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  • Anyone else think Shutter Island is overrated?

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  • Having the ending spoiled doesn't ruin a movie. There are many movies I've watched repeatedly, because it's a well-told story. Casablanca, It Happened One Night, Goonies, Gremlins, A Christmas Story, For a Few Dollars More... And many more.

  • Hacked PC - random sounds playing

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  • Yea, if you swapped the hardware...

  • The Quiet Revolution: GNU/Linux Crosses 6% Desktop Market Share—And It’s Just the Beginning

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  • My Dell SFF uses close to the same power as my Pi, once you start doing anything with the Pi (like swap to an SSD instead of an SD card). Pi idle: 8w. Dell SFF: 12w. Neither one show up on my power bill. Both of those are less than a single LED light bulb.

    Pi is great on power at idle, with nothing else going on. But it can't convert videos at a reasonable pace, doesn't come in a case with mounts, extra power, etc.

    Don't get me wrong, Pi is great, it's been fun tinkering with it, a great learning tool. But it's hard to compete with a mini or SFF on a capability-per-watt basis or physical capability (standard brackets, expansion, etc).

  • The Quiet Revolution: GNU/Linux Crosses 6% Desktop Market Share—And It’s Just the Beginning

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  • Oh hell yes get them off these crappy mobile devices

  • Pi NAS for multi-location backups

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  • Sync is not backup.

    Let's repeat that - sync is not backup.

    If your sync job syncs an unintentional deletion, the file is deleted, everywhere.

    Backup stores versions of files based on the definitions you provide. A common backup schedule for a home system mat be monthly full, Daily incremental. In this way you have multiple versions of any file that's changed.

    With sync you only have replicants of one file that can be lost through the sync.

    Now, you could use backup software to a given location, and have that synchronized to remote systems. Syncthing could do this, with the additional safety of "send only" configured, so if a remote destination gets corrupted, it won't sync back to the source.

    Edit: as for Pi NAS, I've found Small-Form-Factor desktops to be a better value. They don't have much physical space for drives, but I've been able to use two 3.5" drives or four 2.5" drives in one. My current one idles at <15w.

    Or mini pc with one drive. Since you're replicating this data to multiple locations, having local redundancy (e.g. Mirroring) isn't really necessary.

    Of course this assumes your net backup requirements are under about 12TB (or whatever the latest single drive size is).

  • Does anybody else feel like Linkwarden is very resource intensive.

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  • Sure I can.

    You're complaining about needing 4gb of RAM on a virtualized platform in 2025, when 4gb of ram was common on a laptop (which is heavily space constrained) thirteen years ago.

    It's a fair comparison.

    When I spin up a VM for Linux, it's 4gb - that's the minimum today, because the virtualization platform will over-commit ram as it knows how to best utilize it.

    I can run a Linux box in 2gb, but as soon as I start doing anything with it, more ram will be required.

  • Does anybody else feel like Linkwarden is very resource intensive.

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  • And?

    VPS it's trivial to have the ram you need. My laptop had 2 memory slots. A VPS has how many? Oh, yea, it's virtualized. 🤦🏼

  • Does anybody else feel like Linkwarden is very resource intensive.

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  • Er, phones have had 4gb for years.

    2gb for a system... My 2012 laptop has 4gb (Yes, 2012, 13 years old).

  • Backup/Server Options - is Syncthing / Nextcloud really the go?

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  • One advantage of Syncthing over smbsync is it can use any network connection, not just LAN.

    You can configure to only use LAN, or even specific LANs if needed (identified by SSID). I have a few sync jobs that work this way.

    Off to test smbsync now - thanks for the recommendation!

  • [ACTIVATE WINDOWS]

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  • A script that even Microsoft uses?

  • [ACTIVATE WINDOWS]

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  • Excel.

    Show me an OSS alternative to Excel that actually does tables, one of the most used, basic functions in excel.

    I use tables every day for things like:I have a list of movies, sort them by producer. Or by production date. Or main actor. All these require a a single click on a column, something Open Office devs refuse to ever implement.

    I use Linux every day for my servers, but not as my desktop. There's too much stuff like this that I don't have time for.

  • [ACTIVATE WINDOWS]

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  • Guess what, people can have the Windows UI without doing anything beyond what they're already doing.

  • [ACTIVATE WINDOWS]

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    1. You sound like you've never used it. It's still just Windows, but because it's for enterprise it doesn't have the consumer version bloat.

    See how that works?

  • [ACTIVATE WINDOWS]

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  • Show me a Linux spreadsheet app that does tables, which I use every day.

  • [ACTIVATE WINDOWS]

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  • I'm still running an XP box... Guess I'm dumb. Smh

    Security isn't one thing, it's layers.

  • [ACTIVATE WINDOWS]

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  • That must be the VM. Just build your own VM using a Windows ISO. I have a bunch of them, some still not activated.

  • Backup/Server Options - is Syncthing / Nextcloud really the go?

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  • As others have said, sync isn't backup.

    It may be part of a backup plan, however.

    I use Syncthing on my mobile devices to keep data created on the devices synchronized to my server at home. Things like photos sync to home over any connection, while I sync other stuff only over wifi. Syncthing-Fork allows you to set these conditions on a per-folder-pair basis.

    That server becomes my authoritative box for any data. All that data is then mirrored on a schedule to 2 other systems at home (a NAS and a large drive on another box).

    The main server also has a cloud backup which runs continuously.

    So I have 3 local copies of data to recover from if I have a hardware failure, and a cloud backup.

    I find tools like Syncthing and Resilio are good for synchronization, especially mobile devices. But between full-pc-OS devices, I just use native tools (scripts and schedules) because I don't want synchronization, but specific patterns of copying/mirroring, etc.

    I do use Resilio for ad-hoc access to almost any file on my server, since it's Conditional Sync feature permits me to connect with a mobile device from anywhere and sync only the selected files. So I can grab a movie or TV show, Resilio will sync it and I can watch it once the sync is complete.

  • Making a custom pc case for my next home server

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  • Oof, moving plastic filament rubbing on plastic guides. Sounds like static waiting to happen.

    I never thought of that.

  • [Resolved]Jellyfin won't fetch the good metadata

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  • Yea, it's pretty bad. Keeps matching to Asian stuff when everything is named correctly.

    Wish I could filter it to say "it's never anime, it's never Asian"