How well does Plex run on a RasPi (or other SBC), and have you found a good remote control solution for it? I’m still using Plex on Google Chromcest TVs - the li’l remote just makes it so much easier.

Yep - this. I absolutely abhor “smart” TVs for just this reason.

But, even lack of internet sometimes isn’t enough. I recently, and inadvertently, left the wireless adapter on my TV enabled, after having to temporarily join it to my wireless for a firmware update (digital TV tuning needed updating for my region). After I was done, I cleared the wireless config, but I didn’t think to go into the other menu where you can entirely disable the wireless adapter.

Little did I realise that meant the TV started broadcasting it’s own SSID, for friggin’ Apple Airplay or some other shit. I found this out when my 9yo daughter was suddenly exposed to some adult content for about 10 seconds. Best guess is a nearby neighbour mistook my TV for theirs.

I’ve obviously disabled the wireless adapter again, but this has been a terribly difficult lesson I’ve had to learn.

For anyone concerned, my daughter is OK. My wife had a good chat with her about it. She had considerably more talking down to do with me - I was ready to start knocking on doors, to have my own chat.

I had similar problems, and also had read posts stay on my feed. v0.91.1 came out yesterday, and seems to have addressed a few issues for me.

Vive la France!

Just watched Violent Night on the weekend. Awesome! But I’m also yet to watch Silent Night, with Joel Kinnamen.

My new favourite is Violent Night, but I haven’t watch Silent Night (with Joel Kinnamen) yet.

My views on things often differ from those in my social circle. I am often bombarded with article links and videos from people with no words of their own attached.

I have no term for these people (nothing nice, at least) but the term for your social circle might be “echo chamber”, and it seems to be theirs.

Immich’s repo explicitly states not to rely on it as a primary backup of your photos and videos. Seems to me the more foolish thing would be to ignore that advice.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Is it hard to breathe in that rarified air, up on your high horse?

I’ll keep taking my calculated risks. You keep judging strangers on the internet. 👍

Or, if you do have it auto-update (like I do) prepare for things to break every now and then. I auto-update just about all containers except those that would break either my home automation or my ability to login to my network and fix things. Everything else auto-updates, including Immich.

My Immich broke this weekend when they switched the stack over to pgvecto, to use vector searching in Postgres. Easily fixed, but took me a solid minute to figure out what had changed.

Which is kinda weird they didn’t communicate this one so well. In the lead-up to v.1.88.0, Alex made an announcement on Github to let people know the breaking change was the removal of the web container from the stack, rolling the webserver into the main server container itself. That was a good move, as all I did was flip my Watchtower container on that host to monitor only.

Dunno why they didn’t do something similar for the Postgres change. Was just as breaking.

• Two minute noodles (ramen) and a cup of frozen veggies. Boil in water for 5 mins.
• While that’s boiling, fry an egg separately - I like to season with a little salt and pepper while the egg is frying.
• Once noodles/veg are done, drain then add the noodle seasoning, a little butter and half a cup of shredded parmesan. Stir through until butter & cheese has melted and everything’s well combined.
• Put noodles and veg in a bowl, egg on top.
• Enjoy!

I have my own domain that uses a specific 2-letter ccTLD - it’s a short domain variation of my surname (think “goo.gl” for Google). I’ve been using it for years, for my email.

Over those years, I have discovered an astonishing number of fuckheaded organisations whose systems insist I should have an email address with a “traditional” TLD at the end.

You’ve said you’re intending to throw these laptops away, so physical destruction is quickest and simplest.

But, if you’re intending to sell or give these away for someone else to use, zeroing each sector is probably ‘good enough’ for your purpose (as someone else has always said).

If you really want to make it harder, you can use something like the Boot and Nuke bootable Linux disk for the job, as it also has the option of multiple passes, using zeroing and/or binary random shit for each sector. Just grab the free for personal use version.

Their terms of service doesn’t specially state anything about having multiple accounts.

I’d be surprised if it didn’t at least state something to the effect of “Offer is only available once per customer” or similar. That’s their loophole to tell you to GGF, if and when they notice you taking advantage.

Yep, and Australia. Been a thing for a long time.

And we have plain packaging laws too. No branding at all.

Dan Murphy’s have also had cardboard 6 packs available for a long time, to let you do the same. One of my favourite things is to browse the craft beers and pick half a dozen I haven’t tried before.

Similar story to yours. I was a HP-UX and BSD admin, at some point in the 00s, I stopped self-hosting. Felt too much like the work I was paid to do in the office.

But then I decided to give it a go in the mid-10s, mainly because I was uneasy about my dependence on cloud services.

The biggest advantage of Docker for me is the easy spin-up/tear-down capability. I can rapidly prototype new services without worrying about all the cruft left behind by badly written software packages on the host machine.

Nah, it totally supports it - I use it daily on a couple of Linux NASes with SMB shares configured.

https://play.google.com/store/search?q=solid explorer&c=apps

For me it’s holding a VHS in the store and looking at the cover.

Yeah - that’s a good one. Our local store had a Friday night deal: 5 weekly rentals for 10 bucks, or something. We’d go order fish and chips, then go argue over which 5 movies to rent, while our dinner was cooking.

Although I shouldn’t, I miss my shitty old Datsun sometimes. Easy to diagnose problems, simple to get into and fix, with minimal tools required. No tech - just mechanical and electrical.

Nostalgia’s a funny thing. Lots of things I get wistful for, but they’ve been replaced by (arguably) more convenient things:

• Having to call your mate’s house at a specific time, because you know he has footy training and won’t be home to answer before that time
• Waiting until specific times of night to watch your favourite TV shows or listen to your favourite radio DJs
• The massive zip-up carry case for all my cassette tapes, to play in the car
• 6-way link-up Daytona arcade racing
• Loading my computer games from multiple floppy discs (X-Tree Gold macros for the win!)

Then there’s things that I miss, because now I have to adult:

• Sleeping in on weekends
• Work I don’t have to take home with me
• Being able to stay out stupidly late on Friday and Saturday nights
• Getting absolutely shitfaced on those nights, without worrying about the hangover
• Eating a bag of chips and calling it dinner, because there’s no one else you need to feed

Big fan of Solid Explorer - handles all manner of file and cloud servers.