Glad I helped!

Let me know how it goes! Happy to help if I can.

Thats more than totally fine, its why I shared it!

Hope it will help

IMU, GPU encoding is for streaming: it aims at fast, not so great, output quality without CPU usage. Exactly what you are getting.

Don’t use GPU encoding for storage… CPU encoding is much better.

Edit: since its aimed at streaming, GPU encoding only needs to achieve real time performance, no need to go any faster. CPU encoding instead can go as fast as your cores can push.

Using unbound on opnSense with blacklists. Works wonders and do not require an additional device.

Went to try pfSense. Need to register to their shop to buy a free download link.

Then during installation it won’t install unless it can phone home and report.

OpnSense all the way.

Than you for your very appreciated feedback. Feel free to DM/PM me for anything related.

I keep a wiki on all that I do.

This is the page on radicale: here

This is the more general page on reverse proxy here

And so on, Check the sidebar.

I mostly write it so that in future I remember what I did and how I did it, but I use some unusual techniques compared to the mainstream point of view from this community, so keep that in mind.

Gentoo linux with Radicale on bare metal. Radicale is behind NGINX reverse proxy that slaps HTTPS and authelia redirect for authentication on top.

And of course i use DAV5X on android.

Never had an issue with caldav and cardav. Maybe you are using broken servers or clients?

Even notes can be done efficiently on those standards…

But, hey, I am using only FOSS server and clients, maybe you referring to proprietary ones? You know, those who are mare by vendors who have no interest in interoperability?

Go https, today there is no real reason not to and tons of good reasons to do it.

Let’s encrypt is 100% free and using their certbot its also automated and easy to do.

That’s really true. I was lucky enough to lose data, but be able to recover it. Very lucky.

And you find out you are not really backing up enough!

Don’t understand much of what you say. But it’s an indexer, use it if you need it or use another. I have no affiliations to whoever and I have no idea who Darius.

40+ years of photos already sorted into albums and sub albums make immich useless to me. I am using LibrePhoto which feels slower but works as well.

We will see what the future holds for both projects.

Well, yes, stage3 has been a revolution. But I don’t remember using stage1 directly. I started with Linux way earlier than gentoo… On 386.

Docker sucks with user management. I installed them all on bare metal each one on its own user. They all belong to a common “media” group and inset 750 as umask.

Its a bad bad idea to have 777 files and folders lying around, don’t do it.

Today on Intel i7/Xeon with 16gb ram I go from a stage3 to full GUI (plasma, no libreoffice or such) in a few hours.

To all gentoo detractors… 20 years ago compiling a browser would take 5 days (as in 24 x 5 hours…) So you are not allowed to complain TODAY about compile times ahahahaahaha ahahaha ahah haha aaaaaaaaah ಠ_ಠ

Gentoo all the way since 20 years, on all kind of devices, going strong and never looked back.

Ubuntu, I hate you. A messy complex windows-esque caricature in the Linux world, where “somebody else” knows better than me and shoves it down my gully.

So there you go, my best and worst distros choice.

It might, at times, it’s behind a convoluted set of proxies of course.