That’s really sad to see. I hope the courts dismiss the cease & desist because it’s different name, and lack of popularity of the trademarked name.

I have a folder in my nextcloud, where I save scripts I find and/or use regularly.

software that connects to Chinese servers

You can set up your own server, so it doesn’t have too.

only place to get Rustdesk is from the developers.

Shouldn’t it be like this though. Rustdesk is in the AUR, which downloads the source from Github, like a lot of other software packages does. You can also build it yourself.

The developers behind it are effectively faceless

https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk has contributors listed, so not exactly what I would call “faceless”. Sure, there is not really any real names on it, but having real names on Open Source projects in github is not the norm.

Please elaborate on this. What risks are introduces?

I use The Movie Database (https://tmdb.org) to find things to watch.

I’ve been reading into the US politics too much, I thought they were writing about the capitol riot.

I thought the exact same thing…

Ah, I’m certain you can use sshfs from KDE Connect on your desktop to browse through the files on the phone. Depending on how the videos are stored, you should be able to find them on the Internal Storage drive. Unless it’s DRM enabled videos, then it’s locked down behind the app sandbox.

So I was right. She chose (maybe unknowingly) to run Ubuntu and dropped out because she couldn’t install the software required. Not Ubuntu’s fault at all.

I haven’t seen the video, but that title does not seem correct. Pretty sure it would be her choice to use Ubuntu that got her to drop out. I don’t believe Canonical/Ubuntu can force someone out of college.

If you don’t like me writing when I haven’t seen the video, then please post some TL;DW info, so we all know what’s going on without having to watch a youtube video.

Just to clarify.

You want the KDE Connect app to have direct access to video files on your Samsung phone?

Is there a specific reason you can’t just use the media browser on the phone and use the “Share” feature in that to send it to KDE Connect Send To Device?

I think Beszel fits most of those. Not sure if it can restart containers/services.

Same here.

Yeah. I would need the 5 TB one for my stuff, so that is the €11/month box.

True. I’d have to get the €11/month box for it though. It’s cheaper to set up one of my Raspberry Pi’s with an external drive I already have. I just need to figue out how it’s best to transfer and dedublicate the data. :)

I think what I need to do correctly on my homelab this year, is setup off-site backups. I currently only backup to seperate drives and machines inside my own home. I need to setup something at my parents place to take weekly and monthly backups.

Other than that, my media server needs a bigger storage drive.

I’m an old man. I don’t get the appeal of a terminal with hardware acceleration and all that fancy stuff. I use what the distro/DE came with.

I’m not really able to answer that question. My unit is in my attic, so I can’t hear it anyhow. I haven’t noticed it overheating during the summer though.

I don’t replace anything. I just install what I need from the beginning.

And yes, I run Arch btw. :D

Honestly, they are all good options. I have the Aoostar prebuilt option for my home server/NAS and I have had zero issues with it. 2 Sata SSD’s and it’s sipping around 12-15W power onload. about 10-11W on idle.

I had the Odroid H3 before that, with same SSD’s, it was using about 11-15W under load and about 8W idle.

This is really good advise and it all boils down to one attribute. Patience.

Don’t get disheartened when something does not work the first time. Take a step back. Look at what went wrong and then try again, hopefully without doing the same mistake again.

Learn the basic tools of Linux and Bash/Posix. cd, ls, cp, mv and rm are some very basic tools, but it is what we use 80% of the time.