Which makes me wonder if it has hardware support for secure boot/tpm which some games demand now. I assume so because it’s mostly standard hardware, but you never know…

I’m annoyed at modern Gnome’s hostility towards user customisability. Their refusal to support server side decorations has trickled down to Cinnamon’s Wayland compositor and it looks like it’s going to be a barrier in Wayland Cinnamon.

People exfiltrating movies from your Jellyfin account sounds harmless until you get a knock on the door from the police asking why you’re running a piracy sharing site. Depending on the attacker’s level of access, they may also wonder why your server is now serving kiddie fiddling videos. Or maybe the attacker just replaces all your movie metadata images with ones from the Bee Movie.

To me at least, DOS and region locking should come after properly locking down public facing services. They aren’t 100% reliable at preventing intrusions.

I’d be surprised if there wasn’t a large difference between the power usage of a cpu at rest (like most servers will be) and one at full power. Especially if it had a gpu in it. They certainly sound a lot louder in my experience.

You can never be truly sure how bad a compromised system has been compromised, or even easily detect when it has happened. It could be running as part of a botnet, stealing your credentials or probing your local/mesh network.

In my eyes, competent cybersecurity abilities are an important part of selhosting which seems to fall by the wayside. It’s important to know exactly what your server is doing, what is running and who has access. If your system is on the public internet, you have a moral obligation to behave and not have it turn into a botnet or spam machine.

The latest version of NTP is 15 years old, and implementations are expected to be compliant. There is no risk of embrace/extend/extinguish from licensing here.

Open standards are better than copy-left licenses, IMO.

I mean, this honestly seems rather nice of Valve? The performance difference likely isn’t that much, and if you are the kind of person where it does matter you’ll probably want to upgrade to 32GB anyway. In which case you can just buy a single 16GB stick rather than having to buy a full kit.

Would you want to have a business relationship with someone with a “do things first, ask for permission after” attitude?

If you’re worried about Steam, you can always use the flatpak version of Steam. It runs it in a sandbox, so it doesn’t have complete access to all your files, although it can still do a bit of telemetry (which is unavoidable really, as you need to download files from Steam’s servers).

I think we should have an AI tag, and “not AI” should be the default (otherwise we add “non-” versions of every tag and post titles are a list of what something isn’t instead of what it is).

Imo, a lot of the tools here have a high security requirement. Either because they handle personal/private information and/or are exposed to the public internet. AI use is a red flag to me that the developer hasn’t properly considered all the security implications of their product.

Fuck genAI.

Bad news. It gets stuck in my head and I can’t just “dismiss” it like NTs seem able to do.

Cinnamon does everything I need it to and I’ve got it customised to the way I like it so I’ve not felt a need to switch. MATE’s status as a fork of an old version of Gnome (at least at the time I was looking) worries me a bit as well because the legacy codebase may get left behind.

Cinnamon. Desktop UI peaked in the Gnome 2/Windows XP era and anything after that is bloat for the sake of bloat.

Might try kde plasma though, if I can make it behave the same.

First we had “this meeting could have been an email”, now we have “this blog post could have been a tweet/skeet/toot”.

Most of this article is bashing an imagined strawman and the main meat of the issue is two papercuts.

VLC’s shareholders must be pleased though. /s

That last paragraph is why maintainers step down from projects. Recieving vitrol like that for something they do in their free time is not healthy. And then we’ll have no vlc whatsoever, good or bad interface.

If you are that bothered by it, pin it, fork it or patch it.

Any particular reason why?

Nextcloud. It does the job well enough.

I do not, and don’t plan to. Probably wouldn’t be that hard to set up though as someone familiar with nginx.

I guess Plex uses their own VPN under the hood then to make it more convenient?

Just out of interest as someone who has recently set up a Jellyfin server - what’s the main “value add” of using Plex compared to Jellyfin?

It seems to do everything I want, so I’m not sure why people would pay for Plex over the FOSS version.

One thing that jumps out at me reading the readme is the fact that it has a built in email server. Email is hard to get right, and I’m surprised a relatively young(?) project is working on getting all the moving pieces together rather than declaring it out of scope.

It’ll be interesting to see how it develops.