Damn… I was hoping you were aware of things that I had missed…

Anyway, if you run out of M.2 NVMe slots on your motherboard there are still options, since NVMe is just PCIe:

https://www.amazon.com/Adapter-Converter-Reader-Expansion-Internal/dp/B0BK2R7T57

Do you know of any m.2 to SATA adapters that support NVMe? Or are these only for Sata M.2s?

Most phones are full disk encrypted. So they don’t need to zero out the whole disk… They just need to zero out the part of the disk that stores the encryption key. Once the encryption key is erased, the rest of the disk is essentially random noise.

I had an older computer where the CPU died, and it exhibited exactly these symptoms.

See if you can find someone with a compatible system, and try to swap some parts back and forth to rule out which are the broken ones. If you can find another DDR4 system and put your RAM sticks in, then you’ll know whether your RAM is actually broken or not.

Sometimes a BIOS reset can also help when the system can’t POST.

What does that have to do with whether Russia or Ukraine is nazis? Weapons aid or no weapons aid shouldn’t change whether someone is a nazi.

The debate here was about whether or not Ukraine are nazis, and your only proof seems to be that a US Neo-nazi supports them… Which is a rather flimsy argument…

I don’t think Ukraine is nazis. Their president is Jewish, and they haven’t been invading any of their neighbors…

Russia on the other hand is certainly behaving much like Nazi Germany did in World War 2, so I’m fine with sending Ukraine as much aid as possible.

• Andrew S. Tannenbaum

Just to get this straight…

So one American Neo-nazi says they support Ukraine, and that constitutes proof that Ukraine is Nazis?

In that case, I have proof of Russia being Neo-Nazis:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/05/the-base-neo-nazi-russia-ukraine

I have a Raspberry Pi with a Wireguard VPN on it. So on my android phone, I connect to the Wireguard VPN, and then I use this app to trigger the WakeOnLan:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bitklog.wolon

There’s both a short and long variant of the VW id.buzz

https://static.moniteurautomobile.be/imgcontrol/images_tmp/clients/moniteur/c680-d465/content/medias/images/news/40000/700/0/scoops_-_vw_idbuzz_xl_ma.jpg

Since you want a van, how small do you want it?

For that kind of range and size I find the price kind of reasonable… Remember to factor in your savings on electricity vs gas

What kind of range and price were you expecting?

I would agree that the front is kind of ugly… But I see the reference to old VW vans, so I kind of undestand:

https://varebilogtransport.dk/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/VW-Transporter-Bulli-T1-195-929x516.jpg

Ah right… You are indeed correct in the formal definition.

But even the Merriam-Webster dictionary mentions that the word “data” is more informally being used just like the work “information”.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/data

Ah right… You are indeed correct in the formal definition.

But even the Merriam-Webster dictionary mentions that the word “data” is more informally being used just like the work “information”.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/data

The Narcissist’s Prayer

• That didn’t happen.
• And if it did, it wasn’t that bad.
• And if it was, that’s not a big deal.
• And if it is, that’s not my fault.
• And if it was, I didn’t mean it.
• And if I did, you deserved it.

by Dayna Craig

We’re at line 3, it seems

• I am
• You are
• He/she/it is
• We are
• You are
• They are

I’m fairly certain that “data” falls in the “it” category

Holy shit… This is so incredibly out of touch… I can’t even…

The Basics That Blow Minds

Lol no… yt-dlp is a bit nifty, but everything else here is utterly expected of any media solution… Exactly zero minds were blown here…

No transcoding

Damn that sucks when the destination device isn’t capable of hardware decoding the media file, and too slow to software decode it… (also, you do know that you can just disable transcoding in Plex/Jellyfin, right?)

No server

SMB and NFS are both servers.

Send someone an SMB/NFS share to your media

Jesus, are you directly exposing SMB and NFS to the Internet? NFS is entirely unencrypted, and SMB has super scary vulnerabilities regularly…

Zero server maintenance

I really hope you are patching the OS, to avoid vulnerabilities in SMB and NFS which you are exposing to the Internet…

Plays literally any codec without setup

Sure, provided the device supports hardware decoding the codec or is fast enough to software decode it…

Works offline/online seamlessly

So does both Jellyfin and Plex (plex needs a one liner config change, though, to be fair)

cross-platform

How about TVs? How about Mobile?

Or just… teach them? play movie.mkv isn’t rocket science.

