Fuck outta here if I can’t install Windows on a 10 core i7 from 2016 lmao.
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- Please do not use a comcast.net email address to purchase a license key.
lolwtf
So from what I can gleam, I can get a 128GB flash drive and attach it to a mini embedded computer deal that supports USB booting, and then do everything I said I want to do? What do you have your flash drive attached to?
From what I saw, GE’s lights are the only ones that “just work”, and all other brands require you to install, and have running, extra stuff in the background. I haven’t yet fully dug into this whole deal, but want to soon, so clarifying my understanding of things is appreciated
I listen to very, very few things, and the things I do listen to, I have stored locally in good quality MP3s, if not FLAC, yea. There also seems to be stuff like this: https://synclounge.tv/ If you want to do the social thing, so it doesnt seem like I am totally locking myself out of the social option, so long as folks are willing to install one more piece of trash on their PC.
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ive moved it between as few devices as my needs have changed, its currently in an old gaming laptop with a 1050 in it
i have a random assortment of hard drives in it, its very customizable and ill definitely be buying it once my trial runs out
theres hundreds of plugins for all kinds of needs, i might actually be converting my main pc into an unraid server w/ dual gpus so me and my bf can run two copies of windows off the same tower
i have a lot of docker plugins for my media collections
it also supports vms so i have one of xp and w98 for playing older games
i use plex w/ the app plexamp to replace my spotify sub, i have a huge collection of definitely purchased music so its pretty nice
theres a youtuber called spaceinvader one who does amazing videos about it and if u ever get interested in setting it up i am happy to show u some Cool Apps
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Do you mean like, without a companion app for setup and configuration? I use the IKEA Zigbee bulbs and they run off of a hub (avoids interfering with wifi/bt) without the app running in the background but I’m on iOS.
By social I mean for discovery/sharing, e.g. sending people a link to a song they can immediately play, following them for their playlists, collaborating on a playlist, and so on. Where Spotify is undoubtedly #1 unless you’re exclusively talking to rich people with iPhones.
Oh. My idea of being social and sharing music is either linking to a YouTube/spotify link for the particular song I want to play, or if I want to make a full session out of it, I start a https://w2g.tv/ session and just add stuff from Youtube.
Re lights: Oh, ok, stand-alone hubs. I guess that’s a thing. Cool. I want something that can change colors too, but I am assuming there’s definitely a brand that can do that, has a hub, and is cheaper/has wider variety than the GE bulbs.
both synology and spotify are honestly very good in their respective categories imo – I am very willing to DIY Linux shit or torrent media rather than pay for it, but I both pay for spotify and have a 4 bay synology full of movies and TV (that I use entirely over SMB even, not even bothering with plex or dlna when I definitely could) that I’m very happy with. I know that there are some pretty nice music servers you can run on a Pi with an old SSD connected to it, but I haven’t had occasion to look into them.
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I’m thinking about this Unraid thing now. I’d have other things I’d want to do other than just stream media, if I do go the route of buying physical hardware/storage to run on my shelf, so having something that can do more than just host an NFS would be nice. Plus, yelling at my Google Assistant is still a very important feature in all this.
Now I’m trying to figure out how much horsepower I’d need to do all that media shit, run a Minecraft server for 5 - 10 people, and some other small random things on a mini PC, and what the least expensive/most efficient brands/models for that would be.
Depending on how elaborate you get with this it can be very expensive.
The cheapest thing to do for color are strips of RGBCCT LEDs with a Zigbee-compatible controller like this
Color bulbs start around $25 for a Chinese OEM and go up from there - I’ve found that despite having the capability for arbitrary color I typically only do different white temperatures
HMU if you want a free Hue zigbee hub. I’m sitting on a dozen of them new-in-box (don’t ask)
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buying two Pis is still much cheaper than one good hard drive, and you’ll want at least two of those in any version of this scenario, so don’t limit yourself there
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Now I’m imagining a 5x5 stack of Pi boxes sitting on a shelf in my living room, each one doing a different thing. I don’t think Pis can run Minecraft though, and that was unironically something I’ve been wanting to do now and then.
