Depends exactly what you’re doing on that old PC.
If you just need to connect for administration and the like, VNC is decent. It’s my default.
If you want to watch videos or the like, I’d definitely suggest Sunlight and Moonlight. It’s a streaming remote desktop that’s meant for streaming gaming, and so it’s really good at video and audio.
Oh, and for anyone who has never used it, Apache guacamole is a really neat tool for centralizing configuration. Effectively, you can set it up as a website with a username and password that will transfer through ssh, telnet, VNC, and RDP, so if you need to hop into something while you are outside the home, it’s going to be effective. That’s something that I wish I had known about earlier, it would have made a lot of rough days a lot easier.
On the topic of dns, I still use GoDaddy. People ask why, it’s because GoDaddy seems like a good idea in 2003 when I got my first domain, and 2006 when I got my current one. At that point it’s just inertia, I tend to buy several years in advance because I don’t like annual payments, I know it makes me a weirdo. That means I’m locked in for several years and it’s not enough of a problem to do anything about.
Anyone who uses GoDaddy knows that they turned off their dynamic DNS option quite some time ago. My system is pretty stable so I don’t usually need to change it, but if I have a power failure at home or I need to reboot my router, I obviously need to change my DNS at those moments.
When I’m away from home, I end up having to use TeamViewer to hop into a jump box vm I have set up for that purpose. The two obvious problems with that are first of that TeamViewer is a proprietary product, and the second of all that they see me hopping into a jump box regularly and they assume that I’m a commercial customer. There is apparently a way to tell them that you’re just a hobbyist, but I haven’t gotten around to filing that.
What I did do is set up a script that compares the current IP to my DNS IP, and if they are different then I send myself an email that contains the old IP in the new IP. This way, I don’t need to hop into my network to find out what the new IP address is. I also added a little bit there to save the last successful IP address sent by email to /tmp/ so that if I lose my IP address but I’m doing something where I can’t hop onto the GoDaddy website to fix it, I don’t get 100,000 emails with my new IP address.
I killed my house power a couple weeks ago, and the whole system worked exactly as intended. I was pretty happy to see that.
Erm… Yeah, that’s matrix with encryption enabled on the room.
A lot of things people say about matrix don’t apply to conduit. I’ve run it on an Intel Atom d2550 and it ran fine.
I’d be worried about having some of the voat stuff on a hard drive I own.
I’m surprised GitHub hasn’t automatically nixed the archive.
Always has been.
Even if you like who’s in charge right now, they could change how they act or they could be replaced.
They could shut us down or do a lot of things, but it’s harder to break 10,000 servers than one.
I’ve been running my own, it’s mostly automated now. I started a yacy instance as well so not only am I aggregating bigger websites, I’m including the sites I crawled myself and the other sites available on yacy through it’s huge p2p search functionality. In this little way, I’m trying to make sure my search isn’t totally dominated by corporate search.
Tbh, yacy is 1000x harder to keep running than searxng.
I’m amenable to luanti with voxelibre.
Though I don’t like the rebranding. Luanti sounds like a product you’d hear about in a drug commercial. “Side effects of luanti may include chronic flatulence, erectile dysfunction, and death”
That’ll be one hundred and fifty dollars, please.
That’s been my experience too.
Plex came with my nas, and we never used it because it it was really fiddly and wanted to show everything except my content.
By contrast, my jellyfin is linked up with the jellyfin for android tv app on the big screen tv, and if nobody told you it wasn’t a regular streaming service you’d probably never know because it’s so straightforward. My wife is not techy at all – she still daily drives her Android phone from 7 years ago because she doesn’t want to change to her new one from 2 years ago – but she can pick up the remote and play a movie at any time.
I use it every night on my phone to play videos that help me get to sleep, and the app works well.
Big question or not, we can only control ourselves.
Everyone always stares at other people’s resources and imagine how great it would be if those resources were used how we like, but at the end of the day, we control our resources.
So is it a big question if it doesn’t really matter because we can’t do anything about it?
Big question is: how many of us are funding foss projects?