My mom has needed to call me and be guided over the phone 100% of the times that she has needed to scan a document… How do you think teaching her to navigate a file structure in a terminal is going to go?

My daughter still needs us to spell out the cheat codes for her The Sims game… Do you think she’ll remember the terminal commands.

If I forced any of my friends and family to use the command line to play media, they would just watch something else from a streaming service that actually offers some User Experience… Or do something else entirely.

write a simple script or just… remember what you watched?

Dunno… That seems like a hassle when it’s a built in feature in Plex/Jellyfin

It’s literally a config file. If you can set up Jellyfin, you can handle this.

No… It’s a config file per device, and SMB/NFS mounts per device. Now you need to handle syncing that config file, and any other user of the server will need their own config files…

… And what about other features…

• How do you browse metadata for your movies and series? I often like to read a summary about a movie to know a bit about what to expect. I also like being able to search for an actor, and see the cover art.
• How do you group your movies with the extra features for that movie?
• How do you stream your media to your TV?
• How do you easily fetch subtitles for a movie that didn’t come with any subtitles?
• When you are away from home on a heavily bandwidth constrained connection, how do you watch your nice high-quality movies?

Back when I lived alone, attaching my media drive directly to my desktop computer made perfect sense, it was the only screen I owned that I wanted to watch anything on… And I didn’t need to share anything with anyone… And I could easily use mpv or vlc to watch anything I want…

But now that other people are in the mix, and I like the convenience of using whichever screen I’m currently near, a simple network share + mpv falls so far short it isn’t even funny.

Frostpunk is hardcore, intense, and stressful. Bleak, hostile, and oppressive are other words I would link to it.

BUT! It’s absolutely amazingly well done. I was playing on the edge of my seat. I have never been that intensely invested in any strategy game or city builder… It’s certainly in my personal top 10.

The problem is that they don’t have to prevent encryption at all…

Many governments are already recording and storing incredible amounts of your Internet traffic.

With this new legislation they want to require all companies, that offer some form of encrypted communication, to submit all the messages for scanning before they are encrypted. So they want to force Facebook and many others to actually intercept the messages before they get “end-to-end” encrypted, so they can get scanned by AI and other systems to look for CSAM.

Of course they can’t prevent encryption… Anyone can get some encryption software that doesn’t submit the messages to scanning before encrypting…

Now you as a person have the options of either using a platform that scans your messages, or finding something that actually offers privacy.

If the government then decides that they want to investigate you, then they just dig into their trove of intercepted messages. If you only used scanned services, then they can see all your messages and probably find something in them to prosecute you over. But if you used any encrypted services they don’t have access to, then they can just start prosecuting you for using encryption that they can’t spy on…

In either case you lose, and they gain the ability to practically put anyone they want behind bars.

And who knows who will wield these tools at a later point, and what they might decide should be illegal, which they can then immediately dig for in all their previously stored and scanned messages.

Pear Launcher has them but calls them “App Groups”. But as I said, the missing piece is to hide them from the main tab when they have been added to another tab

I feel the same. I like having my desktop with easy to reach commonly used apps, and a few widgets, such at a Google calendar widget and my keep notes. And I want all the things in the exact spot I put them, so I can build muscle memory to go where I want. The dock is not so necessary as long as I can have enough icons on the desktop. And then I want an app drawer, where I can divide it into tabs, one for regular apps and one for games.

The closest I could find are either:

Lawnchair launcher, but it’s missing the drawer tabs (it has folders though)

Pear Launcher, it has everything, but unfortunately it doesn’t remove the games from the main apps tab when I add them to a games tab…

You know when a website has an “Upload” function? There it opens up a file picker that is native to your operating system, and let’s you pick which file to upload. This does not allow the website access to your entire file system, it only allows access to the exact file you picked.

Android and iOS could easily have implemented access in the same way in the operating system.

It’s also comical how you have to grant an android app full access to make phone calls for the app to be able to see whether you are currently in a call. This is useful for many games to pause if you get a call suddenly, but now your game has the ability to dial people as well…

Cat’s claws are for hunting, fighting and climbing. They are extremely sharp, and can rip your skin and make you bleed without even trying.

Dog’s claws are for traction and digging. Usually dogs claws are dull, they might still cause a big of damage to the top most layer of your skin, but they have to make an effort to draw blood. Dogs hunt and fight with their teeth instead of their claws.