Nibodhika

Nibodhika , 10 months ago

An extension of that is that every time you shuffle a deck of cards there’s a high probability that that particular arrangement has never been seen in the history of mankind.

Nibodhika , 10 months ago

Buffalo in english is a weird word, because it’s an animal, a city and an action, which is why the phrase “Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo” is one of the weirdest things I’ve ever heard, but completely correct english.

Nibodhika , 10 months ago

Correlation does not imply causation. It could be that the same thing that is lowering your internet speed is affecting LAN, perhaps the router not being enough to handle the traffic, or something in the network occupying a lot of bandwidth which is only active when there is internet (e.g. a download client, or worse a download client accessing a NAS).

In any case you need to give more info into what your setup looks like, e.g.

• is the Jellyfin server wired or wireless?
• what is the maximum speed you reach when disconnected from the internet?
• are you accessing via a computer or phone? And if a computer is it wired?
• does the Jellyfin server has other services running that could occupy bandwidth?
• is there a NAS for that Jellyfin server?
• is the TP-Link acting like a router or a switch?
• how are you measuring speed?
• have you monitored the Jellyfin server bandwidth usage during those tests? Does it drop or remains constant while you’re testing and disconnect the internet? (If it remains constant it means you’re saturating your server’s connection, so while it is connected to the internet it L’s only using a limited bandwidth for you and using the rest for something else, if you disconnect the internet it allocates everything for you because it’s not doing anything else anymore. If on the other hand the usage increases it signifies the router is not being able to handle the traffic)

Nibodhika , 10 months ago

I daily drove Gentoo (Funtoo actually) for a couple of years, there are things to love and things to hate in it. For me it wasn’t worth it, like you mentioned the compilation times ruined any semblance of optimisation I might had, also having to recompile the kernel because I forgot to enable joystick support was not a great experience. That being said, after the initial difficulty, Gentoo is a breeze to maintain, you have files with the packages you want, which use flags for each, etc so after it’s setup once it’s just normal upgrades. Also it allows for packages to be installed in one-shot mode, which means you’re installing it but are not sure if you’ll keep it, then you can run a command to list (and uninstall) all of them. That is one of the features I miss the most on Arch, since it allowed me to keep my system lean.

Nibodhika , 10 months ago

Yes, however there are ways of verifying that. Compiled programs are not black boxes, they’re just complicated enough that we can consider them beyond human comprehension (at least complicated programs), but they’re very much readable. Which means programs can check differences between what should be there and what is. Not to mention that you can also compile the code they said they put there and check for differences with what they’re distributing.

Is anyone doing that? Don’t know, but because it’s possible to be verified it’s unlikely that people would try to do something nasty.

Edit: I’m talking about official releases on official channels, download binaries from different sources at your own peril since those are unlikely to be checked, and even if someone found differences they could claim patches or different compilers.

Nibodhika , 11 months ago

Just use Manjaro, it’s a great distro. I switched from Arch a few years ago because Arch kept changing the tools from the installer so every time I had to read the wiki to know how to install it, and that’s not fun.

In general people don’t like Manjaro because it’s a week behind Arch, so if you install things from the AUR you’re likely to break stuff (although that has never happened to me, it is a possibility). Also because since it’s simple to install a lot of people without technical knowledge have started using it and they say they use Arch, so they get replies which assumed they read the wiki, and they get angry, which makes them seem more annoying, which makes the whole thing escalate.

Nibodhika , 11 months ago

Things in the AUR are built for Arch, so they use the libraries that Arch uses, which means that whenever Arch increases major versions of libraries AUR packages get rebuilt for that version and fail to work on an older one. If you use the packages that build from source you’re less likely to be affected, also this is not such a huge issue because AUR packages take a while to get updated and most of these changes are backwards compatible (so they don’t break on Arch), but I’ve seen it happen plenty of times, almost every week someone using Manjaro would come to the arch subreddit to ask help because a package from AUR had stopped working. And if you don’t believe me, at least believe the guys who wrote the Manjaro wiki

When Manjaro is updated, AUR packages might stop working. This is not a Manjaro issue

Nibodhika , 11 months ago

By definition that’s impossible, stable means packages don’t get updated, so their version is stable. If you meant stability outside of the Linux world, as in “doesn’t break” then most rolling release would fit, personally I use Manjaro, and have used Arch and Gentoo in the past, Tumbleweed is also a good option that others have recommended.

Nibodhika , 11 months ago

My home server runs on a laptop that’s running Manjaro. Does that mean I recommend Manjaro? Nope, then why do I use Manjaro? Because it’s the same OS I have on my personal computer so it makes it easier to maintain two of the same than different OSs, so my suggestion would be whatever you’re using on your main rig, and if you don’t use Linux on it then whatever you feel more comfortable, there’s not going to be a major difference between distros in their capabilities, but there is going to be a major difference in your willingness to maintain a system you’re not familiar with.

Nibodhika , 11 months ago

Just use docker, relying on the packages inside your distro for that is a way of having a bad time. What if WordPress needed PHP 7 but Nextcloud needed 8? Or something similar. There’s a reason containerization is a thing, and the host OS is mostly irrelevant.

Nibodhika , 11 months ago

Things that I need to be internet facing run on an actual server, most of my stuff is hosted on a laptop in my living room and I use tailscale to access it from outside the house, but I mostly consider that a plus and wouldn’t depend on it.

Nibodhika , 11 months ago

I just give them access through tailscale, but then again I don’t have many people who need access to what I host.

Nibodhika , 11 months ago

I live in Ireland, I have family in Brazil that access my server via tailscale. It’s not the best experience, but I think it’s the best I can do with a home hosted server. Exposing stuff to the full internet is a security nightmare.

Nibodhika , 11 months ago

I wouldn’t do Windows, Linux will give you freedom to use docker for most things that you might want to host. As for which distro use whatever you find nice, there’s not going to be much difference. Some of the things people are suggesting are great for extremely advanced use cases, for just spinning up some services whatever you feel more comfortable would be best.

Nibodhika , 11 months ago

I have used aSoundcore Q30, a Soundcore A40 (these are earphones, so not sure if they fit here), Sony XM2 and XM4, and currently I'm using an Astro A50 that I got from work (mostly because of the microphone). The XM4 are the best by far but not very gamey, I wouldn't buy the A50, not think they're worth the price.