Dr. Unabart

Am sort doing this with 8gb pi5, using CasaOS, which has JF, arr stack stuff, Navidrome, etc. It’s a wholly capable setup and I’m quite pleased. Not doing a lot of onboard transcoding, and had to grow a quick neckbeard in order to get the apps to see the usb external drive array, but once I got that all smoothed out it’s been surprisingly up to task.

Edit: using an m2 hat, not SD card. 🤘🏼

I can smell this pic.

Too busy faxing each other. Germany is Luddite Land, by choice.

Source: moved here 7 years ago. Germans are a weird bunch. Change is not welcome in just about any form.

Nice to see them adopt the open source apps, though. They can probably get some screaming deals on some US Robotics 56k modems on eBay Local.

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I’ve filed for 7 years straight and never owed a cent. Oddly, got a little back, 2 years straight. Might have been the covid money, which even more laughable as I didn’t set foot, much less work, in the US for the entirety of the pandemic. Single, no property or other taxable assets and no additional sources of income outside my monthly paycheck from my Euro employers. If I, me broke that $126k threshold, then I’d have to pay something. Getting there. Let’s see if the USA doesn’t collapse on itself first*

(* I hope not.)

You won’t have to pay anything unless you’re pulling in the equivalent of >$126,500 USD in foreign income. Then you’re taxed on what you make above that. My H&R Block lady here in Germany told me all about it when I file every year. And boy howdy is fuuuuucking stupid that I’m having to file US taxes every year. I could stop, but then everything falls apart for me.

My take was to not let them in on the secret.

Newer versions of these can have par levels set for the temps and I don’t know who thinks 74f is a comfortable room temp, but no… it is not.

Fortunately, internet legends went on to explain how to put these into service mode, thereby defeating their laughable levels. Just gotta remember to put it back to their mode when you’re checking out.

But, yeah, these things fkn crank coldness. And the electric bill. And the environment.