Definitely! The only “good” 3rd-party themes are the ones from Jomada (Edna, Moe, Itchy, etc.) and from Vinceliuice (Graphite, Canta, Layan, etc.).
Those are well thought out, coherent and look professional.

If you scroll through the top ones, then you almost exclusively find ones that got their last update years ago, and now look extremely incoherent or buggy.
And even if you find newer ones, then they often lack the polish.
Man, it just sucks…

But hey, maybe there is just not that much demand anymore, because the defaults look great nowadays?

I sadly, and I don’t say this lightly, have to agree.
When first using KDE, I was totally baffled by the amount of themes you can download.

But I quickly learned, that most of them are either more than 5 years old, look ugly/ incoherent, or cause this blurriness issue OP mentioned.

For my taste, Breeze (or to a further extend, Lightly) looks phenomenal by default, especially since Plasma 6. I only change the color scheme a bit (usually just adaptive colors, based on wallpaper), but that’s it.

Debian. I don’t see much benefit of Ubuntu LTS compared to plain old Debian. It’s exactly what you wanted.

Alternatively, AlmaLinux is a good choice if you like Red Hat stuff (RHEL clone), but the difference between Ubuntu LTS and Debian would be almost not noticeable for you I think.

I made a similar post a few weeks ago.
I will try uBlue core and give you all a small update about it.

I feel similar about Debian. It’s a good distro for sure and I don’t have any issues with it for server use, but somehow, I still don’t like it somehow. RPM-/ OSTree based distros are more my taste, and I don’t even know why.

In what regards? Maybe just wait a few weeks until the majority of bugs and problems are ironed out.

I’m not missing anything, they are great. I always found the separation of desktop oberview and window overview a bit weird, and now, with the newest release, they got merged as one thing with one coherent trackpad gesture, which I love.

It still has the same vibes and is the same KDE we love or hate, just better.

It definitely feels way more polished and now has some MacOS vibes to be fair.
Not as minimalist as Gnome, but the insane amount of features got “hidden” a bit user friendlier. I think that if you apply some icon themes and a top bar + dock, it will be indistinguishable from MacOS for many casual users.

Sadly, they still aren’t, but at least, the overview and grid view are now combined, just like on Gnome.
Before, they were decoupled and unintuitive, and now, they got a rework.

There’s a big shift happening right now, you’re right on that.
Traditionally, ARM is not as capable in solving complex issues, but more efficient.

That’s why it has always been used on smartphones for example. You want a lot of battery and don’t need to do highly complex stuff on that, that’s what you have your PC for.

The big focus in the last years has always been to top the competitor in terms of performance, and only right now, people begin to question if the computing power they have right now isn’t enough and if they rather wouldn’t like to have a device that’s more efficient.
The tradeoff is, you’re more limited to this specific architecture. Apple solved this by making a compatibility layer for x86 apps, but that of course comes with a performance hit.

I’m no expert in that topic tho, so take all I said with a lil grain of salt.

Right now, I think you’re better off with x86, because your server will definitely run on some sort of Linux, and we don’t have any compatibility layer or something like that yet.

I think 4 a year is better than 3. With 4, you can just do a quarterly thread, which is easier.

I think the concept of megathreads could be executed a bit better. In the way it is suggested in the post, it’s only a poll about preferences and popular choices we all use anyway.

I’m thinking about the idea to make a weekly category collection, where we can discuss specific things in more detail.
E.g. “[Weekly thread] What browser do you use? (07/2024)”, where we can debate why one prefers Mull over Fennec, what problems we had with Vanadium, and so on.
Or, what niche apps we found this month.
Or, what FOSS app exceeds it’s proprietary counterpart.
And so on, and so on. I can give you 20 topic suggestions in less than 2 minutes 😅

This would generate much more engagement and value imo.

And then, we can just simply link each weekly discussion in the quarterly mega thread with one bottom line each.
In that way, everyone would have more resources to read further into, and it’s more organized.
Also, this would prevent routine. We don’t need a “Which gallery app do you use, and why is it simple gallery?” every time. We can come up with many new ideas each week, and then, every megathread is different and still worth reading into a few years from now.

