If OP wants surround, Atmos, etc., this isn’t gonna work. Analog outputs can’t handle ambisonics, and TVs don’t have discrete 6 channel outputs. If you want 2.1, 5.1, Atmos, MPEG-H or whatever, you’ll need a digital output to your sink device (AVR/soundbar, etc.). Digital doesn’t mean internet connected. And there’s no real benefit to forcing an analog output from your TV. It’s DAC probably isn’t better than the DAC in an AVR or soundbar.
Test it. Seriously.
There are likely roadblocks you haven’t seen. For example, it is increasingly true that login & password aren’t good enough to access most commercial systems. So many businesses rely on active session cookies to determine identity, and if that’s missing, they’ll fallback to email or SMS based one-time passwords. And if they don’t have access to your laptop or phone, it might be impossible for them to gain access.
I do, and it’s probably the main reason I started self hosting.
Managing parents estate made me want to get my shit in order for my own kids in the event I die. There’s a good chance that if I die, my cell phone is gonna die with me. And commercial services from Apple, Google, banks, and other institutions are increasingly tied to a single cell phone as “identity.” If you try to login on a device with no session cookies, they treat it as hostile, and do all sorts of oddball stuff that almost always requires the cellphone to access. And if you don’t have that phone, it’s incredibly hard.
By self hosting, I can choose to make access to that most of that data much easier for my family if I die and my cellphone dies with me. I don’t expect them to continue self-hosting, but I do want them to have easy access to files so they can move them to some system they are comfortable with.
couldn’t get my small group of gamer friends to switch
The hardest part of any change right there.
I’ve had pangolin running for a while, doing tunneling to some self hosted resources, and I’m confused by this announcement and update. It seems like they’re suggesting to use an Android/iOS client to connect to Pangolin protected resources, which seems like a shitload more work and overhead than just using wireguard to do the same thing. Am i missing something here?
I’ve got a few domains. I use Porkbun as registrar. They’re awesome, and the domains were pretty cheap. Under $10 a year each.
Fully agree that the DE doesn’t matter much. I’ve used KDE and XFCE the most over the years, and cinnamon, gnome, and even enlightenment a bit over the years. I was never a big fan of gnome, however I recently got a 2in1 laptop, and after a few days of tinkering… I think gnome is a bit better for that kind of interaction than than the others.
There are things to like and dislike with all of them I’d say.
Compare to ‘90s-now materials
Car bodies today are still made out of sheet metal and plastic. Sheet metal is the same today as it was in the 60s, and while the plastic is better, it isn’t lighter. Moreover, cars are bigger and heavier for crash protection. If you’re talking about composites like carbon fiber, well… we’re not making car bodies out of carbon fiber.
The numbers aren’t wrong. You can verify them yourself instead of spouting nonsense.
he same HEAVY materials that made-up The ‘65 Ford Mustang’s body
The 65 Mustang was not made of heavy materials. It was (at the time) modern unibody construction made of thin guage sheetmetal. I’ve owned a few. The 65 200ci mustang I had in my teens was one of the lighter cars I’ve every owned; 2400lb / 1100kg or something like that. It was very easy to push, which you occasionally needed to do because Mustangs were godawful piece of shit cars. I did for a while own a early production 65 289 K-code 4 speed. It was one of the rarer early Mustangs, but still a total piece of shit. The body panels were flimsy and dented easily, the bumpers would bend if you stared at them too hard.
I recall cars of the 40s and early 50s all seemed to use a heavier guage sheetmetal, and body on frame construction. I’m not sure that’s a good thing, but they were heavier and sturdier.
Also, if you look at solar panel production and EV energy consumption, I’m not sure that powering an old, unaerodynamic design is realistic with body mounted panels. It’s something like 3 miles per KWh to push a tesla model 3 down the road, and the big house panels are 400w panels. You can kinda do the math from there.
I’m not in those circles, so I can’t say, but I’ll pretend for a bit…
I’d bring extra DNA with me and pollute the scene with it.
Of course this won’t help when your highest levels of organization are fully compromised. But that’s another problem. You have to expect that your adversaries are inside the castle walls and continually plan and test for that.