If the charger is underpowered the laptop draws from both the battery and the charger at the same time, since the charger cannot provide enough current on its own.
The current does not go through the battery on its way.
MangoPenguin
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Sure, any that you plug into the wall are running from an AC source, it gets converted to DC but the source is AC.
some charge the battery as it’s being dissipated since it’s running off the battery.
The current will simply bypass the battery assuming it's charged, it can't flow in and then back out when both the charger and load are connected.
Current can't go through a battery, only in or out.
When connected to AC it will be running off AC, and also charging the battery.
Correct, but the laptop will be running off AC.
Proxmox has a built in backups system, and also handles LXC containers.
Also proxmox can run ZFS just like TrueNAS, so there is little reason to use TrueNAS instead of Proxmox unless you're just wanting a pure NAS with nothing else.
When connected to the outlet it will be running solely on outlet power just by default, you don't need to do anything specific.
Edit: Now that I re-read this OP, it sounds more like you want to stop the battery from charging when connected to AC.
Should be able to just install the package xdg-user-dirs on any distro. Would probably work fine in LXC containers too.
That sucks that it's been such a pain.
I can't say I've ever experienced the same though, windows install is a breeze and very fast, and on W10/11 these days everything just basically works perfectly out of the box for gaming.
htop gives me enough info without being too busy or slow, it's also in basically every OS repo by default so no complicated install.
The other ones can look awesome, but they're often harder to get info from quickly due to being too cluttered.
The simplest option is just connect via SMB, WebDAV, NFS, etc and browse using your normal file browser.
There are a ton of various web based photo galleries: https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted?tab=readme-ov-file#photo-and-video-galleries
Some can be hosted on your basic Nginx+PHP+MariaDB stack which is more complex to set up, but most are going to be meant for deployment on Docker because that makes everything very easy.
I mean, while plugged into the wall yes it's being powered by AC.