djdarren

Best of luck to you!

Yeah, I saw something about that after I’d gone to the trouble of getting it up and running. Might have another go at Calibre Web, though I had trouble getting it to sync with my Kobo, where Booklore was pretty straightforward.

The RAM is upgradable on the 2018 mini, though the storage isn’t. The ability to upgrade the RAM is a big part of why those ones have kept their value.

I actually use a 2014 mini as my general purpose home server.

The interesting thing about that model is that they were offered with a Fusion drive: so basically, some have a small SSD for installing the OS on, with a larger spinning HDD for everything else. If you do pick one up and it doesn’t have the adapter for an M.2 drive, you can buy them on eBay for less than £10.

So mine now has a 250GB M.2 SSD and a 1TB SATA SSD. When I installed Debian, I put /root on the M.2 and /home on the SATA, which works perfectly. The OS can have as much space as it needs without eating into the space my stuff needs. And I have an external 1Tb HDD connected too.

But yeah, as mentioned elsewhere, the wifi can be a pain on those Macs. Personally, I didn’t bother with it as it’s hooked up with Gigabit ethernet anyway.

edit to add: Mine is an 8GB model and I honestly haven’t found myself wishing it had more (for what I use mine, that is).

Mine runs Jellyfin, Navidrome, Mealie (a recipes app), pihole, and Booklore, and doesn’t give me any trouble.

I’ve got Monzo working with my Garmin. I use Graphene, so it’s literally my only option for payments considering Curve failed my ID check and refuse to reply to my emails trying to sort it out.

My work PC and gaming PC are Kubuntu, my media server is Debian, and my Home Assistant server is macOS, because it’s an M1 mini. So yeah, kinda. I thought about putting the server on Kubuntu, but in the end figured I’d go for as stable as possible.

I wouldn’t try to kill him, but I’d certainly tell him that he’s a cunt.

For what it’s worth, I was planning on reinstalling my home server because I put Mint on it a year ago and I kinda feel like I’ve outgrown it. So it’s now running Debian.

It obviously feels a lot more useful than Mint, but feels basically the same as my Kubuntu machine, largely because they’re both running Plasma.

That’s not Microsoft’s problem.

(I agree with you)

I saw a thread the other day, something like “What low-level conspiracies do you genuinely believe”; to which someone replied that they believe that OpenAI is being speedrun to bankruptcy in order for Microsoft to buy their data centres for pennies on the dollar.

And yeah, it all kinda seems that could be a credible outcome, at which point MS will have a huge amount of equipment all ready to serve game streaming to people who can no longer afford to buy a home computer to do the same.

Is it going to happen? shrug

Could it? Absolutely.

Don’t use Ubuntu. It’s just a suckier version of Debian. It used to be user-friendly Debian, but now Debian is more user-friendly than it.

As a reasonably new Linux user, who’s merrily used Kubuntu for the past year, what makes Ubuntu sucky? Aside from dabbling in Asahi and a little bit of Arch, just to see why everyone loves it (I don’t think my use-case is advanced enough to really tell the difference), my only real experience with Linux has been Mint and Kubuntu, both of which have been fine for me.

This isn’t a bad-faith query, btw, I’m genuinely interested in what the actual differences are between Debian, Ubuntu, and Fedora.

Huh, hadn’t thought of that.

Pretty much.

It reads the clipboard, adds the URL to a yt-dlp script, downloads the video, then switches to my YouTube Jellyfin folder and copies the download across. But instead of opening a terminal in that folder and copy/pasting the script from a .txt file I used to use, it’s just one click. Three if you count clicking the share button in Freetube and then clicking the ‘copy link’ button.

I enjoyed it enormously.

My approach is a python app that’s literally just a button I press after I copy a YT URL from FreeTube. I click the button and it gets yt-dlp to download the video in the highest quality into my Jellyfin folder so I can watch it on my Apple TV.

I did start looking into TubeSync, but I wasn’t all that familiar with Docker at the time, so got quite lost with it. In the end I quite like browsing FreeTube, and only downloading the stuff that catches my interest. Means I don’t spend ages idly scrolling a feed.

According to Wikipedia, Minnesota’s current senators are both Democrat, and Minneapolis’ mayor is Democrat-aligned. So yeah, not even the blue states.

1/3th

How are we pronouncing this?

Not an unpopular opinion, I know, but I will die on the hill of Discord being the worst possible service for anyone who thinks they want to offer support for their software.

It’s so comically bad for what SO MANY people use it, and is genuinely a point at which I’ll just abandon the software and look for something that has an actual support forum.

Oh.

My bank is Lloyds, and their app not working on Graphene is a huge part of why I tried to apply for a Curve account.

Bugger.

I tried to join Curve. For whatever reason they couldn’t verify my ID from the photo I sent, and that was that. No opportunity to redo, and they never replied to my support request email.

Another: You can bind shortcuts to mouse buttons like Ctrl-Alt-Right (click) And Ctrl-Alt-Left to say, switch desktops right/left.

OK, how the hell do you do this? Because I have Ctrl+left click and Ctrl+right click set on my Mac to switch left/right between spaces/desktops, and cannot for the life of me work our how to replicate that in Linux.