Home entertainment with NAS?
Hi! My goal: I want to set up a beamer projector in my flat and connect that to some kind of ‘always on’ machine with which I can stream (currently Netflix a bit but that really is not a priority as I am thinking of cancelling it) but would also like it to be a torrent client (I have a VPN) to download some media. Though...
Is dockStarter a waste of time?
Should I be learning docker compose instead of relying on dockStarter to manage my containers? I got portainer up, should I just use that to manage my stack?...
Do I have schizophrenia or I am scammed by psychiatrist?
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Manjaro or Pop!_OS for (Nvidia) gaming on Steam?
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/16149785...
Is there a book/saga that you finished and cannot forget to the point where it gets harder to read other books?
For me, the first time this happened was with The Royal Assassin Saga from Robin Hobb, and then Metro 2033....
Hosting a public wishlist
I’m involved with an org that needs to set up a public wishlist for supplies for a project. The rough requirements are as follows:...
Toxic linux communities moment:
Original Comic: thejenkinscomic.wordpress.com
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Detroit: Become Human
This game was for some time in my watch list, but I have never pulled the plug, and oh boy, was I in for a treat....
Question about upload speeds (torrenting)
Fellow Scallywags, I’m trying to share my booty (not that one). But my average upload speed is 294,4 kiB/s, while my average download is 6.1MiB/s....
Using disc spanning for RAID array
I’m planning on building a new home server and was thinking about the possibility to use disc spanning to create matching disk sizes for a RAID array. I have 2x2TB drives and 4x4TB drives....
Meet the #1 serial killer
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Linux admin with 20 years experience, looking for "beginner" distro [Solved, the real beginner distro was the Debian I've used along the way]
I’m over tinkering with my OS. So I’m looking for a distro that “just works” out of the box for my laptop. Also I want to test an “easy” distro I can install for my grandpa....
Advice - Getting started with LLMs
I’m new to the field of large language models (LLMs) and I’m really interested in learning how to train and use my own models for qualitative analysis. However, I’m not sure where to start or what resources would be most helpful for a complete beginner. Could anyone provide some guidance and advice on the best way to get...
What's your server wattage?
I’m in the process of wiring a home before moving in and getting excited about running 10g from my server to the computer. Then I see 25g gear isn’t that much more expensive so I might was well run at least one fiber line. But what kind of three node ceph monster will it take to make use of any of this bandwidth (plus run...
Use Firefox
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Proof these sheet music pages existed?
Came about these sheet pages of Beethoven, Clementi and Mozart...
Reminiscing about the "Reddit migration"
Seeing more “cake days” pop up lately, it seems we’re approaching (or in) the 1 yr anniversary of the Reddit migration....
Have you ever bough an external hardrive only to take the disk out of it?
Hiya, so am looking to buy more storage and while browsing am seeing some external harddisks, such as Western Digital My Book and Seagate Expansion Desktop for cheaper than the internal harddisks themselves. Have seen this one video from KTZ Systems where he bought up multiple of these external ones just to open them up and use...
Gaming vs Regular Distros
TL;DR: Is there really a performance benefit to a gaming distro over a regular distro? Or is it more of a “this is the least work” to get setup?...
What did you buy that improved your life?
Intel 'Sierra Forest' Xeon Server CPUs
I’ve been getting back into the CPU limelight after a few years of burnout from too much info and life goals....
Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree - PREVIEW THREAD
Previews for the Elden Ring DLC have just been released! Lots of journalists and popular Souls players have been to an event where they played the DLC for a few hours, giving us way more info on what to expect and things such as new weapon types and upgrade materials. This isn’t a comprehensive list, just the few that I found...
How many of you use Usenet VS torrents
Just wondering what a rough split is of people using either Usenet, torrents, or both?...
Wireguard self hosting - Some tricks I don't see mentioned in too many tutorials
I just finished setting up my Wireguard VPN “server”. In this post I want to spread some information, I could’ve found useful but which didn’t come up in most of the Wireguard tutorials....