possiblylinux127

possiblylinux127 , 2 hours ago (edited 2 hours ago)

Correction: GrayJay is not foss

possiblylinux127 , 2 hours ago

Newpipe and libretube is what I use. They are both available on F-droid and both good for privacy.

possiblylinux127 , 13 hours ago

Not to mention is can conflict with your package manager

possiblylinux127 , 1 day ago

You could use libadwaita

possiblylinux127 , 1 day ago

Use GTK4

GTK+ is quite old at this point

possiblylinux127 , 1 day ago

Why? It is solid for me

possiblylinux127 , 19 hours ago

It is actually a GTK4 theme. You can use GTK4 without libadwaita but not the other way around.

possiblylinux127 , 19 hours ago

True, but the concept of a theme is easier to understand. You also can run libadwaita on Windows and probably other platforms

possiblylinux127 , 3 hours ago

It is made to be simple but libadwaita apps being single purpose is not true. It is a good design choice but some apps are naturally complex such as gnome settings.

possiblylinux127 OP , 1 day ago

That is not necessarily true

possiblylinux127 OP , 1 day ago

The article uses Linux Mint

possiblylinux127 OP , 1 day ago

I disagree. Many people like to have control over there computer even if they don't want to learn a bunch of new skills.

Linux isn't for everyone but its gotten to the point where someone could figure it out if they so choose. It no longer is the unstable mess it was 10-20 years ago.

possiblylinux127 OP , 1 day ago

Interestingly enough, Xfce4 has a kiosk mode. You could build a custom desktop for them and restrict changes. You then could do mass updates with Ansible or Saltstack

possiblylinux127 OP , 19 hours ago

Well no one in there right mind should use Manjaro so that was mistake no. 1

possiblylinux127 OP , 16 hours ago

True, the blame is on those who recommend it

possiblylinux127 OP , 16 hours ago

People aren't mentally impaired because they use Manjaro. However, Manjaro is problematic as a distro and should be avoided if possible.

possiblylinux127 , 1 day ago

This sounds like a setup that is broken in a few ways. First, you need to clean up the desktop. Start by replacing the USB drives. It is a bad idea to use them as they are more likely to fail and have limited speeds. I would get either moderately high RPM hard drives or sata SSDs. Both will be more reliable and have greater speed. Just make sure that they are properly mounted. This is especially important for HDDs as they are very sensitive to vibration and need to be kept still by a proper mount with rubber padding.

For the desktop itself, make sure it is fast enough to provide enough throughput. You should be using a CPU with at least 4 cores and DDR4 memory. The more memory you have the more data can be cached. I would go for 16 or 32gb and if you can go even higher. Also make sure you are using gigabit Ethernet with a gigabit switch.

Now for the software. I would install TrueNAS scale as it uses ZFS which is a create filesystem for data storage. TrueNAS can be a little tricky but it is all controllable though a web interface and if you need help guides can be found online.

For accessing the data, I would use either a SMB or NFS share. Smb tends to be simpler and has better cross platform support. NFS can be faster but it is tricky to configure. Make sure that your laptop has a Ethernet connection as doing things over WiFi is going to be slow. You might be able to get away with it if you have a newer wifi revision with a newer WiFi card.

If you are still looking to solve the original problem, you can use Syncthing. Syncthing has a few click install for TrueNAS and you can find guides on how to configure it in a way that works for you.

possiblylinux127 , 1 day ago

Not to mention USB drives have higher failure rates and can be unplugged by mistake.

possiblylinux127 , 1 day ago

Nextcloud has a desktop app that can sync folders.

possiblylinux127 , 1 day ago

Simplify it down if you can. Forget NFS, SSHFS and syncthing as those are to complex and overkill at the moment. SMB is dead simple in a lot of ways and is hard to mess up.

I would start by figuring out how to get more drives in your desktop. SSDs can be put anywhere but HDDs need to be mounted. I would get two big disks and put them in raid 1 and then get a small disk for the boot drive. TrueNAS is still going to be the easiest route and TrueNAS scale is based on Debian under the hood although its designed to not be modified for reliability.

Forget the USB drives. I did that for a while and it is bad in so many ways. It will come back to haunt you even if the work fine for now.

For the desktop you always could upgrade the ram or CPU if that becomes the bottleneck. If the ram is 8gb or less you should upgrade it. Make sure you are getting ram that is fast enough to keep up with the CPU. You can find more information about your CPU and its ram speed online.

For your WiFi, it actually isn't bad. You might be ok using it depending on what you are doing.

