From a technical standpoint, I still have some admiration for ProcessWire which is basically just the backend of a CMS and requires you to code the frontend. It has a great API and is awesome to build websites with. Just create your HTML and insert the PHP snippets wherever you need some dynamic info.

However, it requires a fully fledged database which is what I’m trying to avoid with most of my projects.

Once the downloads work again, this might help:

https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/virtual-machines/

Same here but with Apple Health. You can even build some Shortcut to log the weight via Siri if you like to.

Have you tried this?

https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server/media/internet-radio/

But the TUI is simple. If people don’t know what they’re doing with the TUI, giving them colourful flashy buttons to click won’t help either. They should use Acronis or Macrium, then.

Yeah, what’s wrong with the original Clonezilla TUI?

none of Ubuntu’s many projects has ever become a long-term, distro-agnostic alternative to whatever it was supposed to replace, suggesting either low quality or insufficient effort

I’d add irrational hate against Canonical to the list of possible causes.

systemd was in the hands of one single guy with very controversial ideas in the beginning. It wasn’t really better than Upstart, yet got adopted by more and more distributions over time.

Unity worked smoothly when Gnome-Shell was sluggish as hell on the same hardware.

And you have fixed versions every half a year with a set of packages that is guaranteed to work together. On top of that, there’s an upgrade path to the next version - no reinstall needed.

Ubuntu’s slogan is “Linux for human beings” which fits quite well, I believe. Otherwise, it wouldn’t get recommended to newbies so often. If you want all the nerdy stuff, there are plenty of other distributions to choose from. 😉

But you are doing the work the computer should do by scripting your own startup process. Also, it will process your rc.local sequentially whereas systemd does things in parallel. If you have 5 different custom services that need network, your approach would have them started one after another. Systemd would wait for network access and then start them all in parallel. If one of those hangs, the others will still start in a few seconds (unless they depend on the hanging service) and the boot process will still continue.

Also, what about if some service fails? systemd can restart them automatically, you have commands to see at a glance whether your desired services are all running (i.e. the system is in your desired state), it manages the log outputs for each service, etc. etc. … it’s a huge comfort win and once you’ve written a few units, you won’t have to look everything up all the time.

[Unit]
Description=My service
After=network-online.target

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/myservice -d

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Put this in /etc/systemd/system/myservice.service, run systemctl daemon-reload followed by systemctl enable myservice and Bob’s your mother’s brother. Optionally, start it directly using systemctl start myservice. (On most systems, service myservice start will work, too.) It doesn’t get any easier than that.

And, if you start to automate your system’s configuration(s) using e.g. Ansible, it’s far easier to just place a few files in the filesystem and run a few commands than to modify the rc.local in an automated fashion without breaking something.

While I don’t really like the one-tool-for-everything approach with systemd and its various additional features (timedated, resolvd, etc.), I do like the main feature.

If the container instructions say to set the TZ variable, this means that they bring all the necessary timezone information (for all timezones around the world) with them inside the container. For Alpine Linux, this would be the 1.5 MB (uncompressed) tzdata package.

If you are instructed to link to those files on the host system, the container usually doesn’t come with the tzdata package and the only way for it to use your timezone is to use the information from the host system by mounting the 2 files.

However, if you don’t mount these files, the container will usually run in UTC and won’t observe DST. So, all the times in log files and everything regarding time will be in UTC.

I like Ubuntu for exactly that: The bravery and manpower to try different things. I remember I loved their Init-System Upstart when it came out in 2006 - long before systemd got established. It made managing services and their dependencies far easier than with the SysV-Init system other distros had at the time.

Unity was miles ahead of Gnome-Shell in the beginning. And I loved the one-menu-bar approach - similar to macOS - as it saved screen space on smaller screens.

It’s easy to flak on Ubuntu for not keeping in line with “tradition”, but I believe we wouldn’t have some newer projects without Canonical trying something new and showing people what’s possible.

After using GitHub Pages (Jekyll) and some experiments with GRAV and Serendipity/S9Y, I’ve ended up with WordPress on SQLite for my blog as it provides everything a proper blog needs: RSS, comments, trackback/pingback, spam filter and ActivityPub/Fediverse integration.

But for a CMS without any social aspect I’d probably use GRAV and make it work somehow.

Anything supporting an SQLite database would technically be a “flat-file” CMS… just saying. ;)

And if you’re going to be the only content manager, why not go the SSG way with Hugo, Jekyll, etc.?

It’s probably loading the home environment of root similar to sudo -H vim … instead of just elevating privileges but keeping your home environment.

While it may work great, nothing beats using the manufacturer’s push notification channels in terms of reliability and battery consumption. At least from my experience. And that’s why Pushover is still kicking around after so many years…

I’m a lifetime Pushover user. As far as I can tell, ntfy isn’t using official push notifications whereas Pushover does. Also, ntfy has issues on iOS. That’s why I’m still running all my notifications via Pushover.

I’m using OwnTracks on the phone. No complaints at all.

I’m using Traccar for this.

I’m waiting for Actual to support multiple currencies. Until then, as an Apple user, I’m using iFinance which works on all my platforms.

traefik-kop which allows me to use Docker-Compose labels for Traefik even on my other Docker hosts without the need for Docker Swarm or K8s.

Just a sidenote: zigbee2mqtt is not required unless you specifically need the MQTT part of it. I’m using the official ZHA plugin and everything works as expected. With the added bonus that I can easily backup everything (incl. device pairings!) and restore it to any other Home Assistant.