“The light won’t turn off! Now to hunt down the ONE SWITCH in the house that’s flipped…hnngg…”

Troll electricianship would be hilarious entertainment.

Guys am I autistic?

Haha might be? But I’m the same way and I’m pretty sure I’m not autistic…(ADHD though)

I think when you fill that spot between ((“knowledgable”) AND (“good-natured”)), you just like to share what you know if the poster’s sarcasm isn’t painfully apparent.

Never hurts to be kindly helpful. It reminds me of something my sister told me she tells her kids:

“Try to learn something new every day, and even if you don’t, teach something.” :)

This is definitely a thing!!

We’re using Linux so we just assume it’s some highly technical issue right off the bat lol. This has caught me a few times. 😂

Once I manually deleted a snapshot folder because I didn’t see it listed, and thought it was “orphaned” and just taking up space. :D

“SUDO THAT SUCKER!!” 👉

OS says “Okie dokie boss.”

Suddenly none of my commands are working.

Turns out I deleted the currently mounted active snapshot . Safe to say it was reinstall time.

Don’t go manually touching system files, folks. 😂

I used to dual-boot and use my Win10 for gaming.

But in the middle of Vermintide 2 I kept getting BAD BSoDs seemingly at random! None of the typical steps seemed to help. Probably something NVIDIA related I dunno.

I was gonna “refresh this system” and all Windows told me after “We’re getting this ready.” was: “Can’t. Dunno why. Sorry.”

But hey, switching over to my OpenSUSE Tumbleweed install made the game play really smooth, and no crashes! And soon, I discovered it ran all my other games just fine or even better as well!

I haven’t touched that Win10 install in ages, and will probably drop it in favor of VMing it really soon.

The only real holdout is that my VR headset is WMR. That really sucks. :(

That is painful. It’ll work SO WELL on a bunch of systems but sometimes someone has a particular config that’ll throw monkey-wrenches all over. It always feels like the most rotten luck being on the other end of that huh? :(

“Linux users are elitist jerks”

Elitist jerks are elitist jerks. Ever talked to a stuck-up Windows I.T admin? The constant scoffing is unreal.

What about people rich (or financially goofy) enough to obsess with Apple products?

I think most community people regardless of OS just wanna be helpful and enthusiastic. (I like the word “enthusiast” haha) You’ll always find elitists around topics that involve learning skills and mastery.

I dunno, I’m just happy sometimes people care here when I enthusiastically ramble to them about all their Linux-y choices they can solve problems with lol. We’re not all like that.

Jerks just stick out more. Don’t let them tint your opinion of an entire community. I managed to even enjoy ranked League of Legends for a short while because I didn’t assume everyone was out to attack my ego with theirs.

Hope you have an awesome one and let us know if we can help you with anything. :)

Absolutely. It feels like there’d be relevant data to trace it back to them somehow, even though these types can be obsessively good at covering their tracks. There will be slip-ups somewhere.

So, any of those will work with almost any distro. I’d personally recommend Jellyfin because Plex is run by a private company and it has turned around and bit its users lately.

I think you might want to look up installation instructions for Jellyfin here to understand it a little better: https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/installation

As for what distro? Lots of choices! One thing to remember is there’s so many ways to set things up and everyone has different preferences, so it’s really difficult to just say “Do A, B, and C.” But maybe I can help a bit without assuming anything about your experience level.

Jellyfin is just a “front-end” app that runs on top of an OS, that you can access through a browser on your network. All it does is give you a very convenient way to serve up media files you give it access to, across your network! :)

My setup as an example: I personally run a server OS called “Proxmox”, wherein I made a virtual machine for OpenMediaVault (a custom Linux OS for making a file server), which helps me run a Docker container for Jellyfin.

(Docker containers are really cool but can be a bit advanced)

But if you think of each component as a building block that you understand and set up, you will get a better idea of what you can learn or leave out for your particular setup.

But let’s make it simpler! I didn’t know anything about this either when I first started. Say you have an old PC with some drives laying around. You could just as well install OpenMediaVault bare metal as the OS, and install Jellyfin within it maybe. That might be enough to get you watching your backed up DVDs on your home network!

Open Media Vault is a modified version of Debian Linux, if I recall correctly. It’s made specifically to get a solid file server up and running. It has a great community too.

https://www.openmediavault.org/

Here’s a really good site with some server tidbits I found useful as well https://perfectmediaserver.com/

I’d also suggest checking out “selfhosted” communities here on Lemmy or maybe that “/r/” site lol.

YouTube can also be handy here, for understanding how to get things going. Things like “ProxMox home server guide” or “Jellyfin server setup”, “OpenMediaVault jellyfin docker”, that kinda thing. You might find one video explains a topic better for you than another.

Sorry it’s super late after a long hike for me but I hope some of this helps you a little on your journey! It’s definitely something to take your time in, more than a “weekend and it’s finished forever” kind of project. :)

Surely you won’t regret 7 proxies.

“But you see, it’s not me, it’s not my, family, in your head, in your head, they are fighting, with their tanks, and their bombs, and their bombs, and their guns, in your head, they are crying.”

Really bummed your experience has been like that! :(

In my humble experience, I’ve gotten almost everything new and old to run via Steam, or my GoG games to run via Heroic. Vermintide 2, Metro: Exodus, Enter the Gungeon, X-COM 2, BattleTech, MechWarrior 5, I even got old stuff like Sims 2 working flawlessly via Bottles.

Trying to install stuff like you would on Windows by running installers manually seems to not be so great though…could that have been it perhaps?

Using front-ends that manage Proton / WINE for you makes the process so much easier.

I ditched Windows entirely because Vermintide kept BSODing my Win10 install, and it wouldn’t even let me “refresh” the OS. Fully doing work and play on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed these days and the only thing I’m REALLY missing is VR.

Oh yeah, I’ll quickly shut that down when they wanna do that “kids these days with the technology” nonsense, usually as some excuse for why these older folks who’ve had 40+ years to figure out computers still can’t check their own email.

No, Timmy isn’t “so smart with technology” because he can consoom on a device designed for infinite low-friction consumption.

Or people who are so “weary” of danger.

Man if that isn’t just empty manager-speak, rephrasing things to BS you and be manipulative. Lol

I cringe so hard at the twitterist carebear-hugbox way of smugly claiming the intellectual high ground and shaming somebody:

“Be better.” or “Do better.”

The sentiment isn’t terrible, but it’s prevalent use is obviously just dripping with arrogance and thrown out in the most petty ways. Ugh!

Absolutely. This “you’re just a poser lefty if you actually vote for Kamala” stuff is such a psyop. I really really hope people aren’t buying it.

Idealists we all may be, we obviously need to deal with the most immediate danger first, and I hope it’s plenty clear that handing Angry Orange Baby more votes isn’t helping anyone!

…but it checks out.

Or in his verbiage:

“SAD.”

I’ve actually considered starting a Friendica or other instance exclusively for friends and family to share pictures and communicate, invite only…

… But even if I managed the insane technical aspects and convinced people to try it, I only fear the mainstream social media giants have already trained them to be their worst selves at this point. I can see the bickering drama threads now, eating up my gigabytes…

I just hate how fragmented and walled the most connected Internet ever is…I felt more connection when I had everyone between Yahoo and MSN Messengers, or took the time to check out friends’ MySpace pages.