Don’t forget about PCIe expansion. Just yesterday I got a FireWire PCIe card for 20€ to transfer old DV tapes to digital with no quality loss. Plug the card in and you’re done. To get the same result on a laptop I’d need a Thunderbolt port and two adapters, one of which isn’t manufactured anymore and goes for 150€+ on secondhand stores.

PS. I would remove “CPU heating” from your system if I were you :)

This comment made me go down the kio rabbit hole, how does I not know this exists? I can’t wait to try some of these, even if I was using some without realising (like smb://). Browsing a filesystem through SSH or using audiocd:/ to rip a disc in the format I want… sounds almost too good to be true. KDE never stops getting better.

Looks great, maybe this will convince me to setup a music server to free up space on my phone :) One question, does it support browsing by album artist instead of just artist? I organise my music with Picard which moves features to the artist tag, which breaks up albums when using just the artist view. Great work either way

You can also press alt+. multiple times to cycle through all recent arguments

Definitely recommend this approach, listenbrainz end-of-year recaps are quite similar to Spotify. Plus their tagging tool is great

Samsung SSDs seem fine, I actually use one of the cheap SATA ones as a boot drive, but they had a firmware bug a while ago that destroyed 990 and 980 pro NVMe SSDs. And I dislike Samsung in general so I’d rather not buy from them if I can avoid it.

Great. What SSDs are worth buying then? Kioxia? Solidigm? Never going to buy WD, Samsung is on my shit list too but if there’s no other options left…

edit: just read that solidigm also exited the consumer business at the start of the 2025, amazing

The ISP gives their modem/router an internal IP and routes traffic through their datacenter to them and other customers via one shared public address. Also IPv6 is not always an option, I had to activate it on my ISP’s website but it was useless in the end because I can’t get an IPv6 address on my phone

Just checked out 7 digital, seems to have a decent library but the pricing is weird… I looked at a 3 track release and it costs 8,79€ for the whole thing, or 0,99€ for each track 🤔

They added that a while ago for all users on Android 12 and up

Couldn’t you just reinstall windows with an older ISO to bypass this? That’s what I already do at work anytime I need to setup a new machine, gets rid of the manufacturer supplied programs bloatware. Plus Rufus has an option for triggering the bypass command automatically.

This was in the related articles: https://www.tomshardware.com/peripherals/printers/brother-denies-firmware-blocks-third-party-toner-and-ink-use

And I believe them. The reddit post in Rossman’s video was 3 years old. I have personally installed and updated 5 Brother printers in the last year and they all still run on 3rd-party toner.

Yeah, really depends on what kind of music you listen to. I guess I’m lucky in that regard, since most artists I listen to have their music on BC ^^

If you really need to download the music on your phone you could use the website. I just organise everything on my PC then copy the files over… But I agree that it would be nice to have DRM free downloads on the app

I feel I should mention Bandcamp, which gives 70% of a sale directly to the artist. In the music world that’s a lot. All DRM free and in most audio formats you could want. My process when buying music is usually: bandcamp > qobuz (or similar) > if all else fails… use other means. I’ll also skip step one and two depending on the artist :p

Guaguin is a sudoku-like puzzle game that I enjoy a ton. Instead of the usual 9-block square, this has random shapes with a number and a math operator on them. The goal is to have no repeating digits on rows/columns, and each block needs its mathematical problem to be solved. For example a block labeled 20x needs to filled so that all the numbers inside of it multiply to 20.

Play Store

F-Droid

Ah, I misunderstood then, I thought the linux option still had a win key on it and that it was different in some other way. Thanks for clarifying

The linux keyboard has a Windows key?? What’s special about it then, that makes it a linux keyboard and not a windows one?

I’ll echo the rest of the comments and say Debian with docker. I use podman myself but the setup should be similar enough. I used the official Jellyfin guide from their wiki and got everything working in a day, including transcoding.

Probably a laser printer, keeping warm to be ready to print as soon as it gets a job. My laser printer (also Samsung) draws nearly 1000w after a cold start.