Hi, my name is, what? My name is, who? My name is, chka-chka, Thin LVM

I’m aware, but that’s not what this article is about.

Well I’m not your boyfriend but I’d enjoy the act of sharing my knowledge and exploring distros with my partner much more than her telling me she went online to talk to a bunch of strangers about something I have an interest/knowledge of.

Also be aware that if this is your first time installing a new os you should assume you will lose all the files on your computer in the process, back up what you care about.

If you have a job or are student you’ll know that using Linux usually results in a direct increase in corporate tech support battles.

If your doing this for him then why not just ask him to help you choose a distro and show you how it works?

It’s probably not but if all the system admins are using vault warden at home then they may consider using vaultwarden at work and that would cost bitwarden money.

This is a guide for getting the rstp back for some of the wyse cameras. I haven’t used it myself https://houndhillhomestead.com/using-wyze-cam-v3s-with-frigate/. Someone else recommended thingno which I have read works but also haven’t tried.

One of the reasons wifi is discouraged is for anyone who lives in an apartments or even units, the wifi channels often very crowded. If you live in your own house it’s less of an issue but they still generate continual traffic. Having to punch through a few walls, as they will probably have to do if you are sitting them up outside, will have an effect too. As will the weather.

There are many tricks to running cable between floors. If you have down lights you can pop them out then use a bit of yellow tongue to poke between the holes, running the cable from light to light. most modern houses use pozi trusses for floor support and they have many openings for running services.

Or if you own the house just cut a few holes in the plaster. Patching and painting one ceiling not that big of a job and you’ll be able to use the same cameras for years and years instead of replacing when the battery dies.

If you get a PoE switch many cameras are designed to be run off of the power it can supply over an Ethernet cable. So you just have to run the Ethernet cable (pretty easy).

Also you can get splitters that will break that PoE cable into one Ethernet and a 12v barrel jack for cameras that are not designed to use PoE directly.

I can’t stress enough how much better a direct connection is than wifi, but understand that sometimes it is the only option.

Other benefits include simply unplugging the camera from the switch if it freezes up as this effectively switches it off (this can be done remotely if you have a managed switch.) and obviously higher quality, more stable streams.

Have a look through the frigate documentation before buying a device to run it. It needs some kind of gpu to process the frames for object identification. The most economical one in my opinion is a something intel 8th gen or higher like a hp elite desk mini pc that has a 2.5in sata slot with the igpu and ideally a proper spinning hdd for the recording as it is constantly being written to and an ssd will burn out faster.

If you want a local camera system you need a NVR (Networked Video Recorder). These have Ethernet ports and’s you connect security cameras to them over Ethernet, they record, store and allow you to view the footage.

A DVR does the same thing but will use a video signal to record, maybe coax or component. These are getting a bit old and also have lower limits on how far the video signal can travel than an NVR but work and are cheaper, many offer network access to view the cameras and recordings.

If you are looking at budget options you can use the software FrigateNVR. It is an open source NVR software designed to work with any camera that uses standard protocols (and many that don’t thanks to the active community). Including wireless cameras although everyone in the community recommends avoiding wireless cameras unless have no other options.

You will be able to use your wyze cameras will frigate.

Almost all IP Cameras, especially the cheap one are considered compromised and open to easy hacking. It is important to isolate them on their own VLAN, if you really care about privacy so they can only talk to your NVR.

It is important to remember security cameras are cameras and need light to perform, especially in the dark. If you need a camera to perform in no light situations you either rely on its own lights which will illuminate maybe 5-10m, and external light source like a flood light or you have a larger camera sensor that can drink in the ambient light for decent quality (this last option will only come from a camera that costs 200-300USD.

A cheap 4k (8mp) camera will perform worse in low light than a cheap 6mp as they often have the same size sensor.

Look, I’m not going to lie to you.

I coughed up the $7 for an extra month. it all seems to be there.

hot dangit you are correct. I read somewhere when searching that they trash it pretty quickly.

Sounds like a good time to deploy a bunch of small raspberry pi vpn nodes at local libraries and other free wifi spots. I don’t know enough about ip to know if they can track you past that first hop

Some people feel its easier to have one for 4k and one for HD content. If you use overseer it allows you to designate 4k and HD versions of sonarr and radarr. Then you can give your users granular permissions around them.

Perhaps you would let them download whatever they want without approval in HD but if they want 4k they must wait for you to approve the request.

There is also no consensus on how to handle animated shows and live action. Some people recommend having a separate sonar instance with much lower quality definitions for animation others say you can make it work with custom formats and profiles.

Yes good clarification, TRaSH is almost synonymous with *arr in my head, but there is a chance someone got to this point without running into them.

Nb I use prowler to manage my indexers and point sonar/radarr at prowler but similar options should be available though sonar And radar.

You can limit the amount of queries and grabs your client will try per amount of time for each indexer. It is under advanced settings on the indexer page once you select an indexer.

This isn’t really a problem when you are just downloading one or two series but is a problem when you first start out and are downloading everything under the sun. Try limiting to 10 queries and grabs per hour for now. Might be a good idea to pause all requests for 24 hours as well as your ip may be temporarily flagged.

And yes I use flare solver for 1337

I also vaguely remember needing to have an account on ru tracker to make it work but it was all in Russian, and no English option I think. I had to use the browser auto translate

Use kickass.to, but they are just mirrors of each other.

I’d recommend setting up prowler now so you don’t have to do it all twice and if you want to spin up another radar or sonar later it’s easy to cover all your indexers.

Not sure about therarbg I can’t seem to add it either, despite having it as an active tracker.

What kind of errors? Usually issues are to do with incorrect quality profiles and custom formats.

If you don’t understand those then just follow the trash guides to the letter to start with.

To answer your actual question I use use the basics. Eztv, 1337, therarbg and kickass torrents. I rarely have any problems downloading mainstream stuff.

My silly reason is when it comes down to business the ms office suite works the best out of any office suite.

Sure that is because Microsoft spends more time making it incompatible with any other editors than actually developing decent software but that doesn’t change the fact that I can’t trust people on the other end of the email to perform even one step of troubleshooting if the document doesn’t open for them on the first try.

I feel like we shouldn’t call them “admin rights”, it implies you should automatically get them.

My mum used to say “it’s a privilege, not a right” when I was young and I reflect on that when she calls me up because she can’t install some virus on her laptop without my password and I explain that the system is performing as expected.

Just adding my own experience, Nextcloud AIO runs plenty fast for just me (family is slow adopters) but its simple user interface is slowly working for them.

I run it in an LXC with access to two cores of an i7-9700 and 4gb of ram.

All the files are stored on an old usb2 external hdd.

Obviously that set up won’t scale well and the hdd will be the first bottleneck but I notice no performance issues and as a shameful windows user the way it ties in like OneDrive is great.

I can also just mount it as a network share for my Linux computer.

I do use the calendars and other features though.