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dr_jekell, in Ipod problems
@dr_jekell@lemmy.world avatar

Unfortunately Apple seems to be actively working to make sure that the only way an iPod can be loaded with music is by using iTunes which is only supported on Mac or Windows.

You have a few of options on how to move forward:

1: Make a Windows virtual machine, install iTunes onto it and pass the iPod though to the VM.

2: Install Rockbox (if able) onto the device to enable it to act as a USB mass storage device allowing drag n drop loading of music.

3: Sell the iPod and get one of the many different digital audio players available on the market as most are OS agnostic (they show up as a USB mass storage device) and most use MicroSD cards to store the music meaning you can move the card to a new player as you upgrade later (so you are not locked to one vendor).

Zealousideal_Fox900,

Thanks for the the tjps but they all don’t look likely they would run.

  1. VM hates me and refuses to run.
  2. Sadly not possible.
  3. I want to use an ipod.
dr_jekell,
@dr_jekell@lemmy.world avatar

Did you adjust the resources given to the VM?

I know with Oracle Virtualbox it defaults to like 1 processor core and 500mb of ram for a VM.

biscoot,

Wanted to say that I’ve used Rockbox on an old ipod classic with much success. Would recommend. You can even install user created apple-ipod-like themes to get closer to the original look N feel

anon_8675309, in PeerTube v6 is out, and powered by your ideas !

Been wanting to spin up an instance for a local “family YouTube” with videos we curate. Now to find the time.

neshura, in PeerTube v6 is out, and powered by your ideas !
@neshura@bookwormstory.social avatar

That is one awesome set of new features

MangoPenguin, in How to take actions on multiple docker containers at once
@MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

My better way is just using Portainer, select some containers and hit the stop button.

luthis,

If I eventually get around to using a GUI, I’ll check out portainer

registeredusername, (edited ) in Ipod problems
@registeredusername@lemmy.world avatar

I use VLC to download music to my ifruit. It’s access via a (browser) ip address and upload/download from there.

That’s once you enable sharing in the VLC app on your iPod, iPad or iphone

Bitrot,
@Bitrot@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Think this model predates apps on the iPod.

WeLoveCastingSpellz, (edited ) in Linux Sound Device Manager

KDE’s default audio widget is so good, you can congifure your audio devices and mic individually but also on a per app basis, but I suppose pop os doesn’t use kde

kalistia, (edited ) in PeerTube v6 is out, and powered by your ideas !

And they need help ! So if you can, consider to donate :)

soutenir.framasoft.org/en/

vzq, in 13" or smaller Linux laptop - best replacement for aging chromebook?

The current 13 inch AMD framework is a very neat machine.

Nimrod,

That does look pretty slick. However, I don’t plan on dropping $800 for my partner to watch Hulu with. Are there used versions I could hunt down?

vzq,

Sorry I overlooked the budget requirement. Also, it’s not 16:9 though so if it’s primarily for media consumption maybe not so suited.

Nimrod,

Oooh, I didn’t even think about the aspect… thanks!

LouisGarbuor,

There is the factory seconds stock, which is cheaper, but RAM, storage, Wi-Fi card, power brick and expansion cards are sold separately. frame.work/…/factory-seconds-framework-laptop-13-…Still over your price range though.

possiblylinux127,

Silly question but have you considered a Android tablet?

If you don’t want google you should find a device compatible with Lineage os. lineageosdevices.com

floofloof, in 13" or smaller Linux laptop - best replacement for aging chromebook?

I’m running OpenSUSE Tumbleweed on a Dell XPS 9360 with an 8th gen i7 and it works very well. Something similar should be within your budget.

Laser, in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Dropping The X.Org Server Except For XWayland

Most interesting development. This is obviously still into the future but I also always had the impression that Redhat did a lot of work on the XOrg server. With this I think it’s actually dead once they no longer support RHEL 9 and older.

I won’t miss it, granted it’s not a bad implementation, but the design is showing its age. Apart from Wayland that I use, I’m also looking at Arcan’s progress from time to time. Obviously rather niche at the moment but projects like these make the ecosystem interesting.

socphoenix,

This honestly still feels premature for a server based OS. I rely on x forwarding and an rdp server for some tasks, and as far as I know Wayland still doesn’t really have support for either of those.

