tvcvt

joined 1 year ago
[–] tvcvt@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

Linux runs fine on Intel Macs. There are a couple peculiarities you’ll want to be aware of, though.

  • Ventoy doesn’t work as an installer. The boot menu will come up, but any ISO you choose will hang
  • Not all distros will recognize the wireless card and install the firmware (Be prepared to install it using a USB to Ethernet adapter)
  • Same goes for the iSight web cam

Other than those initial hiccups, everything works pretty flawlessly.

[–] tvcvt@lemmy.ml 10 points 3 months ago

Check out ersatztv.org. That software lefts you create custom, continuously playing channels that you can watch from Jellyfin as a live TV channel.

[–] tvcvt@lemmy.ml 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

To amplify RedWeasel’s very good answer, fstab runs as root and unless you specify otherwise, the share will mount with root as the owner on the local machine. From the perspective of the Samba server, it’s the Jellyfin user accessing the files, but on the local machine, but local permissions come into play as well. That’s why you can get at the files when you connect to the share from Dolphin in your KDE system—it’s your own user that’s mounting the share locally.

[–] tvcvt@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 months ago

Kate is really a hidden gem. It’s so light weight and just gets out of the way. I’m now installing it everywhere—Linux, Mac, or Windows.

[–] tvcvt@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago

I think it’s pretty decent, especially after the update last month. The one thing I find annoying is the way the search is set up (it’s hidden in the options button, but you have to be at the front page). Other than that, it’s pretty wonderful.

[–] tvcvt@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago

That’s awesome, I’ll definitely be interested to see how it all works out.

[–] tvcvt@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I started working on it once a couple years ago and getting it spun up was a chore. Life got busy and I never finished.

That imapbox looks pretty interesting. Thanks for tracking that one down.

[–] tvcvt@lemmy.ml 6 points 11 months ago (11 children)

So I think the way I would want to do this is with something like mailpiler (https://www.mailpiler.org/). It’s been on my long list of things to dive into for a while.

[–] tvcvt@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago

It’s managed service provider, which translates more or less to a company that handles IT for other companies.

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IP over Avian Carriers (www.washingtonpost.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by tvcvt@lemmy.ml to c/homelab@lemmy.ml
 

Today’s the day Jeff Geerling makes it to the Washington Post for a decent story about carrier pigeons vs. Ethernet. Very fun to see as both a homelabber and newspaper person.

[–] tvcvt@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’d just give it time. Let the account sit unused and set any messages to be forwarded to your new account. If you don’t notice anything in the next year or so, you probably won’t miss anything that might still be linked.

[–] tvcvt@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

That model’s got an html5 console available so I don’t have to mess with Java. The one thing I haven’t got it to do is remote power cycle. I make a point to set up wake on LAN for that.

[–] tvcvt@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The way I’ve ended up going is to just use a standard keyboard and monitor with a KVM over IP switch. In the US it’s not hard to find relatively inexpensive ones on the used market, but they do require a module for each computer, which can increase the costs. I’ve had good luck finding the Avocent MPU2016 switches. Worth a look on eBay anyway.

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