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  • This sounds like a FOSS utopian future :)

    There’s a few projects that have started towards this path with single-click deployable apps, you could even say HomeAssistant OS does this to some extent my managing the services for you.

    I believe one of the biggest hurdle for a “self hosting appliance” is resilience to hardware failure. Noone wants to loose decades of family photos or legal documents due to a SSD going bad , or the cat spilling water on their “hosting box”. So automated reliable off-site backups and recovery procedures for both data and configs is key.

    Databox from BBC / Nottingham University is also a very interesting concept worth looking in to:

    A platform for managing secure access to data and enabling authorised third parties to provide the owner authenticated control and accountability.


  • The biggest problem with Discord is that its an information black hole. Its not properly searchable and not indexed by search engines.

    Discord is fine for casual chat, but horrible when used for forum-type discussions and even worse when used for documentation.

    You see the same problems being discussed and solved again and again, but you cant just “link” someone the solution like you could with a forum thread cause its spread out over 3-10 chat messages that are interleaved in-between other topics being discussed in the same room

    Anything of long-term value for the project (forum-type discussions, documentation etc) should not recide in Discord





  • Shamelessly copied from https://reddit.com/comments/11fvkw7

    OP had success with deleting and recreating the proton folder, and it helped for me too. (Remember to backup your saves!) Also ProtonGE / Glorious Eggroll does seem to work better than vanilla Steam Proton. I have not tried using the plugin loader

    You could also try backing up your wine prefix, and then delete it and get steam to regenerate it. This is because sometimes it gets messed up, and not fixed when validating game files or reinstalling the game. It’s important to back it up though, since it’s where all your saves and workshop items are stored. It’s at ~/.steam/steam/steamapps/compatdata. The folder name is 244850. Once you’ve done this, go to {prefix folder}/244850/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/Application Data/, and replace the SpaceEngineers folder in the newly generated prefix with the one in the backup (keep hold of the backup though just in case).

    There’s also some troubleshooting steps in https://www.protondb.com/app/244850, generally I find that randomly copypasting some of the launch options and suggestions from here helps fix a few issues - but don’t do the ‘protontricks 244850 --force dotnet48’ It used to be the only way to get SE to run

    Another thing you could try is installing the plugin loader (which surprisingly works on linux) and enabling some of the performance improvements plugins. I haven’t firsthand seen any crashes been fixed from this, but it’s worth a try, and some of the plugins are worth having in general.

    Also: If you add -skipintro (after the %command%) in the steam launch options, you don’t have to manually go in and delete the video files.


  • The see the actual level of hydrogen in a tank, you go the the control meny(K-menu on PC), not the Inventory meny. In the lower right corner it should say how many Liters it’s filled, same as for Energy stored in battery.

    You can also see how how many LEDs are lit up, for 25, 50, 75 100% on the outside of the tank.

    The only thing that goes in the Inventory of a hydrogen tank is the Hydrogen bottles for refilling


  • Well the good news is that almost all other games run very reliably in Linux. The bad news is that Space Engineers is a bit harder.

    Space Engineers was actually a pain to get working on Linux initially (I started on Kubuntu 21.04), it’s easier now with newer versions of proton and drivers.

    For me it also crahses… A lot? A bit? It can help to recreate the proton environment (I’ll have to look up the details, but I think it’s just to backup your saves then delete the proton folder)

    When I first got Space Engineers running it was way more stable than it ever was on my Windows7 computer. Then over a year or so it got more crashy (several updates to space Engineers, windows, drivers etc). The I recreated the proton environment and it got Stable again. Now after some more updates to proton, Linux, drivers and Space Engineers itself it is sometimes crashy sometimes stable. I think it might be related to what I’m doing in my savegame… or maybe it’s just time to recreate the proton environment again. I have a few QoL mods plus Improved Rendering