Laser,

I assume you’re talking about X over SSH? That’s possible with Wayland via Waypipe. Also I’m not sure why RDP would require X, just a compositor being able to forward the video over network (which is perfectly possible with Wayland) and accepting inputs over network as well, which to my knowledge isn’t part of Wayland. Quick check says Gnome already offers RDP and that’s Red Hat’s DE.

Bitrot,
@Bitrot@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Currently Gnome will only allow you to connect to a logged in session. It is more like screen sharing than RDP usually is.

LeFantome,

Waypipe addresses forwarding. The major Wayland compositors support either RDP or VNC already I believe.

socphoenix,

Gotcha on the forwarding, my issue with rdp forwarding is I want a server like xrdp, so users don’t need to be logged in locally, which I haven’t seen googling yet.

slembcke,

People keep saying this, but X forwarding seems to work just fine with XWayland. I just tried a handfull of X programs between my machines, and neither are running X11. I don’t use it everyday to know the gotchas, but there you go. Programs that use shared memory pixel buffers (everything that isn’t xeyes realistically) even run better than I remember now that I have gigabit. >_< It’s still a way worse experience than VNC or RDP though.

lemmyvore,

I think it’s actually dead once they no longer support RHEL 9 and older.

That would be 2032.

colourlesspony, in 13" or smaller Linux laptop - best replacement for aging chromebook?

Unfortunately, the new FOSS linux laptop scene is basically the pine book pro for less then $250 or Framework/System76/Tuxedo for greater than $900 with nothing in-between.

possiblylinux127,

That is not true at all. There are plenty of options

colourlesspony,

Yeah, I should be more clear. I’m talking about laptops that the manufacture openly supports or ships a linux distro with it. I just assume OP already knows he can do a bit of research and get a decent $300 laptop from like lenovo/acer/hp/dell/etc… and install linux on it.

Nimrod,

I’m comfortable doing the Linux swap on an old dell, but I guess what I’m looking for is a recommendation of a device that is known to work well for that purpose.

Are there any “gotchas” that I should be looking out for in the hunt?

0x4E4F, (edited )

If you’re hunting down older eqipment (5, 6 years old), no, not really… everything just works with Linux and older stuff. The newer stuff is always the problem with any OS that is not Windows (though that is changing for the better in the last few years, especially for Linux).

colourlesspony,

It’s hard to recommend because sometimes with cheaper laptops they have weird wifi chip sets, audio chip sets, and stuff for controlling the lcd back light, f-keys, etc… Also sometimes they have weird way to boot into the boot menu that may not be well documented. I don’t really know what brand or models should be avoided though.

Nimrod,

Never heard of the pinebook pro. Looks pretty neat. I wish it came with a smaller size, it would be perfect.

NotAnArdvark,

Oooh, don’t do the Pinebook Pro. I think anything Pine64 isn’t unsuitable for a non-tinkerer to be using. Also, if there’s DRM content involved (unsure on Hulu), you’ll probably want to stick with an x86 CPU.

Nimrod,

Yeah… the more I read into the pine stuff, the less fitting it is. I might enjoy one to mess with, but it won’t make a great gift!

Moobythegoldensock,

How about Pinetab 2?

Though it’s important to note that you’re buying the hardware and the community is actively working on the software. For example, the wifi driver is only partially functional and it’s currently recommended that only developers should install it. Otherwise, they’re recommending using an external adapter or phone for wifi until it gets fixed.

possiblylinux127,

Keep in mind that the CPU is ancient by today’s standards. It will be slow

sabreW4K3, in PeerTube v6 is out, and powered by your ideas !
@sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf avatar

Discoverability sucks balls. I still can’t find an instance that’s not just a list of one person’s videos.

Grangle1,

The only one I can find is TILVids, which has a few of the bigger Linux content creators but not much more than that. Content worth watching is really the one thing PeerTube is lacking, and that has to come from users, but that’s really a catch-22. You need more quality content to bring in more users, but you need more users to provide that quality content.

On top of that, not many unique users are going to be drawn to a platform that can’t provide avenues for monetization and which costs money to run on top of that, even with all the policies at YouTube all these creators whine about in every other video, which they only mostly whine about because it affects their monetization. So it’s either live with YouTube’s policies reducing your potential income or live with a negative income to set up or join a PeerTube instance: slightly reduced profit vs guaranteed loss. They’ll pick the slightly reduced profit every time.

