Wrench Wizard

With everyone self hosting huge servers like this, my question is… how can I access some large ones like this? Kodi, Plex?

That’s actually great for the price, i7 12, 32Gb ram, 1Tb M2, etc? Not bad at all! Would even be a great little gaming setup

I miss back in the day. Used to be able to store all my stuff on CD-R’s, hell before that it was floppy’s. File sizes have grown exponentially, programs/apps all have huge sizes. Pictures and videos is my biggest issue, but I’d also like to backup games that I’ve downloaded so I don’t have to download again. I can backup old games no problem, but modern games? Many are 100+ GB now, and in time they all will be and 200GB will be the standard, then a terabyte and more.

Anyway, until I can afford and find a 20 tb sad I’m just using DVDs for everything but games and large programs. Quick to write, solid, tangeable etc. If I could afford a bunch of flash drives I’d probably do that instead.

If you can afford it and it’s important data I’d ofc recommend backing up to a large SSD, THEN to a cloud (or more) as a failsafe… then also using flash drives/DVD’s etc. For an additional failsafe for the super important stuff.

I mean, if it’s important backup all you can.

I’ve got priceless memories in my Google photos library but ofc Google removed being able to view them on my native photos app and download easily… so instead I either have to backup and save ALL of it in Google drive or download specific albums… idk so I wouldn’t personally recommend google as a true backup as you never know, personally I’d just use DVDs and flash drives for that stuff

I’m new to the party and am still experimenting, not super tech savvy but I’ve been doing a few things.

I have one SD set up for retro gaming via Lakka. Wish Lakka had an option to add a desktop like RetroPie but just really love the interface and ease of use. Tried recalbox and it’s nice as well! Can’t remember why I settled for Lakka.

Another SD is for experimenting at the moment. As mentioned I’m brand new to the pi community so I’ve installed Raspbian on it and have just been testing the waters. Set up iirc my first VNC network between it, my PC and my phone. Also have been using it to rip and burn DVDs via brasero. Don’t have wifi at home, I use a hotspot which complicates using my printer wirelessly so I’m considering using the pi as a network for that. There’s also a cool program I found where you learn musical coding? It’s pretty interesting though I still don’t really know what it’s for haha.

I’d really like to do more with it but as mentioned am just learning. Hell, I just got it running a few weeks ago after it had been down for a couple years so I’m sure I l’ll be doing more when I find the time.

I’d love to set it up in my vehicle and have Spotify, gps navigation, retro gaming etc through it but seems like a big project with my limited understanding ATM.

Hey where? I need that! Have a spare m2 and want to use it!

What’s that?

I live inside a firetruck

I think cars are cool, but I prefer fire trucks.

I think you’re onto something. U.S citizen here and I actually love driving stick but where I live it’s a few hour drive to anywhere which makes driving a manual seem like more of a hassle, whereas those long trips in an automatic feel leisurely and I’m more well rested when I arrive.

Couple that with manuals more commonly found in larger trucks around here. I work on vehicles, see many and can’t remember the last small car or truck that was manual. It’s all semi’s, dump trucks, dualies, you know? Big trucks which adds another barrier to people.

I feel like if there were smaller manuals in my area then perception would change. As it is they’re reserved for work, big work at that.

It’s sad to lose manuals in society but I’m seeing them less and less, everything seems to be going electric now, even companies known for diesel manuals.

Iirc that requires Android 10 correct? When I initially read of the patch I had an old phone that wasn’t capable of android 10 but have recently upgraded. Do you happen to have the link with patch instructions?

I’m using liftoff ATM and haven’t had the confusion you’re mentioning (I don’t think) but haven’t browsed much. Maybe worth a try.

Waiting on Boost for Lemmy myself

Waiting on boost here too, Ruben or whoever needs to hurry up!

Same here! Was a reddit addict for years. Have been dropping my usage down for a while, to the point that I barely used it before the api changes. After the API changes I quit altogether bc I feel greasy every time I support them in any way. Then Boost my 3pa finally died and I haven’t logged in since bc the official app is absolute trash. Liftoff has been a decent replacement so far but I really wish the boost Dev would hurry up with releasing their Lemmy app!

Other than that yeah, I’ve spent much more time outdoors. Even before the API announcement I’d replaced reddit with writing bc I mostly made lengthy comments anyway. Writing skills are pretty solid now& I think I’ve put in at least, oh shit I write about 3 hours most days and it’s been a few years of writing, I’ve written around a thousand+ hours just in the past year or so! Very happy about that bc I enjoy it. Tbh if I’d scrolled Reddit mindlessly all that time well damn, I wouldn’t have learned anything but a few random facts. Wouldn’t have gotten better at anything except commenting… sheesh. I like Lemmy and support it but think we should all probably reduce our online time a bit, bc as much as I love it, we really could be doing more with our lives and mindlessly scrolling the web is almost always just wasted time. Can’t think of anything I’ve ever done online that’s actually bettered my life in anyway, much less bettered myself. Enrolling in classes and learning? Sure. Scrolling mindlessly? No… it’s not good for us.

Yep, they killed boost, I quit.

On the bright side I like it here and don’t feel ashamed of myself for supporting assholes every time I log in