A mini PC is the way to go if you want to self host a media server such as Jellyfin. You have to do a little research, but you can find mini PCs with Intel chips that have Quick Sync for transcoding for around $100 on Amazon.

Holy shit, I laughed but felt guilty after.

I got into birding this spring as a hobby, thinking to myself “it’s free, you just need to use your eyes and ears”, withing a month I bought a $350 pair of binoculars. I’ve managed to fight off the temptation of a decent camera so far, thankfully. I found a great park at the tail end of spring migration about 10 minutes from my apartment, and the dawn chorus was almost sensory overload, the was so many different species singing and calling. I’m looking forward to what new birds I’ll see during this fall migration and especially next spring migration.

It’s pretty great, there’s also Cornell’s companion citizen science app called eBird that you can use to count birds around you which is useful to ornithologists to track bird population density and migration patterns!

Did you ever use Launch (predecessor to Yahoo Music) in the early 2000’s? It was pretty decent.

I waited months for Google to release a firmware patch to unlock Bluetooth. Eventually, I got tired of 4 mostly bricked (could still use them wired) controllers laying around and tossed 3 of them. I wish I would have kept them all now, Stadia controllers are some of the best, I may have to pick up another one online.

You rockin’ Hannah Montana Linux?

You done goofed.

Was gonna say, wayyy ahead of you OP. I just paid one off, I should probably max it out again just in case.

This is the correct answer.

This should be a prime reason to exercise.

I finally watched Wolf of Wallstreet last week, fucking wild.

Have you tried Andor yet? It’s probably the best series (don’t hate me Grogu fans).

Agreed, and starred.

I got a 4 CPU / 24Gb RAM Ubuntu 22.04 ARM VPS running on Oracle’s “always free” tier. The Synapse and Postgres containers are using about 2% CPU and 1.2Gb of RAM combined. If your strapped for resources, check them out.

Do you have any issues with Spaces rooms not loading on yours or federated homeservers? I tried reinstalling a couple times and could never get them to load in Element, so I ended up just spinning up Synapse which has been working fine.

Oh man, you need to get on the Firefox for Android train. You can install uBlock Origin to block ads, and there’s some other handy extensions as well. It also has reading mode and works really well, you’ll see an icon that looks like a piece of paper on the right side of the address bar. You can also sync your bookmarks if you have a Firefox account, if that matters to you.