Even further, the ones who get kicked off of YouTube and need to find an alternative or care enough about “free speech” to branch out are… mostly niche creators, to put it politely, and the unique content they provide to these alternative platforms tends to discourage other creators who still have YouTube channels from syncing their channels from YouTube to PeerTube in order to not be associated with those more niche creators. Other platforms such as Rumble and Odysee have similar issues. That said, PeerTube does have an advantage over Rumble/Odysee in this regard, in that instances that want to avoid that type of content can moderate and set up their federation to limit that association, but at that point they may just find it too much effort to put into bringing in too small an audience to be worth it.

The Fediverse appears to work well enough for user generated content that doesn’t take much effort or expense to provide, such as Twitter, Facebook or Reddit-type content, as the rise of Mastodon and Lemmy are showing, but when users have to put in the work and expense of publishing a video, the return on investment of PeerTube (in both money and views) compared to just staying on YouTube may just be too small to work.

sabreW4K3,
@sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf avatar

But theoretically, if someone set up an instance to host their videos, they could serve banner ads right? Wouldn’t that at least partly diminish the monetization problem?

kpw,

Have you seen Sepia Search? https://search.joinpeertube.org/

Molecular0079,

It really needs proper federated search. I shouldn’t have to go to a secondary site just to search for videos across the network.

kpw,

Federated search is difficult. For now this is a temporary solution.

sabreW4K3,
@sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf avatar

That’s really good, thanks for sharing.

possiblylinux127, in PeerTube v6 is out, and powered by your ideas !

Honestly peertube is cool but I doubt it will ever get any traction. It needs a bigger organization behind it.

bruhduh,
@bruhduh@lemmy.world avatar

YouTube got traction before Google bought it and before Google bought it they tried to make Google videos and failed, what peertube lacks is contributors

sab, (edited )
@sab@kbin.social avatar

And discoverability, it still has ways to go on the social networking integration. I still don't know how to go from watching a peertube video on a peertube instance to liking/boosting it on another fediverse service, even if I wanted to.

That said, I have been following Peertube for a couple of years, and the progress has been incredible. It makes sense to create a solid foundation for video playback first, and a lot of people seem to not understand the extent of the innovation Peertube has made in that regard. Social media tools obviously come second after providing a solid service, and I have no idea it will develop in great ways in the coming years. :)

kwozyman, in How to take actions on multiple docker containers at once

I don’t know if this works in docker (usually there is 1:1 equivalency between the two), but with podman you can do something like:


<span style="color:#323232;">podman stop --filter name=foo
</span>

man podman-stop tells us:


<span style="color:#323232;">   --filter, -f=filter
</span><span style="color:#323232;">       Filter what containers are going to be stopped.  Multiple filters can be given with multiple uses of the --filter flag.  Filters with the same  key  work
</span><span style="color:#323232;">       inclusive with the only exception being label which is exclusive. Filters with different keys always work exclusive.
</span>
luthis,

<span style="color:#323232;">Usage:  docker stop [OPTIONS] CONTAINER [CONTAINER...]
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Options:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  -s, --signal string   Signal to send to the container
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  -t, --time int        Seconds to wait before killing the container
</span>

Unfortunately no filter here

possiblylinux127, (edited ) in 13" or smaller Linux laptop - best replacement for aging chromebook?

Here’s a short list devices things I can think of:

  • a old Linux compatible Chromebook. You would need to wipe the firmware and install seabios and Linux
  • A Pinebook Pro. This device is very underpowered and would be slow. It is also arm so you can’t install just any Distro.
  • a old surface device with Linux support
  • a old labtop that used to run Windows

There used to be a $400 device from starlabs but I no longer see it. There cheapest device is $700.

Honestly your best bet is a Chromebook or a used labtop

scottmeme,

If OP does go the surface route should also provide them with the resources for it. github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface

Nimrod,

Are there certain requirements, or pitfalls to avoid when digging through old Chromebooks?

I think that’s the direction I’m leaning.

possiblylinux127,

Honestly just make sure you do your research. If you are unsure you could go buy a used Chromebook on eBay for about $50 bucks. Once you get that device working you can always upgrade.

Keep in mind each Chromebook model is different and not all are compatible. Again, do your research

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