I think it’s the paradigm change. Most people including myself learnt some kind of procedural language in school, shifting towards functional thinking is just very difficult. But of course that’s a skill a computer scientist must have and one of the reasons I didn’t graduate.

But oh boy is it difficult. We started with Haskell in the first semester CS and it was a pain. Kudos to anyone seriously developing in Haskell.

A JSON parser in Haskell, what a day to have eyes

Can you provide an example of a something misconfigured which is easier to manage with let’s say Fedora? I am genuinely asking, I don’t really know how other distros differ despite from Desktop environments and package managers/mirrors. If I have a problem with Linux I check man pages, stack overflow, the Arch wiki etc. How do other distros encourage you to to the same where Mint isn’t doing that? Is it because Mint provides more GUI options?

Sure, I am a data scientist. I just dont understand the Mint-wheelchair metaphor.

I think you are exaggerating a bit. I am an adult having Mint on my private computer. I am by no means an expert, but I don’t need to be. I write my own shell scripts, I ssh around in my network, I navigate from the terminal, I install stuff, I set up services. Is Mint really a wheelchair for you because it is based in Ubuntu LTS? Maybe I don’t understand enough about different Linux distros, but I don’t see how a distro can be “too easy”.

What am I looking at

git config --global init.defaultBranch main

It’s not that I don’t want to buy a mini PC. But for this little project I might abandon like my many programming projects a massive investment is just not worth it. I payed 300€ on a TV some years ago, I just cannot pay the double amount for a device I use for streaming. I might upgrade if Jellyfin turns out to be my companion, but then everything needs to work, remote streaming from outside my network included.

Thanks for your advice though. I will look into a used fire stick, but if I understand correctly, this would act as a jellyfin client for watching on my TV.

Nah, it’s a cheap Chinese TV with a random OS, so I guess I need to find a workaround. I don’t buy at amazon so I thought of another Pi.

Noted, RAM is important.

Okay, so without the need of transcoding I gather a Pi 4 or 5 may actually be fine? What about the rare case I get hands on a Blu-Ray, H.264 would not work?

Noted, remote streaming will be an extra step I can tackle after I created my setup, it may easily work or may not.

How do I find out what codec a file has? I guess there is a ffmpeg command to check and also to convert?

Does that mean I can rip all my DVDs to the H.264 format to be sure all devices can play the file? Is there a disadvantage using H.264?

With remote streaming I mean of course streaming outside of my network.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaeI9YgE1o8

They are memes, they want to express that “do you also know that feeling when…” feeling. The more people can relate, the more up votes it gets. This meme community does not aim at being medically correct. That’s at least my guess, I feel the same as you.

Do it! Didn’t know the community and just subscribed. The more we can distribute across the threadiverse, the better.

Because I feel nice today, I went back to this instance to get the link for you, haven’t read it myself: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/may-day-collective-solidarity-defense-12-things-to-do-instead-of-calling-the-cops

:D

What does DNI mean?