Gamecube. Player and disc run about $230 now.

So you’re saying maybe it’s time for me to re-evaluate just keeping my GC collection in storage.

Remember when we’d just torrent movies from the Blockbuster?

Using the “torrenting” to mean both physically copying something and downloading is fucking me up.

But yeah, in the US, pirated cartridge games weren’t really a thing.

For PC games, it was stupid easy to copy a game and give it to a friend. Copy protection for floppy games was usually just like “look up the 5th word in paragraph 3 on page 16 of the manual” which was easily defeated with a photocopier. And if you were on BBSes, you could gain access to the “private” file section or just find a pirate board. The limitations in hardware made it time consuming, but doable. Having a dedicated phone line was a huge boon.

And then you get into CD based games, broadband, stronger copy protection … And that hasn’t really changed a whole lot. Where there’s a will, there’s a way.

But man, the entire PC industry in the 80s was built on and thrived on piracy. If sharing programs and games hadn’t been so common and easy, what would the home market have looked like? Would Doom have secured the same space it now occupies? Would Windows have become the prominent UI?

I read that as the man had gone missing and all they found was the Oscar on the plane.

Like others, I run both. Jellyfin for music was alright, but I didn’t love how it handled some metadata and my collection now is around 28,000 songs (without bootlegs) and I wanted something dedicated to music.

Absolutely love Navidrome. When I’m at my PC, I’ll open it, hit the “Random” option under Albums and select something from the first page. This way I’m always surfacing things I would normally ignore and engaging more with my collection.

Then, again as others have mentioned, I have Symfonium on Android. There’s a “Track Mix” option that shuffles your entire library, or you can create dynamic playlists. The one I use gives me 50 random tracks, but filters out classical and tracks shorter than 45 seconds. Same idea though, listening to parts of my collection that would never be my first choice.

Yeah, I didn’t need anything more than the Docker features, so I didn’t bother with Zima. Like with Yuno, Zima is a whole distro on its own instead of an app that can be easily uninstalled.

Was it issues with installing apps or something else?

I will suggest CasaOS. It installs easily, then essentially has an app store (you can add other store sources too). For me it was a gentle way of getting used to the ideas around Docker and how to work with containers. After a bit, you’ll get to where you can set up containers for apps not in the store. Then you might create a whole stack for your Arrs suite. And then maybe you outgrow it entirely. It’s just an app, unlike Yuno, which is a whole distro if I recall correctly.

For public exposure, I use Cloudflare tunnels. Pretty easy to set up (there is a CasaOS package for cloudflared), though the Cloudflare side can get confusing depending on what you want to do.

Textra

Google would never just give up on a product that people love!

This is pretty much the same setup I have. 2 bay Synology NAS for storage, mini PC (8gb ram, currently at 48% usage) for applications. Also added an external SSD that I had kicking around.

I’m running:

• gluetun
• sonarr
• radarr
• seerr
• Jellyfin
• deluge
• sabnzbd
• Navidrome
• audiobook shelf
• Calibre Web advanced
• komga
• adguard home (and sync)
• wiki.js
• zoraxy (reverse proxy)
• dockhand
• MeTube
• homarr
• dotdash
• freshrss
• mealie

And then using Synology packages for Drive and Photos.

Honestly, the tape idea is one of the most practical ones in the thread!

I love the 35xx series. I went up to the RG40V or whatever it is with 1 stick. it’s fine, but I wish I had kept my 35XX. It’s really just the perfect size and power of you’re looking for on-the-go retro gaming.

Yeah, I’m currently using Wiki.js. I will definitely check out how you’ve got things organized. It looks really good!

Without really knowing much about it, I just always figured it was overkill for me. Plus I don’t know that I’d even consider myself much more of a beginner with Docker. But you all are making me consider looking into it.

Ha. I’ve been reading through thinking, “Yeah, maybe I should finally look into Ansible.” And then I get here. :D

Trust me, this is all about me being incompetent.

| migrating from storing them in portainer’s internal store to using git (and dockhand)

This is exactly why I’m asking, actually! I’ve been working over the past couple of weeks to move everything that I had done under CasaOS to independent compose files in Dockhand. Yesterday I ran into a couple of things that must have been Casa-specific but I had no record of it and I’ll be honest, my memory is garbage.

I had started out with CasaOS and ran it for a year or so. Last week, I took some time to move everything out of Casa’s file structure and cleaned up the compose files.

For container management, I’m using Dockhand. It’s been great.

Otherwise, like most others have said, SSH when I need to do more.

Ha. Heard. I mostly don’t want to carry another device when I travel for work, so will use my phone to read.

I moved all my books out of Amazon last year and host them for my family with Calibre Web. Jailbroke my Kindle and use KOreader exclusively, so I use Sync so that if I need to read while I’m out, I can just pick up on my phone.