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  • nom_nom@lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.ml•Jellyfin assistance
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    19 days ago

    Agreed, but I didn’t want to overwhelm the guy with too much info :P The official guide even recommends checking the cryptographic signature of the script and reading its contents first. I’m sure like all of us they’ll nuke their system several times and before long will be writing their own shell scripts.

  • nom_nom@lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.ml•Jellyfin assistance
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    19 days ago

    Because, contrary to what it might seem like, we ALL start out this way using Linux. Everyone makes the same mistakes, so its easy to retrace the logic once you understand what the commands you used to copy-paste are doing. OP you’re clearly just making the switch and want to dive head-first into self-hosting as well as Linux, which will be a ton of fun, just try not to get discouraged as there is a lot to learn. Take it one step at a time, and try to understand the commands as there’s really not that many, and you re-use these in many scenarios.

    I see many people recommending Docker, which is great, but imho a little too early to dive in to if you haven’t experimented with Linux at all. Docker is just a container of Linux inside of Linux, so you’ll still need to use the command line, and it has its own set of tools. Just my two cents. Somebody else posted but this was the video that also made Linux ‘click’ for me:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tc4ROCJYbm0&t=296

    Don’t be afraid to break things and start over. Have fun :)

  • nom_nom@lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.ml•Jellyfin assistance
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    19 days ago

    I just wanted to add a small follow up comment because I remember being young and copy-pasting commands into Linux and eventually getting really frustrated. Therefore, he’s a (brief) explanation of the commands:

    1. curl is just an open source tool for making Web requests from the command line. It’s a great tool to have in general.
    2. https://repo.jellyfin.org/install-debuntu.sh the URL of a shell script from repo.jellyfin.org (Jellyfin’s official website)

    What is a shell script? It’s a script that runs a whole bunch of commands by itself, so you don’t have to copy-paste them from the internet. Basically the official Jellyfin people in this case made a file with all of the commands the computer needs to run to install the package. This is great because it means the people who made Jellyfin tested these commands and they’re responsible for keeping it up to date if anything changes.

    | bash The ‘pipe’ or | symbol in Linux is a cool Unix philosophy of ‘connecting’ programs together. You run one program, and tell it to pass the results to another program. In this case, you’re telling curl to download the script at https://repo.jellyfin.org/install-debuntu.sh and then passing that file to bash (which is the shell program in the terminal that runs commands) and to run it as sudo or ‘super-user’.

    Hope this was helpful. The last thing you should know is the command you probably copy-pasted before made you add a source to the /etc/apt/sources files, which are basically just a list of sources for apt, the package manager to download from, and since the command was wrong or outdated, apt is complaining that the Jellyfin source was not found.

  • nom_nom@lemmy.mltoTechnology@lemmy.ml•Manufacturing in China vs America
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    5 months ago

    Just wanted to add me .2c here since I have some real-world experience with this and no dog in this fight. We’re a small computer engineering company with 1 mechanical engineer on the team. We had designed a custom chassis for one of our products (first time we had ever done this), and were looking for quotations to build a prototype. After some research and recommendations, we narrowed it down to 3 companies: A German, American and a Canadian company; all were highly reputable. We were given quotes of $15,000 - $20,000 USD, and told our CAD files need to be heavily modified because some parts of our design were ‘impossible’. We were also told it would take approx. 3 months to receive the prototype. Out of curiosity, we sent the CAD files to our PCB manufacturer in China and asked if they knew anyone who could build the chassis. They quoted us $300 and said it would take a week. We paid them, and honestly, we expected to receive garbage - it wasn’t. We had minor complaints but overall, esp. for $300 and a week, it was excellent.

  • nom_nom@lemmy.mltoFediverse@lemmy.ml•On Mastodon and Algorithms - Jayeless.net
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    3 years ago

    I think that, as humans always choose the path of least resistance, implementing any sort of algorithm is the fastest way to a ‘dopamine kick’, and as such the attention that new or lengthy information provides suffers. One thing I love about the current Fediverse (and I’ve heard this term used before, too), is that it is very reminiscent of the early internet - when everything was random and interesting, different view-points, things you’d never heard of, etc., If people had the option between algorithm or no algorithm, if it were a simple toggle, I’d have to imagine most people would choose the algorithm, which would be a real shame.