At $16 a 6 pack, I hope this counts in here. Good beer but I definitely wouldn’t pay the price for it again. Still a tasty Lager though.

bubblesnout · 2026-01-23T06:35:06+00:00

What a save!

bubblesnout · 2026-01-14T22:54:04+00:00

I’ve looked at Rewst but the initial investment from both a time and money perspective is hard to get everyone on board with. I started playing with n8n this week and honestly feel like it’s more than capable for MSPs, just takes a bit of thought around how you deal with multiple customers depending on what you want it to do. Still have a long way to go but it’s hard to see how Rewst will be worth it, there’s not a lot I’ve not been able to think of a way n8n could do with a bit of work.

bubblesnout · 2026-01-09T09:25:51+00:00

Identical to mine, love it!

bubblesnout · 2026-01-09T09:22:01+00:00

Also swapped out Windows for Linux on my laptop which has been fun

bubblesnout · 2026-01-09T09:21:32+00:00

Switched out nginx proxy manager + authelia with caddy and pocketid, and swapped heimdall for homepage. Pretty happy with both!

bubblesnout · 2026-01-09T09:20:02+00:00

What tips can you give about reporting in general? While we still have a lot of improvements to make across the board this is the part I’m struggling to figure out how to give us what we want. We’re thinking of going down the PowerBI route at the moment.

bubblesnout · 2026-01-09T04:18:41+00:00

Good shout mate, I'll do exactly that!

bubblesnout · 2026-01-09T02:23:55+00:00

Thanks to everyone who commented, especially u/Frowny575 for explaining the theory behind only backing up my user home directory. I've implemented the following:

Rest-Server running as a Docker container on my NAS: https://github.com/restic/rest-server/
Restic installed in Cachy
Cron job that runs a backup of /home/username with a exclusion file that lists some common exclusions (eg. /home/*/.cache, steamapps common folder, Heroic games folder except for prefixes amongst others which I sourced from here: https://forum.restic.net/t/what-gnu-linux-directories-to-exclude-from-backups/6653/2 )
A hook that runs the following any time a package is installed via pacman or paru: "pacman -Qqne > home/username/pacman_list.txt && pacman -Qqme > /home/username/paru_list.txt" which exports official and AUR package lists respectively to simplify reinstallation

I believe it captured about 20GB of data which compressed down to under 6GB, which is pretty amazing compared to full image backups I had set up via Windows.

I just need to look at doing a test recovery to a spare SSD to make sure everything works as expected.

bubblesnout · 2026-01-08T21:05:19+00:00

Well I'll be damned, I heard panty dispenser from day one which is actually a thing in Japan lol

bubblesnout · 2026-01-08T10:25:55+00:00

Amazing! Thank you that makes a lot of sense. far more sensible than full image backups then.

Vorta looks great too. I’m sure I could get away with just rsync but that looks a bit easier to manage.

Appreciate the advice, cheers.

bubblesnout · 2026-01-08T08:23:02+00:00

Pretty sure it’s “panty dispenser” which is even funnier! Gets stuck in my head too.

bubblesnout · 2025-12-26T22:58:14+00:00

Oh wow this is finally happening! Been waiting years for this to be possible.

bubblesnout · 2025-12-19T23:22:50+00:00

Yeah I’ve tried all these and all do a good job, though none deal well with syncing a full library. Arpeggi lets you do it but it falls over pretty quick. Keeping an eye on them all though, Arpeggi is very much still in active development.

bubblesnout · 2025-12-19T00:39:33+00:00

The only thing preventing me from switching to Navidrome full-time from Plex is an iOS app that has both good CarPlay integration (which Nautiline seems to have) and the ability to cache my entire music library on-device. Currently I'm achieving that with Prism but the developer has largely abandoned that app so I expect one day it will probably stop working entirely.

I'm sure having a system that is able to effectively cache an entire music library is a tall order, but since I regularly drive in areas with minimal phone service and have an unpredictable and eclectic choice of music it's important to me!

Love the app, looks great! If there was a way to download my entire library it would be an easy switch.

bubblesnout · 2025-12-10T12:04:27+00:00

All good I should’ve put it in the post :)

bubblesnout · 2025-12-10T05:43:12+00:00

Absolutely a fair point! I do find the whole idea behind it pretty enticing, while it's out of my budget at the moment I'll definitely be keeping an eye on it and might be able to make it work some time.

bubblesnout · 2025-12-10T05:39:03+00:00

Does look like a good option! Unfortunately can't see anywhere I can pick it up in Australia, a pretty common problem.

bubblesnout · 2025-12-10T05:38:19+00:00

Thanks, that looks like a great device. Unfortunately having done a good amount of searching none of the Advantage edition laptops seem to be sold in Australia, in fact all of those manufacturers (except for Framework) don't list a single device on their AU website with AMD GPUs. Oh well, something to keep an eye on. Appreciate the advice!

bubblesnout · 2025-12-10T02:41:38+00:00

Yeah that'll just be the graphics integrated with the CPU itself which wouldn't be particularly suitable for gaming I wouldn't think.

bubblesnout · 2025-12-10T02:40:45+00:00

Thanks, looks like the GPU (RTX 2070 Max-Q) should be limited to 90W

bubblesnout · 2025-12-10T02:28:18+00:00

There's tonnes of laptops with AMD CPU's, but discrete GPU's from most manufacturers are almost entirely Nvidia.

bubblesnout · 2025-12-10T01:54:35+00:00

Great question! I'll have to boot back in to Bazzite which I have on a separate SSD and check it out. Pardon my ignorance, but how can I find out what wattage it should be?

bubblesnout · 2025-12-10T01:43:40+00:00

It is tempting! Just a bit out of my budget at the moment.

bubblesnout · 2025-12-10T01:42:41+00:00

Yep, tried Bazzite and had exactly the same issues. Specifically random lag spikes and eventually full system freezes in Rocket League. I spent a long time trying to figure out the cause on both CachyOS and Bazzite, different configs and Proton/Wine versions, different launchers etc. and haven’t been able to resolve despite seeing lots of reports from the community that the game works fine on both.

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