Yeah, I’ve already heard about such a solution, where I’d need a Pi that acts as the streaming client, which then should work with any camera.

can these be configured to stream TO a remote frigate server?

Example: I’d like to install one at my parent’s house, connect it to my parent’s wifi, but have it stream to frigate, that’s hosted on my server in another city?

The search is still bad, imho… If I search for a place, osmand doesn’t show the address in the list. So, I’d have to go through each of the items to find the one that I’m looking for.

yeah, I tried osmand, but the UI is just “meh”

I’m almost degoogled, in the sense that no penny goes to them.

• I use Fastmail for mail/calendars
• Revanced/Smarttube for YT (no ads, no money)
• Immich instead of Photos

The only thing I can’t really get rid of, is Google Maps.

If you haven’t, get yourself familiar with Docker and docker compose, and then use portainer to manage all your stuff. It’s a lifesaver.

couple of Pis are cheaper

Are they thou? In my region the 4Bs are selling at around 60 bucks (no case, no SD)… A “couple” of them (including some for backup and HA and Octoprint) would mean at least 4 of them, totalling at 240 bucks (or 300 with SD). For that money, one could get two (or even three) more-than-capable thin clients.

As some others mentioned, when the DNS goes down (which pihole is) your whole network is down. With the fragility (and slowness) of the PI, it’d be more likely it will go down, sooner than later.

Considering the cost, a good alternative, imho, would be some sort of thin client, with an energy efficient CPU. So, instead of getting 2-3 PIs, better get one of these TCs, while keeping your PI as a DNS backup solution.

I’ve mine on a separate VLAN that has no internet access. the only thing it is allowed to do is sending and receiving UDP packets on port 14447/14449 for hyperionLED. And that’s about as smart as I allow it to be.

but yeah, setting up davx5 with my fastmail account gives me exactly what I need. I can use the google calendar app to have my FM calendar fully integrated.

Wouldn’t put pihole or any other mission critical network service on a Pi, unless there’s some kind of fallback.

Yeah, I’ve heard about radicale. But the “merging” and sync still happens on the client side of things (Android). I was hoping for some kind of dockerized backend service that can bring together all the calendars. And the only thing I’d have to do is go into the backend, connect FM and google (or any other calendar) and link that (dockerized) service account on my phone.

Good point… I might add rclone as a feature later on.

Restic has a feature where you can copy snapshots from one repo to another, if that’s what you mean

Karma is a bitch, huh?

EA is also the one behind easyanticheat, refusing to make their games work under Linux, claiming it’s difficult.

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/02/tim-sweeney-is-right-about-the-difficulty-of-adapting-fortnites-eac-to-linux/

However, Steam/Valve has made it very easy to ship EAC for Steam games and many games (i.e. Apex Legends) have shown that it just works.

So yeah, excluding Linux users is as shitty as being excluded from Apple.

I’m not familiar with the GL, but I’ve configured some WG connections (purevpn) on my opnsense, and I recall using echo privatekey | wg pubkey to generate a public key from a private key for WG.

I hope this helps somehow.

or… we just need more FOSS alternatives to the car manufacturers proprietary OS.

I already see GH issues like: “breaks stop working when going above 200mph.”