Damn… I was hoping you were aware of things that I had missed…

Anyway, if you run out of M.2 NVMe slots on your motherboard there are still options, since NVMe is just PCIe:

https://www.amazon.com/Adapter-Converter-Reader-Expansion-Internal/dp/B0BK2R7T57

Do you know of any m.2 to SATA adapters that support NVMe? Or are these only for Sata M.2s?

Most phones are full disk encrypted. So they don’t need to zero out the whole disk… They just need to zero out the part of the disk that stores the encryption key. Once the encryption key is erased, the rest of the disk is essentially random noise.

I had an older computer where the CPU died, and it exhibited exactly these symptoms.

See if you can find someone with a compatible system, and try to swap some parts back and forth to rule out which are the broken ones. If you can find another DDR4 system and put your RAM sticks in, then you’ll know whether your RAM is actually broken or not.

Sometimes a BIOS reset can also help when the system can’t POST.

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I have a Raspberry Pi with a Wireguard VPN on it. So on my android phone, I connect to the Wireguard VPN, and then I use this app to trigger the WakeOnLan:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bitklog.wolon

Ah right… You are indeed correct in the formal definition.

But even the Merriam-Webster dictionary mentions that the word “data” is more informally being used just like the work “information”.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/data

Ah right… You are indeed correct in the formal definition.

But even the Merriam-Webster dictionary mentions that the word “data” is more informally being used just like the work “information”.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/data

• I am
• You are
• He/she/it is
• We are
• You are
• They are

I’m fairly certain that “data” falls in the “it” category

Why?

The ones in the kitchen will be set off by burnt food… Leading to people disabling the alarm anyway.

In your kitchen you can get heat sensitive fire alarms instead.

Holy shit… This is so incredibly out of touch… I can’t even…

The Basics That Blow Minds

Lol no… yt-dlp is a bit nifty, but everything else here is utterly expected of any media solution… Exactly zero minds were blown here…

No transcoding

Damn that sucks when the destination device isn’t capable of hardware decoding the media file, and too slow to software decode it… (also, you do know that you can just disable transcoding in Plex/Jellyfin, right?)

No server

SMB and NFS are both servers.

Send someone an SMB/NFS share to your media

Jesus, are you directly exposing SMB and NFS to the Internet? NFS is entirely unencrypted, and SMB has super scary vulnerabilities regularly…

Zero server maintenance

I really hope you are patching the OS, to avoid vulnerabilities in SMB and NFS which you are exposing to the Internet…

Plays literally any codec without setup

Sure, provided the device supports hardware decoding the codec or is fast enough to software decode it…

Works offline/online seamlessly

So does both Jellyfin and Plex (plex needs a one liner config change, though, to be fair)

cross-platform

How about TVs? How about Mobile?

Or just… teach them? play movie.mkv isn’t rocket science.

My mom has needed to call me and be guided over the phone 100% of the times that she has needed to scan a document… How do you think teaching her to navigate a file structure in a terminal is going to go?

My daughter still needs us to spell out the cheat codes for her The Sims game… Do you think she’ll remember the terminal commands.

If I forced any of my friends and family to use the command line to play media, they would just watch something else from a streaming service that actually offers some User Experience… Or do something else entirely.

write a simple script or just… remember what you watched?

Dunno… That seems like a hassle when it’s a built in feature in Plex/Jellyfin

It’s literally a config file. If you can set up Jellyfin, you can handle this.

No… It’s a config file per device, and SMB/NFS mounts per device. Now you need to handle syncing that config file, and any other user of the server will need their own config files…

… And what about other features…

• How do you browse metadata for your movies and series? I often like to read a summary about a movie to know a bit about what to expect. I also like being able to search for an actor, and see the cover art.
• How do you group your movies with the extra features for that movie?
• How do you stream your media to your TV?
• How do you easily fetch subtitles for a movie that didn’t come with any subtitles?
• When you are away from home on a heavily bandwidth constrained connection, how do you watch your nice high-quality movies?

Back when I lived alone, attaching my media drive directly to my desktop computer made perfect sense, it was the only screen I owned that I wanted to watch anything on… And I didn’t need to share anything with anyone… And I could easily use mpv or vlc to watch anything I want…

But now that other people are in the mix, and I like the convenience of using whichever screen I’m currently near, a simple network share + mpv falls so far short it isn’t even funny.

Wouldn’t tea imply it’s some kind of plant leaves being steeped in water?

Ignorance is bliss?

There’s a free demo 😉

(the first hit is free)

Yeah, depending on the heatpump, the outdoor temperature, and the target temperature, a heatpump can reach up to 5.5x heat output. That means for every 1 kWh of electricity you use to run the pump, the pump will output 5.5 kWh of heat energy.

I have a few Aqara smart socket with power monitoring, and they ask great, but also expensive.

I had a bunch of the old style of IKEA smart sockets without power monitoring. They work just fine, but they are quite clunky…

I recently bought a couple of the new IKEA smart sockets with power monitoring, and they are almost on par with the Aqara ones, but less than half the price.

The short answer is basically everywhere they can find data.

But sometimes the government even wants to give them all the data they have on every citizen in their country, including medical history, financial information, and much much more. So the police can “Minority Report” terrorism before it happens

That’s not correct. Under the GDPR, the data that Facebook collects on you, makes them the Data Controller. Any partners they share data with would be considered Data Processors. When you invoke your right to be forgotten under the GDPR, then both Data Controllers and Data Processors must delete your data. So if Facebook partners isn’t deleting your data after you filed a request to Facebook, then they are violating the GDPR.

That said Facebook is certainly violating the GDPR left and right. For example with their “Pay or Consent” model…

That’s awesome. I’ll definitely check it out later!