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If you have the skills to setup a Jellyfin server you also have the skills to setup wireguard.

My parents just got fiber and they don’t even have a public address (ipv4 or v6) which just adds another layer of headache. thanks west virginia…

That’s a very specific use case.

Good thing my Jellyfin is behind Wireguard.

Consider doing the same if your usecase permits.

Unfortunately VMs aren’t a solution for my use case since I need no latency realtime audio or GPU acceleration

Specialist audiovisual, and 3D software.

If I can’t do something I don’t do it.

But I can, all I need is a pirate copy of the software, and extra SSD and computer goes brrrr.

Life is too short for me impose restrictions on myself and missout on life just because Richard Stallman says so.

Unfortunately VMs aren’t a solution for my use case since I need no latency realtime audio or GPU acceleration

The complication comes from when I need to use proprietary windows-only software for whatever professional or recreative reasons.

Free (as in freedom) software is great for 90% of situations, but there are things free software just can not do.

Wine exists but it’s mostly focused on video-games, and honestly, it’s such a pain to get a windows program to run on wine that I prefer to just have a second SSD with Faildos and boot from it when I eventually need to use such programs. Which I make sure to unplug the ethernet cable when I do.

The old question right? Does a simulated (or rather emulated) brain actually think and feel? Or does the computer just output what it would be if it was alive?

I think before I am, but I can’t prove that I’m self aware and not just “pretending” to do so. But because you are a human being like me, I understand that you do too. But that assumption is broken when you are not a physical organism but software running on a computer.

Please do that to my friend, please do that to my friend.

Ofc I respect his freedom to use whatever apps he chooses to use, what do you mean?

Anyway. Please meta, ban my friend from meta and make sure to track his device ID/IP/cookies etc so can can’t make a new acc.

The phone makers want nothing to do with it and are actively fighting it in court as best they can.

Doubt. This way they have excuses to farm user data.

EV charging, a free (as in freedom) decentralised e2ee protocol for chat and calls, p2p mesh networks and (opensourced) SDI on consumer equipments.

But you cost money monthly, require insurance, taxes, food, human rights.

Machine is a one time purchase.

“I have a hammer and I hate it’s not hammering, any cool ideas involving nails?”

You see, I have the exact same problem as you, I just can’t stand seeing hardware going unused. Specially computer hardware that deprecates. But I think before thinking “what can I do with this hardware” you should think “do I have a need or a problem that can be solved with this hardware?” And if the awnser is “no” then maybe consider selling the GPU or giving it to some friend who needs it.

My Jellyfin works without a GPU, just my old 2nd generation i3 is enough to realtime transcode video to my phone, maybe I would need upgrade of I had more users, but I’m it’s only user.

Do you have multiple users on your server where you require GPU acceleration, if not there’s no much reason to use GPU accell anyway (which is usually trickier to setup)?

Still reporposing the computer to use as a server seems to be a good idea, because I at least can’t stand the nightmare of using USB hard drives, I’ve hard really bad experiences with those lousy cables and connection. But if you do that. That leaves you with another problem. What to do with the raspberry pi?

Also, I just recently also built a new PC had the same problem of not knowing what to do with my laptop, I came to conclusion that the best thing I can do with it is to run background chat applications on it and maybe web browser via waypipe. So it just looks like a window on my main PC and this way I have ram on my new PC that I may need for some heavy workloads like blender rendering.

Iron Maiden, I somehow thought it was just the soundtrack for the movie Iron Man.

Turns out it’s one of my favourite bands.

Daft Punk, I thought I hated it because “One more time” played so many times on the radio and literally everywhere back in the days, that I developed hate for it, but turns out their songs are actually good, specially Random Access Memories.

There’s also the opposite, songs I used to like but because playlists repetition I started to hate, like Cranberries’ Zombie, What’s Up, Lennon’s Imagine, AC/DC’s Thunderstorm, Radiohead’s Creep and some of Rammstein’s music.

Well, first while raid is great, it’s not a replacement for backups. Raid is mostly useful if uptime is imperative, but does not protect against user errors, software errors, fs corruption, ransomware or a power surge killing the entire array.

Since uptime isn’t an issue on my home nas, instead of parity I simply have cold backups which (supposedly) I plug in from time to time to scrub the filesystems.

If a online drive dies I can simply restore it from backup and accept the downtime. For my anime I have simply one single backup, but or my most important files I have 2 backups just in case one fails. (Unfornately both onsite)

On the other hand, for a client of mine’s server where uptime is imperative, in addiction to raid I have 2 automatic daily backups (which ideally one should be offsite but isn’t, at least they are in different floors of the same building).

“Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.”

Might not agree with Lenin on everything but this one is right on spot.

Oh, my second favorite quote is also from him I had no idea

“One cannot live in society and be free from society.”

The “farmer” doesn’t actually do any farming, they just own the means of production and exploit the farmers.

The undocumented immigrants aka the “criminals” are the real farmers.

Depends on the content.

Is it a shitty generic isekai anime where the same plot gets recycled again and again? I watch on my phone on some shitty streaming site.

Is it an above average show that I know it’s going to be good? I will download the highest quality I can find and wait as long as I need to watch it on my best screen.

Ofc half the times I start bring watching on streaming and then turns out the show is actually good and I jump to mkv midway.

What I cannot do independently of content is watching with any tiny bit of noise whatsoever in the apartment.

Someone talking on another room, or using the kitchen or a TV or a radio, or just walking, will completely kill my immersion, I need absolute silence to watch things.

An AI programmed to produce paperclips

Paywalled

Nice!!! But I feel those entry distros could do a lot more to be more user friendly, there are many edge cases where you still need to use a terminal and have some understanding of the OS. We need a truly GUI only distro with more wizards, and automatic repair so more people flee to Gnu/Linux