Yeah, that is my standard way of doing things. Old desktop becomes the server, and it’s specs blow everything I want it to do out of the water, so things like file storage (and the CPU required to encrypt-on-disk), etc have no chance of ever presenting an issue. Though, I do have a pair of Pis with POE hats on them (as well as a POE switch), because I really like POE.

Then I set it up for auto-updates and proceed to ignore it. Love very simple home networking setups that still accomplish every goal.

The dedicated NAS appliances really annoy me. Every time I have had to use one I just think ‘I can just do this in Linux on any random desktop lying around, why am I learning another proprietary thing?’

Of course you could just bypass all that nonsense by pirating your media

And this is precisely why piracy is on the rise. People will pay for convince/features, as we see with steam and music streaming.

The video industry has yet to figure this out.

All hail Windows 11 for making the future brighter on that front too; with Microsoft pushing forced obsolescence!

Yeah, tons of businesses are and will be offloading intel 7th gen and older computers.

Looks at lap

Logitech K400 still kicking it! (No clue if there is a better one, but it’s going to be hard to beat the classic)

Your old laptop & a generic bluetooth keyboard/mouse combo unit.

That is my setup. :)

Agreed, ditch the idea of trying to run an OS on the TV itself. It’s not worth it.

The TV is best used as a TV and nothing more. Plug a small computer into the back of it using one of the many video/audio ports which exist for just such a purpose.

Yeah, the BSODs got less and less helpful for debugging over time. Which is extremely frustrating when you are trying to fix it.

I think they were attempting to not scare consumers. But nothing scares me more than an unstable PC and no obvious way to fix it. Particularly if this is a family PC, means best I can tell them is “well, I improved things, but since I don’t know what caused the problem, I can’t confidently tell you I fixed it. Call me if it breaks again and we can, shudder get you fixed over the phone.”

Out of curiosity, which video card do you have?

I believe you simply downloaded the file to ~/.local/bin/yt-dlp, you did not install it. You need to either add that location to your path or you need to cd to that folder in terminal, then run the command. It will check things in the current folder when trying to run executables.

Some ISPs will also let you switch to your own modem if you call them and set it up with them. Have done that for years with my ISP as they otherwise charge a rental fee for their modem that pays for a completely brand new modem after only 6 months.

modern cars are Internet-connected

This in itself is terrifying. It isn’t like they are going to provide security updates for your car for decades. Unplug that modem, no reason for your car to be exposed to the internet.

I couldn’t believe that some companies would pay a quarter of a million for a server that is intentionally stunted/limited unless you pay even more.

Well, there is a reason AMD has been kicking ass in the server space lately. Mostly because Intel sat on their ass for a decade, but IBM scalping customers certainly provided a larger opening for AMD.

I had a look at the support page for the mobo, and there is a BIOS update from Mar 11th. It contains a zip with a .F52q file inside. You should be able to use that file directly from a USB in the BIOS.

Which motherboard do you have? There is almost always a way to load from a flash drive via the BIOS. Many motherboards even have a way to do it from a flashdrive without the UI working at all via a button on the back (BIOS Flashback).

Unfortunately so is Visual Studio and VS Code, yet we don’t say anything made with them is ‘vibe coded’. The text, big and bold, right the top of the screen for VS Code is literally:

Visual Studio and VS Code have an AI assistant as well, yet we don’t decree all programs written with them as ‘vibe coding’. The presence of an AI assistant in the IDE isn’t evidence of vibe coding.

Proton’s repo here is open source. What portion of it presents issues? Any?

That seems perfectly fine to me.

If you measure it in minutes, it would be pretty easy. And measuring in miles also is pretty straightforward. Break out the measuring tool on your map of choice and write down how long your standard route is, any deviations you can guestimate quickly.

The nagging popups, ads, the dubious ad-riddled webpages I have to visit to download apps.

I still have to use Windows at work, and it advertising apps in the start menu and specific games to me with a notification popup in pro versions of the OS just blows my mind. This is a piece of software my company paid extra for, and it has ads all throughout…in a completely ‘clean’ install.

It’s even worse since I end up using VMs at work, so I get to experience this over and over on each machine.

Always nice to see more AMD laptops. Personally a fan of them as they work well for moderate gaming without a dedicated card.

Really wish Intel would get their chips up to snuff, simply because we really don’t want to just swap from one monopoly to another.