It isn’t difficult, and with how popular some are, it wouldn’t be long before the projects could hire one or more full time devs at good rates.
I support a few big projects I use every month through liberapay.
Big question is: how many of us are funding foss projects?
It isn’t difficult, and with how popular some are, it wouldn’t be long before the projects could hire one or more full time devs at good rates.
I support a few big projects I use every month through liberapay.
Glad I upgraded before it was too late.
Ran windows 95 on a thin client a couple years ago.
I forgot that you could just end up with a broken install from the word go. I had to reinstall twice until it was stable. I didn’t do anything in particular different, it just didn’t take that time.
When I’m looking at thin clients for use in my systems, I look at a few different things:
It looks like the 5010s are the most interesting to start with. They seem to be expandable to 8GB of RAM. They seem to have a DOM plugged into a populated SATA port, so I’m thinking you might be able to use an extension cable to install a proper SATA SSD and have decent storage. The APU is AMD pre-ryzen which is horrible for most purposes but I’d say is quite interesting for homelab use. Get some memory and real storage in them, and they’re good enough to be basically fully powered servers for whatever you want. Being suck on USB 2.0 means you’re pretty limited in that front. With upgraded memory and storage, you’re basically looking at something you can integrate into a proxmox cluster easily.
The 3040s are a bigger challenge. Limited memory (2GB soldered), very limited storage (8 or 16GB), and no immediately apparent way to upgrade them. On the other hand, the USB 3.0 port on the front means you can use a USB SSD or HDD to increase storage. With such a device plugged in, the Intel Atom X4 quad-core isn’t a great CPU, but you can definitely do some limited fun things. As-is and without any mods, I’m thinking you could host game servers on these for older games without overtaxing them too much, or fun niche applications like gemini hosting or telnet.
This really seems like an AI generated article to, in a very complicated way, describe of what was until fairly recently just the status quo.
Until fairly recently, if you had network attached storage you could just play the media off of the network storage. That’s just how it worked. People playing media through the command line is something people have been doing for decades. What happened later was the introduction of services like jellyfin that would streamline the process.
Overall, other than the extremely hyperbolic language promising to completely change your life by letting you do things the way that they were done decades ago, it reads like “you may not like cars, but let me introduce you to an amazing new technology known as walking” presented without any irony.
Well, let me tell you a story.
Recently I needed to use BitTorrent to download a very large file from an independent project. Usually I can just use my web browser, but this one was in the hundreds of gigabytes there just was no way.
So I installed the original official bittorrent client, because I’m really out of the game I haven’t torn today anything outside of my browser in years now.
I had to pay close attention to not install multiple pieces of unwanted software. I had to uncheck a bunch of stuff and carefully navigate the installer. Even after that, the client was junk and constantly showed multiple videos ads at all times, and besides that it just didn’t have the horsepower to download my torrent for me.
I remembered using transmission on Linux so I decided to try getting that instead, turns out it had a Windows version.
Downloaded, ran the executable, pressed next three times, opened up the torrent file, pointed to my existing download hoping it’d figure out what parts the file needed and in fact it did and the download was done quickly.
If I had failed to uncheck any of the boxes, I guess you could call me stupid for non-un checking them, but to me it seems a lot simpler using the FOSS products that never had any checkboxes to uncheck in the first place.
Meanwhile, and honestly I didn’t use Plex very much because it just didn’t seem like a very good product, but I also seem to remember I kept on ending up on the plex.net website instead of my own server. I think it was something along lines of if you go in to change certain settings it’ll change domains on you? Either way, it was just not very well set up compared to Jellyfin, which had everything that I was using right there I never even remotely tried to send me somewhere else.
To be fair, and this is coming to someone who is fully sold on LibreOffice and hosts Collabera, the two word processors can open each other’s documents, but cannot produce identical outputs for the same files.
For 99.99% of things switching between the two is going to be just fine, but every once in awhile that 0.01% will really bite you, especially if it is something important such as equations which I have seen first hand don’t properly migrate to LibreOffice.