Thanks for the reminder, sometimes I forget to support these important pieces of software.

I feel like us old people need to give a little extra to pay for the next generation of young tinkerers so things can continue to be free

I’m really going to miss Self-Hosted, it brought a community of us weirdos together. I hope someone fills the vacuum left after ep. 150

They’ve critiqued themselves on this. None of us are completely pure. At least they have an active matrix channel

I feel like its better than google. I switched to DDG a couple years ago. 6 months ago I did a trial run with a self hosted search that only used google as a back end, the results felt like garbage

I have two TV boxes, one is a Raspberry pi 4, the other is a pi 5. I installed KonstaKANG’s android port for the Pi’s. Depending on your familiarity with flashing the Pi’s this video from Explaining Computers offers a way to get Konsta installed through PINN. Once they’re up and running they act just like a cellphone. This remote works really well.

Install f-droid, and/or obtainium, and/or Aurora Store and you can install whatever apps you want on the box.

I don’t personally use Chromecast, so I can’t vouch for that working. Mine is more centered around consuming Jellyfin (jellyfin android tv app), youtube (newpipe), podverse, and Radiodroid

I really liked Kodi, but could never get it to correctly sync across devices so I finally went the android route. I’ve been pretty happy

Feel free to pick my brain if you have more questions

I dont think I so much want this for my phone as for my homemade AndroidTV boxes. Losing the Linux functionality after switching from Kodi/libreelec had been my biggest pain point.

Can’t wait to see my TV boxes show up in my Beszel dashboard!

Fuuuuuckkkk I wish I could degoogle again

Don’t be evil, lol

I agree about the USB Ethernet dongle. Unless you only require short distance wifi range (eg hotel room temp router) the radio in the pi isn’t going to be enough

I built a pi4 router a few years ago, and it’s still running great, I recommend the project. But unfortunately I can’t find the HOWTO and it was before I started taking good notes. I assume your current router is a phone company supplied modem/router?

My setup is cable modem–>pi router–>switch–> old netgear router in Access point only mode

Being that your router/modem is upstream of router, I’m not sure if you could pass-through the WAN to the pi router, and pass back the LAN to the router/modem for the wifi… maybe someone on here can shed some light?

I could have the best self hosted setup… living in a van, down by the river!

This thought came to me this morning. I have 4 machines both because the BEAST grows organically, and because we’re always trying to avoid that single point of failure. Then a scenario comes along that makes you question your whole way of thinking, diversifying may actually create more problems

I didn’t mean to imply that Services actually broke. Only that they didn’t come back after a reboot. A clean reboot may have caused some of the same issues because, I’m learning as I go. Some services are restarted by systemctl, some by cron, some…manual. This is certainly a wake up call that I need standardize and simplify the way the services are started.

Your problem may differ from mine, but whenever I’ve been greeted with the command line in grub the solution has actually been in bios. I’ll leave you with my notes, which are a bit snarky after spending a lot of time trying to figure out hot to repair grub, when the solution was 3 clicks in bios:

"Inspiron won’t boot

Goes to the grub command prompt

Don’t fuck with that thing

Restart, F2 to get into bios

Change boot sequence to start the SSD first, not ubuntu

Reboot, itll do it a couple times, but should boot right into normal grub"

I hope your solution is the same

Slaps forehead I know I read that guide too…whether I forgot about it or thought that would do something else… Thank You!

Btop adds temperature, which htop doesn’t offer… There are a bunch of other *top programs you could check out but btop is a nice one I learned about on Lemmy

The only metric you’ll likely have trouble with is power consumption, I dont think the pi has a sensor for that. You would have to plug it in through a killawatt or smart plug

I’m sorry, what?..Oh, all I heard was that my linux home server is going to be running on new hardware in about a year and a half when all these used computers go on sale. 😁

I take any chance I can to drop a Chris Barnett link:

Ventoy

Out of curiosity are you able to click on text and highlight it by holding the shift key and arrowing? Then copy and paste it with ctrl+c and ctrl+v? Not trying to give you a work-around necessarily, but wondering if it is mouse related or something else.

Have you tried another mouse on the pi?

I’ve been pretty happy with paperless-ngx, it should tick all your boxes

Oooh memories, I can’t remember the version number but mandrake 10 must have been close to my first linux distro!! …it.didn’t.go.well.

Dietpi is a nice little distro, especially when running it minimal without a GUI. Its added toolkits make farting around on the command line more comfortable