For the minipc I wouldn't use it as a NAS. You can but it is probably going to be limiting.

In case your desktop doesn't have enough Sata ports you could get a ePCI sata card. They are pretty cheap ($10) and will potentially work better if your hardware is limited.

possiblylinux127 , 1 day ago

Funny you found that card as I have the same one. I would only spend the extra money if your computer doesn't have enough sata ports.

For raid you do not want hardware raid. It is generally problematic and doesn't have any error correction. Also, if the controller were to die you could be in trouble.

The reason I say TrueNAS is that it makes the setup pretty straight forward. I have never used cockpit for file shares so I do not know if it works well or not. I do no it will require more setup and maintenance. For the software you could setup either a btrfs or ZFS raid 1 config. TrueNAS is ZFS only but it is turned for solid performance in a single job.

The reason I say raid 1 is not because it is a backup. Raid is not a backup and should not be treated as such. What it can offer is reduced downtime. If one drive fails you can simply swap out the drive. If you do not have a redundant copy you either need to recreate the data from a backup or try to do a data recovery operation. I would also recommend that you turn on snapshots as if it really handy to be able to roll back a change quickly. Snapshots are not complete backups but they are a form of version control.

As far as DDR3 goes, it is pretty slow and will not be able to come close to saturating a gigabit connection. Prepare to have slow speeds unfortunately. The good news is that if you get this setup and later decide it is time to upgrade then you can.

possiblylinux127 , 1 day ago

I doubt it as this seems like a PR disaster

possiblylinux127 , 1 day ago

It is

possiblylinux127 , 1 day ago

Look for a used minipc on eBay and similar sites

possiblylinux127 , 1 day ago

It probably it is a person putting up flyers

possiblylinux127 , 1 day ago

You also are quoting a communist. I can't take you seriously

possiblylinux127 , 1 day ago

What should people use? Many of the apps have gottas or are complex to use. Signal has the benefit of being easy. It can even be Foss if you use Molly

possiblylinux127 , 1 day ago

Good luck getting people to use XMPP. It is complex and doesn't even properly support photos and other media.

possiblylinux127 , 1 day ago

It isn't the holly grail but it is simple to use

possiblylinux127 , 1 day ago

You should a tracking link that has been shortened

possiblylinux127 , 1 day ago

In this case it does. He is prejudice against the US and anything but Russia maybe China. He has repeated cited cold war rhetoric such as East vs West.

possiblylinux127 , 1 day ago

And your response brings up another reason why no one is going to adopt XMPP. There isn't a central app or server for someone to use.

possiblylinux127 , 1 day ago

First add your user to the video and render groups. Additionally, set the pass through to /dev/dri/renderD128:/dev/DRI/renderD128

Another thing, I do not believe that podman compose is well maintained or stable. I would use podman from the command line.

In order for me to get transcoding working I had to have a window manager running. I also had to set Jellyfin to only try to transcode in supported formats.

possiblylinux127 , 1 day ago

Do not use 666 as that is completely open permissions. The proper way is to add your user to the render group.

possiblylinux127 , 1 day ago

I have found that VAAPI works better and doesn't have issues.

possiblylinux127 , 1 day ago

Just add your local user to the render group.

possiblylinux127 , 1 day ago

This is what I needed. I will run this locally and run ollama in a VM.

Although podman and Distrobox look tempting.

possiblylinux127 , 1 day ago

This is why you shouldn't use ZFS on a boot drive. Btrfs is much better and doesn't have the same issues. You can't use it for more than raid1 but most drives are single drive only. Just make sure to backup your luks security key in case of corruption.

possiblylinux127 , 1 day ago

ZFS isn't part of the kernel for legal reasons. You will need to jump though hoops to make it work. (More accurately, your computer jumps though hoops to male it work)

possiblylinux127 , 1 day ago

DRM stands for direct rendering manager. You can't even use your computer without the rendering manager to interface your desktop and applications with your GPU.

possiblylinux127 , 1 day ago

It has been abandoned for about 5 years so I wouldn't use it. Also obligatory lemmygrad complaint.

possiblylinux127 , 1 day ago

Google already does that

possiblylinux127 , 1 day ago

There is no one to find and fix security holes. Also it requires a not of privileges so if something goes wrong you are in trouble.

It is not as big of deal when it is something trivial like a game. The problem is when it is controlling critical system functions with high levels of permissions

possiblylinux127 , 1 day ago

I use VHS tapes

Just kidding I use mpv