Those are not things all motherboard support, and the whole discussion stemed from laptop ports, do any consumer laptop (or any laptop at all) have IPMI?

As for PXE boot, doesn’t this one relies on the existence of a rj45 port on the target machine? Did you believe a laptop that replaced every port with usb-c somehow still had one of those?

I’ll just laugh at you with my 256GB “slow” USB 3 flash drive if you ever need any boot utility like memtest or gparted then.

Who use those? Well simply people who actualy maintain computers.

Well, I doubt the french ministry of education call them IEP or 504 (not everyone lives in the US, shocker), and anyway it simply doesn’t help if you are diagnosed loooong after the fact.

I’m sure spending close to two decades at school with nothing but pens and paper count as practice, right? Welp too bad it did nothing, my writing still sucked at uni.

I love how both streaming and blu-ray both made piracy the simpler solution by having ungodly amount of DRM that only screw over the paying customer (that don’t even work to stop piracy, by the way).

As some old gaming dude once said “Piracy is almost always a service problem” , said dude is now a billionaire by providing a correct service by the way.

Show me a steam or gog equivalent (ie just a platform that is not outright hostile to consumers) to buying movies and tv shows and my money is yours. In the meantime I’ll keep sailing the high sea.

What if I wondered, and questioned said digital device? One of the very reason I’m so much into computers is that I can actualy get shit done with them, give me a pen and a piece of paper and I’ll scribble totaly useless illegible shit, since that whole “hand eye coordination” simply never worked out for the decades I’ve been at school. On the other hand, I spent most of my free time since early childhood tinkering with those devious “digital devices”, I’m pretty sure I’m able to think by myself, my current linux distro didn’t magicaly appear by itself on my drive I guess.

As someone with troubles writing, screw you, having a computer in class would have made my whole education an order of magnitude less shitty. I’m downvoting you for your dumbass take, not for being an apple or google rep. (mostly the part about pens and papers, I agree on the part that big tech need to get bent too, and that no money should go in their pockets and probably should go somewhere else)

The biggest hurdle is streaming services’ DRM (something called widevine iirc) that just doesn’t work on linux, which limit you to low resolutions like 720p. There was some struggles between AMD and the HDMI consortium preventing them from shipping HDMI2.1 drivers, but that appears to be solved.

Somehow, it appears to already be packaged for fedora, I already tried it and it looks extremely promising while still being in beta.

Ok, where did I say any of that exactly? I never said it was a jellyfin only issue anywhere, and I sure as hell didn’t say anything about VPN, as much as you didn’t say anything about a proxy until now. And congrats on using a proxy and exposing your server to said proxy, you’re just proving my point by not exposing directly to the internet as your previous comments implied.

Well I was just answering your question about “why would jellyfin have documentation about opening it to the web if unsafe?” by pointing out that while they do tell you how to, they also explains the risks associated with doing so. Having documentation about something doesn’t mean that the devs endorse this usage.

According to your own link that you totally read : “Note that opening a port gives full access to that port to the next higher Network. Opening a port directly to the Internet is therefore insecure and not recommended.” and “forwarding its Ports directly to the internet (not recommended!)”

I wouldn’t go that far, my external media drives really don’t get used as much it used to, I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that people still using discs are now very uncommon anyway. Doesn’t help that the blu-rays are still worse than piracy convenience wise due to the several layers of drm to bypass to be allowed to read a disc I own on hardware I own with software I also own…

Well… I did upgrade mine progressively, I don’t think it still has any original parts, maybe some sata cables? I was able to get a smaller pc offspring out of this, ended up as my nephew’s gaming rig, does it count as my old rig? are both the same rig? damn computer of theseus causing philosophical problems!

Currently rocking an internal blu ray drive and external floppy one (only because I couldn’t find an internal one), I can’t possibly imagine not having an optical drive on my computers. I still own a lot of disks including software and movies, I won’t just throw everything away because the tech is now deemed obsolete (which is debatable on top of that, currently have a better quality on blu ray than on streaming platforms, plus no ads and works offline) If only it were easier to install multi-disk software through wine/proton though…

You jest, but a byte isn’t always 8 bits (well, nowaday it kinda is, de facto, but it wasn’t always like that). An 8-bit byte is called an octet, I don’t see it used much in english, but apparently it is used nonetheless, after a quick check. Since octets are the standard byte size, I suppose we could call them “metric bytes”.

It sadly doesn’t change the fact that those phones barely exists and the few that does are either incredibly old or only very partially supported.

Do you know you can set other search engine as default on firefox? Do you also know that the deal with google of using it as default search engine is the only thing keeping mozilla afloat? and that google is likely continuing funding them this way despite a dwindling user base because if firefox were to fail, oops, all chromium and incoming monopoly lawsuits?

I would prefer my web not being all chromium thus relying only on one big tech.

Did phone manufacturer finally decide to keep supporting their models after the first year/couple of years? Or did the “likely lifetime” of a smartphone dropped below that in the meantime?

If anything, my experience with “manufacturer support” on android isn’t particularly stellar, with the only outlier being my current Samsung XCover, which is kinda cheating due to the thing being a rugged phone targeting companies and not the average joe, so the thing is built to last, both hardware and software side.

On the other hand you do have a couple (maybe even three!) companies that offer linux pre-installed on their machines.

Ah yes, reading my monthly blob of my 900 and still growing games library updates, marvelous. Might need a couple of days to just get halfway through.

And fuck the indie games that relies on direct user feedback by the way, those pesky weekly updates! Stop trying making quality games, folks, someone here is bothered by a notification.

Oh no the lastest update made the game crash on launch? Well, wait for next month patch then, we wouldn’t dare pushing an update notification, that would be horrendous!

Having OneDrive wouldn’t help as you still won’t be able to use programs as a user, which is pretty much the reason we use computers in the first place, this bug effectively makes whole computers glorified paperweight in the meantime.