Which makes them superior, which is why they are used. Cost can’t be ignored any more than the torque or speed, speccing parts that are considerably more expensive that achieve equivalent results is bad engineering unless you have a very specific application that requires it.

If it was ‘objectively inferior’ we wouldn’t use them. You build to your requirements, not by playing top trumps with competing technologies while ignoring the cost.

Thanks man!

Coming at this from a very basic level, but I’m wondering if this could help me.

I have such an unnecessarily hard time with Bluetooth. I have all kinds of devices (usually speakers, headphones and such) which I don’t use, because switching them between input devices can be like pulling teeth.

For example:

• at my desk with my wired headphones watching something in tbe background I’m enjoying
• need to do something at my workbench, which has a chromecast on a monitor
• I can cast the video there, but I don’t want to use the big speakers because it’s late
• my small wireless speaker is paired to my phone, I can’t remember how to re-pair, don’t want to go through Chromecast settings
• same with my earbuds
• end up ‘watching’ on my phone because it’s too much effort to use the actual TV!

I’ve been thinking about making a physical central BT ‘broadcaster’ which I pair everything to. It would be able to take multiple aux or bluetooth inputs, and would have a switch or mixer to control the inputs.

Would something like this help with any of those issues without having to build something like that (which also wouldn’t be optimal)?

Im on mobile, and some of those features have gone way over my head!

I think that’s what they’re saying, in that, use proxmox to host a gaming vm. But choosing a hypervisor that can run games well bare-metal does sidestep some potential headaches.

I love Linux, but I do generally consider it a special-purpose OS. Servers, embedded stuff, etc, I will always go with some flavour of Linux.

But for a daily driver I do struggle imagining using anything other than Windows. Like sure, I could probably get all my games and CAD software working in a Linux OS. But I can easily grab Win10 LTSB and have everything just work. I have to make a living from my machine, and ultimately I just need it to work.

If I was doing just web and office work, then it would be no harder really, but I’ve finally accepted that not everything should be a project!

Good luck!

Sometimes that’s a tactic, sometimes it’s wild optimism, and sometimes they seem content to make a loss every year and prop it up with investment.

I don’t know about stealing, they stopped taking money when I unsubbed, now I’m watching shit that somebody else paid to make, while not giving them a penny back!

But then how else can I overcomplicate things? You’re right, thanks, and also thanks for the heads up on Proxmox. I picked up an old Checkpoint 4800 for less than the 400g solid copper heatsink is worth which I will run Proxmox on, which will give me a chance to get to know it!

The server is amazing, way quieter than I expected, I had a whole soundproofed rack planned, but the fans just chill at 20%! I think it’ll be almost silent once I have the rack built.

Lots of people get on okay with it, and I’m not the most experienced, but docker problems with Scale seem to be common, and the direction TrueNAS is going with Scale isn’t going to make it any better.

I think Core is a bit better. But I’m definitely going to move away from it for Docker. Unraid was so easy for Docker, and I see it has ZFS support now, I’ll let you know how I get on.

Also, don’t forget the 720 has an internal USB port, because I did!

There’s always LTSC. Can also see security updates being extended again similar to Win7

I mean, why not? It is convenient, and to me, really well priced for what you get. There’s lots of things that offer far worse value for money that we don’t really think about.

And I host my own Plex server with Sonarr, Radarr, etc. But sometimes, you just want to jump into something, and TV series can take a huge amount of space.

I don’t know why Netflix is considered so morally repugnant, when they do still offer a good service for the money.

Convenience is worth something to a lot of people.

Not necessarily, companies like Twitter make consistent losses with no real path to change that, yet its deemed to have value by investors.

That makes it even dumber though, surely? Lots of people invest in tech businesses that are not profitable and have no plans to become sustainable, some idiots even buy them.

It’s things like user count and activity that will be more meaningful in that scenario, so one should avoid doing anything to reduce those figures.

This is life-changing. I can’t believe this has been such an easy option!

Like OP, I couldn’t really put my finger on why I found so much of this stuff frustrating, I think this will make a big difference for me.