Linux Mint is the common suggestion and a solid option.
I tried a lot of distros myself and I’m 10 months into switching to Linux. My personal suggestion would be OpenSUSE Tumbleweed.
You can also have a look at suggestions here: https://distrochooser.de/
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I’ve made a huge mistake breaking my personal rule to avoid all political content and I’ve regretted that immediately
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I’ve made a huge mistake breaking my personal rule to avoid all political content and I’ve regretted that immediately
Thanks. I’ll check it out. The downloaded files were 35GB for 1080p resolution. Don’t know what the hell it was doing.
Synology NAS. I think it is a DS220+ or something like that.
You can make a DIY NAS with an old cheap PC. Or pay a premium for Synology and they make things a bit easier (although setup can still take quite a learning curve if you don’t know about this stuff).
Mostly Lemmy/Reddit/social circle recommendations
Download
I used to download directly to my phone and watch there. Then I got a NAS and started copying from my phone to the NAS. Then I set up download software on the NAS to have it always on. Then got Plex set up. Then the Arr’s (although these are janky and I end up doing a lot of manual additions).
Plex
I would highly suggest getting a NAS and playing around with it. Self hosting is complicated, but I got it as a “dumb” network drive on my LAN. Then slowly I started adding on different Docker containers and added to it. Each setup was a painful learning process of errors and troubleshooting, so don’t try to do everything in one go.
You don’t even need to be a pirate for self hosting. You can buy dirt cheap physical media on eBay and rip it to make a pretty huge personal library on the cheap.
Efficiency is making the same structure work for dual purposes…like garbage disposal + procreation.
Lowest panel should be the wake up alarm. My mornings have been so much better since using a talk radio station as a morning alarm. This is so much gentler than waking up to a blaring alarm noise. It’s quite pleasant having soft vocal sounds for waking up, and then lying in bed for 5 min listening to the radio rather than bashing snooze and sleeping again to wake up groggy to a blaring bell in 5min. Highly recommended.
Do not use a song as the morning alarm. You’ll end up hating the song.
Libertarians
They’ve been bullied and fat-shamed their whole lives and they’ve had enough.
A YouTuber explained it as follows:
On Linux, Anti cheat runs on the user level. The cheaters are on Windows and spoof their OS as Linux, so they can run anti cheat on the user level, not flag as suspicious and then run kernel level cheat software.
I have no technical knowledge myself, have no idea of this is true and will not be able to answer questions about this.
Many hobbies are cheap if you choose wisely out of your possible interests; and then go with cheap, good enough options rather than getting swept up in online echo chambers (where nothing less than top tier is acceptable).
Windows making me update every time - rage
Linux, first thing I open on startup is terminal for sudo zypper dup - joy
We have Linux workstations at work…and these can only be used to access a remote desktop of a Windows 10 virtual machine. 👍
I came to Lemmy just looking for a Reddit alternative. I think this is a superior forum system with user scoring and nested comments. But I do love that it is open and federated and I’m glad to be rid of Reddit completely.
I am a huge tech nerd and love doing these things as side projects (but I prefer making hardware). I like making stuff so the things I’ve been making/setting up are:
Now I’m planning making a DIY microphone for MS Teams meetings
This is terrible. I wouldn’t want to go back 20 years at all. Every year I’m grateful that it has been better than the last. Life is on the up and up. I’m not wishing to go back, I’m looking forward to next year.
How long till the 2 typos come together to make “worm retards”
Do any of these services make recommendations for what you can watch next? The way Last.fm shows what other similar people like…it would be good to have something like that for TV and movies tailored to my tastes.