There's nothing wrong with just running a laptop as a server until you have specific requirements it can't meet.
Like maybe running a pi hole over wifi doesn't fill you with confidence and you really need something plugged into your router.
in which case I'd get a cheap mini-pc. even something as cheap as an N95 will handle everything you want to do here easily but you can also go the 2nd hand 1L route which can be fun too.
finally picked up a bunch of cheap 2.5" sas drives to turn my dumpster server (Proliant DL380 G7 with 16 hot swap bays) into a backup server.
still trying to work out the specifics but the idea is because it's a power hog and LOUD I want to use wake on lan to run a backup task and turn it off automatically.
I can turn it on via lan so I'm halfway there right? ......
Lemmy
The fediverse isn't just lemmy.
also is this your first day on the internet? blowing pedantic bullshit out of all proportion is the baseline experience on any platform.
While I've used the pi as a media server before and it did admirably I think you have the wrong idea, it's just a set top client. A Pi Zero could probably do just as well or pretty much anything that can run Kodi ... which rules out AppleTV sadly.
and I'm right there with you not supporting other peoples tech. My parents Chromecast got a PiHole exemption because screw explaining why they're watching a static screen for 3 minutes where ads used to be ... every time; if their tv app even loads without phoning home in the first place.
Pi4 just streaming Jellyfin, nothing fancy.
didn't know infuse had a lifetime cost but look how that's working out for plex.
I would rather ssh into a linux box I own to bash my head against bluetooth compatibility issues than have everything just work while a company sells every last bit of data they can steal from me.
and now I am too
like most things apple when it works it's the best user experience out there, but if you have the slightest little issue good fucking luck.
I can't speak to infuse (because I'm self hosting to get away from subscriptions) but Jellyfin is extremely picky about file formats on appletv, I found myself using VLC more and more often until my Pihole sd card died and I found myself with a Libreelec box that just runs anything I throw at it without complaining.
the search for a remote half as good as a siri remote has begun.
a few GB of photos
get an m-disc burner and make multiple full backups to distribute around your family
ML has been sold as AI and honestly that's enough of a scam for me to call it one.
but I also don't really see end users getting scammed just venture capital and I'm ok with this.
I thought 20TB of storage would last me forever
I've had low storage warnings for years now
got a bag full of SIMMs, probably not a whole buttload but I don't think even that amount would add up to 256GB
I mentioned a cheap dedicated server because I'm not sure when quicksync was introduced, if you need to do any transcoding at all an intel macbook will probably catch fire.
and if you haven't already then change the thermal paste. I have a 2015 pro as well and it gets real hot, factory paste can be a crap shoot if it's even making contact in the first place much less after a decade and new paste actually makes a bigger difference in performance than I expected.