Newpipe breaks very often for me. Freetube breaks less

In case you’re doubting about doing it: do it. It’s fine.

But don’t make the mistakes I made :')

1. don’t “recycle” an old microSD with osmc or some other system still on it. Start from scratch.

In fact, I bought a new SD card. 32 GB costs a ridiculous 7 €. It’s worth not taking the risk with some old one that’s possibly been flashed many times before. I’m quite sure some blocks on the one i was using previous were corrupted.

2. don’t use raspbian, osmc, debian, … Use DIETPI. Possibly raspbian lite. It’s the absolute minimal system you can get, with a focus on home-servering whatever you want on a rpi. This is the way. It’s disabling sending power to whatever is on there that you’ll never be using anyhow. Including the option to fully disable local hdmi output, absolutely no local audio-out support, etc. Squeezing all these little ones for sure pays off on a rpi 3 or older.

3. video streaming works fine! Better than local video playing used to be with the osmc/kodi install years ago on the exact same pi. Mkv HVEC H264 at 4.4 Mbps with AC3 sound 384 Kbps: plays smooth in browser. Sure, it’s not what you want if you’re doing the ultrahd 4K i don’t know what, but is good enough for me.

4. invest in the silly cooling accessories. It is worth it. Putting a tiny deskfan on the pi within a minute drops temperature 15-20 °C, while libraryscanning + videostreaming… Glue the cooling elements (1 € or even less) on the chips, buy the tiny fan or a case with fan built in. It’s another 6-12 € that is more than worth it.

5. stay away from HDD. They eat lots of energy. SSD is worth it. Even if HDD has external power source: they are slow as fuck, takes a while for disks to start spinning. They’re still usefull, as back-up. Another reason to go the DIETPI-way: the back-up disk / live disk shit is easy peasy built in there! No messing around searching how to set that up. Same with (auto-)mounting drives in general by the way.

6. The only downside so far: the Nordvpn-meshnet approach for remote access was a bit more annoying. It’s not integrated in the dietpi-vpn (or not yet). So you gotta install nordvpn seperately and make that work.

TL;DR: DIETPI !!!

It’s on the SD. It has gotten better tho. I’m guessing things were perhaps still being sorted in background.

I will try that in a few days ;)

I’m assuming it will be okay-ish, as long as its 720p or lower and not super compressed and only 1 client connected. Ordered a tiny 3.3V rpi fan, it might help. Or make things worse as it drains some power, who knows.

Used to have kodi on this rpi for a few years, until about 4 years ago. Only local tho, not as server. It struggled hard with playing HVEC. Visibly (annoyingly) lagging. Older filetypes worked very fine.

If it sucks, I can still use it as server remote through vpn, download something, play locally.

Only music jellyfin has somewhat stabilised now. Got 48h without crashing! Think internet connection somehow gets stuck sometimes. Quite certain it’s not a RAM, not a temp and not a SSD issue. Gonna put a cron script to regularly check connection, if down to long, reboot. That might “fix” it well enough to be usable longterm, local+remote.

Got it going remote too, can listen to my jellyfin on any network now, with the Nordvpn meshnet it’s really easy to set up and presumably that’s secure too.

It’s particularly during search that it appears to “hang” for 20-30 seconds

Server is Raspberry pi 3 B with 1TB SSD.

Rpi temp idle is ~49°C, gets to about ~65° when being queried, etc. ~75° during initial library scan

Was a osmc install (which as I understand is a minimalist debian ?), installed jellyfin, disabled mediacenter (kodi) on boot. It’s all on home wifi still… Only about 1700 albums of music and audiobooks, no movies no series. Perhaps the wifi chip in rpi isn’t good enough?

Thanks! Do you think I’ld be good with this for example:

https://www.conrad.de/de/p/asus-notebook-vivobook-s-15-oled-k5504va-ma105w-39-6-cm-15-6-zoll-wqhd-intel-core-i9-i9-13900h-16-gb-ram-1-tb-flash-1-tb-ssd-intel-iris-x-graphics-win-11-home-schwarz-90nb0zk2-m004h0-3059355.html

I9 13900h. On paper it beats the bit more expensive ryzen 9 6900hx version by about 10 % in single thread.

https://www.conrad.de/de/p/asus-notebook-vivobook-pro-15-oled-m6500rc-ma028w-39-6-cm-15-6-zoll-wqhd-amd-ryzen-9-6900hx-16-gb-ram-1-tb-flash-1-3059354.html

Tho the difference in default clock speed is in favor of the ryzen?

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/4867vs5210/AMD-Ryzen-9-6900HX-vs-Intel-i9-13900H

Main use are big excel queries, power apps builder, power bi etc…

because macos fanboys are rich hipsters and spend large amounts of money on software and accessories for their already expensive computers. Linux users usually aren’t very alike, the first 4,5 % isn’t anyhow.

And for the unlikely situation that vito wouldn’t do, there’s still stuff like the Mercedes sprinter.

I don’t think ikea even sells furniture that requires such gigantic vehicles in the first place.

That said, furniture is an excellent example of why you could just drive a normal vehicle, a bicycle or a bus to go windowshopping and later have the new furniture delivered to your doorstep by a specialised company and/or vehicle or rent a specialised vehicle for the odd occasion. The cost for society will actually be a damn lot lower.

Dutch has the same word: angst. In my experience it’s not as “heavy” as Angst in German, but rather interchangeable with “schrik hebben” or “bang zijn”. Though “angstig zijn” might be more of longer duration, like a character trait of a person.

I dislike the fact even more then the idea.

Called a bank recently.

They: "please say in a word the subject your call is about so we can immediately connect you to the right department "

Me: “LOAN”

They: you said “limits on your cards”, 1 for yes 2 for no

I tried 3 times, gave up. They won, I guess.

I think the Chinese population is very much “under control” already with their state-capitalist system.

Been using searx a bit recently and it often is the 1 thing I’m looking for as the top result.

It is. I use it as such regularly. Keyboard+mouse+screen = browsing firefox as usual. Works quite well. Libreoffice, okular, signal desktop… I’ve used worse computers in recent years, steamdeck desktop experience is better than many 4 to 5 year old cheap laptops with win10 or win11.

Played it pirated years ago. Not really looking to play again tbh because it’s so sad, but I’ll buy it discounted for supporting, I back then liked the very original angle of playing with trapped victims instead of army.

Stick around here and you’ll just be a dogmatic arch evangelist around that age!

Culling unhatched eggs seems less cruel to me than culling <1 day hatchlings. Cute-bias, I know.

Seems to scale somewhat in Europe, talking many many millions of eggs per year too.

At least trying is better than nothing.

Not saying it’s perfect, but tech is advancing thought it would be interesting to add that to this thread…

The industry is slowly evolving away from it tho. I’ve seen “no chick killing” or something similar on labels in German shops.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/28/climate/chickens-egg-industry-humane.html

hmm, you’re gonna hate it but the reason is “because edge is already there” pre-installed