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ikidd,
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My average has gone to hell since I set up my own Piped instance. Now I live on the backs of those that endure Youtube still.

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It just runs as a proxy front end and fetches the videos as you use them. You have to set up your channel subscriptions and then if you go to your Feed, it just shows the channels, and nothing else. No algorithm spamming up your feed. No ads, uses Sponsorblock

It’s the way Youtube should have been. There’s a bunch of public ones, piped.video is the one run by it’s creator. Make an account and play around before you decide if you want to run your own instance.

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I’d buy myself several sets of the preformed wires, a bending triangle, one of those pre-mounted sets of breadboards like the one above, and a cheap power supply like a DC310S. If you want to go really cheap, you can get the breadboard power supplies that fit right on the rail and are powered by a 9V wall wart and deliver 5+3.3V at a low amperage. I’d also grab some duPont wires.

As for components, well that really depends on if you’re planning to do digital or analog projects. I’d certainly suggest a few ULN2003 chips for relay drivers, maybe a couple of ESP32 dev boards.

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“Almost”

Guarantee is not actual guarantee. Void in all lower 48 states , Alaska, Hawaii and worldwide. Guarantee cannot be combined with other offers warranting that product exists.

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Russia isn’t in NATO, but they are it’s most successful recruiter.

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Even the expensive European brands have gone completely to shit. BMW and Mercedes have given in to it over the last decade. Audi has been a shitshow for years (ask an Audi mechanic if he’d buy an Audi, I dare you).

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You can make KDE Plasma look like a dead ringer for Windows. This might make user acceptance easier.

I’d look at KasmWeb for VDI. You can make instances ephemeral or keep them persistent, and you can also hook actual desktops via the VDI as RDP sessions. I have also set up a docker instance of a Windows session via Dockur and exposed it via Kasm

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I just wouldn’t enable persistence on the Kasm session.

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It’s easy to transition a windows user to Plasma as their underlying concepts are very similiar in how windows and workflow are organized. And you can set it up to look exactly like Windows, which would reduce pushback/confusion by the users.

I had one person convinced the laptop I gave them was a Mac for several week. I mean an experienced user would notice things after a short while, but it took quite a while for this user to catch on, and when I told them they were on Manjaro (which they have no clue what that is), there was a shoulder shrug and carried on. Apps like WPS Office look different, but not all that strange.

A basic KDE desktop is as lightweight as XFCE in my experience. You can load it up if you try hard enough, but they’ve put a pile of work into keeping things light and snappy.

Kasm is pretty neat. I run it as a docker stack on it’s own VM, it’s getting quite decent from a sysadmin standpoint since that’s a heavy focus of theirs for setting up a Linux based VDI.

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How are you running Docker on your Ubuntu host? I had weird errors happening and realized that while I had installed Docker manually using the convenience script, at some point the Snap version got installed and that was a mess.

Switched to Debian, docker installed with convenience script, Nextcloud AIO has worked like a top since. All running as a VM on Proxmox as well, the host runs dozens of containers including a mailcow instance and several other stack beside the AIO, zero issues. I snapshot the VM before I do anything major like update NC so I can rollback easily. I might lose a few emails if I had to roll back, but never had to. Besides, everything is backed up via PBS hourly, so if I had to restore just the NC stack, that wouldn’t be hard.

I would also do the storage for NC locally, you can mount another dataset/virtual drive into the instance, but using Openmediavault Samba shares for your data store seems like a recipe for disaster. Samba on Linux is a convenience for interoperability with Windows, but using it as a backend for an app as complicated as NC is really not going to end well. I’m surprised you get it to work for more than a few hours, and I could see it losing data so easily.

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Yah, I just don’t think the SMB subsystem is robust enough to be used for that purpose. I can see pulling a few files on and off, but expecting the PHP backend to work with it to manage file locks etc on SMB is probably optimistic. Plus because docker is involved, I believe overlayfs would be involved there, unless it’s a bind mount. Then you have a layer between OMV managing the communication between it’s underlying filesystem to the samba server it implements. I’m really not 100% sure what the pipeline to the actual files would look like. But it seems horrendous.

I’d really just try it stock before you throw that baby out, because I’ve run NC every way you can possibly imagine since about V.8, and I’ve not had so little problems with it as with using the AIO. It’s head and shoulders above straight installation, somewhat better than NC-Pi. Snap was by far the worst for management and upgrade. And I would avoid Ubuntu as the host system, because I have no idea how docker snap got installed, but I don’t trust that it wouldn’t happen again. I sure as hell didn’t install the snap version, but there it was.

Also, with the AIO, I would avoid managing anything outside the interface of the master container, like by using portainer on the child containers.

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What’s really neat to do in Portainer is set up your compose stack off a git repo and set the webhook so it fires a pull and restart on the new docker-compose.yml when you update it in git.

I don’t use Portainer much anymore, I do my compose files manually with bind mounts locally to the compose file, and if I want an interface for the docker service, I run Lazydocker on the machine over SSH.

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