I suggest to avoid the temptation to get one of the many cheap Android boxen meant for media playback from Ali Express or the like, as they have a strong tendency to be heavily loaded with malware. Definitely not all of them, but it’s really hard to tell which specific one you’ll get.
Now you make me feel old. In “the olden days” before streaming of media over the internet was as commonplace as it was now, that was the standard way that tech-savy people consumed media: Either on their PC or with some set-top box with built-in storage. I fondly remember my PopcornHour, which was basically a line of desktop-boxes that ranged from “basically a hard disk, video decoder and HDMI out” all the way to “can automatically rip your BlueRays”.
A custom “source available” license that may not be as clear-cut as intended and depends on “we know it when we see it” by the authors of the license? You don’t say!
I’ve not tried that myself, but AFAIK VLC can be remote controlled in various ways, and since the API for that is open, multiple clients for it exist: https://wiki.videolan.org/Control_VLC_from_an_Android_Phone
There’s also Clementine which offers a remote-control Android app.
https://lemmy.world/post/12995686 was a recent question and most of the answers will basically be duplicates of that.
One slight addition I want to add: “Docker” is just one implementation of “OCI containers”. It’s the one that broke through initially in the hype, but you can just as easily use any other (podman being a popular one) and basically all of the benefits that people ascribe to “docker” can be applied to.
So you might (as I do) have some dislike for docker (the product) and still enjoy running containers.
Somewhere a monkey paw finger curls and you’re moved to the timeline where the world is in a nuclear winter …
You’ve got a single, old HDD attached via USB. There’s plenty of places that could be the bottleneck here, but that’s among the first I’d check. Can you actually read from that HDD significantly faster than your network transfer speed? Check that locally first. No use in optimizing anything network-related when your underlying disk IO is slow.
In the immortal words of Jake the Dog:
Dude, suckin’ at something is the first step to being sorta good at something.
We are or were all noobs once. Going away from the keyboard is often an undervalued step in the solution-finding process. Kudos!
Given the very specific dependencies that Immich has wrt. the Postgres plugins it needs, I’m certain that it’s not currently packaged as an RPM and I would even bet that it never will be (at least not as one of the officially supported packages put out by the developers).
Can confirm the statistics: I recently consolidated about a dozen old hard disks of various ages and quite a few of them had a couple of back blocks and 2 actually failed. One disk was especially noteworthy in that it was still fast, error-less and without complaints. That one was a Seagate ST3000DM001. A model so notoriously bad that it’s got its own Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ST3000DM001
Other “better” HDDs were entirely unresponsive.
Statistics only really matter if you have many, many samples. Most people (even enthusiasts with a homelab) won’t be buying hundreds of HDDs in their life.
One approach would be to tell them.
Not everything that the GM says to the player necessarily needs to be character information.
Of course, you don’t want to ruin their suspense by telling them too early or too directly, but something along the lines of “as you hear the sound of many footsteps closing in, you remember that you thought you heard a “click-thunk” back in the mansion, but brushed it off as your nerves back then … maybe you did trigger that silent alarm after all.”
Was about to post this, this works well for me.
In my case I’m storing the DB on my Google Drive for now, but Keepass2Android supports many different systems, including “generic” things like WebDAV, so really anything should work.
While Keepass2Android is integrated with the syncing and will always check for conflicts (i.e. check for latest version before saving), the same isn’t necessarily true for the desktop client. But since I rarely edit from both devices at the same time, anything that syncs to the Desktop in a somewhat realtime fashion should work just fine.
And for the few (long ago) cases where updates were overwritten, the “previous version” feature of Google Drive was god-sent! (And KeepassX can simply merge the old overwritten version into the current one and you’ll get the correct merge).
I think the difference is at what level:
I feel OPs critique has some truth to it. I personally would rather stay with raidz by zfs, exactly because of it’s open nature (yes, they too have bugs, nothing is perfect).
I honestly have no real opinion on this (yet), as I don’t know if that would help or not.
But 90% of all policy proposals from the UK end up being terrible ideas, so I’ll just assume this is stupid.
I find that to be a tricky thought experiment.
Can you run a country in a way that peppers the general population with “all is well” propaganda thoroughly and still manages to capture all the necessary information to make properly informed decisions at some high level?
You’d need some “elite” layer of people who get to see unfiltered, honest information, but how would you even collect that information if even local, low-level government actors are subject to (and meant to believe) the propaganda?
Basically what I’m asking is: if I ignored moral concerns, is there a world where keeping the majority ignorant could actually lead to more efficiency than letting knowledge of the state of things spread?
Do you have any devices on your local network where the firmware hasn’t been updated in the last 12 month? The answer to that is surprisingly frequently yes, because “smart device” companies are laughably bad about device security. My intercom runs some ancient Linux kernel, my frigging washing machine could be connected to WiFi and the box that controls my roller shutters hasn’t gotten an update sind 2018.
Not everyone has those and one could isolate those in VLANs and use other measures, but in this day and age “my local home network is 100% secure” is far from a safe assumption.
Heck, even your router might be vulnerable…
Adding HTTPS is just another layer in your defense in depth. How many layers you are willing to put up with is up to you, but it’s definitely not overkill.
They are in fact the same image, as you can verify by comparing their digest:
$ docker pull ghcr.io/linuxserver/plex
Using default tag: latest
latest: Pulling from linuxserver/plex
Digest: sha256:476c057d677ff239d6b0b5c8e7efb2d572a705f69f9860bbe4221d5bbfdf2144
Status: Image is up to date for ghcr.io/linuxserver/plex:latest
ghcr.io/linuxserver/plex:latest
$ docker pull lscr.io/linuxserver/plex
Using default tag: latest
latest: Pulling from linuxserver/plex
Digest: sha256:476c057d677ff239d6b0b5c8e7efb2d572a705f69f9860bbe4221d5bbfdf2144
Status: Image is up to date for lscr.io/linuxserver/plex:latest
lscr.io/linuxserver/plex:latest
$
See how both images have the digest sha256:476c057d677ff239d6b0b5c8e7efb2d572a705f69f9860bbe4221d5bbfdf2144. Since the digest uniquely identifies the exact content/image, that guarantees that those images are in fact byte-for-byte identical.
“Taking care of my sick mother …” stops them real quick.
I don’t follow it either, but read up a bit on it (partially from here https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/22/anything-that-cant-go-on-forever/) and the basic gist of it seems to be:
Boeing has been fucking up perpetually since shortly after merging with McDonnell-Douglas (a company that was apparently well-known in the industry for perpetual fuck-ups) in 1997, but political influence/interests/corporate capture has prevented it from actually failing the way that commercial companies that perpetually fuck up ought to.
What we see now is just another case of some of those fuck ups becoming visible again.
That’s a great answer if one already has a NAS (which is not unlikely, given the name of the community). But if that’s not already present (or desired for other reason) then a simple media-PC with some built-in storage is simpler to set up.