He lost me at “Public Webproxy” I don’t know how to do that and it sounds expensive.

Dude I wish USA had this.

If I’m going for Ryzen 8 core first Gen, can I find that in a dell optiplex or Lenovo thinkstation? Or should I search something else?

I could get by with 2 HD bays – it is more because I would like to use RAID if possible, and have an easier time to upgrade to larger capabilities as time goes on.

I’ve also just appreciated larger cases with more room – with small cases sometimes it’s hard to work in there.

Internal redundancy would be nice to have with a file server, but probably not necessary if I can have redundancy with regular backups instead.

Thanks for the ideas!

Cool, so this puts yt-dlp on Kodi and downloads videos before watching them. Hopefully this works better for older hardware than the YouTube plugin, which I think has to use more computationally expensive methods to stream from YouTube directly with the cat and mouse game between yt and them.

Do you know, does it keep the video files it downloads, or does it delete them automatically?

How do you get sponsorblock to integrate? You’re talking about anxdpanic’s YouTube addon right? https://github.com/anxdpanic/plugin.video.youtube/releases

I think maybe YouTube a/b tests us so it works better for some people. For me it often crashes, I assume due to overheating on my raspi 4.

YouTube support is unfortunately spotty, via the YouTube addon that they are in a constant cat and mouse game with Google. It often makes my pi overheat because of the nonsense it has to do.

I wish libreelec could launch a browser with Firefox, ublock, and sponsorblock

I’m a vim novice. I basically know just enough to save files or quit, paste with formatting, and “insert” changes. I think I used to know how to find within a file, and I’m sure I could learn again in an instant, but I haven’t had to do that in a long time for my noobish tasks. I know it is way more capable than that, but I haven’t had to learn more features yet since I use it at a ‘nano’ level.

I agree it only takes 3 minutes to learn these things, but personally it took me a bit longer to make them muscle memory.

I get it if someone were to be annoyed that things they knew how to do in another program they had to re-learn in vim, but this kind of thing it seems like you would just accept that you’re going to be frustrated and then put in the work to learn it so you can work more easily with your coworkers or whatever. Like you said, vim has serious advantages, and it seems a little short sighted to not be willing to learn from people that want to train you up in a tool to be more effective.

How did it end, again? I forget

I was initially very concerned that you were trying to install a 13+ year old version of Ubuntu, 12.04 (Precise Pangolin). Now I just feel old.

How is any of this your responsibility lol

Does pine pods do syncing?

I’ve never used Antenna Pod, but I’ve used Podcast Addict for more than a decade, I’ve paid for the pro app, and I’ve been really impressed by what it can do.

I like to have many podcasts downloaded to my phone, and Podcast addict has really granular controls for what to download and keep for how long, in the general case, and for each podcast you can dial in custom settings, for example not auto-downloading or deleting. It helps me have plenty of audio to listen to at all times without blowing up the storage on my phone.

The various automatic playlists for downloaded episodes, new episodes, and recent episodes are also very useful to me.

I’ve found the developer to be really nice and he will personally respond to bug reports and support requests if anything doesn’t go as planned.

If you are mostly hosting files, open media vault has minimal command line, and it’s mostly administered through a web admin. It’s still fairly complex however, and I definitely recommend reading the manual thoroughly and sticking with easy tasks at first. https://www.openmediavault.org/

I could never figure out NFS … ( it only works with unix usernames??) But since I have smb servers I can use that with Android

These are the true points, however the 4th reason to use a VPN is if you are using a fingerprint-resistant browser and lots of other people are too, it’s harder to track who is going where, since the exit IP is shared.

If tor isn’t working for whatever reason

To get more information, from the device you are having trouble with, try “dig server.com” from a terminal, or even “ping server.com”. The messages may help you figure out what’s going wrong.

I do not know any Turnkey, so perhaps they have some specific documentation about what to do after installing.

The first time I installed Nextcloud, I did it on bare metal in Debian, following the LearnLinuxTV guide. It went through things like how to configure the Opcache, which is one of the warnings you have. If you’re not following a guide, you’ll have to find one, or search each message individually and research a solution.

Eventually I decided to reinstall with NextcloudPi because they know a lot more about systems administration than me, and had sane defaults set for most things. My first installation had some bugs that were probably from default configurations or mistakes I made perhaps. But I’ve had a good experience with ncp.

One last thing you’ll learn while researching the messages: some may be from bugs in the software that will be solved over time with nextcloud updates. Some will have clear solutions. Some may be generalized messages arising from network instability (like if Nextcloud is trying to sync over a weak Wi-Fi signal sometimes) or a hardware problem that can be tricky to track down, but might not be important. Just make sure you are doing good backups and you’ll be fine.

So rich

I don’t get it either