We should have never lost the capability to have LAN parties for all games.
this post was submitted on 03 Oct 2025
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Just yesterday I wiped the drive and installed Linux on the 3rd old PC for the LAN setup I'm putting together, literally "for the children!"
It's an i7-920 from 2008. It has TRIPLE channel ram, baby. I installed Linux Mint Cinnamon and it was as quick and painless as usual.
I already get the warm fuzzies when I walk into the room and find my 3rd grader playing on my PC instead of their tablet or even the console. Our first LAN party is gonna be sweet.
I used to dream once that I would be able to give my future son Q4OS to grow up with and if a daughter, something like PuppyOS. Alas, I'm a single 30-something guy living in his parent's basement with no real prospects of owning my own home or getting laid—so go figure. At least somebody out there is living the dream! 🤝
You're spitting rn
You still can. By setting up a VPN.
Though it doesnt bring to couch closer.
I have my own server and it's great, but the real product these streaming services sell isn't access to content—it's discoverability and recommendations. We need a better solution for that!
Yeah I use jellyseerr with jellyfin and they work great together
I need to learn more about the *arr stack.
Tbh, I pretty much never use site recommendations. I almost always learn of shows and movies via social media and memes
My entire life is Linux and self hosted, aside from Email. I may get to that one day too. Love my Plex server, even with the more recent baloney the company's apparently been up to.
I should be using Jellyfin but once I get home from work I don't want to tinker any more, I just wanna play a game or dick around.
Agree with the message in the video, these companies should be told to pound sand the minute they do a single anti-consumer thing.
I set up jellyfin recently. Haven't tinkered with it any more than plex to be fair
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The first disclaimer in the video is the most relatable thing I've read in a while
Thanks for using peer tube
Hosting email just saved the day! My ex got locked out of her email account and password resets were blocked. However she still had one “home” forwarding email configured as a recovery address, so we were able to redirect it somewhere accessible and unlock her email account!
I set up my home server, then realized my Internet is shit and my upload speeds can't even steam 1 4k movie, let alone several at once.
I am not excited to triple my monthly Internet bill for better upload speeds, but it will have to happen soon.
I'm more worried about my electricity bill tbh. Low-power devices aren't easily available and the second hand market is crap in my area.
I would gladly spend more for better (10mbit up atm) but all the upgrades get me to like 25 up and that's it. I have no incentive to spend more for basically nothing. I hate it.
Just get a service that can download the movie from ur sever and then watch it offline.
Set one up as a cache of things you like. Have it fetch things with punch flat and filter out the ads. Then you can watch whatever you want even after Google takes it down for no reason.
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Agreed. It's time my occasional minecraft/PZomboid server got a nextcloud upgrade.
I just have my old PC's running Linux connected directly to the tv or projector.
I use a super basic webdav server or free ^arr^ ^matey^ streaming sites.
I sometimes sftp into devices.
That's my setup.
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Every time I spin one up. I spend weeks setting things and playing with it. And then never use it again until I get bored and rebuild it.
How beneficial is connecting via ethernet instead of wifi? My wifi mesh pods only have 1 ethernet out port, so I use it for my desktop. Not sure if I could split it or not, but I imagine if I did it'd slow down my desktop's internet connection, which I'd rather not do.
I can't be sure since technology has so many different factors, but splitting a single Ethernet out into multiple with a network switch won't really affect it much if at all. Cat5e cable/jack (common for most cables) gets 1 gigabit, so unless you have a gigabit connection and maxing out the connections already, you shouldn't notice it.
As for WiFi, even though a lot of newer technology is great, it's not going to beat Ethernet.
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A switch won't slow anything at home.
It's super cheap and literally plug and play.
Cool video and cool shirt! Is it sewn if it is it's even cooler!?
Oh and im right now trying to figure out how to get access from anywhere to my Jellyfin and Navidrom (oh I learnd that docker.yml is soo friciking easy to set up. I donno why I didn't do it to Jellyfin anyway…) server (not only from home network) I even installed Tailscale but im not so technical. Still. Video is very cool and I will try this photo digital album for my family. My grandma will be amazed for sure! Again cool video you seem very interesting dude!
My cool Docker icon lolz
Dad said we're getting a sourcebox!
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