Yes.

This is my preferred one. Just paste one command into a powershell console to run it.

https://github.com/Raphire/Win11Debloat

Run a Win11 debloat script. It will remove a lot of privacy-invading windows components.

Apart from that, install a browser that isn’t Chrome, and use an ad blocker.

Don’t install any garbage that gives the Uni IT department any control over the device.

Way to stand up to the man!

The inbuilt VPN is a red flag. A VPN isn’t private unless you own the server. It’s channeling all your data through a third party. They could be watching it in the same way your ISP can.

She’s the woman who kept the dream alive.

That sounds like a bit of a ride. I just selfhosted everything. There’s still things tied to my gmail, and probably always will be. However they’re not seeing the important stuff like medical, school, banking and services.

NGL; selfhosting is quite a commitment too. Especially for email. There are a lot of hoops to get trust as a server, and full text search took me years to get working right. Hosting a keepass database on a personal webserver is not as convenient, but there’s 100% control.

I inherently don’t trust any company that sells trust or privacy as a product. I’ll only fully trust open source software running on my own metal.

I wonder if anyone ever wrote an update aggregator that would find all package managers, containers and git repos and whatnot and just do all of them.

Some are a right pain to update, such as Nextcloud. Installing a monthly update should not feel like an enterprise prod deployment.

It’s kinda ironic that package managers have caused the exact problem that they are supposed to solve.

So, ChatGPT can’t match any function of a Casio wristwatch. I’m concerned that when it can, it will consume the power of microwaving a turkey just to tell a user what time it is.

We need to lock him in a cell then flood it with shit.

GrapheneOS and LineageOS don’t ship with any Google services at all, so Google’s policies shouldn’t affect them.

I just peel it under running cold water. Fast and easy.

That’s about the same as Australia. It’s $2.50/L and AUD is typically close to CAD.

Ahh. That’s usually among the red stuff in dmesg. I glad to hear you solved it, but a failing hard drive is a pricey thing to endure these days.

This is no different to the meta pixel localhost listener exploit.

This is absurd. They know we can go all the way to the root servers, don’t they?

Just start listening to dubstep and you’ll stop noticing 😆.

Maybe run lm-sensors and make sure the CPU/GPU isn’t being thermothrottled? I’d usually look at dmesg and look for red stuff. Any hardware issues are usually pretty obvious.

Try other apps. If you youtube or VLC behaves the same, the problem may be outside of jellyfin. If not, it narrows it down.

If could even be the server not being able to transcode in realtime. Try watching a file known to already be in a suitable format. It should direct stream and be much less load on the server. I’ve seen server encode CPU saturation and it does kinda look the same as client decode stutter. If it’s the server, you’ll probably see the same stutter from another device such as a phone.

There’s a “minimal” install that gives you a bare desktop. The only thing I would consider bloatware is snapd.

Agreed. It’s an uphill optimization battle. We’re now in a world where you need 6GB RAM to chat on Discord while scrolling Facebook.

Ubuntu and its apps (particularly Firefox) are incredibly efficient and respects your hardware resources. I can write a web page with a 5MB RAM footprint. It’s when you open the New York Times that your swapfile gets face-slapped.

Funnily enough, an Ubuntu server will run on a half-eaten potato. I’ve got 16GB in mine, and I’m running servers for LAMP (Nextcloud and Wordpress), NTP, Samba, Mail, Jellyfin, tor, XMPP, CUPS and a few other things. It typically uses around 2GB at idle.

They’re keeping their options open in case they want to switch sides halfway through the war.