My partner bought a Skylight screen a month ago. I put it up, but it’s basically been unused since.
For me, there was this very early health tracking watch I got, which was so fragile that it would reset and lose all data if I did anything more active than walking.
Some Google TV that was well reviewed, but at some point shortly after I got it had a software update that made the UI unusablly slow. Like, 5-10 seconds to respond to every button click.
I recently did a big expansion on my home networking infrastructure, and backups were one of bigger triggers.
My setup is based on a local NAS + Hetzner storage box. The NAS runs Immich, Paperless, and the arr stack. Immich and Paperless back up to the storage box via borg, along with the configuration and docker files, but not the media. I either have physical copies of that or don’t really care because I can just download it again.
My computers also back up to the storage box via borg, except for the Photos, Music and Video directories, for the same reasons. My partners Mac is currently backing up to an external USB drive, but the plan is to move them to Backblaze for the easy SAF and/or the NAS as a Timemachine target.
For consumer hardware supported by stock kernels? No advantage at all. At most you may want to switch kernels, but most distros have a handy tool for that.
The only time I’ve compiled my own kernel in the last 15 years has been for work on very specialized embedded systems.
Same here. I have been moving everything I can to self hosted FOSS, contributing to FOSS projects, and rehabbing old hardware. It’s been fun, I’ve met people from around the world and I’m getting tools I like to be even better.
Locally, I’m working with the library to start Linux days, where we help fix old computers and move them to Linux. There’s been a lot of interest due to Win11.