Incessant tinkerer since the 70’s. Staunch privacy advocate. SelfHoster. Musician of mediocre talent. https://soundcloud.com/hood-poet-608190196
It simply doesn’t play nice in a manner I can rely on for professional collaboration when everyone else is using either native microsoft office or office on apple.
If you don’t mind unpacking that for my own edification, what exactly does it do or don’t do? Does it not decode the data properly/same?
I have Windows in my environment, and I still just use LibreOffice. Now, I’m not into huge, complex excel spreadsheets so I can’t speak to that, but LibreOffice ticks all my boxes. It has a Windows app, and comes as a flatpak, snap, appimage, there’s even a portable edition as well.
Um…I would not classify myself as brilliant, but yea…it works.
but keeping a petting zoo of penguins up to date
Ha! Funny that. As far as creating a maintenance free NAS, my NAS(s) usually remain in a state of benevolent neglect. There’s not much to do to them. They house backups, archives, and data at rest. Perhaps I’m doing it wrong.
If you were a fly on the wall in my lab, you’d hear me cussing at myself all the time for pulling stupid boners and stuff.
I guess another vote for RustDesk. I use it to administer several personal computers that my friends have. They are old heads like me, but unlike me, their tech savvy is lacking. So if they have an issue, I can pop in and help in any way I can. I was using Remote Desktop Assistant for a while, but kept hearing about RustDesk so I gave it a go.
I tried Kodi years ago when I heard about some guy getting busted at a local flea market for selling Kodi rigged appliances. I didn’t download anything, but that UI was atrocious. After about 5 minutes of tinkering around, I just uninstalled it. Probably one of the worst UI’s I’ve encountered.
I kinda figured. Usually long standing comms/chans/subredits have ancient tomes that guide them. I actually find them both valuable resources.
Very good resource. Well written. I know nothing about him but does seem to have a great rapport with Lemmy SH.
ETA: I’m reluctant, but keen to know so, is there some ancient lore that prevents me from asking ‘Is there a reason why noted.lol doesn’t live here too?’ I searched and I did find a handful of references, but nothing like selfh.st.
All the things!
/thread /s
ETA: added sarcasm
I used to run a liscensed internet radio station in the pre-Napster era, using Shoutcast CDN servers provided by IM Radio Networks (now defunct). We featured Indie bands from MP3.com (now defunct). BandCamp, iirc, had just started it’s operation.
Hmmm looks interesting. I’ll have to deploy it next to Searxng and give it a comparative run.
The OS lives on an SSD and I have two aux drives. One is HDD, but it is a samba share for Navidrome, so it’s not like it’s spinning constandly. Everything gets a 3,2,1 backup.
ETA: Now that you mention it, I guess I could employ a park(?) for the HDD before shutting down.
Thankfully it’s DDR3
It’s one of the benefits of having older equipment. I use these guys for RAM purchases: https://www.memorystock.com/
I had a post a while back about what I was doing to cut costs.
After doing all of that, which does help out during operational hours, I decided to save 10-12 hours of consumption by just shutting it down. The old ‘turn the light out if you’re not in the room’ concept. Right now I am manually booting the server, and it doesn’t take that long to resume operations. However, why not employ some automation and magic packets to fire it back up in the morning.
ETA: I do have a watt meter on the server.
I built one a long time ago when the project first started. It hangs in my hallway. It’s actually a very useful project, and with tinkering, it can display a lot of pertinent data.
I finally installed my wife
Man…technology has come a long way.
Nothing here to write home about. A couple of minor tweaks to the network, and blocking even more unnecessary traffic. I’ve been on a mission to reduce costs in consumables such as electricity. I have a cron that shuts everything down at a certain time in the evening, and am working on a WOL routine fired by a cron from my stand alone pfsense box, to the server, to crank it back up in the morning just before I get up. It seemed to be the lowest hanging fruit so I have it on priority. It just didn’t make sense to run the server for 10 - 12 hours on idle I don’t have any midnight mass downloads of Linux iso’s nor do I make services available to other users so, it seemed to be a good place to start. I guess, by purist’s standards, it’s not a server anymore but an intermittent service, but it seems to be working for me. Will check consumption totals at the end of the month.
Other than that, I haven’t added anything new to the lineup, and I am just enjoying the benefits.
Cool, cool. I was just throwing it out there if you hadn’t considered it. It’s quite a powerful package.
A muffin fan with 4 stand offs would to the trick. Must be this particular model that gets hot.
Could you manage a windows VM for Office?