Taasz/Woof

It sounds like the app requires some manual intervention to start/stop tracking, is there a way to make it work like google location history where it’s always fully automatic and in the background without extra battery drain?

Some of the other apps I’ve tried before for my traccar instance had a lot of battery drain or would randomly stop working in the background, I don’t remember which ones I tried as it was awhile ago.

You can also start to drag, hit alt+tab, and then drop in another window which is how I normally do it.

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.

Its just called a matrix server, you don’t need to tell anyone the specific kind.

What about 2 mirrored pools of 2 drives each, then back up the main pool to the other with either ZFS snapshots or a tool like Restic.

Ideally you also need an offsite backup of important files too, but that gets you part way to a robust system that can handle corruption or accidental deletions.

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.