i started in january of this year because i upgraded my wife’s computer. that gave me an old computer to tinker with.

i recommend getting an old computer, installing an OS (look up thinks like truenas, proxmox, unraid… there are more and they are different; try them all out if you want to see what you like)

then go onto youtube and search for things like “<OS> beginner” and you will get a bunch of tips/tricks/tutorials/etc. for starting out with your favorite.

i havent had the chance to try stoat yet because most of my friends refuse to leave discord, but i heard of Stoat (used to he called Revolt, but i think there was a trademark conflict) a while back and have wanted to try it out.

https://github.com/stoatchat/

i played a few of these bartops. they were intentionally very hard for short playtimes, and were a bit too expensive too play a lot. it kinda seemed like it was there to get money very few times out of very few people.

as a huge nerd who plays games at bars, the bartops were not good, heh. barcades and pinball halls are much more fun.

running a jellyfin server on something like this may not be pleasant, so it depends on what you are trying to do with this machine.

for most things, yeah - it will be fine; however, if you are planning to do live transcoding, running an llm, or other compute-heavy tasks, the box will need to be upgraded.

owning a hammer is not a crime, bashing in a car window with it is.

also, it is currently illegal for car owners to put custom firmware in their cars & there is no open standard to allow 3rd party software. all stolen cars should be refunded by the manufacturer for forcing us to use their shitty soft/firmware.

i have been trying to understand what information i send to people and how i send it in an attempt to try and get as lottle data into msrecall as possible.

im not quite there yet (and probably wont be before the oct cutoff) because my mother still uses windows & emails me sometimes, and a few of my friends on discord use windows. its really difficult because i have no control over my data being scraped by products i do not use and have never accepted a eula for. its… aggravating :(

https://www.libreoffice.org/

tell your friends.

there is a reaching hand that goes further than just using it for work.

lets say you open libreoffice writer and write a party invite. you send this party invite to a friend - they are invited to your party.

your friend opens it in MSWord, its uploaded to the cloud and scraped for all of your personal data to train their AI and to be sold to the lowest bidder.

you had and want nothing to do with microsoft, but they are still harvesting your data.

not the person you replied to, but i have been using cloudflare zero trust for my streaming needs; have not gotten a complaint yet.

just make sure you have the upload bandwidth.

microsoft java :p

the fact that these are strings instead of an object that is broken up by country code, area code, and number makes me irrationally angry.

i havent been able to find one. i have specific storage amounts in mind, so i search for my storage amount then sort by cheapest.

so rally round your PC… with a pocket KVM

i am currently setting one up so i have no input as far as ease of use, good/bad/etc. yet, however i have a

raspberry pi, flashed

libreelec to the sd card, and plan to get

castagnaIT to run some proprietary streaming services alongside

jellyfin that i host on my home server. i just ordered a

SofaBaton U2 remote for BT and IR commands; i hope to not really need k&m after setup

the fine print for their comparison charts said they were not tested equally; they just made up different benchmarking conditions for each card to make a 1st party slide. you are absolutely right on calling out their BS <3

always wait for 3rd party benchmarks. if you are looking for accurate 3rd party benchmarks, gamers nexus and hardware unboxed have extremely good standards for benchmarking (youtube)

no.

dont buy AMD laptops. their laptop CPU naming scheme was changed to ensure you get the worst processor possible. not worth.

apple may make software that doesnt require more than 8GB of memory, but a lot of developers that arent apple dont take that into consideration.

“memory is infinite” is a modern day slogan when building simple cross-platform apps because there is so much to use on normal computers.

there is even a joke for electron apps in this regard: how much memory does an electron app need to run? more.

“we are now allowing phones to be repaired as long as we still get paid for the privilege of your phone breaking”