Sounds like the exact reason that official debian backports came into existence.

I dunno. I still don’t use Wayland, but I have no problem with people developing for it.

I just asked 2 IT guys “hey, do you know what punycode is?” And the answer I received was “I’ve heard of it but don’t know what it is.”
Thank you for informing me, but I’m far from alone in not recognizing it or having knowledge of what punycode is.

Looks like a totally legit domain. Much trusting.

I run audiobookshelf through it and it works flawlessly.

I think he’s not concerned about much besides himself.

Sure, but one is rude to people that deliver bad work to him, the other is rude to people that don’t accept his bad work from him.

Vulnerable? Do you have examples? I’m not aware of any.

Or maybe they’re developers that are tired of the wheel being reimplemented?
Eg.
https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/06/wayland-screenshots/

One of the things that keeps me on x11 is xscreensaver. I disable the desktop environments blanking and install xscreensaver each time I load a system for myself.

I’m on their free tier. If you don’t have a domain you need to get one, but CloudFlare does offer domain registration basically at-cost.
Because I’m on free, I can’t break down my analytics like a paid account can. i can say though that for the past 30 days my account has generated 886k requests and 47.56GB of bandwidth. I can’t tell you how much of that is nextcloud and how much is other stuff, like audiobookshelf, but hopefully this helps answer you.

Exactly why I run LMDE and not LM.

100% this. I have one running in a lxc, and I expose it to the world through a CloudFlare tunnel so I needn’t worry about dyndns or people probing my public IP.

For basic hosting of stuff+storage management, TrueNAS has a highly polished product that lets you install docker containers with ease.

They have a curated collection that includes every piece of software you mentioned, plus the ability to install dockerhub images as ‘custom’ images.

Originally I started with a single Pentium 4 with 4x1.5TB disks, and it’s grown over time. Now at home I have 2 TrueNAS machines giving me 80TB of storage, and 3 HP elitedesk Minis running proxmox for general VMs.
I also have a managed switch, which lets me pipe the raw Internet into it, and deliver it to the proxmox hosts so I can run a virtual router with high-availability.

OpenZFS, which TrueNAS uses as its primary storage filesystem, has recently gained the ability to increase existing disk arrays by adding additional disks (as opposed to replacing all disks with larger ones) and this makes it even more flexible for future growth.

I will say though, that if the machine is dated and you load up ‘all the things’ in it, you might not be impressed by performance, so be sure to manage your expectations.

I also suggest that you consider making yourself a roadmap, so that you can plan out what hardware you’ll need to implement the ‘next big thing’

Also - the steamlink you mentioned - I’m not sure what you’re chasing there exactly, but if your steam rig is already in your home, the only thing you can do to improve latency is provide Ethernet to both the streaming sender and receiver.

Good luck!

It’s not FOSS, but you can use Plex for it. The PlexAmp app is very good.

The AD&D “Gold Box” games from SSI Inc. stored game text in 6-bit encoding. The first one of these I played was “Champions of Krynn” and the PC release came on 4 360k 5.25 dsdd floppy disks. They actually needed the packing in those days, and couldn’t afford to spent cpu cycles or ram on built in compression.
I remember opening up the game data files in a file viewer (maybe pc-tools?) and being confounded by the lack of text in the files.

Correct.

I love having Audiobookshelf. My spouse and I have our own accounts so that we don’t trample each other’s saved progress.

Wut? I’ve got a bunch of dockerhub images running on a scale box

Wow, there’s a reference I didn’t think I’d come across. Did you ever try using it? I was curious but never did…didn’t have a use case for it.