I do what you are asking about literally with a 2014 Thinkpad. The only thing is I don’t use any “fancy” features. For instance, with Jellyfin I ensure that the data is in a commonly supported format to ensure there is no transcoding or remuxing performed by the server itself.

So, just find any computer made in the last 7 years, slap Linux on it, and I’m sure you’ll be fine.

That is indeed absurdly fast.

Interesting writing. But my concern is that social responsibility will be dumped by the cost factor as he said. Anything that is GPL is under threat by an AI-based reimplementation. The cost of doing that seems artificially low now (investment hype phase, not ROI phase of these businesses), so it’s not really the idea anyone could do it that concerns me. The concerning part is no matter the price, bigger companies can take the hit and now direct their resources to undo the GPL everywhere and simultaneously replace labor in doing it.

I’ve been self-hosting for years, but with a recent move comes a recent opportunity to do my network a bit differently. I’m now running a capable OpenWRT router, and support for AdGuard Home is practically built into OpenWRT. I just needed to configure it right and set it up, but the documentation was comprehensive enough.

For years I had kept a Debian VM for Pi-Hole running. I kept it ultra lean with a cloud kernel and 3 gb of disk space and 160MB of RAM, just so it could control its own network stack. And I’d set devices to manually use its IP address to be covered. AGH seems to be about the same exact thing as Pi-Hole. With my new setup the entire network is covered automatically without having to configure any device. And yes, I know I could’ve done the same before by forwarding the DNS lookups to the Pi-Hole, but I was always afraid it would cause a problem for me and I’d need an easy way to back out of the adblocking. Subjectively, over about 6 years, I only had a couple worthless websites that blocked me out.

I haven’t yet gotten to the point where I’m trying to also to intercept hardcoded DNS lookups, but soon… It’s not urgent for me because I don’t have sinister devices that do that.

It even has RSS! Hell yeah let’s go

Wow how have I not seen these weekly roundups before? Cool little news digest

Absolutely correct. I used to maintain vigorous whole disk backups, and made sure my MacBook also had regular Time Machine backups and that kind of thing.

Then I realized there are actually tiers of important data. The most important stuff would be on the order of megabytes (tax documents, my lease, historical records of that stuff, and config files that I’ve built up over time).

Then I have my vacation photos and videos. Family photos. A few gigabytes. That’s not that much in the grand scheme and it’s still easy to back these up to a cloud service for minimal to no cost.

The rest of the data on my computer is easily recoverable or can be reconstructed with minimal effort. The OS install. The games. Media from online. I would not bother backing up this stuff.

Once this stuff is in perspective it’s very easy to devise a backup solution that fits your needs at an appropriate price. Not everyone has usage like mine and maybe their important data is much larger than mine is, but the point is we should think about which of the data is actually important, and not blindly duplicate pointless data.

Yes it does. But I would guess it’s not yet as powerful as LaTeX, either, but I couldn’t cite you specific examples.

For sure. The cost of switching is high since you’re already embedded in its ecosystem with a team. I last wrote serious latex in college and then just maintained my resume in it out of habit.

Don’t be confident in the idea that VPNs will escape regulatory notice. The open web as we know it is rapidly being maimed.

I used to maintain my resume in latex. I switched to typist. I vastly prefer it. The syntax is much easier to deal with. It really, to me, feels like a worthy successor

NFS like the other person said. Or Samba. I’ve been rocking samba sharing for years with almost no trouble. Mounts reliably and performs speedily without the pitfalls of sshfs potentially tweaking out or just causing unnecessary load on moving data around.

A virtual machine on my LAN that runs Fedora Server

Yeah, that’s my sentiment as well. I don’t want to pay to have the display repaired, because I already have a laptop. Finding this thing was not an invitation for me to spend money on it :P

So I hooked it up to a spare monitor and fiddled around with it, some. Used Crossover to install Steam and Mortal Kombat and played a few rounds. Worked well!

Probably the only reason I found it is the busted display 😅. I guess to someone that either meant it didn’t work at all, or they just stopped caring and didn’t want to deal with it anymore.

Maybe one day I’ll find a matching macbook pro where the computer doesn’t work but the display does. And then I’ll have fully working laptop and one fully broken one 😀

It was in an e-waste bin. I didn’t purchase it. I just picked it out of a pile of electronics.

It seems what happens is the laptop still expects a built-in display to output to unless the magnets/hinges are closed, in which case it will switch to clamshell mode and only display on the external monitor.

but what sucks about that is in clamshell mode the built in keyboard/mouse become unusable, but those components are fully functional. Maybe there is a way to trick it to only output to an external display, never try to output to the broken laptop screen, and keep the kb+mouse operational…

soldered/glued :(

My one fear is if I try to install Asahi but get stuck on an install step that requires me to be able see what’s on the main laptop display, which would not be possible

Most blessed outcome. Lucky!