IanTwenty

Yes it's not too much bother to set this up, it can be put into ansible and once working I've not had to touch it again. Here's another dracut tool using dropbear that works well and has decent instructions on setup: dracut-crypt-ssh

The crypt-ssh dracut module allows remote unlocking of systems with full disk encryption via ssh

Yes, exactly

Castopod looks interesting

Stow/chezmoi/your choice for dotfiles, config mgmt for system config. You don't need to rebuild whole server to start with ansible tho, you can take over one file at a time and grow as you learn.

As you've found I don't know of a tool that will cover both usecases as config mgmt for dotfiles is too much and dotfile mgrs for system config is probably out of their scope.

https://blog.fyralabs.com/upgrade-error-with-vlc-plugins-freeworld/

That rpmfusion package looks like trouble, can you uninstall it or all of rpmfusion before upgrading? I also see internet problems here also so you might be better off fixing that first.

Messages are only sent when both online though, thet's the bigger difference (unless using Briar Mailbox). Also it can send over wifi and bluetooth without internet connection i.e. no other devices involved.

Upgrade from compression tools to backup tools. Look into using restic (a tool with dedup, compression and checksumming) on a filesystem which also checksums and compresses (btrfs/zfs) - that's probably most reasonable protection and space saving available. Between restic's checks and the filesystem you will know when a bit flips and that's when you replace the hardware (restoring from one of your other backups).

If you mean with a gui then this is one tool:

https://apps.gnome.org/en-GB/DconfEditor/

Try this:

gsettings set org.gnome.mutter check-alive-timeout 10000

Value is in ms so 10000=10s. You can also set it to 0 to disable.

To be clear you can absolutely type in exact measurements in the 'tool controls bar' for all the shape tools and even individual nodes. Scale and units are easy to switch between and there's a measurement tool also.

Sorry re-reading my comments it's not super clear what I meant: nowhere else in the table do they take account for the 'hidden' on-going maintenance of looking after a server/self-hosting. So this is the only row where they address 'cost' and I just thought it's a bit optimistic to say replacing all of Spotify just costs a one time server setup and storage. I think you're saying this row was only meant to indicate financial cost and I agree it's basically accurate from that meaning. However this is only the 'initial' cost. For example a self-hosted server and storage will eventually have to be replaced whereas Spotify will just keep replacing their own servers and that's already baked into the price of your subscription (caveat: that Spotify price will rise over time).

It's not a big point really, maybe I'm nitpicking.

I see what you're saying but nowhere else in that table is cost mentioned. Below the table they say maintanance is minimal. If you're already looking after storage, containers and server(s) I guess that could be true.