Nice read. I did similar hacks in the past but I have less time lately.

Pipewire fixed some Bluetooth issues for me.

You should open a PR. 🙂

I agree, those countries have internal problems. Said that, when they talk about democracy most of the time they are talking about freedom of speech and clean elections. When you have millions of people complaining and political parties that want the independence it proves there is a lot of freedom.

It’s not automated. I just have the most important commands to fix/rebuild my sever in case of disasater.

I don’t save all my documents. Just my self-hosting, servers infraestructure notes. I don’t want to have the recovery intructions in the same machine I’m recovering

The only thing I save in Google Drive are my notes just in case of disaster.

You are rigth about HEIF, but most electronic devices already pay for the license to encode/decode HEVC.

The camera sensor returns raw images, then there is post-processong and the last step is encoding. There are no technical limitations and it’s not hard to implement another image format. As other users commented, Google Pixel phones and some apps in Google Play already does. Btw I’m electronic + software engineer.

My conclusion is even if the new formats are better, JPEG is more compatible and good enough for most users. Some brands take care of power users and others don’t. I’m a bit disappointed with OnePlus camera software.

All 3 formats I mentioned are free to use and there are free and open source libraries to do the conversion.

But they could give you an option to change it. For example, in my OnePlus I can choose video in h264 or h265 format. Photo there is no option, just JPEG.

Another OnePlus. Buy a brand new but not the last model. @400€

HTTPS and VPN (Wireguard) ports

I will take it.

I recommend you all to switch to Pipewire. Most bluethooth problems are fixed.

TT-RSS

Alpine uses musl libc + busybox as GNU replacements. They have less code base and they are more lighweight. GNU code is really old and some power users say the code is bloated and poorly maintained.

I read that too but I had 2 external cases (fatenc and yottamaster) for more than 7 years and 0 problems.

Custom build. Intel Nuc i5 + USB 3.0 external Raid 5 case with 3 HDD + Router/Switch. The Intel nuc is really power efficient ~10w. It’s comparable with RPi 4 ~5w but 3 or 4 times more performance with hardware video decoding.

I understand. There are Anker power banks for laptops with 65w. They should be more efficient but I don’t have data about the long term use. I guess the battery will last less than the UPS batteries.