I usually wait for a month or two before upgrading to the latest version, but haven’t had any troubles.

First thing I do is enable rpm nonfree per this documentation
https://rpmfusion.org/Configuration

And the second is to switch to ffmpeg and add some HAC as per this documentation
https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/Multimedia

If you run an newer Nvidia card you might wanna grab some drivers too, see
https://github.com/devangshekhawat/Fedora-43-Post-Install-Guide?tab=readme-ov-file#nvidia-drivers

They seem to have good builtin support. Let immich make a db backup and then add the db backup directory to your normal backup.
(And the filesystem directory with photos of course) https://docs.immich.app/administration/backup-and-restore/

What I meant with lifestyle was the fact that vegan used to mean not using any products that cause animal suffering, be it a hamburger, leather shoes or makeup tested on animals. None of it is vegan.

While I don’t believe IaaS to be selfhosting I do believe self-managed services on IaaS should be allowed here. It’s the same software stack and requires the same skills so both parties gain from having the discussion in the same place.
Not because I think selfhosting is a badge but because I think it makes sense to call things for what they are.

But I’m an old grumpy who thinks ovo-lakto vegetarians shouldn’t have been allowed to steal the meaning of vegetarian or vegetarians steal it from vegans (and now we no longer got a word to describe old school vegans that makes it a lifestyle not a diet.)

Ah, I take it this is the tactic you use?

Go to https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/ rather than https://addons.mozilla.org/android/ when you find the extension you want to try use the menu button (hamburger/three stripe icon) and toggle “Desktop site” then you can use the “Add to Firefox” button.

Otherwise, if you followed an extension link, you may have to switch to “Desktop site”, then remove /android from the URL in address bar.

It should then install the add-on, but if it tries to download the file instead, then change privacy.resistFingerprinting.block_mozAddonManager back to the default false in about:config.

Yeah, the main tip was that you can use whatever you use to grab streams from youtube on firefox on your computer and add that addon to a collection to get it on your phone.

Creating an addon collection as per this guide allows me to install computer addons to my Android phone:
https://www.androidpolice.com/install-add-on-extension-mozilla-firefox-android/

The addon I use to grab streams didn’t want to work on youtube though, but it worked to grab video streams from other sites.

While splitting Compute and Storage is nice I think the main takeaway should be having your opnsense/router on it’s own physical hardware.
Having your storage separated won’t stop a Jellyfin interruption if you reboot your compute.

For a NAS solution the cheap way would be a used desktop with at least 4 SATA ports, a Linux distro you’re used to and Cockpit installed.

For those that are interested here’s a featuretable comparison between Thunderbird and Betterbird
https://www.betterbird.eu/#featuretable

I use the same combo.
I find FairEmail + Fossify Calendar/Contacts + DAVx5 works great on my android.

Oh, I just looked at it. Seems like the perfect solution. I enjoy that you can easily lock and unlock the vault while the machine is up and logged in to ensure no one can gain access due to the computer being left on but unattended. Much smoother than the old encrypted 7-zip that I used as a teenager.

As you’re using KDE and NixOS I imagine you got Dolphin as your file manager.
edit: While the below is great for an encrypted backup of your images that you can move to a thumbdrive or another computer I recommend you look at the Vaults mentioned by @e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de for encryption directly on the machine.

Step 1: - Create an encrypted and password protected 7-zip

Step 2: - Settings for the 7-zip

Step 3: - Opening up the encrypted 7-zip file by double clicking and entering the password from Step 2

Step 4: Place the picture folder and the 7-zip next to each other

Removal of pictures from the 7-zip is as simple as rightclicking on them:

Adding pictures to the folder can be done as a simple drag and drop:

While this allows you to see the thumbnails of your unencrypted images before drag and dropping them to the 7-zip you will not be able to see thumbnails when they’ve been encrypted (Compare left and right view in drag and drop image).
You can double click images in the encrypted archive to open them up though.

Ah yeah - always a good idea to verify support on the motherboard. I think AMD mbs are usually better on the bifurcation front than Intel ones.
The Startech card I linked is backwards compatible with PCIe 3.0 M.2 NVMe cards, they mention that they’ve tested with Samsung 970 EVO for example, so you can still fill it up with older, cooler M.2 cards even if it supports PCIe 4.0.

An M.2 PCIe card can make most old computers into a good SSD NAS.
https://www.startech.com/en-eu/hdd/quad-m2-pcie-card-b

When nslookup google.com from a laptop on this LAN, it returns Server: 10.2.0.1 Address: 10.2.0.1#53

nonauthoritative answer: google.com with ip information repeated.

I don’t under stand this return as it’s an ip outside my lan net and dhcp provisioning.

I’m unclear on what you’re confused about regarding the above quote. Here comes an explanation of nslookup.
The command is nslookup <domain> <dns-server> and if dns-server is empty it uses your default. F.e.:

***@fedoragaming:~$ nslookup www.google.com 8.8.8.8

The response starts by telling you which <dns-server> it used for the lookup and which address including port was used:

Server: 8.8.8.8
Address: 8.8.8.8#53

It then gives you the answer on where to find the <domain>, once for ipv4 and once for ipv6:

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: www.google.com
Address: 142.251.142.228
Name: www.google.com
Address: 2a00:1450:400f:807::2004

edit: I think I understand your question a bit better now. To check which dns-server you’re using do a “cat /etc/resolve.conf”
If you run a distro with systemd then use the command “resolvectl status”

Sounds like you should look at N3 and N4 then. :)

Sounds like it will be fixed soon

https://github.com/HermanChen/mpp/commit/fff87da91706d92913ba0254cee8c27eb093ae16
https://github.com/HermanChen/mpp/issues/73

Compared to a real dgpu it’s weak and I wouldn’t buy it if you want a gaming laptop but rather if you want a work laptop that can also run games badly.

The below benchmarks doesn’t use the same exact CPU but they use CPUs that have the same iGPU so it’s somewhat telling:
https://www.ultrabookreview.com/64396-amd-radeon-780m-benchmarks/#amd-radeon-780m-rdna3-gaming-performance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9cVC6rOeP0 - Gaming on Radeon 780M (Ryzen 7 8700G, Ryzen 7 8840HS, Ryzen 7 7840HS ect) in 27 Games in 2024 Test

If you haven’t bought cameras yet then you can always check for one that works with thingino Open-source Firmware for Ingenic SoC IP Cameras

Aight, I would try to grab myself an AMD Ryzen with Radeon 780m igpu or at least 680m igpu to get relative strong graphics at a low power draw. The 780m is a beast of an igpu.