that’s what syncthing is for. you can set it up to sync the Notes folder to your other devices in a read/write way or just one way, so you got your central repo.

also, qown has nextcloud notes sync built in.

why would you host anything? that’s just an app. QOwnNotes (stupidest name ever) stores .MD files that you can syncthing, rsync, copy, edit externally, whatever, allowing you never to be locked-in again. all the toolboxes can be turned off, netting you a UI that looks like apple’s notes.

yeah, you’re safe. either boot to the installer, open terminal, enter command, reboot, or, hold down command-s before clicking on the usb icon. that will boot into single user mode, which is way faster.

you got two graphics chips in there - Intel HD4000 and Nvidia GT650M. the system is supposed to switch amongst them based on load, but that doesn’t always work as expected and the Nvidia chip is always powered on, using battery, emitting heat, etc.

by entering this variable, you turn off the Nvidia chip entirely and the system runs off the reliable and super-supported Intel HD4000, which is hella plenty for the majority of use cases.

I got one of these and running on the Intel graphics it performs like it was built for linux; with Nvidia, total shitshow.

also make sure to implement the wake/sleep scripts to turn off/on CPU cores if it takes a long time to wake from sleep.

the GT650M/GT750M in 2012/2013 models are beyond useless nowadays, using either noveau or some ancient nvidia driver version. that’s for wayland, it’s somewhat better with X11 but you’ll lose a buncha stuff regarding HiDPI and touchpad etc.

so what @waffle@sh.itjust.work said, only it’s way simpler to do that - disable discrete graphics via an EFI variable. you’ll lose video out but gain a way less power hungry machine, running way cooler.

of all the shit out there, that’s what needed attention?!

I am the first to pile on shit on people who are like buy new stuff, but in this instance, yeah, get a $20 laptop with a busted screen or sumsuch, install debian, and use it normally (docker compose).

you need the least amount of movable parts in this setup and yours is just too off kilter for a server.

not dealt with such a thing, but a decomissioned phone or laptop is the most obvious solution. they come with batteries, have seamless transition between power and battery, and you’re reusing shit nobody wants no more.

laptops you can get cheap when they have like busted screens and any reasonably modern (like decade old) can operate in sub-5W territory; coupled with a good battery, that should provide you with tens of hours of battery powered use, and you can expand that, with powerbanks and such.

alternatively, a cheap phone that can run postmarketOS or mobian. even lower consumption and more options to extend power availability.

jellyfin has the option to host your books, and with the OPDS plugin you can pull books directly off the server with compatible readers (koreader, moon+, etc), no need to copy things around manually.

just gave it a cursory look, will look further, thank you. couldn’t find the details on client load/traffic; we can’t burden these people with excessive network traffic just because it might be needed one day.

supporting 400+ laptops from previously tech-illiterate users in the field. we tried everything for remote patching and fixing things and nothing worked universally. that includes stuff shipped with them (ssh, Gnome and Plasma RDP, VNC, etc) and 3rd party FOSS things. wireguard-ing all them laptops for remote access introduces buncha complications at this scale.

only thing that works: bring it to the “shop”, ansible script to exfil home subvolume, install fresh ubuntu (working on replacing that with debian), patch snap and bunch of other annoyances, restore /home.

seeing as how you only got grams and co. to take care of, wireguard + ssh is the only low-overhead, works-most-of-the-time solution.

honestly with their whole military! fuck yeah!1!! spiel, they can get fucked. along with all other corpos with their gaping assholes to cram evermore cash into them, and that includes element the corp; they got the other fetish - cops.

honestly, you should give less info. what’s your hardware? what PSU? drivers? X11, wayland? what’s that “running again” business, what was the issue before?

dual booting is an advanced scenario especially with a hostile OS like Windows and it doesn’t soundlike you got the expertise to fix shit. if your livelihood/education/etc depends on it, you should steer clear of such an adventure, unless you’re in abject poverty.

get a $50 decade-old laptop and use it to run either of the OS, exclusively. it will give you a fallback solution if something breaks and you can figure out how to run that cancer on linux without endangering the primary rig.

correct, saw feb 4th and went berserk. maybe take the post down?

don’t know what “slow” means in your case, but jellyfin clients have a buffer setting and increasing it should improve things for them.

I haven’t kept up with that clown but if that’s a reference to the time he attempted to switch, that was a top-gear-like slapstick show, consisting of making wrong turns at every fork and having outliers galore in the form of some hardware he and one other dude on the entire planet got. that show of his is infotainment, as in not a reliable source of information.

you go with the beginner-friendliest distro, with the widest distribution which is ubuntu. that ain’t the distro I’m running, but it’s something you need to go through to figure out how this shit runs. after you’ve been around the block a time or two and you start bumping your head at the ceiling, you’ll have enough experience to switch to something better.

thanks, this looks good, gonna try it out with my next build

first time I heard of this, thanks. so running it thusly it’s no different than a copr or apt repo?

can someone who runs arch btw on weak hardware, like dual-core U-series i5 and such, tell me how they’re handling AUR and friends? every time I bring that up I get downvotes as if I’m some MICROS~1 agent paid to besmirch arch btw’s good name and whatnot…

the idea that I hafta build and compile shit on a puny dual-core in 2026 is fucking ludicrous to me, never mind the bloat and cruft from all the build tools and deps for every possible stack. so what obvious solution am I missing? like, how do you handle a full system upgrade, say you got like ten things from AUR in addition to regular packages, what does that look like?