Getting more than one vote is simple, too simple. It should be linked with why you think that way and use that tool.
Lemmy is a discussion site, not one for popular opinions and polls. I think engagement is the highest priority, both for strengthening the community, and for the SEO to rank Lemmy higher than Reddit some time in the future 🙃

And linking it to upvotes is bad, that’s not the purpose of them. We can still upvote suggestions we disagree with, but that are argued good and add value.

Tittle Im thinking: [Megathread] FOSS Apps — Lemmy Edition | You like? Or do you want another?

Not recognizable enough imo. It will go under in less than a year. What about
[Megathread] Summary of your favourite FOSS Android apps | Community picks for Q3-2024!
?

Feel free to discuss!

Where I live, electricity is also very expensive. I monitor every watt.

I asked the same question half a year ago, here’s what I’ve learnt: RPis tend to be less reliable and aren’t that energy efficient. They’re great for small appliances, but for servers (e.g. NAS) not as much.

Get an used Thinclient/ mini PC. They cost something between 50-150€ and give you a huge performance boost, more ports, a x86 architecture, are better repairable (still often bad) and more.

Mine uses about 10-15 W on normal use, and 20 rarely when my cloud is under heavy use.

I think both are equally great and it’s more about taste.

Logseq is an outliner, so basically everything is written in bullet points. For my type of thinking, that’s great. Obsidian is more about longer notes.

You can archive both with extensions, so it’s about you what you prefer.

Logseq. Linear To-Do-lists aren’t for me, and in Logseq, I can do it organically

Logseq. I love it so much I bought the sync-access to support the project!

Dude… It’s the hundredth time you’ve posted this copypasta.
Image-based OSs aren’t locked down and also don’t depend on proprietary services.

You can just read my post I made about immutable systems, maybe we can discuss it there.

But, I wouldn’t choose a image based OS right now too for servers. At least yet.
I’m just afraid about compatibility, because many installers and services might rely on access to the root file system for now. Debian is right now the best choice as server OS, but that might change in the future.

I can recommend you this color scheme.
Why? Because I designed it myself (/s, but I’m proud of it, okay?).

No, I designed especially for adaptivity. It’s pretty “boring”, but the whole color scheme adapts to your accent color.

On my screenshots, I used a similar set of colors.
It should fit pretty well.

If you just take the pink or blue from the wallpaper via the color picker as custom accent color, it should change your whole mood if the desktop.

I don’t know what’s your intention.
I’m no expert or highly qualified in any way, so please correct me, but I don’t know if that’s the right way.

LLMs usually need lots of computing power, optimally in form of a GPU.
I use GPT4All, and when I send a prompt, I notice the temps/ fan speed and usage of my GPU turning up instantly to almost 100%. If it’s a longer one, my PC sounds like a helicopter 😁

In terms of hosting a server, you want something barely good enough for your service, e.g. running your cloud. This results in way less power draw, which is what you want, since it runs 24/7. Something powerful enough to run LLMs comfortably would likely draw lots of power, even an Apple Silicon.

I think, you’re better off just using GPT4All on your gaming PC if you need it.

I hope I’m wrong, and M1s draw barely any power.
And even if I am, they (almost) can only run MacOS, which wouldn’t be a good server OS.

I was at the same spot as you a few months ago and searched for the same.
Pretty much all of the FOSS readers sucked UX wise.

So, I’ll give you a completely different advice than all the other commenters here: buy yourself an e-reader.

I did the same and couldn’t be more happy.
I’m a big fan of “do one thing and do it right” (I made my phone pretty dumb and also own a digital camera for example).

Readers feel superb. They have a very comfortable display (almost like reading on real paper), don’t distract you and the battery lasts for weeks.
You can also sync them easily via USB.

Just don’t buy a Kindle. Aim for a more open solution, like a Tolino or Kobo.

It sounds like your configuration is not sufficiently backed up.

It is backed up. 1x per auto-backup (Borg, included in the AIO) and 2x on different external drives.
The setup isn’t complicated too, basically barebones Debian with docker.

It’s just that setting everything up (once) again is annoying and highly inconvenient.

But, thank you for your tips on the LUKS-stuff, I will consider it! 🙂

Even if firearms were legal in my country, I wouldn’t murder someone because of some embarrassing photos where I discovered Snapchat filters.

Also, if they were legal, they wouldn’t help, since I’m not 24/7 at home