Given pihole’s recent record with updates, I’m not sure I want them firing automatically.

I run it for my pi-hole. It’s been great. It tells you when there are package updates when you log in, which I find helpful.

Lots of Lemmy forums have a problem with stupid rage bait being left up. Like this could be in /c/programming since X is a program after all.

The .wav format is actually very simple. You should be able to write a bash script to produce wavs without too much trouble. If you’d rather not work that low-level you can always use the DAW features in emacs.

/s

How are you geoblocking?

Might as well link to it:
https://github.com/HarbourMasters/SpaghettiKart
You need to supply your own ROM of the correct version.

I know Kodi running the Jellyfin plugin on LibreELEC works great on a Pi. I’m not entirely sure if/how Kodi supports YouTube, but there are so many plugins available it seems like it must.
https://libreelec.tv/

The demo for the update of Camp Keepalive is worth checking out
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3702210/Camp_Keepalive_Endless_Summer_Demo/
It’s a nice, casual strategy game that still keeps you thinking.

Not the person you were responding to, but I’m quite happy with my DS220+. It’s on 106 days of uptime after a power out. The interface / OS is very friendly. The only downside is the weak processor which makes it inadequate for things like Immich’s AI or heavy Jellyfin use - but you get what you pay for.
Re. lemons; are you sure it was the NAS that had issues or could it have been the drives? Mine is loaded with WD Red drives iirc.

Right, but do I want more updates? This feels like one of those if-it-ain’t-broke-don’t-fix-it things.

I’m a swipe typer and I’m sticking with open-board-gesture-typing-v1.4.5.apk, which is some kind of fork of gboard before it went totally off the rails. The only complaint I have about it is that it decided to stop capitalizing “I” for some reason and I haven’t been able to fix it, so I have to hit the suggestion each time.

Obsidian synced via git.

Huh, I only just noticed that Tracer’s googles there are a nod to Sonic.

I would prefer to have GPUs for under $600 if possible

Unfortunately not possible for a new nvidia card (you want CUDA) with 16GB VRAM. You can get them for ~$750 if you’re patient. This deal was available for awhile earlier today:
https://us-store.msi.com/Graphics-Cards/NVIDIA-GPU/GeForce-RTX-50-Series/GeForce-RTX-5070-Ti-16G-SHADOW-3X-OC
Or you could try to find a 16GB 4070Ti Super like I got. It runs Deepseek 14B and stuff like Stable Diffusion no problem.

Can’t figure out why you would use Plex over jellyfin

Probably the biggest reason is that it makes it so easy to securely share across the internet. With JF you’re on your own and you can really fuck things up. If you’re just running it on your LAN the JF is the obvious choice.

Just a heads-up that Computer Science is a branch of mathematics, and some schools lean into that more than others. There’s a lot of theory in addition to the practicalities of writing programs. I’d assess how comfortable you are with math and abstraction, then try to figure out where the schools you’re looking at place their emphasis. Since you want work as a programmer, make sure the school offers some software engineering classes in addition to the theory.

That’s some… uh… that’s some programmer art there.

Everything I hear about Nextcloud scares me away from messing with it.

I’m just running into this now. It also won’t let me log into the web interface. I’m glad I experimented with a second install before upgrading my primary pihole.

I tried Kopia but it was unstable and janky, so now it’s whenever I remember to manually run a bunch of rsync. I backup my desktop to cold storage on the first of the month, so I should get in the habit of backing up my server to the NAS then also.