I don’t have any training or schooling in it, at all, I just enjoy computers since I was young 🤷‍♂️

My air fryer was free, it was broken and I fixed it.

We use it occasionally, but I don’t know that I’d buy another when it breaks

Since when has apt had ads? That’s horrendous. How have I never heard of this?!

I didn’t realize WHAT the problem was, assumed it was just Linux in general. But that’s my experience with Ubuntu, too.

Been with it since the beginning, it was one of my earlier introductions to Linux. But I could NEVER upgrade cleanly. I was always reinstalling. And yeah there are easier ways to do that too but for a noob I struggled.

That kept me dual booting Windows, or for a good number of years running mainly Windows.

But last year I went atomic fedora bluefin on my new laptop, and I love it. Slightly more restricted, and a couple issues with flatpaks, but the stability is top tier.

I still run Debian on my prox VMs, and I keep a win 10 ltsc VM on there too for the rare program that doesn’t play nice, but otherwise I’m all Linux now.

Same. But I went atomic, bluefin.

For a stable every day driver? It’s gonna take a lot to get me to switch away.

Still Debian for my proxmox VMs though

That’s fair. I had 24.04 installed because I needed a Linux de for something, and it eventually became the base of my Plex install for awhile.

I purposely did very little to it, besides periodically update it.

Almost immediately I had display issues where the monitor would shimmy back and forth about 10 pixels, rapidly. No rhyme or reason. I figured it was a Wayland thing.

Then the updater started hanging. That’s when I started learning proxmox to properly replace the whole setup.

By the time I got it moved over, you couldn’t restart the machine unattended, because it would kernel panic unless you used grub to revert to an older kernel.

I swear I didn’t tinker with this thing, it just… Died.

Of course that’s just my experience 🤷‍♂️ Glad things have been solid for you. I still recommend poking at atomic distros, I think they’re the future for a lot of less experienced users. It’ll be good to have knowledge of how they work.

I’ve got my very non-techy buddy running it right now. There are a couple of issues with flatpaks not having extended permissions, but otherwise, smooth sailing.

I went with fedora bluefin.

It’s an atomic/immutable type OS, based on silverblue, but with a bunch of drivers and software bundled in.

Atomic is not for everyone, but I love it. I tried it on a whim when I got my framework 13 over a year ago, and it’s been on there ever since.

I’ve been using Linux on and off for a couple of decades now, mostly Ubuntu, but some others (OG DSL anyone?).

Really though I’ve never been able to ditch windows until bluefin. My problem has always been that after a year or two, my system starts to get unstable. And you can forget about complete version upgrades. Out of the question. They never fail to always fail. I just can’t stop tinkering with things.

But bluefin? It has everything I want and need in a daily driver. And it’s very nature FORCES me to not tinker with the inner gubbins. Thusly, it just works. Every day. Every update. Solid.

I use distrobox for tinkering. Or I spin up a Windows VM in proxmox if I need to get crazy. And I’ve still got a Windows computer gathering dust in the corner for when Windows on metal is required, but that’s only happened once since I started this party.

So yeah, if you haven’t given it a try, I highly recommend it.

This was happening to me last night! Firefox on Debian LXDE.

Thought I was going crazy, really messed with my workflow.

I just checked this morning, about 9 hours later, and it’s working again.

Stupid AI scrapers ruining it for everyone. Bot detection never used to be so… Twitchy.

Also I hate that cloudflare is the backbone for so many services. When will people learn?

Blackberries on sale $0.50 a package here in Michigan right now

I think that’s the problem.

Winter people probably like bundling up inside. Summer people are outside doing things. Most of my summer people friends, also enjoy winter activities, just maybe not as much as summer.

Winter people must be… Terminally online? 🤷‍♂️

That’s probably true. It’s one of the things we haven’t tried yet, and I figured most people would be scared off by the idea and call it too complex, even if I said use Bisquick.

A friend of ours has a portable/luggable pizza oven, and they make their own dough, and those pizzas are amazing. Just a lot of work to get everything rolling, so better done as a group while camping or something.

Yeah pizza was never cheap, but these days it’s very expensive.

Sometimes we make it at home, it’s not that hard if you get the bag of premade dough powder, just add water, costs a dollar or two.

But honestly? My cheat code is using tortillas. It’s like 80% close enough to real thin crust, works well.

Slap some spaghetti sauce on there (cheaper than pizza sauce per ounce, and similar enough), and some dry mozzarella. Maybe some pepperoni. A little garlic salt and some dried basil or whatever. Toss it in the toaster oven. Bob’s your mother’s brother.

Personal pizza for less than a buck a piece. Or maybe A buck a piece? I haven’t priced things in a minute.

Honestly the most expensive part is the pepperoni. (Hint, buy it once, and freeze it, you don’t need that many at once and it won’t go bad).

So basically if I slap emby on an open port, and point my domain to my IP, it’ll work just the same. Connect is just for people without static IP addresses?

I ask because most people say you can’t put JF on an open port and call it good. Not safe.

Emby is based on jf from years ago. Is it safe?

Doesn’t emby have some kind of “connect” feature? I wish jf would do something like that

Wait, does emby do remote access similar to Plex? And without VPN like JF? That’s literally the only thing keeping me on Plex.

Most people are not gonna go that route unfortunately. I want to love JF, but the remote access is a big sticking point, especially for non tech relatives.

It bugs me when people just say tailscale like that solves it all. It’s very useful and solves a lot of problems, but not all. Unfortunately.

Doesn’t that mean your jellyfin server is directly exposed to the Internet? The very thing everyone constantly warns against?

I’m still on Plex, one of my biggest hangups with JF is that the remote access is kludgy

Not for all clients, like Roku for example.

Yes the solution is different hardware, like a Google TV, older firestick, raspAP, or flash openwrt on a router. But that’s no longer plug and play and may have other caveats. Besides costing money.

No shade, it’s just not QUITE that simple every time.

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I can’t find a movie by that name? There’s a TV show though