How to backup their home directory, even if it is a basic method like mounting an external drive and drag and dropping files.

As someone currently deep into Nix (even contributed to nixpkgs), I’m currently in the process of migrating away and am planning on just running good old Debian stable with docker compose for my home server. I wouldn’t waste your time learning Nix, it isn’t a transferable skill and totally locks you into the ecosystem.

Yes, if anything it seems easier to handle on linux. Just bake golden images that already have a static list of required packages.

I’m a little surprised that they are planning on testing downstream distros like bazzite. It would make more sense to just stick to the biggest upstream distros like Arch/Debian/Fedora for benchmark purposes in my opinion.

Integrated brightness control for multiple monitors is awesome!

It’s an alternative “app store” but for only free and open source software, highly recommend checking it out!

Yes workout tracking works fine, not quite as polished as Connect but it is functional.

You cant use it to create or manage workout plans. It is feature complete for the health data as far as I can tell (HRV, sleep, etc).

I think it is only on F-droid

Did you put your watch into pairing mode? On my Forerunner, I have to go “Settings/Connectivity/Phone/Pair Phone” on my watch.

Unfortunately they don’t include a GPS.

My Forerunner 165 is well supported, nearly the same as the official app.

I also just deleted my Connect account. I have had it with these greedy American corporations. To anyone looking for an alternative, I highly recommend checking out Gadgetbridge, it still lets you use your watch with almost all the same features, only the data never leaves your phone.

first@last.com would be ideal, I use first@firstlast.com, but that wont be good for sharing. I would stick to a common TLD at least (.com, .net, .org, or a country) for deliverability.

If its a mission critical use, I would stick to a more common TLD (com, org, net, etc). Country TLDs should be okay too.

Just use open source software?

https://github.com/yuliskov/smarttube

Also worth noting that they themselves are an American company for anyone that is concerned about that.

Does anyone have a good recommendation for an S3 provider? I’m looking at Hetzner and OVH.

Long time customer and super happy with Fastmail. Its a bit pricy but the service is great.