But I enjoy fucking around with Linux

I try, I do often use rdp on work computer (windows 11) to access private computer pc (Linux)

LinOffice looks promising, thanks!

Me too!

Plenty of memory, CPU I think is still pretty good.

No never heard of before, but everyone here is suggesting it so I will check that out. Thanks

What I’ve heard is it’s mainly very single core CPU heavy, GPU not very relevant. Thanks I’m going to look into Winboat for sure, being suggested a lot here

I will look into Winboat, thanks

Bingo on the used as database ;) It’s very hard to move them away from that, I have insufficient impact on that

No, I need to work in excel so much it wouldn’t make much difference

No web version doesn’t cut it. Thanks for the tip, I’ll look into that Winboat

it will become like many appliances… You want a dumb tv? Possible, but it will cost you more than a smart one. You want a dumb fridge? Fine, but soon it will cost you more than a ‘smart’ one you can’t even turn on without making an account somewhere and registering your email and phone

why does a fridge need a computer and a screen?

People I know with most real estate are 2 kinds.

1. inherited everything.
2. stayed in hotel Mama for free for years while not studying, but working as plumber/contractors/mechanic etc starting age 18-19. By the time they moved out age 26-30 they were already loaded, renting out multiple apartments.

Both required parents, either they had to be wealthy and die early or decided to gift capital early; or to be super supportive, fun (tolerable) enough to keep living with after 18 and not asking you to pay rent.

So your reply to this article was very out of place. Things are not white or black, but your opinion was not at all about the article the OP posted and has little place here. Living on Jersey without your own garage is perfectly possible, the only issue they have is man-made (too much car infrastructure, too little alternatives) and obligating people to build expensive garages only makes it worse. Building decent cycle infrastructure and providing better public transportation are very viable options on Jersey. Your living place and your grievances about your living place don’t influence that.

The linked article is about Jersey.

104.000 inhabitants on a rock in the ocean the size of 10km x 10 km, population density 859/km2.

That population density is not very different from many lower density neighbourhoods in big cities. On top, distances on this rock are never of that kind that a car would be absolutely necessary. They are, geographically and demographically, in an excellent position to organise very good public transportation with little more than a few well served, comfortable buslines. Vast majority of the population is clearly concentrated on one side of the island: the south, where population density is clearly higher (St Helier, 3,380/km2, really not different from average city density neighbourhoods in big cities.)

I don’t know where you live, but I don’t think “rural” and “long distances” are the right arguments for rooting in favor of more space for cars (and thus… more cars) on Jersey. The longest drive I could draw on a map is from “La Rocque” to “Grosnez castle”. And that’s really stretching it, with a staggering 22km in 30 minutes. Makes you wonder why they’ld have cars at all on this island… Maybe for construction, transporting the sick to the hospital etc etc. But your old regular commute from home to market or home to work… It could be a bicycle paradise an island like this… You can cycle the entire longest stretch in less than 1,5 hours, by foot it would be a staggering 5 hours. They are ruining their paradise island by roads and cars everywhere and encouraging it even further (obligating it, even) is just a god damn shame. One could perfectly live there without owning their own car in their own garage.

There are open existing databases you can contribute to.

Musicbrainz for music Thetvdb.com for shows Themoviedb.org for movies

Pi works fine for trying and if you only want to stream 1 thing at a time in 720p. Just try it.

If it somewhat works but you find it slow, buy an old SFF office computer < 50 € and experiment further… Either pay close attention which integrated GPU it has or buy a cheap PCI videocard with it.

Musicbrainz Picard, there is no better user friendly solution.

Yes, it can seem like a lot of work, but you can also look at the flip side: you can learn a whole lot about the music you like in the process.

If music metadata is missing for stuff you have and like, add it to musicbrainz yourself. No, it isn’t particularly fun, but someone has to do it. I do it sometimes for more “local” albums of which I own the physical record or CD.

If shit is really messed up and you have a historic collection of mp3s from back in the days when getting a full album took a long time: don’t be scared to throw stuff out and source it again. It’ll likely be much higher quality for same or smaller filesize and have better metadata from source already, which makes using musicbrainz a lot easier. And what took many hours back then takes seconds to minutes now.

The only thing I’m looking/waiting for is a jellyfin audio player that automatically goes to full screen visualisation or lyrics after a determined amount of seconds of music playing + no user inputs… Wish I could do it myself and contribute to the project, but alas.