


Graphic designer, home labber, food junkie. I break expensive things. I usually can’t fix them.





Grok, undress that carrot!


I have a Frame connected to an Apple TV. I’ve never let the Frame online to do anything. Its been perfect so far. The day it sneaks itself online through some means is the day it will probably go in the trash. I can’t even begin to imagine the amount of sludge it would download and wrap itself in if given half the chance.


Damn the man, save the Empire.


Then we get the actual capacity we need at the prices we can afford. Our power grid is disappointing. All that “extra capacity” could stop the random brown outs, rate spikes, and provide some extra capacity for the future.
I used to buy mine from Art of the Server off eBay. Came ready to go.


I run proxmox on my server, VMs within that. It has an excellent backup service built in (not the proxmox backup server, that’s separate) that you can set a schedule for and it keeps to it. Very customizable, all my backups (tested monthly) have restored fine for the past few years. If you’re looking for something to run your homelab, I highly recommend it.


I’m going to say this now before anything happens: backup, backup, and backup. Make multiple copies, store them different places. Please dear god backup your data, because no one else will.


Long term side effects include:


A Bill Paxton reference is a good reference.


“To have a child is to give fate a hostage.”


I’ve said it before, but I’ll believe a corporation is a person when Texas executes ones.


I do have a fair amount of music on there. I am able to get to white zombie using the arrows on the side to scroll through the list of artists.


I’ve been using it and have had zero problems so far. Just scrolled down to find White Zombie the other day.
Unfortunately I have no solutions for you. All I can tell you is that I’m running the latest version of PLEX, and iOS 17 on an iPhone 13 mini, and I plug into CarPlay using the USB to Lightning Plug cord. Not sure if any of that info is helpful for comparison.