Something that I really like about Catchy is that it’s been a really smooth experience so far. I wouldn’t even know what to customize other than the DE, to be honest… so I’ll keep running Catchy then :) As for the Arch benefits; I’ve always used Ubuntu and it is true that problably someone asked xyz so you’ll find the answer on some forum but the archwiki is so good that it helps not only to fix sutff, but also to learn stuff lol. That’s been for me the benefit. (That and also the pac-man-like animation when updatind the system lol). Thanks for the answer!

Oh I’m so saving this in case I want to try it out! Thanks for the detailed answer! I’ll problably install Arch on an old laptop that’s been laying around for too long and see how it goes :)

This is actually a great post. I’ve struggled with this and it feels like all those tiling window managers are for power users. They’re a pain to customize and 0 intuitive (at lest for me). I share your question!

How hard would be for me to switch coming from catchyOS? And would it be worth it lol

In /docker I have just the yml and .env files. All the data is on an external volume, docker runs as a local process and Dockman is a container (not sure if this is what you asked, sorry).

I tried dockge yesterday and I think it does not change permissions, haven’t had time to really check. I just want to select and x number or containers and click update lol until now I had to get into every folder and docker compose pull.

I just found out something else: restic can’t access the folders because root:root. this is so annoying! I’ll try podman again… I didn’t see how to make it find my containers lol

I feel like an idiot. No, I have not! I got so frustrated with the starter not rising that I’ve been tossing starters that smelled really good. Should I use those dry yeast o the refrigerated ones?

I’ve used mine (although the rising was mediocre) and the flavour was intense, we really like it!

I got the book because I could not for the life of me get it right… Lately I’m just throwing flour and water a I see fit. We’ll see if the underthinking works lol Thanks for the advice!

Do you feed it once a day?

I can’t get my sourdough starter… Started! I get to a point where I feed it and it gets a bit bubbly but nothing else. It’s like a soup. It’s weird because the first feedings go so well: it grows, smells great, but after a few days it just kind of dies. I don’t want to give up but I even bought a book, followed instructions to the gram and still won’t get it right!

PS those baguette look so good!!!

I’ve been thinking about buying a meshtastic device for a while now but I’ll tinker with reticulum first, because the concept is amazing and would solve an actual problem for me. Thanks for sharing!

Quick update! I’ve been pretty busy with life and some new and unforeseen struggles lol but so far this has happened:

I’ve done nothing with the Arduino. Likewise, I started looking at some of the books, but I did not have the brain power at the moment to keep on learning/retaining the info. I’m coming back this summer, though, because I did some automations at home and I want to see how much I can accomplish while being offline (not saying I’m walking around with a tinfoil hat, but I want to try to enjoy tech without being constantly being tracked).

I definitely entered a rabbit hole that sent me straight to linux (I was just using Ubuntu once in a while and now even my wife’s laptop runs on linux!) and now I repurposed and old laptop that runs NixOS and is our home server and hosts Home Assistant with some useful and some silly automations, Grocy, Immich, Music Assistant, Jellyfin, shares media and folders through samba and WebDAV and let us connect when we’re not home through Tailscale. It’s been pretty empowering for a noob to be able to do all this, although it might not sound as much for literate people like you guys, lol

My next stop is some cheap solar panels that let me run Home Assistant OS on a PI5 (?) and now that I know better how NixOS works, probably re-do our home server on a new machine that’s also cheap but does not eat as much energy as an old T530.

I wanted to write back since it’s been a year, I wanted to let you guys know how it’s been so far. Any questions and recommendations are welcome, and it might not look like it from this message, but all your replies were super helpful (still are, I just snatched a website and another book from the just now!).

Take care!

Sorry man. Feels like 2024, no more no less. Friendship and willingness to be around people (in person) is an old fart thing. Nowadays I only invite or make plans with my really close friends. Friends that are more family than friends.

Those casual friends we used to have are gone for good between laziness and socializing on-line, whatever that is.

If you were my neighbor and invited me I would’ve totally attended and decimated those delicious quesitos!