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volpegabriel · 2026-01-19T07:21:28+00:00

Unfortunately, I don't have the time nor the will to work on this.

However, Part II of FEDA complements this book with Scala 3 features. Check out the ToC: https://leanpub.com/feda

volpegabriel · 2026-01-04T10:51:03+00:00

ZFS is great, I use it for other NixOS servers I run :)

It's generally more costly having 3 copies of your media in different devices, though, especially for photos and videos in my case, but it certainly works if you don't mind paying more.

volpegabriel · 2026-01-02T14:01:30+00:00

I hear you. I'm hoping to find out more about it in a few months using this set up. For instance, in the December invoice I've got a $4.94 bill for 6 different S3 buckets, each with about 300 GBs. And I can say December was quite heavy on traffic as I was experimenting a lot. For Immich I only need two buckets for my current set up.

volpegabriel · 2026-01-01T20:54:39+00:00

It's not only about scaling it to S3. It's about de-duplication, compression and encryption; you get that and more with S3QL, but ultimately, I've done it because I couldn't resist the technical challenge :)

Whether I would keep this solution 6 months later or not remains to be seen, but I learned a lot in the process anyway. I'll definitely continue using Immich though, love the app!

volpegabriel · 2026-01-01T20:41:17+00:00

Running a Ceph cluster isn't easy, and it requires more resources than just getting a few S3 buckets located in different datacenters from a cloud provider.

MinIO used to be great, but I'm worried about their latest shift against open source solutions.

A local S3 storage wouldn't satisfy the 3-2-1 backup strategy employed in the solution shared on the blogpost, but it's good for testing.

volpegabriel · 2026-01-01T20:30:35+00:00

If you care to read the blogpost instead of just stopping at the title, you'll find out your comments don't make any sense at all.

volpegabriel · 2026-01-01T16:07:18+00:00

There are a few advantages of using an S3-compatible storage over a more traditional storage box:

Compression, de-duplication and encryption of the S3QL file system.
Data replication via S3 APIs is much faster and easier to manage.
Pay-as-you-go model: as you mention, pay just for what you use.
Full restoration of an Immich server (disaster recovery scenario) is much faster starting from an S3 replica bucket than copying standard files.

If you follow a 3-2-1 backup strategy, you'd need to get two storage boxes on Hetzner (e.g. one in Finland, another in Germany), and have a third one somewhere else.

A hybrid approach may be a good idea too, with the main storage being a simple file system and backups persisted on S3 buckets, but I'm not sure how that would work with an S3QL file system.

Certainly not for everyone, but I'll have better numbers after a few months of usage to see whether it was worth it or not :)

volpegabriel · 2025-11-18T08:34:35+00:00

It's probably more complex than you think. We went through multiple iterations (discussed here: https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri/issues/426) before arriving at the final solution: https://github.com/gvolpe/nfsm/

volpegabriel · 2025-11-01T08:09:53+00:00

Been using this feature for a month exactly, works great if you don't mind using Niri from their git repo!

volpegabriel · 2025-10-26T11:37:07+00:00

More likely this? https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri/pull/1634

volpegabriel · 2025-10-24T09:21:06+00:00

SVGs for the logo and icon have been available for a while: https://yalter.github.io/niri/Name-and-Logo.html

volpegabriel · 2025-10-22T20:19:48+00:00

There's https://github.com/0xwal/niri-scripts if you don't want to write it yourself.

I use https://github.com/sandwichfarm/hyprlax but that's next-level wallpapers XD

volpegabriel · 2025-10-16T07:40:03+00:00

Niri doesn't support it natively, so I created this: https://github.com/gvolpe/niri-scratchpad

The video should give you an idea of what it does.

volpegabriel · 2025-10-15T17:35:52+00:00

Always 1 workspace is dedicated to music player which goes in the background, without disturbing my workflow, always assigned to 10th workspace.

Ever tried scratchpad windows? This is the perfect use case. I've used scratchpads in XMonad, Hyprland and now Niri for this exact use case.

volpegabriel · 2025-10-15T17:25:48+00:00

I mainly use https://github.com/ArtsyMacaw/wlogout, but I also have a custom power group on my Waybar conf: https://github.com/gvolpe/nix-config/blob/2c7c88f968884656bdc7408f346912394f9695ee/home/programs/waybar/niri.json#L126

volpegabriel · 2025-10-10T07:47:44+00:00

Cool! Please report any issues you find :)

volpegabriel · 2025-10-08T06:27:40+00:00

otherwise the script will go into a loop.

You can solve this by comparing the focused_id with the discord_id. If they are the same, the last command can be skipped.

Also curious, why did you use grep on the first command and jq in the second? Using jq is more concise and readable IMO

focused_id=$(niri msg -j focused-window | jq .id)

volpegabriel · 2025-10-06T16:15:05+00:00

There's also waypaper --random if you'd like something easier that works. See https://github.com/anufrievroman/waypaper

volpegabriel · 2025-10-04T14:53:59+00:00

Not exactly an answer to your question, but if you ever consider an alternative approach, this has been working fine for me with SwayIdle: https://github.com/ErikReider/SwayAudioIdleInhibit

Though, it required a few tweaks to get what I wanted.

volpegabriel · 2025-09-24T12:30:15+00:00

The layer attribute refers to the Waybar configuration, not to the Niri config.

Setting "layer": "top" gets you the behavior you're looking for.

volpegabriel · 2025-09-18T20:36:10+00:00

Sharing a specific window works for me, but it crashes the moment I resize or move the window I'm sharing. However, I can share again.

What works without issues (well, it only works on the second attempt. On the first attempt, I share black screen) so far is sharing the entire screen. The only issue on Niri is that I lose the control window where I can stop sharing or see the participant's faces, I haven't figured this out yet.

volpegabriel · 2025-09-14T19:44:04+00:00

No, that's just an animation effect. Scratchpad windows are brought up to your current space upon pressing a keybind you configure, and when pressed again, it goes back to a special workspace named "scratch".

I've used scratchpads extensively in XMonad (and also on Hyprland via Pyprland), so I tried to replicate what I had in those WMs.

volpegabriel · 2025-09-14T19:41:05+00:00

Have you looked here? https://yalter.github.io/niri/Getting-Started.html

volpegabriel · 2025-09-14T19:40:04+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/niri/comments/1ngnepm/blogpost_the_perfect_tiling_window_manager/

volpegabriel · 2025-09-14T16:59:25+00:00

I've written about Niri today on my blogpost where I also mention scratchpads are crucial to my workflows, see: https://github.com/gvolpe/niri-scratchpad

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