1. Yeah I guess I have made it more complex. But what hard links allow me to achieve is to save disk space while still working on the file without changing the original one. Imagine I have to copy my files to sonarr, have a copy in my torrent directory and also a backup on an external disk… That’s alot of space ! This may be a simpler solution, but only If you have money to spare on disk space. Yes, it’s “cheap” when you have a bank account and money lying around, but that’s not the case for everyone :/. I think the ARR* stack works similarly and works with hard links !

2. Oh… never heard of Terraform, will have a look, thanks for the pointer !

Hard links are files…

I guess so, but files are just links pointing to inodes ? :) Sorry If I’m wrong here, and please give me the proper knowledge If you are willing to share :)

Edit: After some reading, I think Ansible seems a better fitting. Terraform is more for creating infrastructures while Ansible to manage them and configure them?

Oh my… Love changed in a 8-year life span ! I guess nothing stays the same forever 🤷‍♂️

Window XP was probably the best and last good Windows version… 10 was kinda okay without all the telemetry shit and bloatware.

Windows 11 feels like macOS with extra steps + spyware on every move, click, clipboard copylpast… Wouldn’t go near that stuff even with full protection and debloat ^^ Just remove that shit and install linux instead.

Or people who uses it as a mini server and SSH into it while lid is closed 😎

They know exactly what they are doing… Some dopamine hits for the road !

Not OP, but I have something to share you migh be interested in.

A few weeks ago I ran qbittorrent on a RPi 3B+ (yes this one is way older than 4 or 5) and It chocked really hard on the ram and USB connected HDD… It even made piHole unresponsive and broke the DNS requests when checking file integrity…

Barebone installation on ext4 FS (without docker) did made it a bit better but was still very slow and wasn’t able to handle 100 consecutive torrents…

As a conclusion, if you’re going to run a few services concurrently on a pi with qbittorrent you’re rapidly going be limited and bottlenecked by the limits of your pi ! Don’t get me wrong those are nice little devices and use my RPi 3b+ as dns resolver for my whole lan with pihole. But I won’t bet on those for more heavy load and multiple services concurrently.

As a side note, I use an 10 year old gaming laptop as server which doesn’t give a sweat with over 20 services (Jellyfin, Vaultwarden, sftpgo, navidrome, baikal,qbittorrent…)

plocate is backwards-compatible with mlocate, and is much faster and more efficient than mlocate. source

From your personal experience, what do you prefer and why, if you don’t mind :).

A blocky road ahead of you ! It will take some time, don’t try to speed up the process ! Remember the first time you started Windows on a computer ? It wasn’t easy at all ^^’ but now most people know how to start and use a Windows system.

Linux is great, linux is freedom and customization but linux is also a hell of another level of complexity.

It really takes 5min tops ! But only if you know what you are doing. Immich is not an easy compose stack for beginners. There’s also all the other stuff you have to take care off (backup? Behind proxy? Share with people outside your lan? …).

Having the compose stack up and running is just the first step ^^ but once you get the hang off, it’s fun and really cool stuff floating arround (navidrome, pihole, home assistant, newpipe, vaultwarden, jellyfin…)

It takes some time to get comfortable but don’t give up, it’s worth it !

Yeah… Yesterday I faced this issue and luckily I begin to get better in understanding how my system, hardware and software works…

I tried to come up with a pihole docker compose config that would correctly map my local domain names with my own CA certificates. And somehow GPT-5 always used the v5 tags of pihole or responded with older compose logic with traefik.

I kinda worked it out with a mix of gpt promps and old-school search engine and while it does work how I imagined it, the chatGPT prompting was inaccurate and sometimes just plain wrong…

But it did help to get me in the right direction :).

There’s also a link on the official website without all the crapware but it’s very well hidden… I found JDownloader really bad and the UX/UI not very user friendly and looks shady…

Too bad there isn’t any IDM alternative for linux, and that’s also why I stopped DDL and wen’t back to torrenting on private trackers… There isn’t any simple download manager that looks sleek, feels good and doesn’t put your system at risk !

Can’t exectly remember how or where but I had some chmod 777 -R going on on my setup on the wrong directory and everything seemed fucked up !

Was easier to fresh install instead of hunting some permission issue… Learned from that experience and still learning something new with perms on Linux !

but you’ll lose the ability to mount them on Windows if you do that.

One viable solution to that, is to mount that drive as SMB share, best of the two worlds !

fix(frontend/location): preserve parent location when using “Create and Add another”

That’s a nice QOL improvement, nice ! Good job !!

BTW, I ran Freelancer (old Microsoft space game !) and I was impressed how well it worked and ran on lutris and all the magic arround it.

Nowadays, people get the habit that everything works out of the box, they just have to “press, swipe, click, that’s it”. Technology litteracy is taking a big hit on newer generation, while being flooded with some kind of “Artificial Intelligence” to do their homework… 😮‍💨

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My god how many times have I been through this… Living with debloated phone, hardened browser, VPN, Linux, sure isn’t easy every day :/// !

I totally agree, It shouldn’t be soo hard to value your own data/privacy and sometimes it feels like I’m fighting the wind.

Britta filters can reduce water hardness to a little margin but I wouldn’t bet on those to reduce water hardness…

Better have specific filters under the sink to reduce those carbonates or if you have some money to spare (~1000$) a specific machine directly connected to your water income in the basement !

firmware that get automatically deleted every time you swap hard drives and then the system stops booting

Wait… That’s what happend to me and wasn’t able to find any solution on the web.

Any idea to solve this issue when swapping hard drives?

KimDotCom was legend though ! It lasted longer than expected 🫠 but yeah multipart files from multiple upload sites with each their own limits… to much stuff to handle ! I’m glad I’m back in the torrent world even though I hate the gatekeeping going on in private trackers ^^

Ohh, soo a combination of public tracker & no-vpn with a seedbox, makes sense ! I was kinda suprised & intrigued to read this kind of info on Lemmy while I never read something similar on any private tracker i’m on. (I’m not alone seeing the numbers of upvotes)

Thanks for the clarification and sorry for my minimal though process 😅