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  • All of the normal Arch packages are pre-built, so the only way you'd be compiling things that often is if you installed a large amount of things from the AUR. Make sure you get the bin versions instead of git versions.

    The google-chrome and chromium packages are already a binaries so my guess is you need ungoogled-chromium-bin. You can also use the Chaotic AUR repo to get pre-built binaries of a lot of the most common AUR packages. But ideally you should avoid using the AUR when it's not necessary.

    While using the AUR is common, it's a bit frustrating you are blaming Arch for your experience. If you only use pacman you would never compile anything, or have very many conflicts. It's like if you added 20 different PPAs on Ubuntu and then complained about the problems that arose from that.

  • Xfinity using WiFi signals in your house to detect motion
  • I have a 3.1 modem but my ISP only has 3.0 speeds as far as I can tell. 1000/100 is their highest plan so the extra doesn't really do anything.

    My modem is 32x8 and I can see in the UI that only 4 of the 8 upload channels are actually bonded to reach that 100, which is half of the 200 that 3.0 can theoretically do.

  • YouTube might slow down your videos if you block ads
  • I already do this. There are several apps for it but I really like Pinchflat because it has metadata settings for Jellyfin.

    All I have to do is add a video to a playlist and it gets automatically downloaded. I use it for archival but there's nothing stopping you from making it the only way you consume YouTube content.

  • Avoiding AI is hard – but our freedom to opt out must be protected
  • Same here. I've been using Lineage since it was Cyanogenmod and I've never encountered banking or payment apps not working.

  • Recommendations for an inexpensive DIY backup?
  • Not at all. I built my NAS in 2020 so it's been over 5 years and I've had 20 drives running 24/7 that whole time. Some of the original ones I have swapped out for larger drives. But some of the older 3TB ones have over 80,000 hours on them and are still chugging along.

    I use unRAID so when one does eventually die I can just replace it and rebuild pretty painlessly. Originally I expected to lose at least 1 per year but they just don't die. Maybe I'm lucky.

    Also I noticed even though 8TB has skyrocketed, looks like 6TB are still around $35 and 3TB are as low as $13 if you are okay with smaller sizes.

  • Recommendations for an inexpensive DIY backup?
  • Just eBay. Unfortunately it looks like prices are way up from when I last bought some. I got 2 in December for $60 + $10 shipping.

  • Recommendations for an inexpensive DIY backup?
  • Used all the way. I haven't looked at prices recently but I have gotten 8TB SAS drives for $40 each. Hard to beat that.

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  • You have to port forward Plex in some fashion for it to work properly. If you don't you are limited to 1 Mbps streams on their relay. That is lower bitrate than YouTube at 480p.

    If your router has UPnP then the port fowarding is automatic on both Jellyfin and Plex. It's the exact same setup for both.

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  • Setting up remote access is the same for Plex and Jellyfin so I'm confused. All you need to do is to forward port 8096 or use a reverse proxy like nginx if you want a domain.

    I have plex.domain.com and jellyfin.domain.com and it was the exact same process for both.

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  • In what way? I share my server with 8 friends/family and it does everything I need it to.

  • Buying a $250 Residency Card From a Tropical Island Let Me Bypass U.S. Crypto Laws
  • Or any proof of stake coin like Ethereum, which doesn't require any mining at all. The electricity argument is extremely out of date for most coins besides Bitcoin itself.

    As far as I know GPU mining is pretty much completely dead because after Ethereum switched the yields on everything else tanked.

  • Anon shares his taste in music
  • There's a reason it's won game of the year so many years in a row.

  • DeepSeek collects keystroke data and more, storing it in Chinese servers
  • This is mildly pedantic but you're not actually running Deepseek R1, you're running a 7B version of Qwen that's been fine-tuned on Deepseek R1 outputs. All of the "distilled" models are existing models trained on R1.

  • Seedbox Reqs
  • If pricing is a concern that shouldn't rule out a VPS. Managed seedboxes are way more expensive than setting it up yourself for the same amount of storage/bandwidth.

    Go to lowendbox.com and/or use serverhunter.com to find a VPS that's more in your price range. I currently pay $22/mo for 8TB of storage and 50 TB of bandwidth at 1Gbps.

    If you absolutely don't want to use a VPS for some reason, then I had a very good experience with feralhosting. I used them for 3 years without issue. But 8TB with them is around $75/mo compared to the $22/mo I'm paying now.

  • Anon goes to therapy
  • I'm not sure either. Everyone is always saying to try therapy but when I finally caved it just... didn't do anything for me. I went through seven different therapists over the course of about five years and all of them felt like a complete waste of time and money.

    Some were easier to talk to than others but ultimately it didn't really matter. Nothing changed at all. My conclusion is that therapists are only for people with superficial problems not actual issues that require tangible solutions.

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    'Gooner 9/11' averted as Zenless Zone Zero's butt-obfuscation technology is rolled back in the face of horny outrage
  • Of course. Just like how GTA players are actually closet mass murderers.

  • Marvel Rivals director reflects on hated Helldivers 2 nerfs - 'Players don't like things taken away'
  • It actually baffles me that someone designed that ult. If he could eat one person it's already strong but the fact he can literally CC an entire team for like 10 seconds especially with how overtime works is just plain stupid.

  • Google reacts angrily to report it will have to sell Chrome
  • I am curious how selling it would even work when Chromium is a BSD license. Or do they only have to sell Chrome and not Chromium?

  • "Windows Intelligence": Microsoft may drop Copilot in major AI rebranding
  • I don't think Microsoft is capable of not fumbling everything related to the Halo franchise.

  • Guitar hero on Linux
  • One of those rare games with an actually good native Linux version

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