Well, I don’t know anything about hooking it up to a streaming service, but I would personally really suggest the overboard way you mentioned tbh. Just set up qbittorrent with a few choice plugins (I literally just have 1337x and that has not failed me yet) and use that PC you mentioned (HDD size permitting) to run a small media server of whatever you’d like. Sorry if that is really not what you want, I’ve just found it to be the best media setup personally.

It’s really not, until it is. I personally see it as a fallback infrastructure for redundency if Tor, VPNs, Bittorrent, etc. go dark. But other than that, no, it doesn’t really serve much of a purpose rn.

Thx, I’ll check it out

I didn’t assume anything, I simply just didn’t even think about power states when using the laptop.

This quote has been yoinked. I need it on a shirt tbh.

You, and only you, may be forgiven. For I am feeling merciful at this time and you asked so nicely bimbimboy.

Yes, that’s why I chose the distro I chose, and why this was not a serious post were I was actually upset, I enjoy learning and reading, I just wanted to make a post about suspend bc it has made me happy. I am also aware the bios battery does nothing once it’s booted, once it’s booted the performance is the same as it has always been. So I assumed the cmos battery is dying, but not dead enough to lose settings yet.

No, it’s not different, I just use Arch and have no power menu anymore, nor did I usually close my laptop lid while I was still planning to use it. I usually just powered it down fully because it used to start very fast, but I think the laptop bios battery is dying or something, because it turns on much slower now than it did before. So finding the actual command that triggers the suspend state was so epic, because I can script and bind it now.

Niri actually ^_^

Who closes their laptop?
Edit for clarity: /j

Just got this set up and it works like a charm! Thx so much for the help!

Thanks! I might try vbr for a few and see if I notice a quality difference with that, last time I tried it, I looked at it in audacity and the waveforms were a tad off so I have just fallen back on 320 CBR mostly, but it might sound fine honestly.

I was really hoping for something I could just use without running commands with a phone keyboard (it feels so odd to do that), but scripting it instead of having to manually run commands everytime seems like it could be fine. Thanks for the suggestion!

What OS are you using and what exactly do you mean by ‘discovery issue’ (network issue or directory scanning)?

As mentioned before, disks are great for archiving files for long-term storage, so they eould work for that. You could also see if you have any non-techie freinds who want/need a cd or two burned (though not likely, still possible).Alternatively there are quite a few crafts you could try.

It’s fine, the repacks generally tick up the CPU and RAM a lot. It’s just extracting things faster than if it didn’t use that many resources. You only really have to worry if the extraction process halts for unreasonably long (over an hour or smth), then you may have a system issue (not the repack’s fault).

Linux Mint DE and Arch, the ultimate duo of Stability/Freindlyness & Power/Control

Linux Mint DE and Arch, the ultimate duo of Stability/Freindlyness & Power/Control