Out of stock and Linux support is quite experimental.
PS: they both can handle PDFs, tried on mines.
utopiah
joined 2 years ago
ignoring the fact that I needed to get another usb wifi receptor because the one I had was not compatible
managed to get my printer working,
IMHO that's one of the most important trick... namely, and sadly, don't assume compatibility. Do 5min of Internet search to insure that the hardware you buy is actually supported, and ideally without any manual installation requiring to patch the kernel. This makes usage a lot more enjoyable, where you only focus on making your experience better.
PS: I said "sadly" because in theory, if hardware genuinely relied on standards, e.g Bluetooth, without their own extension, custom software as equivalent to drivers, hardware for PC "should" work everywhere. In practice it's not always the case and that can be very frustrating.
I've been running my PeerTube instance for more than a year now so hopefully I can help :
- if you only watch, it doesn't use your device for storage, only some of your bandwidth if P2P is enabled. If you want to host content, e.g a video of yourself explaining how to design your own smart speaker using only FOSS, then you should setup a server which will need storage for your videos.
Happy to clarify more if you need. Overall you can watch content from https://video.benetou.fr and most likely all bandwidth will come from my server. You can not upload your videos there though (unless if I accept making an account for you, which I won't). There are other servers though, public ones, which allow registration and where you can thus upload your content too.
Well, let me put it plainly, if you are selling better, I’m buying. So far the one thing Pine has done better than a lot of people talking is doing. They are not the only ones, e.g Purism, but at that price range and who actually did deliver I haven't seen better. Pointers welcomed.
True keeping it all in memory, especially as it would be of limited size, could be a good solution. That being said a single script and cron job is rather "easy" IMHO.
Honestly I'd
- take any distribution that someone at or close to the library is comfortable with, e.g popular Ubuntu or Debian,
- setup a user profile that fits the need of the average library user, e.g Firefox with as a start page the library website
- make sure the library card system do work
- copy /home/thatuser directory somewhere, e.g /root/thatuserunmodified and insure permissions make it unmodifiable
- add a cron task so that every evening 1h after the library close any thatuser session is terminated, /home/thatuser gets deleted, copy the /root/thatuserunmodified to /home/thatuser and fixer permission
- assuming it's fast enough (I bet it's take 1min at most as /home/thatuser would be mostly empty) I'd do the process after each logout so that each new visitor gets a fresh session, no downloads from previous users, history, bookmarks, etc. Only what the library consider useful.
That's it. This way one can still let the OS do it's updates but the user experience is consistent.
I'd be curious if there are any equivalent to ProtonDB on both compatibility and performance. The NVIDIA drivers are some of the last closed pieces in an otherwise mostly open system. I know I can get by with nouveau for 2D but if I want to model with Blender or play Baldur's Gate, even SteamVR games, I remain skeptical not just on absolute feasiblity (will it run) but also performances, i.g can I get more than 5fps.