Humans want to accomplish things, but business wants to get shit done. The two will always be at odds.

I hate this lazy coding approach. I see it at my work all the time where people keep proposing agents that do exactly what some of our tools already do, just slower, with more resources, and nondeterministic.

For pure energy efficiency it’s hard to beat an SBC (raspi, rockpi). Mine does a good job with Jellyfin streaming so long as I avoid transcoding.

I’ve used it for years to limit screen time on my kids tablet. Only pain is that, while I can technically run the management server myself, it requires HTTPS and I’m too lazy to setup my own cert.

They didn’t explicitly say but it sounds like the JPEG solution can’t put out a substantial FPS. If you start to do fancier stuff like sending partial screenshots or deltas only then you get the same issues as H264 (you miss a keyframe and things start to degrade). Also if you try and put out 30 JPEGs per second you could start to get TCP queuing (i.e. can’t see screenshot 31 until screenshot 30 is complete). UDP might have made this into a full replacement but as they said sometimes it’s blocked.

As far as vim goes I’ll say it’s not really necessary to learn but it’s a good tool to have in your belt. I once tried to print the manual to vim but noped out after about 100 pages. I’d say learn how to navigate, edit, copy-paste, find and replace text in vim. You could go all the way to do crazy things like running a CLI command from within vim and put the result into the editor but from a desktop environment it isn’t as helpful compared to simply having two terminal instances open.

Oh, hell yes! I’ve been looking for something almost exactly like this!

I thought about a USB hub but would that be a big bottleneck? I’ll never serve anything above a 1080p30 h264 file but conceivably I’d serve two of those at a time.

Edit: Sorry, did the math. Unless my connections suck ass I probably won’t have bottlenecks.

Only if you promise not to pay for it.

https://www.npr.org/2025/09/30/nx-s1-5557158/video-game-publisher-electronic-arts-going-private-in-a-deal-valued-at-55-billion

I’m mostly amazed that they discovered it. When I think of a good transition distro this is not what comes to mind. Must have been some kind of targeted ad campaign. Also there’s probably a ton of people that think no good software could possibly be free.

They fucked up by making their robots last seemingly forever, due to the fact they spy on you and get stuck every 15 mins so you never want to turn them on.

What about multiple Pis? Seriously asking. I love having a Pi as a dedicated server (small footprint, low energy, low temp). Do I really need to switch to a more traditional ITX/ATX form factor to get real reliability?

They also maintained syncthing-lite and that’s also gone. 😬

Basically all of the legal and safety bits. Not an impossible task I’d say but it would probably require massive seed money (in which case it will just turn into another DoorDash) or an upfront deposit nobody would be willing to pay.

Let’s be honest, not all races are equal<br> 🫲🍊🫱

I think the biggest pull (for me at least) is a uniform shopping experience. I go directly to the manufacturer when possible and bypass Amazon but I do notice the rigmarole of how products are laid out differently on each site, some with or without a search feature, most without reviews (ratings are crap but sometimes reviewers can clear up ambiguity), each having their own checkout system (PayPal makes things a bit easier), and each has it’s own return policy which is rarely as good as Amazon.

I think setting up a standard API for finding products, getting their specs, reading their policies at a high level, and ordering with a single login would go a long way towards taking down Amazon. I see the solution more as a federated one where vendors either host their own instance or pay some percentage of sales or flat rate to list products on someone else’s instance.

Be aware you might have to resort to nftables if firewalld doesn’t work. I use localhost a lot and the routing rules are different in that case.

Thanks for mentioning Wolf. I’m pretty happy with Sunshine but I do have those occasions where it can’t stream because my monitor is turned off (upstairs) when I’m downstairs.

Gesundheit

As soon as I saw Plex show media that wasn’t part of my personal library I knew it was becoming enshitified.