DontNoodles

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (11 children)

I'm setting up a media PC for my TV using refurbished hardware. The biggest pain right now is controlling the interface. I got one of those cheap keyboards with trackpads but they stopped working in a month. Reading this post makes me wonder if I can reuse one of the old IR remotes lying around in my home. Generating shortcut keys and binding them might be easy but what can be done for text/voice to text input?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

For Hawwa and Aimina watch it on a large screen up close when you're high.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I would like to replicate your setup in the future. How do you connect between the two machines, using tailscale or something like that?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Reminds me of "The Gods Must be Crazy" where the tribe uses coke bottle for umpteen things because that's the hardest thing they can find, besides having other properties like smoothness.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Does portainer, and docker in turn, allow taking/accessing something like point in time snapshots of containers like VM software do? They make it easy to tinker with stuff, knowing that if I mess up, I can go back to a snapshot and be good again.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I don't have anything to offer but I have a question since I'm on a similar quest. I'm also a n00b when it comes to Docker even though I have best intentions to learn it eventually. In the coming days I want to set up a similar server for photos backup and I was hoping to go with Immich too.

I have heard that Immich occasionally provides updates that are breaking in nature. How does Tipi handle it in such circumstances?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

I think it is more important that you cared for them enough to try. Most people don't even give it a shot. In an ideal world we would have enough time to learn to play, at least for self satisfaction.

Among the few instruments I have, I feel most proud about assembling what is called Jaltarang. I've been able to get a full octave plus half on each side which enables me to play few tunes. I suck hard at it too but just the act of setting it up and getting it in tune is satisfying on its own.

If you are curious about how it sounds when played by someone good at it, watch this.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I feel you. What instruments do you have? What instruments do you wish you had?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I am in the same situation as OP and this is the route I'm moving along. I got myself a used 800 G3 SFF based on a comment in a similar thread a few days ago.

It feels like a fine machine that consumes less power, supports upto 64 GB of RAM (I got 2x16 with future upgrades in mind). But the most noticeable thing about it is that it has space for 2x3.5" HDDs that none of the machines this size have, apart from the NVMe disk I put in. I intend to put 2x4 TB disks in it in RAID1 mainly to store family photos and videos. I'm learning docker to set up immich properly- i don't want to lose anything due to my stupidity in updating things.

I have about a dozen questions regarding the same but I'm scared to put them all in a single post. But I'm trying to follow advice on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCDmHljsinY and hoping things will turn out fine. Based on their recommendation, I've also obtained a used g4560 processor to replace the existing dual core processor (i think it is 4400 or something like that) it came with. I hope it'll be sufficient for stremio/torrentio/RD that everyone is so pleased with.

All in all I'm enjoying the journey of setting it up and my only fear is not of losing the data but of curating it to my liking and then losing the customisations in a fuckup.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Or they could connect their pi as well as their laptop to a hotspot created on their pocket computer masquerading as a phone. They won't lose their internet on the laptop or pi that way.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Good, you got the clue! Now you gotta be his new best friend and get him just that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This scares me to an extent but as long as immich provides some instructions on what to do to get back on track, this should be okay.

Also, what happens if one skips multiple such breaking updates? Will it be my responsibility to hunt down the changes and make corresponding amends?

And finally, while I understand that immich is not supposed to be photo backup solution, does it allow export and import of metadata, tags etc? I ask because I intend to set it up and I may skip few of these updates and instead do a fresh install a year or so later. If I can simply export my settings, face ID info, albums from old setup and import it into the new one then it makes things very easy.

Otherwise the phrase breaking changes does sound really scary.

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