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BigDaddySlim

@ BigDaddySlim @lemmy.world

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  • NixOS made me lose my wife

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  • Fair, like I said I'm not smart so I was only following a YouTube tutorial on how to install Arch, first time the guy was using Gnome which I didn't like so I had to find another that showed KDE. All those experiments and even the Plex server setup were built alongside YT tutorials and an IT friend who also has a Plex server helping me with upgrades when I needed to add a SAS card for additional drives.

    I've honestly just been winging it here lmao

  • NixOS made me lose my wife

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  • Care to explain? I run TrueNAS because it was the easiest for me to setup at the time. I'm not smart and it was a simple and free solution. Plex because Jellyfin wasn't where it is now, but also because again, I'm not smart and I have family outside my network use the server. Setting up wire guard and all that makes my brain hurt, let alone getting my mother to understand how to connect to Jellyfin.

  • NixOS made me lose my wife

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  • Already engaged 👈😎👈

  • NixOS made me lose my wife

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  • I'm a masochist, not only have I installed Arch from CLI several times, I've attempted running GPU passthrough to a Windows VM on several different distros just to play like 3 games that only run on Windows.

    I attempted this through a fresh build of Arch, 7800 XT for the Linux system and an RTX 3090 for the VM. Every attempt in hijacking the 3090 failed, refusing to not load the card on boot. I struggled with this for hours and days, and through multiple different distros, all while my gf pretended to understand what the fuck I was talking about. "Ok, honey, I'll be in the living room watching my shows."

    This went on for a while until I decided to give up and just build a second system dedicated for MichaelSoft Bindows.

    When my Plex server had a botched TrueNAS update, this effected her as well. Not only were there shows she was watching on there, but she had to endure a week of me copying my media from different drives to rebuild the server on every piece of storage I had in the apartment. I'd come home from work and immediately continue working on it. Computers left on overnight with little progress bars slowly filling up. She'd call me into the kitchen for dinner or ask me to come to bed at 1am when we both had to be up at 6am.

    She was actually supportive, maybe a little annoyed, but supportive nonetheless. Everything has now worked as intended for over a year and she even uses our home theater PC running Mint with no complaints or hiccups. Soon I will convince her to move her gaming PC to Linux as well, in due time though.

  • I think the motherboard is enough?

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  • Xubuntu brought a garbage Vista era system to usable levels for me for a dumb video I made a while ago, wasn't fast but definitely usable.

  • Alternatives to Roku/AppleTV for Jellyfin Client

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  • And has reliability issues, I got one for my mom so she could use my Plex server, it died just outside of warranty. She didn't use it often so it wasn't used and abused, just stopped outputting video one day.

  • A list of PC ports, recompiles, fan games, and more that all work on Steam Deck

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  • They definitely should. The other day I was installing Need For Speed Underground on my EOS PC and of course it's not on ProtonDB because it's not on Steam, so I expected a headache.

    Nope, added it to Steam and it just worked. No settings needed set at all. I'd love to add that info to the ProtonDB but can't.

  • Why Are People Buying iPods Again?

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  • To be fair you don't necessarily need an Apple iPod, there are plenty of other mp3 players that are on/were on the market before. iPods are just the go-to for most since it's the most widely recognized. I'm sure you can find a couple basic players at your local dollar store if you prefer to not use an Apple product.

    They've partially been revitalized in the mainstream again by YouTubers such as Dankpods or Zac Builds making upgraded versions or reviving them for modern use.

    There's still choice out there for other players, but most are sold as smart phones without a cellular antenna, such as the Fiio flagships or the Astell & Kern players. I could even argue an old Android phone with a headphone jack and all other apps removed with ADB could work as a simple player as well.

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  • Not even just that, but modern vehicles make it a pain in the ass to just put your wipers up before a snow storm. Used to be you just lift them up and they're done. Now you have to get in the car, hold the wiper stalk up to the manual wipe mode and let them go up before you can get back out and lift them. I know it's for aerodynamics hiding them under the cowel but it's still a pain in the ass. My last 2 cars have had this feature.

  • GTA 6 reportedly aiming to be a Roblox style UGC platform and metaverse

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  • Not exactly, I play Halo MCC online, Dead by Daylight, Splitgate, etc. Lots of multiplayer games work fine for me. I use EOS btw

  • GTA 6 reportedly aiming to be a Roblox style UGC platform and metaverse

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  • It's actually completely unplayable for Linux users because of the new anti cheat.

  • What's up, selfhosters? - Sunday thread

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  • The absolute bliss

    Same with me when I was in Brazil, it was chugging along just fine back in New England

  • Was this reply helpful?

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  • Actually I had an issue where trying to sign into my samba share caused explorer.exe to crash constantly, running sfc /scannow fixed it surprisingly. Glad that's on my "these programs only work on Windows" system.

  • What is everyone using as a HTPC?

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  • Ryzen 1200/GTX 960 small build running Linux Mint. There's a UHD blu-ray drive in it as well with the custom firmware to rip disks. Media is stored on my NAS that handles Plex and transcoding. The parts were mostly old extras I had lying around, just needed the case, blu-ray drive and boot SSD. Oh and the like $20 wireless Logitech keyboard/track pad combo for control.

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    Then they wonder why their gigabit internet is slow

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  • My video editing software doesn't, I'll find the image I need for a video and will have to convert it to .png before it'll even look at it. To be fair I'm running an old version because the new one is subscription based 🤢

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    Firefox Beta 136 enables hardware accelerated video decode for AMD on Linux

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  • Same here, had Firefox installed since I got this phone in September and it's still off (also just checked)

  • Circadian Rule

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  • I removed up at 7:38 this morning and immediately panicked and jumped out of bed because I was late for work. I clock in at 7:30

    It's Sunday and I don't work Sundays. My body tricked me. I feel betrayed. Went back to sleep and removed up at 11

  • which phone should i buy?

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  • To add to that, most of the time there are easy work arounds like just using the apps browser version instead of an app. The only thing I've had a couple times was my keyboards just wouldn't pop up. No matter what I did the keyboards were dead for about 3 minutes each time it happened, they started to work again but it's just a quirk of a privacy focused OS

  • Anyone else here self-hosting on absolutely shit hardware?

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  • Interesting, I haven't had any issues with things loading with mine, maybe it's your adlists causing issues? Try disabling some, there might be false positives in there giving you issues

  • Anyone else here self-hosting on absolutely shit hardware?

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  • 10400F running my NAS/Plex server and raspberry pi 5 running PiHole