stupid_asshole69 [none/use name]

First of all: get rid of the broken ones. You’re not doing anything with the running systems, so there’s no need to hang on to the ones that don’t run.

Next, make a list of the things you want to do and start doing them.

If you’re worried about power consumption, don’t be. If you’re still worried about power consumption, get an inline watt meter (a kill-a-watt), take some measurements, do the math and feel at ease. If you don’t feel at ease, look up wake on lan. You can have powered down computers turn back on when they get a packet so you don’t need to worry about power consumption.

When you feel like you’ve done enough stuff, get rid of the computers you’re not using.

Atop, btop, htop, top.

If that’s not good enough sar.

If that’s not good enough, set up cacti.

When you realize none of that stuff is actually helping you, journalctl and grep.

The zone has become dangerous

I have both and I use both.

The big benefit from mullvad is that you can get anonymous much easier, it’s easier to ditch an account and it’s harder for you to screw it up. People get mad about proton turning over metadata to authorities or suspending account access but they’re required to do that by law if they can identify the accounts. The structure of what proton offers requires that they have some way of verifying who a user is, so if you’re okay with being able to be identified if someone really tries (or doesn’t really try that hard if you give them payment information or something) then proton is fine for you.

Air is a good cheap vpn for piracy. If you wanna take the maybe smarter route of using separate services for your own privacy and for piracy that’s what I’d do.

No, also the browser is the thing that gets breached. It would be like bricking up all your windows so no one could break them and get in your house but only having a screen door in front.

Yes technically the browser alone is a “reduced attack surface”, but it’s reduced by .001%.

Switch to 21h2 ltsc iot.

Don’t worry about swap, you’ll be fine unless you’re usually working with huge chunks of data like big 4k video files or something.

The firewall built into mint is the kernels included nftables the same one built into Debian and Ubuntu (I think, I don’t fw Ubuntu). It’s fine. Don’t touch it. When you need to mess with it you can figure out how to open ports or split routes or whatever really easy because there’s lots of documentation out there.

Putting everything in your home folder is fine. Programs will install automatically to /bin or /usr/bin or something like that and if you want them in your home directory you could make a ~/.bin/ directory and add it to your path and have your private programs there, but:

Stop using flatpaks or snaps unless it’s your only choice! You have a built in package manager with decades of testing and development behind it and a very capable team of maintainers who watch over the packages, use that instead! That’s why they say not to use the snap store, it’s a vector for using Joes Weird Program that no one has tried before and requires Joes Special Version of a normal system library.

Use your package manager.

You’re not at the point where you understand enough to do the stuff in the linux hardening guide without making decisions that unexpectedly cause you pain somehow. That’s not an insult, sometimes you just don’t recognize the “universal” symbols for engine oil as opposed to coolant and ruin your car by the side of the road because you just don’t know. You can learn that stuff later, but it’s best not to mess with it yet. Speaking of:

If you don’t have a backup solution setup and you haven’t recovered using it and aren’t periodically checking to make sure it’s still running right, turn off disk encryption. It’s much harder, sometimes impossible, to recover data off an encrypted disk. If you don’t have a backup and you don’t know how you’d access the files on the disk without booting the computer then turn disk encryption off.

Everyone, the ops post has been edited and is clear.

Thank you for your attention in this matter.

Man, they out here spackin any old game nowadays.

Op if you like Goldberg so much why don’t you get tazed?

Tell me too, I want to spack my game!

If you have the money to buy a synology of some sort squared away, here’s how to make something better(?) for a fraction of the price:

Buy a used drive shelf. It’s the part in a server rack with all the drives in it. It plugs into a sas card to move data around and into a network switch to be managed. Get one with all the drive sleds present - $2-3 hundred for one that can take about 24 3.5” drives.

Buy some cheap sff pc. These things are everywhere and they have all you need for a little server. Favor cores over threads, 16gb of ram is more than enough but you can easily add more later. anything in the seventh or eighth generation of intel chips or later is fine. ~$30

If your sff pc has a second Ethernet port, that’s cool! It’s okay if it doesn’t, but if you want the option of a management subnet then you can add one in a half height pcie for almost no money.

Another option is a video card to handle decoding media. When you stream some crap to your tv or set top box or whatever, it needs to be decoded. Most of the time those CPUs are tough enough to do the job but for 4 or 8k media using recent encoding schemes, a half height video card is useful. What’s nice here is media decoding is insanely solved as a problem, so a $50 card will be overkill as long as it natively supports your target formats.

Buy a hba card and the wires to connect it to your drive shelf. You want a half height hba with external connectors that are the same or later in spec than your drive shelf. You can get sas wires that are terminated for 80xx on one end and 86xx on the other end. $50-100 for the card, $20 for the wires.

Plug it all up, put in your drives, install whatever dumb software you wanna use and you’re off to the races with the capacity to use 24 disks for 300-450.

The downside:

You have to have somewhere to put it. You’d need somewhere to put your synology too, but a relatively quietly humming shelf of drives that would look more at home in an industrial environment belongs in the closet, not on the same credenza some people like to put their synology.

You’re actually responsible for it. There are fewer guardrails and if you don’t make backups you can just lose data or end up with a broken system. You’re already using a system you’re responsible for though, so this would just be a bigger better version of what you have that doesn’t go into conniptions like rpi type beats does.

Some thoughts on your replies itt:

Pick something and go: you want to move away from capture one, but don’t want to lose the functionality or access to in process edits. Think it over with pen and paper in hand, figure out what you could live without and what you could stand to lose and then choose a piece of software and Just Do It. You’re trying to find a way to keep going the way you’ve been going even though you just said you don’t like it and have prior experience that informed your dislike. Kick the bad habit for yourself.

It’s not as hard as you think: anything on Apple silicon supports running other oses in built in virtualization environment. The thing you feel is too complex literally has first party support. I can say from experience that it works.

You aren’t resilient: it sounds like you don’t have a plan for if your computer were compromised. This is actually a bigger deal than the above. When you get a chance, take the time to figure out how you would recover from some kind of bullshit. It’s worth it.

They have a tos that lets them collect data. There have been some high profile breaches where users didn’t run firmware updates and got their employers wrecked.

You might have a bigger problem than the rpi4 if you can’t decode an mp3. What’s your system like?

Kokoro claims to have Spanish. Here’s a link to the voices list and flags from their page:

https://huggingface.co/hexgrad/Kokoro-82M/blob/main/VOICES.md#spanish

That’s normal. What could you possibly be doing over tor that five million bits per second isn’t fast enough?

Why would you remove them?

Mpd

No keep going I just need one more square to turn “non-western hosting”, “free”, “mysterious”, “only used by Indians” into a malware bingo!

Use yt-dlp with a cookies file and your liked videos playlist like @RinseChessBacked@lemmy.ml said.

Use yt-dlp with the -U flag to make sure it’s updated. The default settings are best audio and video quality. If you wanna get just the audio, install ffmpeg according to the instructions on the yt-dlp page (download ffmpeg and unpack it somewhere, tell yt-dlp where it is with the path-tp-ffmpeg flag) and tell yt-dlp what format you want.

You do not need to use a website or gui. They are all based on yt-dlp anyway and are often old, outdated and have wrong settings. Literally just use yt-dlp all other offered solutions are incorrect.

My response: you can figure it out! Just try a little! Don’t ask such cop ass questions, also ddl is the realm of non-English stuff.

You: unsavory!