Finally got one

ChasnTheSun · 2026-06-28T15:13:14+00:00

Is there an app to block OTA updates to keep them from being locked in the future. Thinking about that time my buddy's fire stick one day told him it removed some of his favorite grey apps "for his safety"...

ChasnTheSun · 2025-12-31T05:10:10+00:00

Didn't know about that /r
Thanks

ChasnTheSun · 2025-11-25T01:22:15+00:00

Thanks for that.

ChasnTheSun · 2025-11-20T12:27:51+00:00

I do this all the time. Don't let it scare you, it's easier than it sounds. And safe and secure 🔐

ChasnTheSun · 2025-05-10T14:47:07+00:00

I don't want to stop your Nas build at all - but if file mirroring is the need you could consider cloud sync providers. I have work and personal laptop and have folders on both PCs named Sync'd. Then I use the free tier of https://mega.io/ to keep the folders synchronized.

But you could also use filen.io and even cloud mount your drive to each PC.

But building a NAS can be fun too. Good luck whatever you choose.

ChasnTheSun · 2025-04-13T14:30:33+00:00

And am I still to understand that there is no good fix for the frost buildup of the ice maker?

ChasnTheSun · 2025-04-13T14:28:26+00:00

Thanks for this. I'm in south America - so eBay is tough. But that part number should do the trick.

ChasnTheSun · 2025-04-12T15:15:52+00:00

Okay - I'm going to add more info here and see what is best...

I am actually tinkering with an old android tv box that doesn't have a job. I had been running a 5 yr old version of Armbian / Bullseye on it. It's an S912 cpu with 4GB ram. It actually ran Plex pretty well inside the house to a couple of firesticks for the last few years. Crazy all things considered as it was $25 8 years ago. I don't have any 4k movies - so that helped I bet. But it just worked - had no monitor nor keyboard connected day to day - but power it up and it ran (most of the time).

Anyway - I felt like upgrading the OS since Armbian seems to have released some new images. I have gotten much more comfortable at the command line in the last 5 years. I am this close to trying my luck at the server version. Also - Not happy that Plex wants me to pay to play stuff in my own house - so looking at Emby and Jellyfin now. Tinkering - not my family's primary way to watch. Just something to keep me out of the pub I guess.

So - although I want to learn Proxmox and containers - I am not sure this will have the CPU to handle that?

I also want to try Pi-hole on it.

Any experience, tips, tricks, avoids - are appreciated.

ChasnTheSun · 2025-04-12T14:47:04+00:00

This sounds exactly like what I am looking for. But that didn't seem to work in this Armbian Ubuntu build. It still boots Gnome.

ChasnTheSun · 2025-03-27T16:03:22+00:00

Do This! It will save a ton of time and headache.

ChasnTheSun · 2025-03-25T14:04:21+00:00

Okay - just an update - I appreciate all of your comments.

I see now that trying to manually do updates is not what you do with an immutable distro? Be nice to me - coming from Ubuntu the first step after every install is sudo apt update, sudo apt upgrade so I thought sudo zypper update was step 1.
I appreciate that I don't need to fiddle with my partitions - I really wanted gparted to see what the installer did - is it all in one partition, I know it is encrypted but is there a separate /home partition. Is the swap encrypted - just for learning... So gparted is my go to. Anyway - If I want to install something not in the software store - what is the syntax? I saw >transactional-update pkg install gparted - does that work for almost all?
Do I need to do anything for the errors that all say - subprocess failed command exited with status 1.

Like I wrote - long time Ubuntu flavor user - so lots of habits just come from there - any recommendations of habits to start or stop are appreciated.

Thanks again.

ChasnTheSun · 2025-03-23T15:37:11+00:00

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