+1 for simple. Something you don’t need to host.

You can’t really blame a shortage of DRAM without acknowledging that you caused the shortage by pre-ordering two years worth, and allocating it only to data center customers. Louis Rossman has a few good takes on it. One is the, “I’m suing Samsung” video. The recent Gamer’s Nexus piece where he’s talking with that unboxing YouTuber is pretty spot on too.

That means you remember the thrill of getting the Diamond Multimedia Viper SVGA card (or similar)and being able to “crank up” the resolution beyond 800x600.

Or:

Set Blaster= A220 I5 D9

Enjoy your day, fellow vintage builder.

Cool. I know mine stores my SMB credentials for my NAS, and Signal seems to store the key to decrypt the database at rest. When looking in at the values, its usually the bare minimum. I am far from well-read on it though.

Or the key to decrypt the account information, more likely. Right?

It’s better now. Could’ve been a lot of things. The app doesn’t seem to be one of those things.

And DPI relies on endpoints using their CA and MiTM certificate. It’s not like it can happen without your knowledge (at least on personal devices). After implementing DPI on multiple different firewall devices on home and enterprise networks, it’s a fairly deliberate setup process on the endpoint. Not a, “they can listen in whenever they want,” scenario.

But fuck this bot 🤖

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/filesystems/adding-new-filesystems.rst

Maybe you’re thinking of how it used to be companies with proprietary solutions, like AMX? Yeah, there are lots of ways to replace those devices, now.

You ever hear of Porteus?

Two jobs ago, I oversaw a few dozen TV’s with Windows XP embedded. They basically booted up and ran a PowerPoint presentation on a loop. Obviously, the XP part was a problem in 2017, so I did some research, and found that the closest thing to what we had was Porteus.

Porteus turns the machine into a kiosk that can be very locked down, automatically reboot, etc. It worked a treat for me.

Edit: Garlic seems interesting. I managed my machines with VNC, but that wouldn’t scale very well at all. Not in the signage game anymore, or I’d be messing with it for sure.

That’s not Linux, though; that’s docker.

Maybe now. .NET wasn’t always open, used to be Windows-only, was buggy, version-dependent (but not as bad as the jre could be; true), and had (still has) poor resource-management. I think you’re talking about .NETCore.

That said, I wasn’t commenting on the code viability (I’m not a professional developer) so much as the support overhead required (back when I worked support) for the different versions of .NET, especially when MS stopped including v3.5 in Windows except by using “features and programs” or downloading and installing it manually.

Many of us started running Windows Server and endpoints, but in my case, the cost and substandard tools turned me away. I was running A DLNA server and using WDS (yes, very overkill for home, but fun to learn for work), but then I found TrueNAS (then called FreeNAS) running on BSD. I now run a simple share from there and Kodi on my (Linux and Android) user endpoints. I don’t bother with imaging anymore, and use dd for backups to my NAS. My Firewall runs OPNSense (BSD) and I run OpenWRT on two TrendNet WAPs.

I’ll never go back to MS. It’s just not a welcoming platform from my perspective. Don’t even get me started on .NET or the various and sundry “redistributables” constantly required by every tool you try to use.

my distaste for MS grew

This is a natural progression. Inescapable.

Not on my end. Solid for three years. Perhaps there’s a connectivity issue that the app treats as a sign out?

Its ALWAYS DNS

My thoughts, too. CTRL-SHIFT-DEL

Fine. Forget about it.

Plex stopped being useful to me in 2019. At the time I had only about 300 movies and the same number of TV episodes. The database kept getting corrupt, causing long load times of video info pages, or perpetual spinning progress indicator. After fixing the database (and losing all watch metadata each time) three times in one year, I moved to a plain file share served from the NAS with Kodi running on my Nvidia Shield.

In seven years, Kodi’s local DB has never corrupted. I now have 900+ movies and 2500 TV episodes. I can handle any file type, any video CODEC, can play thousands of games from the internet game library. The DB can be easily backed up and imported into a new install if needed.

And the best part? I didn’t pay anyone to access any of the media I own, and no corpo gets access to my library or watch history.

Forget Plex.

Pedantic comment of the day

as residential networks are want to do

The word you’re thinking of is “wont” pronounced the same as “want,” which makes it pretty confusing for anyone who might not have read it before, but only heard it spoken.