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and still on the original SD card

incredibly lucky. my Pi burned through so many cards I wouldn’t use it for a pihole again, especially when mini pcs are better and cheaper

(and before anyone asks yes I was logging to ram)

haven’t tried steam link but the raspberry pi still does all that for 150 or less

The price of ownership is maintenance.

Prices keep rising because people will pay ANY price to avoid personal responsibility.

hey, I didn’t memorize my NT key for nothing

what’s a backup?

I wouldn’t trust modern e-waste as far as I could throw it.

do you NEED a terrestrial receiver?

Ah, the common clay of the new Web

That’s not how capitalism works though

Plex wants us to log into their servers to watch content we’re hosting ourselves.

I hate Plex as much as the next Jellyfin user but you can just whitelist your local network, although people who understand that aren’t the target audience are they? …

I would buy a G5 every few years until the end of time if they still made them. Profit clearly isn’t the driving motivator of the post capitalist world we inhabit.

And what exactly will you replace your logitech stuff with? they’re all going down this path now.

honestly if they still make the only mice that don’t look like a gaming router they might still have me … on the second hand market at least.

Talk to e-waste recyclers and see if they have contact details for anyone buying their office PCs. Businesses don’t give a fuck, these things are going straight in the bin.

You could attempt to buy from them directly but there’s a solid chance they already have someone buying in bulk and don’t want to sell single items to the public.

Driving a car is only dangerous when you die in a traffic accident.

your logic doesn’t check out.

reminds me of the dude with a PDP 11 in his basement

https://i.imgur.com/mCCor4g.jpeg

https://github.com/Rick45/quick-arr-Stack/raw/main/img/architecture_diagram.png

no, the auth to use it at all … internet goes down and you can’t watch your own movies on your own network. peak self hosting.

the hero we deserve.

my physical collection is mostly thrift store finds

it’s a spreadsheet right?

yeah, this is just child abuse

Depending on your location in the world, you can buy land, pay nothing monthly and own and use it for ever.

what the fuck guys, why is anyone paying council rates or land tax when there is any free land left out there. I’ll run the network cables; let’s fuckin’ go.