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?

• Andrew S. Tannenbaum

Very much this. My daughter was bottle fed, and almost like clockwork she would get hungry every 3 hours, at 12, 3, 6 and 9. My wife would feed and go to bed at midnight, and then I would stay up until 3 and feed there, then straight to bed. Then at 6 my wife would wake up and feed, and then finally at 9 in the morning I would wake up. Getting those 6 hours uninterrupted was invaluable.

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

Understandable. RAID1 can be a significant reduction of available space, but it of course depends a lot on which combination of disks you are using. In my case the difference is fairly minor. With RAID6 I would have 26 TB usable, and with RAID1 I have 23 TB usable… So to me the safety is worth the lost storage… But that if course depends entirely in which disks you have.

Here’s my setup: https://www.carfax.org.uk/btrfs-usage/?c=2&slo=1&shi=1&p=0&dg=1&d=8000&d=6000&d=3000&d=3000&d=12000&d=8000&d=6000

Ah, it’s probably a result of running RAID6 then. All the parity RAID modes in BTRFS still has some issues, such as suffering from the “write hole” issue. This can result in data loss when the filesystem isn’t unmounted cleanly, such as a crash or power loss.

RAID5 and RAID6 are still not recommended for production use.

Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood (2010) was set in Rome, but this is during the Italian Wars, (1499-1507)

Huh, that sound very weird… If for example you’re running RAID1, then all bits of the metadata should be duplicated. So unless the same bit of metadata was also corrupted on the other disk, it should be recoverable…

What checksum algorithm are you running?

BTRFS has native checksumming, so it will detect any bitrot that occurs. Additionally it supports various RAID levels. So if you have some level of replication or parity, then combined with the checksums, it will automatically correct bitrot as well.

A proper backup strategy is of course still necessary.

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.

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.

🤣 Ah! Voluntary vegetative state…

Have you heard about the concept called “an audio book”?

Yeah… I tried to ask it in Danish, and this is what it came up with…

I’ve assembled a few plugs myself… And this certain isn’t quite how I did it…

EDIT: This was actually Gemini 2.5 Pro… But it’s not very “pro”

Pear Launcher has them but calls them “App Groups”. But as I said, the missing piece is to hide them from the main tab when they have been added to another tab

I feel the same. I like having my desktop with easy to reach commonly used apps, and a few widgets, such at a Google calendar widget and my keep notes. And I want all the things in the exact spot I put them, so I can build muscle memory to go where I want. The dock is not so necessary as long as I can have enough icons on the desktop. And then I want an app drawer, where I can divide it into tabs, one for regular apps and one for games.

The closest I could find are either:

Lawnchair launcher, but it’s missing the drawer tabs (it has folders though)

Pear Launcher, it has everything, but unfortunately it doesn’t remove the games from the main apps tab when I add them to a games tab…

You know when a website has an “Upload” function? There it opens up a file picker that is native to your operating system, and let’s you pick which file to upload. This does not allow the website access to your entire file system, it only allows access to the exact file you picked.

Android and iOS could easily have implemented access in the same way in the operating system.

It’s also comical how you have to grant an android app full access to make phone calls for the app to be able to see whether you are currently in a call. This is useful for many games to pause if you get a call suddenly, but now your game has the ability to dial people as well…

Shouldn’t that be “ðere” and “wið”?

Demineralized water is not conductive. All the dirt from the keyboard might make is slightly conductive again, but every time there has been a spill in a mechanical keyboard, I take it apart, and soak it in demineralized water, then when it has soaked for a while I rinse it in fresh demineralized water, and then let it dry. I have only lost one keyboard, and I have saved the rest of the keyboards numerous times.