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:

1. Max RAM capacity
2. Max storage capacity (and method of expansion
3. CPU capability
4. Communication methods

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.

Zero with jellyfin.

By default for me it seems to really want me to get off of my server altogether and get onto their servers, and it seems to really want to get me off of my media and onto their half-baked streaming service.

Really complex compared to just having my media show up.

I’m using proxmox now with lots of lxc containers. Prior to that, I used bare metal.

VMs were never really an option for me because the overhead is too high for the low power machines I use – my entire empire of dirt doesn’t have any fans, it’s all fanless PCs. More reliable, less noise, less energy, but less power to throw at things.

Stuff like docker I didn’t like because it never really felt like I was in control of my own system. I was downloading a thing someone else made and it really wasn’t intended for tinkering or anything. You aren’t supposed to build from source in docker as far as I can tell.

The nice thing about proxmox’s lxc implementation is I can hop in and change things or fix things as I desire. It’s all very intuitive, and I can still separate things out and run them where I want to, and not have to worry about keeping 15 different services running on the same version of whatever common services are required.

Honestly, I lowkey hated plex when I was using it. We never used it because it wasn’t very good at the one thing it was supposed to be fore.

It was trying so hard to get me to use their media, when what I wanted was to watch my media. By contrast, jellyfin just shows me my media.

If you have a few bucks, the chromecast with android TV is what I’d recommend. The jellyfin app for android TV looks and works great – as good as any paid streaming service imo. I got my wife using it daily, and she’s not a tech person at all.

Ideally the ground should be as close to the cold water pipe entering the house as you can get, yeah.

Honestly, I wouldn’t want to just use my cold water line well into the house as a ground for exactly that sort of reason.

In many jurisdictions, connecting to the copper cold water line is acceptable. The copper line runs through the ground and so is essentially the same as a grounding electrode.

Since calendar is an app, but fundamental email service isn’t, one thing that I found is that apps can interact in ways that are completely unintuitive.

For example, I activated the ncdownloader app, and it caused mail to stop showing emails, or I activated nextcloud music and it stopped nextcloud news from updating.

You should check your logs, because usually when there’s a problem it will show up in there. The logs I’m referring to are in your administrator panel. It will be completely unintuitive as to what exactly is going on. The other thing that you can do is just pay attention to which apps you’ve installed, and if there are any that are a little bit unusual, just try to disabling them and seeing if calendar mail works after that.

I personally used 7digital to rebuild my music collection. They sell good licensed mp3s.

I have absolutely nothing negative to say about them. The prices were decent, the files are boring DRM free MP3s, and they had a really good selection of music.

Honestly it looks almost exactly the same as when I used it for the first time like 15 years ago.

I didn’t like synapse or dendrite at all, but conduit has been great.