All this and more.

And according to the article the data collection runs even if it’s disconnected. So, don’t ever connect it to the network. As soon as you do everything gets uploaded.

Yea, especially since my first reaction was to just start shopping for a new one. Decided to try ripping this one apart first. I broke two of the little plastic clips holding the back on, but didn’t care as I was about to buy a new one anyway.

Fixing it felt better than a new one would have.

Maybe. It’s also possible proxmox has some caching/tuning logic built in to handle it, because it’s a built-in supported feature not something I hacked together

Eh, I’d take their recommendation with a grain of salt. They’re likely targeting worst case. Like a university with thousands of users. If you say put proxmox on the laptop, connect your nas as storage, then run the db vm/container with it’s storage as the nas, I doubt you’d see any issues. You might notice a bit more latency and slowness, but I doubt any data loss. This setup is how I run all my VMs for years, some of the VMs have databases. Zero issues.

Ah, nice.

Ohhhhhh, that looks like a better option. Interesting an rf remote control? Hmmmmm I wonder if that’ll work with my sofabaton universal remote.

Hmmmm good to know. I’m sure the N100 models could handle it fine. Still tempting to pick up one of the cheap ones to play with. Kind of like a raspberry pi.

I’ve been looking into these PCs as a replacement roku box since responding to the thread. I have a shield, and its fine, but I don’t think it’s worth the price. It’s glitchy and the 3rd party launcher sometimes flips out. It also keeps wanting me to up the refresh rate, but whenever I do, it breaks. My TV doesn’t like it despite it being supported.

Interesting, I assume lmde would be comparable to a say fedora based plasma bigscreen install resource wise. It’s not like you were using a super lightweight distro. I’m actually surprised the plasma bigscreen devs haven’t made a super light weight install guide based off alpine or a pared down debian or arch for lowend hardware like OP is asking about.

Interesting, did you have windows on it, or did you throw a real OS on it? If so, what distro/DE?

Yea, with a full pc setup and OS I don’t think you’ll have a problem with watching media. Even if hardware isn’t available for your cpu (unlikely) software will be. In the jellyfin client you can change your player to vlc if you have any issues playing video.

To also answer the transcoding issue, Jellyfin should be able to handle it. I have had issues where the client thinks it can play a media stream so the server serves it, but the client fails to play it. I usually either download a different file or manually transcode it to a different filetype that I know the client can play. I wouldn’t think a celeron processor would have issues playing media. Those issues were on like firetv or roku embedded system boxes, not full pcs.

I found this one on amazon

https://a.co/d/05wDgslY

it advertises linux compatibility. So, I’d agree with you, installing shouldn’t be a problem. I’ve heard about a project called Plasma Bigscreen, might be exactly what you’re looking for. I’ve also heard flir remotes work pretty will with linux tv boxes. Those plug pcs have usb slots, you might want to figure out if you need an extension cable so the ir can reach the dongle.

I want to believe that progress is inevitable. The living conditions for the working class are better now than they were 100 years ago. Hopefully, by the time another 100 years have passed they will have drastically improved some more.

Unfortunately, the reasons they have improved in the last 100 years are due to constant fighting against the lazy non-working class. Not some evolved sense of society.

I think that’s arch linux, not mint. But if you’re interested in continuing down this path, you may need to soon.

I have audio recording/listening working with frigate, but not any talking back through the doorbell. Which makes sense since it’s an rtsp stream from the doorbell. In order to be able to talk out of the camera you’d have to expose internal apis which many doorbells don’t do.

ffmpeg:

output_args:

record: preset-record-generic-audio-aac

Hah, fair. I haven’t tried it in windows, I just assumed it would work properly. I guess that was assuming too much.

Hopefully this also includes downloading/installing unreal engine in linux. It’s already supported, but the marketplace linking for assets and things can get janky in linux. Hopefully this gets smoothed out.

Good to hear brother, stay safe.