Part of the issue there is actually the 360 controller, from my experience. It has one of the worst D-pads ever made. That said, platformers and fighting games are typically the only ones I use a D-pad on anyway, so if you don’t play those you’d likely never use it.

I had Squeak Squad on the DS and played through it many times. I’ve been playing through some of the others (still don’t have the recent 3D one), and my biggest complaint is just that I’m not the target audience anymore. Haha. Some difficulty settings would be wonderful. However, whenever I want to turn off my brain for a bit I’ll boot up Triple Trouble or Amazing Mirror sometimes.

I think I’m OOTL. An ant-fascist statement from them is wonderful, but what is their association to the Potsdam incident referenced in the statement?

Edit: is it just that they are a German company?

Plexamp is fantastic for music, but does it work well for audiobooks yet? As far as I can tell Plex just does not handle long audio files well.

At the moment I’m using Audiobookshelf (completely separate from my Plex Media Server, but running on the same computer) in a Docker container, but since I don’t yet have a reverse proxy set up it is LAN or downloads only. So, I would be very interested in an answer to this as well.

Edit: I just noticed your post in c/Plex; you may want to include a link to the other post in the body so that people answering can check the other to see if their answer has already been offered.

I have mostly seen it where Yellow and Blue are swapped, but otherwise I agree.

No that was the one. I just got a copy last year.

Edit: As cool as the packaging is, it won’t fit in a standard CD storage slot. Which is unfortunate. Haha.

Yoshi until MK8, now Link. Yoshi had the right balance of speed, weight, and cute, but I can’t not use Link.

This is me so far with Arctic Monkeys. I didn’t get into them until 2015, but everything through AM is fantastic. Then they dropped the lounge pop album Tranquility Base Hotel and Casino, and I loved that too as a funky side project. Except then they released The Car, their second lounge pop album. I’ve given it a couple listens, and I just can’t seem to get over the idea that we may never get another Humbug or Favorite Worst Nightmare. But, that’s the way they’ve chosen to evolve.

Specifically for this application, Picroft. It sounds like it might be exactly what they’re looking for. Here is the why-use section. It would be interesting to hear from anybody currently using it.

Until someone with more experience finds this thread, I have seen these services recommended: Rhasspy with Home Assistant .io. Rhasspy is entirely offline, and this is Home Assistant’s privacy policy.

I hadn’t even considered the potential power savings. That is a good point. And it sounds like I will be using Docker a lot. I will look into Open Media Vault. Thank you for the suggestion.

I have the benefit of not being particularly used to any Linux DE yet (my Pi’s all end up headless, and I haven’t been at university for several years now), so I was primarily looking at low-resource ones. Does that not matter as much as I have heard?

I am looking into this one piece at a time. Would you recommend installing a desktop on Debian? If so, do you have one you’d recommend? I am looking at KDE, XFCE, or LXQt for the Live images of Debian to try to get acclimated.

The other option has a download speed in the kbps range, so unfortunately switching is not yet an option. Rural US does not do Internet well. There is a better provider (that I was with at my last home) on the way, so hopefully I will not have these issues for too much longer.

Thank you for the concern, though.

I have a data cap ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

This is a ton of fantastic information. Thank you. Debian is something I’ve heard a lot about, and was the second thing I looked into after TrueNAS.

I haven’t really had any interest in the -arr softwares. I’m primarily ripping my own media. I do feel like Docker will be a must, though, so learning it will be fun (not sarcasm).

I have honestly never heard of LVM before, so I will have to read into it. It sounds exactly like what I am looking for with my drives.

I actually worked with a Leonard who preferred “Nard”

According to the website the public release is based off of Debian still.