Not sure what youre doing with OMV that couldn’t be done in proxmox, so feel free to elaborate there.

Almost all my servers are proxmox (some just Debian, though a few more specific work related solutions are lurking about). For docker I’d do an LXC, btw, I wouldn’t bother with a full VM.

My (excessive) setup is all proxmox, set up as a high availability cluster. HA runs in a VM, and my USB devices are passed through (technically its USB over IP extension, so the USB devices for various VMs continually pass through even if I have to shut a server down).

Its where Jellyfin, Audiobookshelf, homepage.dev, a bajillion stupid containers I mostly dont need, DNS, monitoring and analytics, mealie (recipe server), various websites I host, etc, etc all live. Nothing is by itself on a box except my workstations, but for non-linux use I have VMs I remote into (mostly industry specific software and random crap like an xp VM to use an old piece of hardware).

I get a lot of messages from MS - across a variety of their products - for the work I do. They are very standardized.

This does not resemble any email I have ever received from MS, but definitely resembles emails I’ve seen with scammers. This is why I’ve expressed concern here.

Its extremely unlikely, and the reason so many keep pointing this out is to make sure your friend safeguards their information, thats all. Having seen these situations before, I can also tell you about the very, very long legal aftermaths I’ve seen when identities are stolen. It can be years later and something new will crop up.

Assuming its MS is risky, and I hope you understand that people are really just trying to be helpful about this because we are (unfortunately) familiar.

Lots of people here know Microsoft support services quite well.

This is not Microsoft. Your friend is being scammed. If he gave them any information about himself, that information is now in the hands of scammers.

So many people have been trying to explain this to you, I dont know why you keep brushing it off. This is not an email from MS support. This is an email from a scammer. Your friends credit card info or identity are either about to be or have already been stolen.

Not how that works.

Your friend is continuing to be scammed if they are communicating with this account.

So top, IMO, is Reaper. Not FLOSS, but the developer has consistently had a reasonable user price set, you can download and install free, you get a short nag screen. If you like it, buy it.

https://www.reaper.fm/

No worries, just wanted to make sure you knew the difference there.

Also, check out shinobi, motioneye, and Nx witness. Frigate is oriented for detection, so not the ideal answer if you have no interest in detection.

Fedora and Proxmox are substantially different. Proxmox is meant to be used from a web interface only, and is meant to host virtual machines and containers.

An extremely appropriate use for you, BTW.

Fedora can be a desktop or a server, as can Debian or Arch or pretty much anything else, including installing qemu (vm’s).

The proxmox benefit is specifically that web interface, IMO, along with (if you had more servers) clustering. Which is not to put down proxmox at all, its on almost all of my servers (including a bunch for work).

Jellyfin is a server, yes, but you can still control Jellyfin clients - https://github.com/xnstad/jellyfin-remote

That said, there are many options. You can use vlc or juk and control them both from a web interface. You don’t need a server solutions for audio playback, you want a local media player.

Mini PC

Overwhelming majority of my servers are tiny/mini/micros.

Audiobookshelf is what I do as well, for audio books and for podcasts.

Chaptarr may end up being the solution as far as arr stacks , but TBD on that, its not yet fit for public consumption.

Otherwise, audiobookbay is a solid option.

Personally I like fastfetch with dacrabs tweaks.

In terms of distributions, I’m not a good example of “so cool!”. Its pretty much just Debian. Stable for servers (with proxmox mostly), stable for my main desktop, two machines with Trixie and Sid respectively, then two test boxes with arch and endeavouros (for laziness purposes).

I like LMDE as a rec for others, though I prefer it with KDE which is no longer explicitly supported, so meh.

For family, if I’m doing it, its Deb stable all the way. Even my htpc’s are deb stable.

https://www.45drives.com/

This is my issue now, I need more storage and the prices are ridiculous. I dont see them getting better soon, either, so I’m probably going to buy new.

Self hosting wise, not much, just ran through updates (I prefer to do this manually) and set up a new box which will host another proxmost host and NAS.

The mobo/CPU that became the new server has been replaced with an Asus prime x370-pro and a spare 1700x to be used as a new endeavoros desktop (their defaults are close enough to what I want I dont bother with full manual install). Mostly need it for a KDE 6 box for dev/testing to go alongside the instances of Trixie/Sid, since I’m considering arch for some work stuff that Debian won’t fit the bill for.

Warning

☢️ This is an early-stage project, and while the driver and nmdctl management tool have been tested in both virtualized environments and some physical setups, data loss is still a possibility. This is mainly intended for DIY enthusiasts comfortable with Linux command line usage.

Use at your own risk, and always have backups!

No, I would not trust it with important data.

This was going to be exactly my suggestion

Just to point out its utility, I use rclone at home to sync my data elsewhere, and I use it extensively at work for internal systems and client systems.

Sync for replicating one site to another, bisync for bidirectional. Extremely flexible.

I want to caveat with I have not used any of this. This is just a link I sent to my FIL so he could find something to fit his needs, maybe it will help you too.

https://github.com/ad-si/awesome-sheet-music

Yup. MS has been more blatant and ruthless, where Apple has quietly taken (or even just taken credit for) the works of others over the years. For Apple you’ve got the ipod click wheel (creative), the original GUI (PARC), slide to unlock (noenode)… Apple, much like MS, has been doing this sort of stuff from the start.

If the individual is the only one in charge of the project, and controls the money, there really isnt a difference.

I’m glad my decades old grudges against apple could be informative!

Ehhh… Apple took over CUPS development.

Michael Sweet of Easy Software Products developed CUPS in the late 90s. Apple hired Michel Sweet about a decade later and bought the source code.

After he left apple (another 10 years or so later), OpenPrinting forked it and Michael Sweet continued working on it there.

But no, Apple did not develop CUPS. I don’t blame you for thinking they did though.

Edit: Forgot to note.

Source: I’m fucking old now and was using Linux before CUPS existed. Holy shit was it great once it went IPP from LPD.

Edit 2: Sorry because Apple does this a lot and this one still annoys me - Safari was built on KHTML, aka KDE and Konqueror. So anyone trying to say that Apple made WebKit all in house would also be wrong.

Apple likes to do that. Take stuff and then pretend they made it. Especially from open source projects.