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djdarren

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  • Linux just seems to me, to be best geared for lightweight users at best.

    A bold opinion in these towers, for sure.

  • Good luck figuring it out since it also doesn’t come with man pages

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  • I often found myself thinking of the Firefox's dangling balls.

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  • To be fair, I'm mostly about Craig Charles as well. His funk and soul show is a genuine highlight of my week while I'm cooking.

    As for other shows; Jarvis Cocker has just come back on Sunday afternoons, which is very welcome. Also, Cerys Matthews on a Sunday is great.

  • What is the fantasy book/series everyone should read?

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  • Just a note to add that if OP does dig in to HDM, bear in mind that there are only three books. There are three more books masquerading as a continuation of Lyra's story, but they can be safely disregarded as they are a nonsense.

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  • The thing with streaming services for me is the complete lack of humanity. Don't get me wrong, I sub to Apple Music and use it quite a lot, but when I'm cooking dinner and want a person playing music to me, making recommendations, and just chatting away, there's no substitute for human-presented radio.

    Algorithmic recommendations are fine, but there's something about clicking with a piece of music that someone has encouraged me to check out.

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  • Yeah, every day. BBC 6 music is where it's at.

  • What was the last live theater performance that you saw?

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  • If watching a recorded theatre performance from the comfort of my own sofa counts, then The National Theatre's presentation of The Importance of Being Earnest, which is wonderful.

    In terms of seeing a live performance while in the actual theatre then it would be Rocky Horror back in 2019.

    Edit: Just remembered that we saw Wicked in London in December 2025, before we saw the movie. That was fun.

  • For those of you with a living room or multiple rooms; do you have a TV in your bedroom? Why or why not?

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  • Yes, but it's not currently hooked up to anything because we don't actually use it.

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  • Aww yis!

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  • How dare you talk about the Pallas cat that way. He be very floof and round.

  • Who do you think was history's greatest villain?

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  • Ea-nāṣir, merrily flogging low quality copper to unsuspecting punters. The rotter.

  • So a friend set me up with some resources.

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  • The thing with that laptop though, is that you’re probably able to upgrade the storage and RAM if you need to. That’s valuable. I mean, hilariously expensive to do at this point, but possible none the less.

    The way I see it, have a think about what you want to achieve, what self-hosted service is most important to you, and start with that. If you have 200gb of music and you’re sick of giving Spotify money, spin up a Navidrome container and a free Tailscale* account so you can stream your own music to your phone wherever you are. Then see how your laptop responds to that. If it falls over then perhaps you’ll need to have another look at your hardware, but honestly, it probably won’t.

    As for the RAM, I used SSH to hook into my server yesterday so I could watch htop on it from another computer while I was importing hundreds of photos into Immich. All four CPU cores were maxed out at 100% and it sounded like a jet engine, but the RAM usage sat steady at around 5.5gb. And that’ll do for me. _ *Tailscale is magic, btw. A free account allows 100 devices, so if you’re running things just for yourself it means you can access everything wherever you are. For free. With basically no setup.

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  • My home server is a 2014 Mac mini running Debian that I've kitted out with a 250gb NVME drive and a 1tb SATA SSD. It also has a 2tb HDD hooked up to one of the USB sockets.

    It has a quad core i5 and 8gb RAM, so pretty low rent as far as these things go.

    That system is currently hosting Nextcloud, Navidrome, Invidious, Jellyfin, Grimmory, Mealie, and Immich. I reckon that's probably about the limit of what it can handle. It'll only be used by my wife and I, so I don't forsee it coming under massively heavy abuse.

    I've been lucky, because the entire cost to me of that setup is £10 for the adapter to fit the NVME drive, and £13 for the external HDD caddy. The rest of it has been stuff my wife didn't need, and the Mac itself was my dad's old one that he gave me.

    The point is, you really don't need a hefty box to start with. Just use whatever you've got and see what you can get away with.

  • Microsoft wants Edge to automatically open by default every time you turn on your Windows 11 PC

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  • When using Sunshine/Moonlight to stream games to our Apple TV, you can guarantee that if it begins to stutter it's because Windows is downloading something in the background.

  • Ubuntu Linux raises minimum system memory requirements by 50% — requirements bumped to 6GB of RAM, previously raised from 1GB to 4GB in 2018

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  • Cheap shit from 2014.

  • Ubuntu Linux raises minimum system memory requirements by 50% — requirements bumped to 6GB of RAM, previously raised from 1GB to 4GB in 2018

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  • Funny enough, I installed Win11 on a friend's HP convertible laptop today.

    A 2GHz i3 and 4GB RAM, and it was still entirely usable. Not powerful by any means, but a fine socials browser, YouTube viewer, and document writer.

    I'd have preferred to put Debian on it, but it wasn't my call, so I did as requested.

  • Power efficiency

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  • This Jeff Geerling video from a couple of weeks back was an eye-opener.

    Just because you might be able to find a cheap G5 Xserve server that runs at 200W when idle, doesn't mean you should.

  • Turbines are our friends

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  • Nokia 3310s.

  • What's the best TV show from your country?

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  • My shatner's bassoon has been fucked since 1997.