What was your download total?

Nice. I like it.

Exactly.

Assuming you are installing on a 64bit PC, and that I read the docs correctly.

1. Install “debmirror”
2. Mount destination USB drive (2TB is ideal) to “/mnt/<your_biggo_disco>”
3. run the following command

debmirror --arch=amd64
–method=http
–host=deb.debian.org
–root=debian
–dist=trixie,trixie-updates
–section=main,contrib,non-free,non-free-firmware
–nosource
/mnt/<your_biggo_disco>

That should work. Give it a test drive before committing to an all night archiving.

I am working on it and I’ll try to share a script for it. I’ll reply to your comment again once I do.

I appreciate this type of LLM disclosure.

This is why I am downloading Debian 13 and its entire repository tonight (~500gb). I want to make sure I have a working copy archived.

Ugh. You could get the 16gb 256GB I5 model, refurbished, for $159 not so long ago. 8 is not awful if you run a minimal Debian 13 server, but 12+ is ideal.

The key is searching local IT clearance shops. Also, if you are entrepreneurial, ping your local banks to see if they are willing to sell their old ones. The prize is in the units that aren’t certified for Win11 as they are essentially e-waste.

IMHO RAM>CPU. Anything released in the past decade will kick ass if it has a good amount of RAM. I still game on a 2016 desktop PC.

EDIT: Please correct me if I am wrong, but 10,000k INR =~ $100. If that’s the budget, then I highly suggest an IBM ThinkCentre Tiny. They use to sell for ~$100 (used or refurbished). They have no moving parts and make for great headless units.

Renoise if you love trackers. Reaper is an amazing budget DAW, and Bitwig Studio is the closest you can get to Abelton on Linux. Personally, I like Bitwig Studio.

Sadly, other than Ardour, I am not familiar with FOSS options, but the three I mentioned above are very good.

I always looked at their pace as a feature, not a bug.

My NAS/Jellyfin server runs on a PC with a GTX 1070ti. It used to struggle umder Win10but since I migrated to a minimal Debian 13 + Docker install, it can handle everything I can throw at it without breaking a sweat.

My Pi 3b is configured to host PiHole, Unbound, and Kiwix (Wikipedia), yet it only writes to SD once a month for Kiwix, and once a week for PiHole. Unbound and all logs live in memory.

I have the 9 Pro. I cannot imagine anything 10 or 11 could bring to the table that would entice me.

Welcome to Oracle, kids. Hades of the IT realm.

I don’t think anyone has mentioned this but HDMI is just Cat-6 with a fancy hat. You can run cat-6 cabling through your attic, down the walls, etc., as if you were setting up a standard Ethernet run. Then, slap some rj-45 to hdmi adapters on each, and voila! Or you could just put proper hdmi heads on the cable ends and skip the adapters.

EDIT: Amazon product link with diagrams.

https://a.co/d/02iebocu

I have an old pixel book pro (or whatever their $1500 Chromebook was called) somewhere. I wonder if there is Libreboot support for it.

EDIT: Looks like it. Not sure what to do with it, but cool that it’s supported.

I am tempted to use AI to try and create firmware for RokuTV devices and televisions.

Nice. I’ll give it a shot. Thank you.

Let me use my Raspberry Pi 3b as a practical example of what @[email protected] was explaining. I run PiHole + Unbound on the Raspberry Pi 3b, with 1GB of ram. The main killer for a little Pi 3b is reading and writing to the SD card. We want to avoid that as much as possible. Block lists get updated weekly, so that’s no big deal, but there is still a lot of traffic information that is being kept track of. The solution is to load all of that into zram. As you can imagine, on a slow and resource constrained system like a Pi 3b, any performance enhancement has a huge impact. A 452x performance increase over ZRAM on a system that mostly lives on ZRAM is massive.

I am not entirely sure about this but I imagine that this is also massive news for live operating systems like Tails and Kali Live.