You just crushed my soul again.

Sony Xperia 1 here, no app, neither.

LoL my current Gentoo system was installed like 12 years ago and moved on 5 different hardware platforms without a proper reinstall.

I have said myself to never peek in the /etc directory for any reason! 😅

Upvote for Frank, he’s such an amazing person!

Nope, the documentation suggests 3 ways for installation: from scratch, docker and ansible.

I tried both from scratch and docker and I’m stuck. Eventually I’ll try the ansible way, but first I have to learn ansible…

I’m far from not disappointed.

What’s on and around line 32 in the config?

{% if lemmy_env_vars is defined and lemmy_env_vars|length > 0 %}

I did the ansible install, other than mail setup, the instructions were easy to follow.

you’re not the first suggesting this. Some guides I’ve found online suggest to use the Ansible files “because they’re less broken”.

At this point I’m wondering if the documentation is bad “on purpose” to prevent too many script kiddies to install their own instance.

The policy doesn't say if the save the CONTENT of your system files, just enumerated them.

So, how exactly does this company expect to make money with the information that I like to keep discord and Adobe acrobat running in background?

About file names:

Let's pretend the anti cheat detected a software that's screen recording the game.

If the software file that triggered the alarm is obs.exe (and it's digitally signed accordingly) then it's a pass. If the filename is autoaim.exe then it starts some sort of investigation.

I'm just theorising here.

Yeah, that's great.

Oh, my apologies.

I don't want to argue about that, I personally avoid Docker if I can, but can't deny it's a great tool and very powerful for the right use cases.

What I wonder is: to you, in your opinion, those commands are really easier than "apt install transmission"?

That's a great suggestion! I'll try this one, thank you!

Problem with that it's that it has Qt as dependency, therefore it's a bit of a hassle to run in a headless machine.

But it's still a very solid option.

Being a sports car enthusiast does not automatically mean I hate Lamborghini because I own a Ferrari.

You are totally right, what I mean is you don't have to use Linux to be a power user, but despise it it's not a power user attitude.

if the community we're in puts rtorrent in C tier because it's "UNIX only" then you and I have a different meaning of "power users".

Yes but running a web interface on top of rtorrent is not as easy as transmision.

I switched from rtorrent to Transmission. It's the only one with a ready-to-use web server so I can add and monitor my torrents remotely.

I would never run a torrent program on my main computer. Not that there's (more) risks, it just feels wrong to me.

Yes, ZFS is commonly known for heavy disk I/O and also huge RAM usage, the rule used to be “1GB of RAM for every TB of disk” but that’s not compulsory.

Meanwhile, about BTRFS, keep in mind that Synology uses a mixed recipe because the RAID code of BTRFS is still green and it’s not considered production ready. Here’s an interesting read about how Synology filled the gaps: https://daltondur.st/syno_btrfs_1/

Oh that’s great to hear. Thank you for sharing.

The most common software choices are TrueNAS and UNRAID.

Depending on your use-case, one is better than the other:

TrueNAS uses ZFS, which is great if you want to be absolutely sure the unreplaceable data on your disks is 100% safe, like your personal photos. UNRAID has a more flexible expansion and more power efficient, but doesn’t prevent any bit flip, which is not really an issue if you only store multimedia for streaming.

If you prefer a hardware solution ready to use, Synology and QNAP are great choices so long you remember to use ZFS (QNAP) or BTRFS (Synology) as filesystem.