Also don’t forget retro games.

Even new games can be run on midrange hardware if you don’t crank up the settings.

People want big numbers and companies watch to sell the latest stuff. No one gives a platform for advocating low budgets, cheaper hardware and patient gaming.

Really worth listening to this podcast as well. It’s a guy teaching corporate teams to make best use of AI. He goes over how to use it to get really great use by using it as a discussion rather than just asking it a question and expecting and accurate answer in the first instance

https://youarenotsosmart.com/2024/02/19/yanss-281-how-a-pernicious-cognitive-bias-limits-our-ability-to-use-chatbots-properly-and-to-overcome-it/

AI has been most useful for tech support for me. I wouldn’t have been able to switch to Linux completely if AI didn’t instantly find solutions for me, rather than being told by the community to read tomes of documentation.

I also use it a lot to find how to get office apps to do what I want.

I’m famous at work for being a poet, when I actually just ask AI to write a short witty poem.

You can use image generators to make nice personalised cards to share on special events.

AI can make mind maps and things like that if you tell it what you want.

I think this is good advice.

NAS is not a product for normies, so there doesn’t seem to be huge demand on the secondhand market. So that works out better for buyers and you can usually pick up a pretty great deal secondhand.

I think you’d just have to buy another Synology with more bays.

I guess not

Thanks. I’ll check it out. The downloaded files were 35GB for 1080p resolution. Don’t know what the hell it was doing.

For keyboards, 60% layouts can be bought prebuilt. If you want something smaller than that then you’re likely looking at DIY build territory or maybe a one handed gaming keyboard.

For a mouse, you can get really tiny portable mice that are low weight. If you want something that doesn’t tie you down to finding desk space, then you can look at trackball mice (fine for strategy games, not great for FPS).

1. Mostly Lemmy/Reddit/social circle recommendations

2. Download

3. I used to download directly to my phone and watch there. Then I got a NAS and started copying from my phone to the NAS. Then I set up download software on the NAS to have it always on. Then got Plex set up. Then the Arr’s (although these are janky and I end up doing a lot of manual additions).

4. Plex

I would highly suggest getting a NAS and playing around with it. Self hosting is complicated, but I got it as a “dumb” network drive on my LAN. Then slowly I started adding on different Docker containers and added to it. Each setup was a painful learning process of errors and troubleshooting, so don’t try to do everything in one go.

You don’t even need to be a pirate for self hosting. You can buy dirt cheap physical media on eBay and rip it to make a pretty huge personal library on the cheap.

Ah, I’ve never tried to convert it that way. Laptops all seem to have had USB charging for many years now.

I got it from Ali Express and hope this link works for you. Just look out for the size that fits your current laptop charger. Also check how many watts your laptop charger does, it needs to be able to output 65W if you want to charge a 65W device.

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006780830491.html?spm=a2g0n.order_detail.order_detail_item.3.c1d3f19cAswYFz

Pro tip: eBay used laptop USB chargers are dirt cheap compared to a GaN charger + USB PD cable. I’ve put laptop chargers all around the house so I always have one available for my laptop, phone and Steam Deck.

Another tip: even if your laptop charger isn’t USB C, you can get a converter to make it a PD USB charger for a couple of £.

I came to Lemmy just looking for a Reddit alternative. I think this is a superior forum system with user scoring and nested comments. But I do love that it is open and federated and I’m glad to be rid of Reddit completely.

I am a huge tech nerd and love doing these things as side projects (but I prefer making hardware). I like making stuff so the things I’ve been making/setting up are:

• Setting up a R.Pi as a retro gaming console
• R.Pi Kodi media player
• Putting together a hotswap keyboard from a kit
• Migrating to privacy alternatives and degoogling my life
• Migrating to Linux
• Making a fight game controller from scratch
• Making a custom keyboard with soldering and custom layout (and then again for having the same keyboard at work)
• Building a new gaming PC
• Getting a synology NAS and going down the Docker rabbit hole
• Making another fight game controller…or 3

Now I’m planning making a DIY microphone for MS Teams meetings

Is this thing with unsupported bands ever an issue outside USA? It isn’t a problem I’ve ever encountered in using any phone abroad or heard people of any other could try talk about.

Very much worthwhile. Pick up Slay the Spire while you’re at it.

It’s all porn. Always has been.

I got a good 10 years out of my previous machine using in place upgrades like this.

Upgrading SSD, RAM and an in-socket upgrade for the CPU will be pretty cheap. If he spends more money and upgrades the GPU as well then he should be good to go.

PEGI 18 for gambling imagery 😐

https://i.redd.it/8023bd3la6n11.jpg

Clean your soldering iron tip on a sponge before every joint.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/poop-knife

I’m keen to make a handwired macro board, but the learning curve of programming of QMK from scratch is not something I’m prepared to deal with right now.

So I guess the poop knife hardly ever gets used in your house then.