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  • I’m hosting fluxer and matrix, but fluxer is fantastic. One consideration, for some reason the documentation doesn’t tell you that you need to go to the admin page, create a voice region, and a voice server, to actually use the voice chat that’s part of the guide.

    If you want a mature ecosystem, try out matrix, although it is much harder to figure out how to host it.

    If you want something that’s intended to be a perfect discord replacement, go with fluxer, they did an amazing job with the self hosting guide.

  • I just reduced my global max connection from infinity to 500 (somehow that increased my upload speed?) and it reduced qbits shit by a couple thousand, but it’s still in the many thousands. I’m assuming the number on the left is literally just how many files it’s using, in which case, how could that ever get below 1024? Not to mention I have many other services that are also above 1024. (See below). In any case, I’m only using 14 GB of memory out of my 32 GB of ram and 16 swap, so I think it would be fine to increase the limit, but that does worry me a bit.

      18841 python3
      16294 qbittorre
      14064 docker-pr
      11900 Sonarr
       8940 Radarr
       8441 Cleanupar
       8246 Prowlarr
       6130 java
       5836 postgres
       3532 container
       2766 gunicorn
       1980 dockerd
    

Every 15 minutes exactly, in whatever terminal window(s) I have connected to my server, I’m getting these system-wide broadcast message:

Broadcast message from systemd-journald@localhost (Sun 2026-02-15 00:45:00 PST):  

systemd[291622]: Failed to allocate manager object: Too many open files  


Message from syslogd@localhost at Feb 15 00:45:00 ...  
 systemd[291622]:Failed to allocate manager object: Too many open files  

Broadcast message from systemd-journald@localhost (Sun 2026-02-15 01:00:01 PST):  

systemd[330416]: Failed to allocate manager object: Too many open files  


Message from syslogd@localhost at Feb 15 01:00:01 ...  
 systemd[330416]:Failed to allocate manager object: Too many open files  

Broadcast message from systemd-journald@localhost (Sun 2026-02-15 01:15:01 PST):  

systemd[367967]: Failed to allocate manager object: Too many open files  


Message from syslogd@localhost at Feb 15 01:15:01 ...  
 systemd[367967]:Failed to allocate manager object: Too many open files  

The only thing I found online that’s kind of similar is this forum thread, but it doesn’t seem like this is an OOM issue. I could totally be wrong about that, but I have plenty of available physical RAM and swap. I have no idea where to even begin troubleshooting this, but any help would be greatly appreciated.

ETA: I’m not even sure if this is necessarily a bad thing that’s happening, but it definitely doesn’t look good, so I’d rather figure out what it is now before it bites me in the ass later

I’ve had some troubles trying to get the Eduroam network working on my laptop when I’m at my university, which is not preferable as their guest wifi kinda sucks. But I finally fixed it and got it working perfectly*. I’m hoping this will help someone, somewhere.

My university (and others?) distributes a simple shell script that has us sign in to our uni login page and then configures the eduroam internet settings accordingly to allow us to sign in. The problem: the script barely works and the website just throws an error after you sign in. And sometimes when I try to connect it just says “No secrets were provided” and there was another error about wpa_supplicant that I don’t remember.

So I had to figure out how to configure it manually, which is actually pretty simple, you just need to set the following options in your network settings. I set the security to “WPA/WPA2 Enterprise”. Authentication to “Tunneled TLS (TTLS)”. Inner authentication to “PAP”. And put my university email as the username (ie. guynamedzero@university.edu), and my universities password as the password. And boom! It just started working all of a sudden, no CA certificate was required either. Now, I’m using KDE plasma, so things might be slightly different if you’re on gnome, but they probably have all this as well (citation needed). I imagine this won’t work for every uni, but it wouldn’t hurt to try if you’re having similar issues to me :)

* Sometimes Eduroam just closes my connection to the internet. I have no idea why it does this, but it gives no errors, no popups, nothing. I can just no longer access anything on the internet until I disconnect and reconnect to the wifi. It’s infrequent enough that I’m not too concerned about it, but YMMV.