FYI, ultrasonic can download music as offline. So I can do online+partial offline for multiple users.

Mp3fs is new to me, kind of interesting. I need more context in here though.

Why do we need to reduce bandwidth here? Is the client mobile and you are not at home?

Why not sshfs? Or using something like ultrasonic + subsonic server?

Totally agree. On the other hands, cheap laptop for us.

My concern is we are solving a wrong problem from the beginning.

GNU/Linux is an OS designed by hackers for hackers(at least in my age). The target users should be admin, not end users like grandma. That’s why Linux desktop is never mainstream despite our community put so much effort on the user experience (but the effort has not wasted)

Before you yell at me, on the other hand, android (shipped with Linux kernel) has a great success because it’s dummy proof design. Even a 2 years old can mess around tablets by his/her own. We can invent million theories, argue and hate each other all days. But there is only one fact. The fact is that mainstream users enjoy the fruit of open source is brought by Android from tablets. Unfortunately, tablets’ gui toolkit is dominated by big corps.

When do we start to put focus on gui toolkit for tablets? We did try, but far away than enough. When do we able to admit new generation use tablets way more than desktop? Seeing the open source communities keep heading the wrong direction make me sad.

In server and gpu world, true. Laptop, desktop world. Not really. Most ppl don’t need that much computational power anyway.

Also, ppl usually not include the shipping, collecting ewaste and recycling ewaste in the carbon footprint cost. Our ewaste recycling is extremely inefficient compared to our manufacturing side.

For power, solar becomes so cheap now.

My rimworld works fine in my 10+ yrs old ddr3 desktop. Amd or Nvidia gpu are all fine. Spend more on ram for Linux built. The estimate lifespan of my new desktop is 10 yrs.

Linux gaming experience is okish. You really have to chk the compatibility because some games claim they support Linux, but not really.

Not trying to blame anyone, I just wish more ppl prefer old good stuff over new cheap stuff. Sigh.

Recycling those ewaste is a lot more expensive than manufacturing them. Of course that’s edge cases, but I think reusing old devices works better(and more environmentally friendly) for most ppl.

Nothing wrong with brain storming, just please consider reusing old devices when you start a cool project.

Ppl actually moved away from helm because lots of small helm chart is abandoned. And lots of ppl’s matrix already integrated with oidc. I prefer desktop app and mobile app. Haven’t looked into web ui. The real problem for matrix is the bridges: support is minimal, lots of trial and err; code is in beta, make me worried.

Even without ess or this helm chart, lots of ppl can still run matrix in k8s. But it’s good to see them to release more open source code. Thx for the news.

I would worry about your bandwidth, network infrastructure, security and even electrical bill wayyy before your Linux choices.

Exposing your data and services are dangerous without domain knowledge. In terms of storage space and bandwidth, vps are wayy under charge. However, learning experience is also valuable. Have fun.

Kodi suits you better in your case. Jellyfin is cool though

Reading how-tos(may be the source code too) are all you needed. No need to listen random stuff from some random YouTubers. Ppl can read that time. Books and magazines did exist.

Looks professional. I am always wondered if any video editor is client server based and/or api driven based.

For example, if the video editor can directly use tlmy server’s disk io and gpu instead of my desktop one, so my desktop client is only for controlling. Non concurrent multi users across network would be awesome.

If we can build a simple video by using APIs then fine-tune the project by using video editor, that would also awesome.

Zim has plugins

I think we actually have similar conclusion.

1. We do agree blender has been achieved a lot, but it’s an unfair and uphill battle.

2. I never claimed blender has not been used by real studios. But the market share for blender is bad, ~3% according to my quick search. And it’s probably not from big studios. If we love something, I think we also have to be unbiased, so we can improve it.

My point is that instead of blaming the blender team, we should cherish how much blender team has been achieved and offered in this harsh territory.

Good for you. Lucky guy/girl.

Good things for blender is the community is really strong and friendly. And lots of free high quality tutorials in YouTube and even in other streaming platform. Go donuts. We should cherish what the community have built and achieved.

Of course I took a look. I like pixelfed’s comment feature, but it lacks other features from immich and photo prism. Pixelfed is also written from php. I don’t know how many new developers will learn php and contribute to pixelfed. Thanks for the recommendation though.

I am more interested a self hosted Instagram solutions. I wish immich supports comments and emoji.

While I think some comments are true in general for other aspect of open source software zones, blender is a special case.

The target audience for blender are artists for movie, video and games. And these industries are very capital intensive and highly regulated by limited distributors. If you tell ppl you can only do blender instead of maya or other big names, it’s like a programmer tells ppl he can only do perl. Good luck for finding a job. Just like programming industry without microservice architecture, if the whole team use one language, you have to use that. Just do a job search.

Game engine is similar. If you don’t use unity or unreal. No aaa game for you. (Indie games are better in my personal opinion) So game assets made by blender is always second citizens.

Because of the above factors, third parties market place products’ price are always low. It’s good for buyers, but sucks for indie sellers. Compare the catalog between blender market place and daz3d’s market place.

Universities will only teach products like maya instead of blender, just like java. Policy makers don’t care about the best interest of students. Their policy is usually only outdated. Why java? They should only allow to use Nokia.

Unlike games, you can hardly try the indie route for movie. It’s either go big or go die. When do you see a blender movie being shown in your local cinema?

blender is the only free less professional choice. The problem is their target audience is so broke.

Maybe we should be glad about it