qjkxbmwvz

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[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 2 points 1 month ago

I switched from raspberry pi and orange pi to a cheap Intel NUC, and I think it's just a much nicer experience.

The pi is great fun, but the HW transcoding on a NUC "just works," and the SSD and 16GB RAM opens a lot of doors. My N100 NUC was less than $150, and it included everything (case, power supply, 500GB SSD).

My pi found new life as an off-site backup: attach a big HDD, set up WireGuard, and have a cronjob do daily rsync and snapshots. I have it set up at in-laws, and it works great.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 5 points 1 month ago

I have one SSID with pihole (which I use), and one without. Works pretty well, if you're ok with a VLAN-aware network.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 2 points 1 month ago

Ah, good point!

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Dell XPS 13 Snapdragon seems like it's trying to compete with the Air.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 1 points 1 month ago

man rot13 ;)

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oh I wasn't complaining, I was making a bad joke (the cartoon is a stalemate).

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Ugh, Lemmy is full of stale content.

(Edit: it's a joke. Stalemate/stale content...I chuckled at, and upvoted, the post.)

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I've been super happy with it. Knock on wood it's been super reliable. I have a single ZFS drive, take snapshots with various retention policies, nothing fancy.

Another fun thing is to set up a reverse proxy on it as an endpoint for services on your local (home) network which can only be accessed by VPN. For example, my Jellyfin service isn't public facing, but I didn't want e.g. my parents to need to set up WireGuard. So instead they can point their TV to a raspberry pi on their network to access the service


even a first gen RPI can handle Jellyfin reverse proxy over WireGuard for moderate bitrates!

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 2 points 1 month ago

"Necessary, but not sufficient" sums up the role of a degree for a lot of jobs.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 2 points 1 month ago

Ah, right, that's why it looked familiar


pretty sure I've seen articles from there posted in one of The Onion communities in lemmy.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm not mad at the huge amount I pay in taxes. I'm mad about what I get in return.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Only disagreement from me (in California, USA) is that I wouldn't diminish the actions of our neighbors to the north by calling them "petty" in this instance. Nothing petty about standing up to a bully in whatever capacity you can. 🫡

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