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Debian doesn’t advertise in your terminal or install snaps instead of packages.

Canonical also pushes the boundary on what’s acceptable in the Linux community and tends to not play nicely with others if they don’t get to control projects. Not necessarily Microsoft 90s bad, but they’re kind of like that spoiled kid on the playground who will only play the games they want to play and won’t share the playground ball if they get to it first.

So for me, it’s more of a philosophical choice than a functional choice. Debian is more barebones in my experience, which is good and bad depending on your experience level.

Our new dog chewed up the Ethernet cable from my modem to my router while I was at work (well, commuting to) the other day. She found the only exposed 6 inches of it and went to town. Everything runs through the router. I had also just re-done some music library file structures and reset my downloaded songs right before leaving, assuming it would queue up and fill up the cache as I went about my day. Something I hadn’t done for over two years, but I wanted a music library so we could put calming music on for the pup that wouldn’t end up in my carefully curated library.

I have my music app set to pre-cache 10 songs, and ended up with 12 songs downloaded, so somewhere around 5-10 minutes after I started playing music on my commute was when the tasty cable was discovered. That was an excruciating day, listening to the same 12 songs over and over again.

Lesson learned about single points of failure in a new way. The worst part was I got a message about it from my fiancé when I got to work, so I knew what happened and there was nothing I could do about it. I just got to look at the world’s strongest firewall all day long.

Yes, and works on android 6, which is getting to be quite rare these days.

Rpis are great for always on things with low power use but not if you have many low power use things. But you would really be feeling that 1GB of ram, and microSDs kind of suck to run off of. I would honestly save the $25 and put it toward one of the $100 tiny/mini/micros.

I would not steer you away from an RPI if you don’t have one, they are very useful and fun, but if you’re looking for learning about self hosting, you’re probably going to end up getting something more powerful anyway

The Le Potato AML-S905X-CC has h.264 and h.265 decoders up to 4k, emmc connector So you don’t have to run off an SD card. I’ve used it as a media player and its pretty damn solid. I can’t speak to streaming games because I don’t do that, so I don’t know if it’s a different format. It does not have a powerful processor, so if the stream is encoded differently I wouldn’t expect it to be very good.

Its pretty old, around rpi3 performance, but having the decoders in there make it better than the RPI 4 for playing those types of videos.

Here’s what he said with more of the transcript, since everyone seems to be afraid of anything larger than 5 second sound bites:

And again, most people would stand there at 9 o’clock in the evening and say I want to thank you very much, and they go off to some other life. But I said something’s wrong here, something is really wrong, can have happened.

And we fight. We fight like hell. And if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore.

That sounds like encouraging a riot to me.

For me, unattended-upgrade does it’s thing. Updating other packages happens whenever I think about it. Very few things are not containerized and there’s very little added beyond the base Debian install, so when I do update its maybe a dozen packages.

I would previously reboot during thunderstorms if we lost power, but now that I’ve got a UPS I probably ought to come up with a different plan.

Having just dealt with something similar from Linux to windows, I’m 97% sure this is the cause. Mine was a “same file name” issue because capitalization.

Also, it could be a temp file or hidden file that’s created by a program, like the recovery files made by libreoffice/word. They sometimes use weird characters.