When I quarantined at my friend’s apartment, I switched them between white and blue mostly, sometimes red and green.
i used to have a pi 4 running plex, but unless u have a rly high end streaming device like a apple tv or nvidia shield it likes to try and transcode stuff and the pi is incapable of doing that, which is how i ended up looking into unraid
its perfect as a media server for a lot of other stuff tho! i had two different pis as NAS devices in the past, the usb 3.0 performance on the pi 4 makes it totally usable on the cheap
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anyway wrt Windows 11 I strongly expect them not to enforce their list of supported CPUs whether or not the TPM requirement does wind up being enforced (less sure of that one, I think they could get away with it)
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well, isn’t that some of the vista/Longhorn/Win8 shit they’ve pulled, i.e. the usual intermediate win version you skip until the next one hits?
Because it sure looks like that. Since companies are still having people on Win7 laptops experience Win10 for the first time, cannot see them move over to 11 in a year.
No clue why people are getting riled up at the moment, they want to sell their cloud stuff, and if customers cannot acces that, they get angry, and angry customers don’t like to pay, so i bank on that lever and will see whether tpm still is a thing in a few years down the road when Win11 would become a thing to upgrade to by chance, not by necessity.
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As a busy dad on the move My thought is they better not force this win11 on me that breaks half my shit because that is what a new OS does. Was just thinking “oh good feels like they’ve ironed out all the bugs in 10 and just decide to update without telling you but I guess I have made my peace with that because rverything works.”
I had to delete my profile on win10 because my start menu stopped working when I first upgraded. Then it happened again because I couldn’t open windows explorer.
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Honestly I would advise anyone who can try to make their computers back up in such a way that they can do clean installs but I know that’s a before-having-child-immediately-before-Covid thing. I’ve done the “reset but keep files/applications” thing to good results on Win10.
All of our upgrade anxiety and woes upthread largely don’t apply to people with laptops, prebuilts, or computers from work which by and large have the weird chip motherboard manufacturers treated as optional. It’s strictly just people who built their own and might have to do some small upgrades or hacks which they are generally equipped to do but it’s annoying with minimal benefit e.g. no one is going to steal my encrypted hard drives without stealing my whole 16 kg computer.
Why did I summarize my misplaced enthusiasm for this operating system? oh well it’d be a waste to delete it
There are a couple of new features that are very exciting in 11 depending on your use:
- android apps
- direct storage (similar feature to the PS5 and same feature as new Xboxes for fast I/O and loading in games)
Then there’s boring stuff that is still good for people who don’t customize the OS
- defining custom window arrangements for the snap resizing that remember application assignments
- Teams built-in so there’s a native IM/video conference app (defaults are huge for older folks if you’ve ever had to use FaceTime with a relative)
- no royalty app store so you can get/update most if not all software from a single place handled by the OS (including e.g. Adobe)
- removing a lot of bloat - paint 3D, OneNote, etc. won’t come installed out of the box
The last two are undoubtedly posturing to avoid antitrust attention but I’ll take it!
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I think it’s fair to say that enthusiasm for an operating system, especially in 2021, is real sicko behaviour, though it’s still not particularly clear to me how much they’re going to break from 10 at this rate (and speaks to why people were somewhat confused a month or two ago that there was even going to be a windows 11). it’s windows, idk. doing in-place redeploys to fix broken shit, however you need to do them (eg by toggling insider on and off) is pretty much the worst thing anyone should need to think about wrt their personal computer but it works, is relatively reproducible and doesn’t break upstream, and I will kill someone before I lose my local profile (and migrating appdata by hand is still clunkier).
will it let me move the users folder to a different drive because it seems to me that would make any crash or corruption or reinstalling windows trivial
you can do anything with symlinks
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that sounds like some command line type bullshit though
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I actually think the amount of isolation they’ve achieved between userspace and the OS that makes reinstalling windows over itself the most reliable way to fix issues with no data loss is better than it’s been in the past, and is way cleaner in principle than system restore or whatever, but it’s not how windows users think and it’s never clear to me what the officially supported way of doing it is supposed to be even when I know it works.