I mean, this doesn’t seem too disconnected from the original video 😂

/s is understood.

But on a serious note, eggs have come down around me in Michigan. The cheap eggs are around $5 a dozen, which to be clear is still ridiculous. But it beats the $7-8 it was

PDF has its place. I’m sure there’s something better that could replace it, but PDF is ubiquitous.

I hate getting sent docx files or whatever that stupid iPad notes format is. I open it and the formatting is all screwed up. Or I can’t open it at all.

When I send files, it’s a PDF, so I know they are seeing exactly what I am seeing. Exactly as it was meant to be seen.

Exactly. I’d love to use jellyfin, but it’s just not feasible

This is me 100%.

Though I’m probably right, I’m fine with being wrong. I don’t want to spread untruths. I’d rather learn the true thing and try not to forget it.

Thanks for the suggestion, I may go for this, that sounds much more simple than manually setting each one up, while still being just manual enough to remain customizable. And thanks for the offer of help.

I did buy a hexos license over black Friday. Mostly just to help a thing I think should exist, but I was also gonna give it a try when it got out of beta.

Glad to hear I’m not alone 😬

I wish it were that easy. I’m fairly computer competent, comfortable enough in the Linux command line to follow any tutorials, and Google my way through most problems I run into.

But docker? Dang. Maybe once you figure it out, you forget how hard it was to learn. But that learning curve is STEEP. I banged my head against that wall for like a week before giving up. Everything is so abstracted away. I’m baffled every time it’s recommended to newbies as easier than other options, especially when those newbies are struggling with ports of all things (no offense to OP).

Maybe I’m just dumb I guess 🤷‍♂️

Same, I loved that show. None of my friends remember it though 🤷‍♂️

Thanks for the write-up!

I see now I was conflating zfs with RAID in general. It makes sense that you could have the benefits of a checksumming filesystem without the need for RAID, by simply restoring from backups.

This is a great start for me to finally get some local backups going.

Can you explain this to me better?

I need to work on my data storage solution, and I knew about bit rot but thought the only solution was something like a zfs pool.

How do I go about manually detecting bit rot? Assuming I had perfect backups to replace the rotted files.

Is a zfs pool really that inefficient space wise?

It’s actually because of wind resistance, the air is moving the same speed as the ground when the earth turns so you don’t feel it.

(don’t @ me I’m just following what I recognized to be a humorous pattern of technically correct "well actually"s)

I was reading your post and I briefly thought you were trying to say it IS expensive, not that it is not. And I was like is this guy on crack, cubing is cheap as chips.

Anywho, glad to see I was wrong. I learned cubing at the same time as my buddies kids did, and while I never got faster than I think a minute and a half? They are well under a minute now, it’s crazy.

I still cube occasionally, but mostly just to fidget while watching TV 🤷‍♂️ Also so I don’t forget how to do it.

This is very insightful, thank you

I used to like the a400, had a few of them in service, but a few years ago I tried another one and it was terrible. Just… Slow… like an HDD. I did some research and apparently they changed something with the nand somewhere along the line. Did a bait and switch. I don’t remember the details but it annoyed me.

I actually needed to buy a budget SSD just today, and I got a BX500. We’ll see how it goes. I know not to expect much from a drive without DRAM, but at least I know that going in.

https://youtu.be/2svOtXaD3gg

I don’t know how this hasn’t been posted yet

Maybe it’s regional? They don’t ask for my card in Michigan. But I do need to present it for a few things done at the SOS office. That’s the DMV in Michigan.

Why make it a card then? If it’s meant to be stored as a document then it should be the size of an envelope, or a standard A4 sheet.

I keep mine attached to the envelope sized paper it came on. But it shouldn’t be a card shape, that encourages people to carry it. My grandpa always carried his.

Thanks!

When you say you use this for your parents, are they connecting to your home jellyfin server?

I’m running Plex right now for me and my parents, and I’ve had to do practically no network shenanigans, it just works. I’m beginning to worry about the direction Plex is going though, so I’m looking into jellyfin. But I’ve read that configuring remote access can be more complicated.