As a large language model, I have no opinion on this subject.

I think Fedora is a reliable choice, and if you don’t like gnome or plasma any distro will let you install anything else so it’s doesn’t really matter.

Yep! But you have to prevent it from reaching the internet one way or another.

As for music, that’s what I do but I think it’s a shame to turn on the TV just to listen to music on the soundbar, so most of the time I just connect to it in bluetooth with my phone, even though it’s not lossless that way.

My setup is fully offline and works quite well:

I have a LG G4 which I connected to my non-internet access point. Home assistant accesses the API locally and the TV cannot reach internet. I only use the API to check if the TV is on but I can change the source, volume and launch apps.

I use a Vero V as media center, this one is connected to the main access point but I trust it and I need it to access my NAS.

My soundbar is offline but has CEC and eARC.

The Vero turns the TV on and off with CEC, then the TV turns the soundbar on and off with CEC and the sources of both are setup everytime.

Thank you very much, do you have recommendations on lists to subscribe to?

Nice! Will try that tomorrow! I just noticed you misspelled the name on the readme: NavidSpot

For those who don’t wanna click: they reached 408mph (657km/h)

I just spend a whole minute trying to figure out why the photographer wasn’t visible in the mirror, was hard to find

Anything you say

Can and will be used

Against you in a court of law. You have the right to talk to a lawyer for advice

Before we ask you any questions.

Read between the lines

Also stay there once you learned

I think you’re confusing backup and redundancy. While I totally agree RAID1+ should not be considered backup, it absolutely is redundancy, as the same data is present on at least two disks (either on the form of the exact same data or something that can be used to rebuild the missing data).

RAID0 has no redundancy, all other levels have (either mirroring or with parity)

I have my bears (French)

I never heard it before, and I’m french.

We are saying “The indians are coming” though, which is racist af

I think the knipex pliers wrench is my single favorite hand tool, it can really do anything that involves screwing or unscrewing with so much ease

PM me your email or something and I’ll try to send you that tomorrow!

I organized it in a third place (not sure about how it’s called in English, “tiers-lieu” in french), they did most of the communication. I also gathered e-mails of people interested on foss and related subjects during other events and I send them e-mails everytime I throw an event.

There are some initiatives like End of 10 which gather local organizations that might throw install parties, that can help being visible. There are probably others but it depends on where you are.

On the practical level, we prepared a quick slideshow that we run in the beginning to show people why they’ll love linux (talking about free software philosophy, and why proprietary is not a good idea) and then we have half a dozen Linux mint keys that we share with everybody and we all run the install at the same time.

We also bring a couple more keys, like a gparted and/or debian live just in case we need to do some recovery.

Most of the people completely switch from windows to Linux but we had a couple of dual boot. We also had one impossibility due to the person wanting a dual boot and their PC using a weird RAID controller preventing us to repartition the disks, or install grub, I don’t remember.

Anyways, it has been a lot of fun and I recommend anyone competent to try, it’s really nice to bring linux to more people!

I went the same path and I second the Vero V, very nice little machine! It can also do Dolby Vision, which is why I chose this one.

You can organize Install Parties! I held two of them and I expect to hold one more in the beginning of the year, I had a lot of fun and people were happy to install themselves and learn a new way to use their computers.

https://github.com/laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist

I still see a lot of crap though, I guess it’s hard to keep up with the huge slop wave

1 in 4% is a very odd way of saying 25