Generally intel has the best idle power consumption although amd won’t be terrible either. unless you already have an amd motherboard or cpu lying around I would recommend grabbing a 11th gen i5.

If you want to reduce your power idle power consumption undervolting won’t help you there, it will only reduce power consumption while under load. Generally the biggest killer for idle power consumption is actually your motherboard and for that reason try to find a smaller motherboard. Mini-itx is best but you’ll probably find that micro-atx is a lot cheaper while not sacrificing too much power draw.

I can’t say how useful your gtx 960 will be, I’d test it to see if it can encode/decode/transcode video fast enough for your needs and just be weary that it will likely use a fair bit of power even at idle. If it is fast enough then you can easily get away with an 8th/9th gen intel cpu you’ll find they are a lot cheaper, you could get an even older cpu as per Jellyfins hardware requirements but you’ll sacrifice some power consumption and probably not save that much money. 8th/9th gen CPU’s have pretty good power idle power consumption which is of course what should be targeted here.

Ook, maybe if I ever need to store a petabyte or two for whatever reason.

How have I never heard of tape drives for backup before? They seam like the ultimate medium for archival storage. Super cheap although very slow, sounds like a good compromise to me.

Sorry for not answering your questions, I haven’t used arch before. But dang that sucks I’ve been wanting to try arch for a little while but I didn’t know they would happily push updates they know will break certain programs.

That’s an awesome read, thanks!

The "use after"was used after free.

Queen - queen II

I dissagree, I don’t think about death on a day to day basis. When I’m procrastinating I don’t think “I’m going to die some day I should get this thing done” Maybe it’s just me but the thought of death does not give me motivation to keep living my life.

YeS bUt iS It cAlLeD “cHrOMe”?? Thats genuinly the reply I often get.

Also it doesn’t work well with our horrible school wifi, the WiFi doesn’t even work with Linux or most vpn’s.

same lol.

I don’t really understand either. Where are the Gentoo and LFS elitists? It seams like there should be more of those than arch elitests. Maybe it’s just because more people use arch.

I swear meta is just built different in terms on spying on people compared to everyone else. It’s like they have a team of ex non ethical elite hackers to find security vulnerabilities in everything and exploit everything as much as possible.

Thanks for telling me about that. I will now use that for any ancient laptop restorations.

That’s great to hear another linux success story!

Just a handy tip if you haven’t already your laptop might sound like it’s about to take off because it hasn’t been cleaned in a while. Just search up a tutorial on YouTube for your laptop and be amazed at how much dust you will find clogging up your fan.

I am definitely a fan. A lot of people say that flatpaks are bad because of sandboxing but I haven’t seemed to have any issues with it.

Although I do try to use dnf when a dnf package is available (I use fedora)

Installing flatpaks via the terminal is so much faster for some reason, so I always do it that way.

I am just using oneui but I’m not even signed into a google account surely Gemini won’t be after me?

Whats the purpose of gentoo over arch and when do you draw the line of diminishing returns? It sounds like gentoo is a lot harder for not much more reward.

I agree as well it’s probably best to assume services that have access to your data in there database do indeed sell your data.

Great post! I’ll be sharing this. You should add “I need this vehicle for when I might need to carry a boat or 7 passengers once the future”

Also I will say I do enjoy driving but I especially enjoy driving around well designed narrow streets with speed humps and roundabouts. Driving on stroads is just depressing and boring.