Taasz/Woof

For 2 that’s neat to have, but how do you send the clipboard or something thats not in a file manager?

I find it really buggy, it often loses connection and won’t connect to multiple devices at once.

Also how is speech to text AI? It has existed for decades, obviously a lot better now but I don’t think I’d consider it “AI”

There’s a ton of added friction when doing things outside the basic ‘install Flatpak app’. Security generally comes at the price of being difficult to use.

For new users it also means virtually every guide or there on fixing an issue or installing extra software won’t apply.

Nice, narrowing it down!

Next thing I would check is your configured DNS servers on the desktop, it needs to have only the pihole IP, if it has any other servers configured that is likely the issue.

Also worth pinging the pihole IP next time it’s not working, to check if it’s actually a networking issue instead of a DNS issue.

Mini PCs are even less usually, mine are around 2W idle which is less than my Pi! (i3-7100u CPUs)

Newer hardware that has lower idle consumption mostly. I’ve found there’s not much to do on a typical setup as far as software optimization, as most OS’s are already set up for pretty low power usage while idle.

HDD sleep can work if you don’t have anything accessing the drives, but with all the stuff running on my server there’s basically always some kind of activity going on so they never sleep. Less HDDs is the answer for me, I just have 2 large drives in a ZFS mirror.

My HP box with an i5-7500 idles around 15-20W which is decently low, but I also have 2 PCs with i3-7100u mobile chips that idle at 1-2W with 32GB of RAM and an NVMe SSD, which is wild.

Avoiding enterprise gear is key, it’s extremely power hungry.

I don’t think it’s a problem with PiHole realistically, it sounds more like for some reason your DNS requests are not getting to PiHole.

So I would start with checking if the request is reaching PiHole.

Next time it breaks, before restarting networkmanager, go check the pihole requests log and see if your DNS queries are even showing up there.

If they are, what does pihole show it’s returning for the query, is it the correct IP?

If that’s working properly then I would check if you can ping the server by IP directly, make sure that connection is working.

I have a single container for docker that runs 95% of services, and a few other containers and VMs for things that aren’t docker, or are windows/osx.

ext4 is the simple easy option, I tend to pick that on systems with lower amounts of RAM since ZFS does need some RAM for itself.

I do have an external USB HDD for backups to be stored on.

OP is using a VPS, not a phone/laptop.

Jellyfin kinda sucks as a music player, it takes so many clicks to navigate and it often sorts music incorrectly, so that’s one reason to use something else.

Without using a domain a reverse proxy doesn’t really make sense to use, since you’re just using direct IP addresses.

No it shouldn’t be, it might take awhile for things to catch up if you changed what you’re hosting on the root domain.

That said it’s much easier to run services on their own subdomains in the future, and leave the root domain only for a website/email if you happen to run those services.

I agree CLI is faster for tasks I do often, but for one-off stuff or rare tasks where I will forget the CLI args, it’s significantly slower having to look up the right commands each time.

I always figured anyone wanting a different shell is probably heavily into Linux to the point that switching it themselves would be fairly trivial.

Is CachyOS a more CLI focused desktop linux? I’m not very familiar with it. Normally on a desktop I avoid the CLI, because the GUI is just easier and faster to use.

Its convenient because your data is stored in the same folder that your docker-compose.yaml file is in, making backups or migrations simpler.

What errors are you getting? Can’t do much without knowing something about why it’s not starting up or is crashing once running.

Tons of comments telling OP to do it differently and almost none actually offering help lol

Its not a local connection if you’re getting this message. You might be in the same network, but for some reason it’s not connecting directly.

Oh gotcha yes it does. Are you on CGNAT with your ISP so you can’t forward ports?