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  • That is pretty expensive nowadays, if OP wants to go that expensive, getting a mini PC with the latest intel N150. The pi 5 doesn’t even have hardware AV1 decoding. By the time you have all of the pi accessories, it is not much of a price difference, but defi itely a performance difference.

    https://amzn.eu/d/85cytyZ

    Plus you get benefits like actual storage instead of a separately bought SD card, more RAM, 2.5G ethernet, and HDMI2.1 & USB–C displayport.

    Then you slap Linux on it (and also hope that plasma bigscreen is a success in the near future) and you have a very reliable 4K HTPC that can decode anything you throw at it. It has enough horsepower to be a home server at the same time, unlike a pi while also having just a bit higher idle power usage (2W or so).




  • Had a 2023 VW ID4. They literally go out of their way to make your experience worse in many cases.

    They have an app, they can read locked state, but can’t lock the car.

    Their app/website makes you completely re-sign in and re-accept cookies every month or so that breaks any API usage mildly like HomeAssistant.

    The key unlocks the door if you walk to it, 50% chance to re-lock the door when you walk away without interacting with it.

    Can detect tire pressure, but they don’t tell you what it is, only if there is “pressure loss”

    Backup camera was horrific quality, especially the field of view of a telephoto camera, especially compared to my 2015 Nissan altima

    The entertainmrnt console was terible, extremely laggy, and Android auto was the worst experience. It would take between 2 and 15 minutes to connect to android auto with multiple different phones, and it would choose 1 app per phone to not display. My girlfriends’ was her maps app which is insane. Sometimes I would be at my destination before it would connect.

    Also putting a trailer hitch on it would have been like 1500-2000€…




  • JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nltoLinux@lemmy.mlBazzite or Suse?
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    2 months ago

    Is your printer network attached and scanning via flatpak packages?

    Network printing works fine, USB printing and scanning works also, it is just anything having to use saned that flatpaks can’t seem to use

    I have hopped through multiple distros and I have never once had scanning not work on a “normal” one after correctly setting up saned. Only bazzite because of the flatpak/system split (also why any embedded programming needs distrobox)





  • I think the issue is more that large tech firms can absolutely deal with external security in their applications. The amount of times gmail or Microsoft 365 has been hacked and leaked a bunch of client data is statistically zero when looking at their attack area.

    Joe Dirt self hosting a mail server for his neighbors on a salvaged rack server is 1000x more likely to get hacked or lose a ton of his neighbors’ data than a big tech firm.

    That is kind of the trade off for community hosting. There are very very few backup and security-literate people in communities.




  • JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nltoLinux@lemmy.mlFan of Flatpaks ...or Not?
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    2 months ago

    The few things I don’t like about flatpaks (which become a problem on atomic distros that use almost all flatpak by design):

    • Some types of embedded development is essentially impossible with flatpaks. Try getting the J-link software connected with nrftools and then everything linked to VScodium/codeoss

    • Digital signing simply doesn’t work, won’t work for the foreseeable future, and is not planned to get working,

    • Flatpaks sometimes have bugs for no reasons when their package-manager counterparts don’t (e.g. in KiCAD 8.0, the upper 20% or so of dialog boxes were unclickable with the mouse, but I could select and modify them with the keyboard, only the flatpak version)

    • The status on whether it is still being actively developed or not (at least I hear a fair amount of drama surrounding it)

    But besides those small things, it seem great to me.


  • Some drives are worse than others and higher capacities get worse and worse, in my experience, Seagate drives are extremely loud.

    If you get helium drives (like wd red plus > 8TB i think),or 2nd hand hgst/ WD enterprise drives) they are significantly quieter.

    But, having an ssd is cheaper probably. I have an SSD for the boot drive and all databases, configuration folders, etc… In docker so general IO is fast, then media, documents, pictures, etc… On the big HDDs.



  • KNX.

    Everything is decentrally programmed, and you can do extra automations and stuff from home assistant, but KNX devices are wired (generally) and will always Just Work™. More expensive that the cheaper retrofit options, but if you factor in manual overrides or getting the “better” wireless smart devices it is comparable. They generally also have a manual override at the panel. For core functions like lights, HVAC, roll shutters or blinds, etc… That is honestly the best option (unless you want every light to be an RGB light for some reason, then you still need smart bulbs)