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  • Op want to upload a file to a web GUI and print it from there, not share printers with other computer/ devices.

    Also, scanservejs is the the sane web GUI to actually do the same with scanner.

    For scanning it make sense as there are no shared scanning solutions across platforms. For printing, it’s of little use as other pointed out you can print to cups from anything basically.

    But o get the need for a web printing page, as uploading a file and hit print button is a zero setup, and while simple even remote cups printing is not 0% extra setup, you have at the very least to select a printer or hit “share as” and select a print service (android). YMMV




  • Uptime for home users is useless. More important is recovery, reboot and resume (the 3’Rs)

    You server should reboot automatically, storage should restore itself from unsafe shutdown and your services should resume operations like nothing happened.

    This means test your reboot, ensure stuff doesn’t break, and so on.

    Failing storage after an hard reboot is the hardest.

    For network, i have two ISP connections and a an auto switch script Incase one goes down. But honestly it’s overkill and not needed for 99% of home hosters.

    Buying some kind of UPS like a battery powered power strip is also nice but keep in mind that require maintenance to replace batteries once every few years (long enough to forget) and so be useless. The ups shall only last enough to perform a controlled server shutdown using NUTS.



  • Llama CPP can run models offloading with CPU (es MoE models), you have much more control over how you run your models, and overall it’s very much actively developed.

    For starters and people without too much willingness to mess up with stuff, ollama is a great choice. Llama.cpp gives you that extra power and flexibility that is so much worth for people who like to tweak and do more.

    My personal opinion, of course. But based on having used both and ditched ollama for llama.cpp, so I am also biased, keep in mind.

    But I will hardly go back to ollama now :)






  • This comes up every time GIMP is mentioned. To be honest, outside US and UK (and few others) for the rest of the world the word GIMP has no negative meaning (no meaning at all). So, yeah, maybe who cares about the name? Well, change it if it’s really a problem. But, is it really a problem?

    Fair point is GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) doesn’t sound as a reasonable acronym. I would maybe find a better acronym, but changing the name itself feels like changing the name of the town of Bra in Italy or the town of Fuck in Austria, or why not, even the town of Love in Sweden… Good luck if we need to only find and use names that do not offend anybody in any language of the world.

    Krita, the main FOSS competitor to GIMP, feels a much worse sounding name to me. By the way, i read GIMP with a soft G (like a j) not even as English speakers do pronounce it.