Also you could try a software named “Bottles” (https://usebottles.com/download/ ).

It has a pretty simple GUI and you can click your configs together.

At first you have to define a “bottle” which simply represents an virtual environment for your Windows-Application or Game.

You can define which Windows Version you want to create and it asks you, if it is a Desktop-App or a Game you want to run. And based on that it will create an environment prepared for your Individual situation.

It also supports proton.

Thank you! Gone are the days were I said “Wait! I have a meme for that!” -> Since Immich it is just “Here is a meme for that!”

I should do that, but i dont do it at the Moment.

Maybe in the future. It should be pretty simple by running my attached drives as a RAID 1-Cluster or something.

They’re running on NAS 24/7 online-Drives. At the Moment I’m pretty confident that I am safe.

I would say it is, but to be fair, i work as a programmer and with Linux on a daily basis.

But there are plenty of tutorials which teach you to flash some OS to your Pi or even complete guides to build immich on top of a pi:( https://pimylifeup.com/raspberry-pi-immich/ )

The raspberry pi is the famoust single board Computer and therefore there are tons of projects and things you can do with it.

Immich is the best alternative I can think of. It runs about 2 years now on my raspberry pi.

And there is even a OpenSource Companion App which syncs Photos Automatically to the Server (https://droidify.eu.org/app/?id=app.alextran.immich&repo_address=https%3A%2F%2Ff-droid.org%2Frepo .

The Search is so good that I host another sever just for my meme-Collection! It even recognise Tags like NSFW out of the Box. And all that on your own hardware! You can search by people, cities, countries Dates, Devices and so on

You can selhost it on your own Hardware. Its pretty simple. You just have to install docker and docker-compose and follow the instructions on their site.

If you followed and learned that, you can pretty much host ANY other App just like that. Its pretty much always the same steps.

If you have any App you used before and isnt available on Linux: You can try to install the .exe-file with a Tool named “Bottles”.

Each Programm you run with that tool gets its own virtual Space, so if you mess something up, you can throw that one bottle away and just create another in its fresh New environment.

It has a clean UI and you can play with all kinds of different configs to get your Bottle to run. You can choose between different Windows Versions for example.

Under the hood it uses Wine and Proton.

Pro-Tip: Start Programms via the UI in “Terminal-Mode” so you can See potential Error-Messages which you would normally not see, if you just run the Programm.

Thanks for the lookup to that article! Very Informative and entertaining

Personally i would recommend ubuntu Server and host as much you can over Docker and docker-compose files (selfhost is sooooo easy since docker!).

Ubuntu-Server is light weight and uses an common package manager which is widely used. Also the system is matured and frequently updated.

You can install portainer on the Server and manage all your containers/services through an easy UI.

Also you could install Watchtower on it, so all your docker-containers will be updated automaticly.

Edit: If you are just unsure about the Distro of choice, here is an pretty nice Website to search for distros of any kind: https://distrowatch.com/search-mobile.php?ostype=Linux&category=NAS&origin=All&basedon=All&notbasedon=None&desktop=All&architecture=All&package=All&rolling=All&isosize=All&netinstall=All&language=All&defaultinit=All&status=Active#simpleresults

I simply love the Dutchs for their OpenSource-Mindset! I am pretty confident, that they will take the right decisions.

Personally i would like to See the Dutchs taking the lead in EU-Digital-Decision-Making.

I use Jellyfin for all my media and on Desktop like on My Linux-Phone an APP called “Supersonic” to connect to my Audio-library.

I really like it on the desktop, but unfortunetly it isnt build for mobile-devices. But it runs under postmarketOS on My OnePlus6T and it does its job.

Yeah, but can you post events anonymous there? I tried it a couple of Years ago and i didnt See that Option. But maybe that changed since then.

Also it seems Less active for my country (germany). In my area there is a instance called https://bonn.jetzt/ which is quite active and is also posting on Mastodon.

There are some Sites which do this thing: https://alternativeto.net/software/rebrickable/ .

But sadly they all are properitary and all of them Seem to cost a few dollars for alternative building instructions.

There are plenty selfhosted alternatives, where your location-data can be stored and shared on/from your own hardware, like Hauk: https://github.com/bilde2910/Hauk .

In my experience shit just works in Linux. I own an 10+ year old external DVD-Drive and an newer external BD-Diskdrive. And both of em work flawless on Manjaro.

Worth mentioning, that its an german non-profit project. Also it uses Bing’s Search-Engine.

Edit: Just learned about the existence of lemmynsfw.com. At the moment not compareable but its growing fast.

Only the NSFW-Content.

I live in germany, and i am not afraid of my government. They have ups and downs but overall its okay, i would say.

I would leave if i were CONSTANTLY afraid.

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Not comparable with instagram yet, but its growing fast https://pixelfed.org/servers . And for my interests it is more Than enough. I am no poweruser and follow only a few people, but if i wanted so, i could browse for hours in my subscription-feed.