I keep hearing this but can’t seem to get it to work :(

I’m so glad I was able to establish a career and become well known in an industry before applying for positions was so demoralising and exhausting. I worry about what things will be like in another few years when my children enter the job market.

The girl doesn’t look 40, but I’m 42 and the guy looks older than me.

I’m a long time Linux user 20 years or so and have tried loads of distros in that time. Eventually I got fed up and settled on Mint for quite a few years, but about 6 months ago an old colleague told me about Zorin as he was impressed with how it felt ‘proper’ from a user perspective. I tried it and actually liked it so much I fully switched to it as my main OS. It’s got all the user friendliness for when you just want to use it for work tasks, but still everything else underneath for when you want to experiment etc.

Thank you I’ve bookmarked this as I’m always forgetting them.

My thoughts exactly.

Any keyboard you want really. Most of the time spent coding is thinking not typing.

Honestly it just works and works well. I had all sorts of issues with Plex with subtitles not working and weird transcoding issues where red blocks would randomly appear. Also I found Plex kinda ugly tbh. I tried Jellyfin and it seemed a bit ‘hacky’ but this was a few years ago so maybe it’s improved but I currently have no reason to try it again. If you’re using Plex/Jellyfin/Emby you are most likely pirating media so worrying about GPL violations is probably not top of the list.

Try Emby. It’s a more polished Jellyfin although it’s not FOSS I find it much better than Plex

I only use frigate on a single camera and it’s ok. If I was doing more then my NAS supports an M2 coral. Would have bought one but there was a massive waiting list and now I’ve lost interest.

My QNAP NAS drive. As well as storing all my media I also have various containers running all sorts… My Home Assistant instance, MQTT broker, ESPHome, zigbee2mqtt, Frigate, and Emby to name a few. It does so much for something so small and cheap to run.

In the UK so no insurance to worry about. I’m actually considering it based on the consistency of the responses from multiple people.

Sorry I don’t mean to come across like that. I just always assumed these types of posts were like Horoscopes and designed to contain elements so the majority of people reading it would go ‘oh wow that describes me’. Reading the responses I’m realising that this assumption may well be completely wrong and I should re-evaluate.

Definitely not trolling no. My comments are genuinely how I am but I don’t think that because I put things off until the last minute that it’s anything out of the ordinary. I am actually now a bit curious because more than one person is saying the same thing but I’m not going to self diagnose based on comments on the internet.

I am genuinely not trolling although I have no way of proving it.

No, I’ve just always thought that I am a bit lazy or self absorbed and only want to do the fun things. I do give through periods where I make an effort to correct it but it never sticks.

Why am I lost? And yes the particular scenario in this post is a regular occurrence. No matter how much time I have I will always put things off until the point where if I don’t do it now I won’t have time. Then I’ll try and start it but the up doing something more interesting and thinking of excuses to get away with not finishing what I was supposed to. It’s always something easy too and when I finally do it I tell myself that’s next time I’ll keep on top of it but never do.

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Yep I know. I just found it to be poorer quality. Emby is much more polished.

People should try emby instead. I find it the best of the 3 main contenders.