It’s impressive that’s still the case when SteamOS is running a translation layer that Windows doesn’t have to.
Also, SteamOS is actually a pretty fully-featured OS, and it’s based off of Linux, so it’s not that specialized, besides the UI.
I tried jellyfin but it isn’t even close to as a good as plex
I looked into building my own keyboard, and then realized there are some excellent hobbyist tier keyboards that are 99% of what I would have wanted from building myself for like 30% of the cost.
I’m using the Hexgears Gemini Dawn right now, and I’m quite happy with it, but if I were to get a new one today I might go with something that supports QMK like the Massdrop CTRL.
The main 2 features I look for are hot-swappable switches and programmable firmware. Personally I like an aluminum frame and look for that as well.
You’ll pay about $100 for a prebuilt vs like $500 for building it yourself
Proton is let Valve make an optimized Wine setup for you through Steam
Remote Desktop to iOS: I use moonlight/sunshine and it works great
I like mainspring but I can’t get my corporate outlook account to work with it
I was able to quiet mine with a bash script until eventually a software update changed the fan control to keep it quiet for me.
There are advantages to getting server-grade hardware. It’s designed to run 24/7, often supports more hard drives, ram sticks, processors, etc, and often is designed to make it very quick to replace things when they break.
You can find used servers on sites like EBay for reasonable prices. They typically come from businesses selling their old hardware after an upgrade.
However, for simple home use cases, an old regular desktop PC will be just fine. Run it until it breaks!
What Linux distro are you using share Bluetooth and audio “just works”?
The multiple power supplies are for redundancy. It will work with one plugged in but you are “supposed” to plug in both.
It’s fundamentally not that different from a consumer desktop. Plug in a monitor and a keyboard and a USB with your preferred flavor of headless Linux installer on it. Configure ssh as the first thing you do because you won’t want to plug the monitor and keyboard into it every time you need to tweak something.
You can probably find VGA to HDMI adapters if you can’t find a monitor with VGA support.
I try to keep everything I care about in one folder that is backed up regularly, so it’s not such a big deal to reinstall the OS.
Wire guard is pretty easy to set up. Also Docker is great.
It was already practically instantaneous compared to video encoding, but neat anyway.
Apple wants to use it in China
I only let things I trust are secure (e.g. ssh) have access from the internet, other services I hide behind a VPN (e.g. Tailscale).
Most routers have a feature to assign static IPs to a specific MAC address. You can also tell most devices to try to take a specific IP instead of using DHCP.
There are multiple ways to set it up, but it’s very possible to set a specific device to always have the same local IP, which is usually the first step to many self-hosting scenarios.
Neat!
Any chance you could share some resources on how you did it? I’d kinda like to give it a try…
I’d recommend /dev/urandom instead of /dev/zero
Also Mexico? The Phillipines?
While selling data in general is shitty, I want to push back on the fear mongering a little bit.
This only applies to new accounts, can be opt-out of, and doesn’t apply to self-hosted content.