Old Fart

I look forward to Grumpy Old Geeks Podcast every week. Two old timers from the tech industry. tagline for the show is “What went wrong on the internet and whose to blame.”

They have a sync that actually works pretty well. As the product is still beta you can donate and get access to the sync service.

ditto

I first tried zerotier but ran into some weird issue…don’t recall what it is now…and then tried tailscale and was up and running in like 15 mins. But I see others have had the absolutely opposite experience from mine where tailscale wouldn’t work and zerotier would. I think they’re both great products.

Always always always have 3 places where you store your data. Your main data store. Another storage location and then one offsite. And like others have said…check your backups occasionally to make sure you can successfully restore from them.

Thats funny. They have 4th of July sale but the black friday prices are better.

They’re owned by Microsoft?

Like everybody else here said…audiobookshelf is da bomb. I had an audible subscription for a while and found myself without the time to really listen to enough audiobooks to make it worthwhile so I cancelled. I know I could still access the audiobooks I purchased but I’m always concerned with these companies suddenly having a disagreement with a publisher and nuking a whole pile of media I paid for so I figured out how to download my purchased audiobooks locally to be listened to via audiobookshelf. Worked great.

You could also look at not making anything available publicly and using something like tailscale to get access to your services.

I’ve used pretty much every distro under the sun since I started using Linux as my primary desktop in 2001. I’m actually running Garuda now on my laptop and main desktop machine and love it.

I think Garuda is rock solid stable (it’s Arch so of course it is). I haven’t found a software package not available easily.

Give it a try. If you don’t like it then try something else. Thats what makes Linux so great. There’s so many choices.

Was thinking of all the distros I’ve run over the years. I know this isn’t a complete list and not in any particular order…

• redhat
• centos
• MX Linux
• Linux Mint
• PCLinuxOS
• Mandriva
• Gentoo
• Debian
• Ubuntu
• OpenSUSE
• Arch

and now Garuda.