosting) or purchase a static ip

Neither of those are requirements. Just buy a domain at a registrar that allows you to dynamically update an IP address with a domain you have there. Look into DDNS update scripts and/or your own internet router, many routers have that feature built-in already.

Bazzite definitely doesn’t want you to use Windows NTFS formatted drive partitions and it isn’t supported https://docs.bazzite.gg/Gaming/Hardware_compatibility_for_gaming/#ntfs

You could try to see if the drives at least show up in whichever disks application Bazzite uses (GNOME uses the “Disks” application so maybe it’s the same for you), if it’s in there you can click the partition and see what options you get for mounting it, if at all possible.

But I think in general if you were planning to use Windows NTFS drive partitions then Bazzite may not be the best distro to use.

Similar to the other comment, not sure if you’ve ruled out writing a Python script? For what you’re describing Python would be able to easily tackle your requirements and still be readable since it’s just a script you can launch whenever you need. Python is also pretty easy to pick up so if you’re familiar with scripting then it could be a fun learning experience (if you don’t already know it).

Other scripting languages could work too, just feel like Bash will be less readable if you’re writing a massive script like that.

Like others said dd should work.

If for whatever reason you prefer cloning software I’m pretty sure Clonezilla will easily do a disk-to-disk clone, just double-check if you still need to expand the partition on the new drive after cloning (I don’t remember if Clonezilla does that for you).

Earlier post https://lemmy.world/post/43496203

Those are pretty low limits but without knowing your actual bandwidth, or if you’re dealing with data caps, can’t say if you’re being rude… but you’re probably fine. In the end you contribute what you can, and seeding is still better than not seeding :)

My own rule of thumb, if my running p2p software needs to have bandwidth limits then I aim for at least 1 Mbit/s (122 KiB/s) to contribute to the network. But that assumes you actually have 1+ Mbit/s internet upload and no data caps, people around the world have different available speeds.

Might be helpful too https://duckduckgo.com/?q=50+kibibyte+to+megabit

Seems like it’s down right now.

See https://jellyfin.org/posts/state-of-the-fin-2026-01-06/#client-corner

That’s weird, maybe an update broke something? What I would maybe do is uninstall Xrdp (and maybe remove/rename the old config files just in case), then re-install and configure it. From there if it’s still not working try to see what’s showing up in the log files maybe.

I did notice that Xrdp requires some extra configuration to work properly with Linux Mint Cinnamon, you apparently need to create a .xsession file in the home folder of whichever user(s) you’re trying to remote into. I’m not on Linux Mint myself but maybe searching around will give you some tips e.g. this seems like a good rundown https://gist.github.com/ParkWardRR/2ab9b5d41bbaceca8471d591755a1898

EDIT: You probably already know this from using it before but for RDP on Linux you’d need to remote into a user that is not already logged in… it’s not like in Windows when you can RDP into any user regardless if they’re already logged in or not.

Yup, been using Xrdp in a Debian + GNOME Wayland setup without issue.

I’ve also used GNOME’s built in Remote Desktop (RDP) with Wayland. KDE’s own RDP should work with Wayland too but I haven’t tested that one yet.

RDP (the same protocol Windows Remote Desktop uses) works fine on Linux. I’d suggest investigating why that suddenly stopped working for you.

For what it’s worth Xrdp seems to work well on Linux for enabling a RDP Remote Desktop server… I suspect you are / were(?) already using Xrdp and just need to figure out why it stopped working.

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I don’t know about “best” but on Android I’ve been using the K-9 mail app for years without problems. Supports multiple email accounts as well as standard IMAP/SMTP email protocols which is all I really need. The project was merged with Thunderbird so now it’s Thunderbird for Android.

source: https://github.com/thunderbird/thunderbird-android

They have a reputation for deleting free accounts. If you plan to use Tuta for more than a few months be sure to use their paid plans, not free.

e.g. https://lemmy.ml/post/41480556

maybe the comments in this post help? https://lemmy.ml/post/40864672 and/or consider posting in one of the jellyfin communities like /c/jellyfin@lemmy.ml or /c/jellyfin@lemmy.world ?

My guess is you probably need to go into terminal and probably fix the folder/file permissions for your media library folders (using chmod), then remove/re-add that media library in jellyfin itself so it can scan the folder properly. But that’s just a guess without really knowing your actual set up.

PS - Don’t worry about Ubuntu, once you get your initial setup figured out everything will run stable.

I don’t remember how Jellyfin installs on Windows nowadays but if it’s just the Jellyfin tray icon executable giving you issues maybe a simple fix is just to remove it from being autostarted? This is assuming the rest of Jellyfin starts up fine without needing that tray icon in the Windows taskbar.

If that doesn’t help it might be that .NET is broken on your system. That’s a lot harder to fix unfortunately… you could try to see if the Windows add/remove programs gives you an option to re-install/fix the current .net installation but that may not help you out much.

You could also check that your Windows system files aren’t themselves broken. Google around for running SFC and DISM, offhand I typically do something like (in an elevated cmd.exe window):

sfc /verifyonly

if the above tells you there are system files to fix run

sfc /scannow

Restart the computer, repeat the above until sfc tells you there’s nothing to fix.

Then run

dism /online /cleanup-image /scanhealth

if the above tells you there are files to fix run

dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth

Restart the computer, repeat the above until dism tells you there’s nothing to fix.

If none of the above fixed anything then it may be time to consider reformatting and re-installing Windows fresh.

(at home I’m on Linux myself but still support Windows systems at work every day)

Ah true, Fopnu is his other non-bittorrent p2p app. In some ways Fopnu is the spiritual successor to WinMX. It is clearnet only so it’s a bit outside the scope of I2P.

The same dev did also create DarkMX (https://darkmx.app/) which was Tor only up until more recently when he added I2P support around the same time frame he was adding I2P to Tixati. DarkMX (IMO) seems more interesting for I2P users since it was designed from the beginning to work within darknets. Haven’t had a chance to play around with it so can’t say that it has much of a user base but could be worth a look.

Not un-useful, but the number of Tixati users is already limited on the open internet (and heavily slanted towards certain unsavoury interests). Finding other Tixati users on i2p just limits your potential peer group further.

To be fair Tixati is a bittorrent client using the same standard bittorrent protocol that other clients use. So it will connect to bittorrent swarms, peers, trackers, etc. just like any other I2P bittorrent client. So Tixati users will connect to I2P bittorrent peers using I2PSnark, XD, qBittorrent, and BiglyBT. (and any others I missed)

The big limitation is that there are less bittorrent peers on the I2P network vs the clearnet internet… it’s a big difference. It’ll probably stay that way until there’s more people keeping torrents active within I2P, hopefully in the future.

Other minor limitation is that I2PSnark (& and maybe Tixati) are the only bittorrent clients that can use the bittorrent DHT within I2P, all the other bittorrent clients can only find peers using bittorrent trackers. It’s not a big deal as long as people remember to add I2P trackers to their torrents but it does make things less decentralized. Tixati does claim I2P DHT support but I’m not sure how well it works in practice.