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Every app in this space tends to get enshittified, so I just use shell scripts to do API calls nowadays. I used Insomnia and Postman in the past.

For sans-serif, I use Mona Sans. For monospace, I use Monaspace. I think it’s a good-looking combination.

I’d also like to add that you can save an image to a local file using docker image save and load them back using docker image load. So, along with the options mentioned above, you have plenty of options to backup images for offline use.

I use Arch for personal and gaming, Debian for self hosting and hacking, Alpine for containerized cloud deployments.

Pretty much the same for me: bleeding-edge Arch for my workstation, rock-stable Debian for my server.

No license?

I maintain a rule that all files above the repo must be inside a folder, with one exception: a README file. Including the code folder, this typically results in no more than 5 folders; the project folder itself is kept organized and uncluttered.

Don’t forget: entrepreneur, playboy, philanthropist.

They are the project’s subfolders (outside of the Git repo):

• code contains the source code; version-controlled with Git.
• wiki contains documentation and also version-controlled.
• designs contains GIMP, Inkscape or Krita save files.

This structure works for me since software projects involve more things than just the code, and you can add more subfolders according to your liking such as notes, pkgbuild (for Arch Linux), or releases.

I tend to follow this structure:

Projects
├── personal
│   └── project-name
│       ├── code
│       ├── designs
│       └── wiki
└── work
    └── project-name
        ├── code
        ├── designs
        └── wiki

From a time when websites used <table> or position: absolute; to place elements on the screen. That website is just one big table.

• Free Software Foundation
• GNU
• Richard Stallman’s Personal Blog
• Savannah

And pretty much the rest of the FSF and GNU websites.

Where the dotfiles at?

Just bookmark the repos you like; no Github account needed.

Definitely best to get that done ASAP. Forgejo being a drop-in replacement for Gitea won’t be guaranteed ever since the hard fork:

To continue living by that statement, a decision was made in early 2024 to become a hard fork. By doing so, Forgejo is no longer bound to Gitea, and can forge its own path going forward, allowing maintainers and contributors to reduce tech debt at a much higher pace, and implement changes - whether they’re new features or bug fixes - that would otherwise have a high risk of conflicting with changes made in Gitea.

I’m in the same boat and also looking for a privacy-respecting platform for communicating with family and friends. So I’d also like to add items that are not yet mentioned to the list of suggestions:

• Jami
• Peer Calls - can be selfhosted; you can try it out straight away using their flagship instance located here.

I’m running RetroPie on a Debian laptop and I’m able to map all the buttons of my 8BitDo Pro 2 controller; no issues at all. I was also able to connect and configure an Xbox 360 controller just fine.

You might want to try getting help on the RetroPie forums if you don’t get any luck here.

If you want a similar editor on Linux, then I suggest Kate. If Vim and Emacs didn’t exist, I’d be using Kate.

Notepad++ is a fabulous software program that had no complete alternatives on Linux. I used it for scripting, text manipulation, note taking, dumping and editing thoughts. Scintilla-based equivalents Geany, SciTE exist, but do not come close.

Really? No alternatives on Linux? Have you tried Emacs? I think Emacs with Org mode blows Notepad++ out of the water in all the uses you just mentioned.

I self-host everything from my home network including my website. I like to keep all my data local. 😁

It’s a simple setup: just a static site made with Lume, and served with Caddy. The attack surface is pretty small since it’s just HTML and CSS files (no JavaScript).

First of all, doesn’t Navidrome have authentication? So, I don’t see why exposing it to the public is a problem.

Second, some reverse proxies support basic auth. This way, you can password-protect some services and is useful if the service does not have its own authentication. Here as an example snippet for Caddy:

example.com {
	basic_auth {
		# Username "Bob", password "hiccup"
		Bob $2a$14$Zkx19XLiW6VYouLHR5NmfOFU0z2GTNmpkT/5qqR7hx4IjWJPDhjvG
	}
	reverse_proxy myservice:8000
}

You’ll have to look up the docs for other reverse proxies.