Thanks,
bcachefs could be the answer but I don’t really want my data on a fs I need this week’s kernel to access properly. Maybe I should just hold off for a few months.
I’m not monitoring the drives, I have backups of important stuff…but would be nice to tag more important stuff amongst the mediocre stuff on the off chance both drives don’t fail at the same time.
doh
will just keep on keepin’ on then
I’ve been using the ‘Open With’ extension on Firefox to play video through mpv with a click
What’s the deal with these?
I’ve used a few cheap disposable straights, or the ones with disposable blades, are these much different to the ones you just snap a DE in half and pop it in?
Why?
Triple booting is a pita, moreso if you don’t know how to partition a disk. I’d want any laptop encrypted, which adds further complexity to the triple boot.
If you wanna browse, research, watch videos and tinker just install a distro. If you wanna spend time switching your system off and on again over and over and over again to find out what’s working/broken go for the triple boot.
Docker could be worth a shot. You can ‘docker pull fedora/arch/debina/whatever’ and can play around with the base systems. Alpine takes up about 6mib so isn’t too resource intensive if you need to nuke it a few hundred times to get up and running.
I hone my own. My edges are not on par with pro edges I’ve used but I’m often a few weeks between shaves and I like it a little forgiving on the flesh. I’m not too fussed about billiard ball smooth
I only ever sent one razor out for sharpening, it was for some comedy level sharp from someone using Ken Schwartz sub-micron sprays. Glad I tried it, not for me.
In the first few years I bought maybe ten or more cheap vintage razors from people who seemed to know what they were doing, was a nice way to try different blades and edges.
I’d put the 1gb ram laptops to server/kodi/retroarch/something mode and focus on the three decent machines for anything that requires a modern web browser, or add some ram. Porteus might be worth a shot if you’ve not tried it and want to push the Firefox on a potato idea.
I don’t think this is a one OS fits all situation, unless maybe Gentoo.
How bad is really bad?
AntiX is a good choice. Other option is a usb3 drive for each family member so everyone has their own portable AntiX on a stick.
MX is the related project with a more standard install and could be worth a look, the Fluxbox option should be quite light.
Each user could have a personal AntiX system on persistent usb3 and each system could have a bare metal MX Linux install. Just see what wins out via natural selection over time.
LXQT is another option for a full desktop environment that will run on a potato. If family members are mainly just users and you are admin, the base OS may not matter much. They could switch between a potato running Alpine and a good system running Fedora and if they are just logging into LXQT to launch browser, office, email etc the internal system plumbing is not gonna concern them.
Thank you.
I think I will aim for =>8
so any nuc with a number 7 or more would do the job?
It seems unreasonable with the hardware, even with nice things.
I run Gentoo, with lots of binaries, on my 2011 iMac just fine but encoding HD video on it feels like abuse.
I’m using a 2011 imac & 2010 macbook pro as my main devices. I have an rpi4 as a little media center & personal server.
2160p x265 looks great on the pi, 2160p x264 is grim. Encoding 2160p on any of my systems is pain.
Ongoing it would be nice to be able to re-encode the occasional 2160p video faster than a tenth of real time or feeling like I’m overly stressing very old hardware.
Think I may keep an eye out for a 2nd hand nuc, I like small & quiet and I didn’t realize until posting this thread that cpu encoding is preferred to gpu. A nuc would also be nice for some better retro game action than the pi4.
I don’t have anything that can play 4k h264 aside from my phone.
My Rpi4 plays 4k h265 beautifully, so I like h265. Space efficient is just a bonus.
mpv & ffmpeg have been my go to’s for a decade or so…but mpv on the Rpi4 can’t yet manage 4k 2160p afaik, so Kodi it is at the moment.
Thanks
What is resizable BAR?
hmmmm, perhaps Frank is one step ahead of us and has equipped the razor with a fairly blunt blade :)
Likely Mastodon.
Similar too Twitter/Bluesky and able to follow Lemmy, Kbin and lots of other areas of the Fediverse.
That sounds horrible.
*“In drawing the razor over the face sufficient pressure is applied so that the roller 6 will transmit through the gearing described tothe crank-disk 161 a rotary motion, and as thesedisks rotate they will give to 'e ade 7 a reciprocating motion, longitudniahy as well as transversely, and in the forward .transverse movement the edge of the blade will travel obliquely against` the hair to be out and obviously will cut ,it more readily than when moved straight against it, as in the ordinary safety-razor.” *
So you just push the blade into your face to activate the left to right motion?
imv looks good, thanks for the link
I’m a bit confused, I left Reddit to escape emacs users…should I be on kbin instead?
Thanks, I do have backups of important stuff.
I think bcachefs is what I’m looking for, but I’m gonna wait a bit until development calms down a little and keep on the way I am at the moment.