Cool, thanks!

Is there a Github link?

I can’t say I notice any difference, either**, but it does seem like it reduces headaches for me and makes it easier on my eyes in low light.

** I’m an insomniac, so “better sleep” is often “any sleep I can get” lol.

I just manually turn on “Night light” if I need it before it automatically kicks in. I think that’s available in stock, but I only have LineageOS on my devices.

I’d usually start with my suite of cleanup tools, do some manual cleanup if needed, apply all the software and security updates, and then give it a day with some light test usage. Then I’d re-run the tools to see if they picked anything back up. If not, I released it back to the customer. If anything at all came back, I’d backup their data, pull all the product keys I could (Office, Photoshop, etc), nuke the OS, and reinstall what I could as close to the original as possible.

And then of course, the least fun part of that era, the guys who would bring their machines back weekly despite very stern warnings to stop visiting “those sites”.

Hey, they were good for business lol

Can confirm 100%.

During Vista’s heyday, I worked in a PC repair shop. All the ones that came in because “Vista sucks” were all Walmart specials with the bare minimum 512 MB RAM and crappy, bottom-of-the-barrel Seagate HDDs.

The thing would start thrashing as soon it booted with the default assortment of bloatware. By the time they brought it in, the HDD was in rough shape which made the thrashing even worse.

Fix was always to upgrade the RAM and, most often, replace the dying Seagate drive with a good one. Removing the bloatware helped as well once the root problems were addressed.

The UAC stuff was also annoying, but those could be tuned.

Lol I didn’t either.

MythTV?

Security tip: Never post your home address on social media.

Saving this for when people ask why I need root access on my devices.

That’s what I was thinking, but wasn’t sure enough to say beyond “give it a shot and see”.

There might be some savings to be had by enabling compression, though it would depend on what format the images are in to start with. If they’re already in a compressed format, it would probably just be a waste of CPU to try compressing them further at the filesystem level.

Not sure if a de-duplicating filesystem would help with that or not. Depends, I guess, on if there are similarities between the similar images at the block level.

Maybe try setting up a small, test ZFS pool, enabling de-dup, adding some similar images, and then checking the de-dupe rate? If that works, then you can plan a more permanent ZFS (or other filesystem that supports de-duplication) setup to hold your images.

Thanks! Wish I had more time to work on it lately, but life has been getting in the way.

Tesseract was originally kind-of a cross between Photon and Alexandrite, though it’s evolved separately from both since then. May still be close enough for your taste?

Github

I almost went with OPNsense (having previously used pfSense), but everything else was already on OpenWRT so I decided to keep things consistent. OPNsense is a solid choice, too.

Oops!

Yeah, everything’s dropping. I first noticed it when my push failed.

Oh, I run my own Gogs server internally, but for collaboration, we all use Github.