Don’t forget about PCIe expansion. Just yesterday I got a FireWire PCIe card for 20€ to transfer old DV tapes to digital with no quality loss. Plug the card in and you’re done. To get the same result on a laptop I’d need a Thunderbolt port and two adapters, one of which isn’t manufactured anymore and goes for 150€+ on secondhand stores.

PS. I would remove “CPU heating” from your system if I were you :)

Looks great, maybe this will convince me to setup a music server to free up space on my phone :) One question, does it support browsing by album artist instead of just artist? I organise my music with Picard which moves features to the artist tag, which breaks up albums when using just the artist view. Great work either way

Samsung SSDs seem fine, I actually use one of the cheap SATA ones as a boot drive, but they had a firmware bug a while ago that destroyed 990 and 980 pro NVMe SSDs. And I dislike Samsung in general so I’d rather not buy from them if I can avoid it.

Great. What SSDs are worth buying then? Kioxia? Solidigm? Never going to buy WD, Samsung is on my shit list too but if there’s no other options left…

edit: just read that solidigm also exited the consumer business at the start of the 2025, amazing

You can run games from your windows drives but it’s better not to, it can cause weird issues because of the way files are stored (case sensitive vs insensitive, permissions etc.)

The ISP gives their modem/router an internal IP and routes traffic through their datacenter to them and other customers via one shared public address. Also IPv6 is not always an option, I had to activate it on my ISP’s website but it was useless in the end because I can’t get an IPv6 address on my phone

It’s been a bit since I’ve played it, but from what I remember Sky Rogue was pretty fun. Plane based roguelite. Simple enough flight model to pick up and play but complex enough to not be mind numbing. It’s also 75% off right now

Just checked out 7 digital, seems to have a decent library but the pricing is weird… I looked at a 3 track release and it costs 8,79€ for the whole thing, or 0,99€ for each track 🤔

Yes it runs on windows, if I recall it’s to pass data from storage to the GPU directly without passing through the CPU. Which lowers CPU usage and speeds up things like game loading or texture streaming for example. You probably found references to Xbox because it was implemented there first with the launch of the current gen consoles.

They added that a while ago for all users on Android 12 and up

Alright, thank you very much. Some good resources to get started, and I sorta got somewhere. After an hour trying every option possible and the container still not working, I tried running chown -R serve:serve ~/ as suggested in the reddit thread above. Kind of a nuclear option, but now the container starts! Too bad it stops itself after a few seconds. Honestly considering re-installing the whole OS at this point.

Yeah I do everything from the serve account. I did try changing the permissions like I said in the edit of my post. What’s confusing me is all my other containers are running fine (Immich, SearxNG, etc.) and it’s only Jellyfin having trouble, if it was a permissions problem none of them should start since their media folders get mounted in that same directory (not an expert on podman, correct me if I’m wrong). I also thought that the images are fine, but it doesn’t hurt to be through. I’ll try changing some permissions around once more later today though.

I already tried that, but I couldn’t access it without becoming root. The dir folder is owned by 100000 which I assumed is by design and I didn’t want to mess up any of my other containers and left it be. But I just noticed that the folder that gives the error doesn’t exist at all, don’t know if that has anything to do with it. I also tried removing Jellyfins images and redownloading them but nothing changes.

This was in the related articles: https://www.tomshardware.com/peripherals/printers/brother-denies-firmware-blocks-third-party-toner-and-ink-use

And I believe them. The reddit post in Rossman’s video was 3 years old. I have personally installed and updated 5 Brother printers in the last year and they all still run on 3rd-party toner.

Yeah, really depends on what kind of music you listen to. I guess I’m lucky in that regard, since most artists I listen to have their music on BC ^^

If you really need to download the music on your phone you could use the website. I just organise everything on my PC then copy the files over… But I agree that it would be nice to have DRM free downloads on the app

I feel I should mention Bandcamp, which gives 70% of a sale directly to the artist. In the music world that’s a lot. All DRM free and in most audio formats you could want. My process when buying music is usually: bandcamp > qobuz (or similar) > if all else fails… use other means. I’ll also skip step one and two depending on the artist :p

Guaguin is a sudoku-like puzzle game that I enjoy a ton. Instead of the usual 9-block square, this has random shapes with a number and a math operator on them. The goal is to have no repeating digits on rows/columns, and each block needs its mathematical problem to be solved. For example a block labeled 20x needs to filled so that all the numbers inside of it multiply to 20.

Play Store

F-Droid

Nope, no way. I’ve done it once as an experiment and had to jump through all the hoops. And that was when the waiting time was a week instead of a month to unlock your device. You also need a windows PC (with an Intel processor! The unlock tool didn’t work on my AMD system) plus a Xiaomi account.

This one does. It’s also in the Play store