Checks out. But also Military Industrial Complex.
klangcola
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Some key points regarding Proxmox:
- Even if you only want to run two services, you still want to keep them isolated. This can save you much pain and frustration in the future when they require upgrades
- Proxmox let's you easily manage VM and LXC containers. So you can easily manage backups, or spinning up a separate test instance of your service. Which again, can save you pain and frustration when it comes to future updates of your services.
- Backups are even better if you can deploy the separate Proxmox Backup Server
- Should you ever want to add another service in the future, you can test it out in a new VM or container without it affecting your existing services at all
- ZFS is indeed quite memory hungry, but AFAIK it's mainly used for the read cache, and can be tuned to use less RAM at the cost of performance
- ZFS is mentioned a lot because it's good, but Proxmox also supports a range of other storage technologies: LVM, mdraid, EXT4, CEPH
- Proxmox is just standard Debian and KVM/QEMU virtual machines under the hood. Which means you can use standard tooling and workflow should you need it for some edgecase.
- You mentioned Jellyfin in a container: My understanding is that Jellyfin in Docker has some extra limitations or complexities when it comes to hardware encoding.
- Jellyfin also has official documentation for how to deploy in LXC container and get HW transcoding working (Less complex than in Docker).
- LXC containers are not like Docker containers. While a Docker container is meant to be an immutable image of a (single) application, LXC is more like a full fledged VM, but without the overhead of virtualization. LXC containers are full systems, and you install software via the usual apt, dnf etc
- The "correct" way to run Docker in Proxmox is to run Docker in a Virtual machine. Installing Docker inside a LXC container is also possible, with some caveats. Installing Docker directly on the Proxmox host is not recommended
For reference, my oldest Proxmox server is a 2013 AMD dualcore 16GB DDR2 ram with VMs on LVMthin on a single SSD, with legacy VM doing mdraid of 3 HDDs using hardware passthrough. Performance is still OK, the overhead from Proxmox is negligible compared to strain from the actual workloads
"QR & Barcode scanner" is Free an Open Source, and supports what you want (if i understood you correctly) https://github.com/wewewe718/QrAndBarcodeScanner
Looks like it's not been updated in a while, but it works just fine. Available on F-Droid and on Google Play
On Windows the system wakes up when connected or disconnected from an AC adapter.
Does it? I could sweat my work laptop (windows 10) doesn't , and I'm pretty sure I'd notice cause I sleep and move it a lot during a working day.
Is it a windows 11 thing? Or something to do with the so-called "hybrid sleep / hybrid boot"? (Pretty sure that's disabled by corporate, and for friends and family I always disable that when their laptop goes in a boot crash loop). Does BitLocker matter ?
What if you put your laptop to sleep cause youre done using it and intend to pack up. Then you unplug it and put it in your backpack?
Oh cool, didn't know you could do that
Ah, I didn't even consider ads in the UI would be a thing. How disgusting
Regarding DRM, Netflix (and probably others) require the Widewine library to play back DRM content. This works perfectly fine on a normal Ubuntu PC, but does not work on the Pi because the library does not support ARM, only x86.
So Id just get any normal PC. Used enterprise mini PCs can be had for quite cheap, and they are small and efficient, and high quality. Search for HP, Dell or Lenovo mini PCs , or 1 litre PCs.
None at all? If so how? My friends with Apple TV get an obnoxious amount of ads in their YouTube app for example.
There is one potential (small) hurdle you should be aware off: Secure Boot.
Basically some laptops came with Secure Boot locked to only allow booting Windows. These days Linux distros should still be able to boot even if the laptop was windows-only back then (thanks to the so-called shim bootloader). If you get an error about secure boot, just go in to BIOS/UEFI menu and disable secure boot for now (after installing Linux you can google the steps to enroll a key to re-enable Secure Boot).
Beyond that, just flash a USB stick with Linux Mint, boot the laptop, smash the keyboard to find the button for BIOS menu or Boot Device selection, then follow the installer. Installing Linux should take less than an hour. Way less if your computer is fast.
Next time I buy a plane it will definitely be an Airbus and not a Boeing.