If it turns out to be a Pi bottleneck, you can just re-encode the videos with a lower quality and h.264 codec.

I have a similar setup but my nfs server is not a mini pc.

You could try diagnosing if it’s the network or if your mini pc is too busy (maybe out of disk i/o?).

If that’s too hard, temporarly stop all other programs on the mini pc. Does it help?

Does streaming something from the internet to kodi work without freezes? If it’s ok, then network is likely not the issue

Last but not least, does playing the same video from an USB stick work smoothly? If not, maybe the quality is too high or the video is x265

Yeah I got old man’s habits after having no energy for the same reason as you. Save that sweet energy whenever you can.

If I wanted a phone nobody else has, I’d get a Pinephone.

Any particular problems you’re having or have you briefly used Pidgin in 2008 and think nothing has improved since then?

XMPP. It just works, requires very little resources, is stable and has decent clients.

I would go with Snikket instead of Prosody if I had been starting now.

Conversations on phones, Dino or Gajim on PCs, plus a conversejs install on the xmpp server, to allow web access when needed.

Conversations is easy for the family to figure out.

This whole thread is depressing to read, full of corporate bootlickers putting blame on you.

Sounds like phpmyadmin lol

They fucking what? I need to get off the couch and cancel my support too

Then yes, learning Ansible is a good way to have base OS settings for your systems. I love that it’s agentless - works over SSH.

The ugly part is that they keep updating it in a backwards incompatible way. In one version the paramerer is called “file” and in another it’s “dest”, they pull shit like this and don’t provide a tool to update playbooks automatically.

But updating is rather optional.

Is it really so ridiculous that armed people blinded by a belief system could do that?

That you can afford premium versions or self-host

You slide down notification bar and if there’s not even one ad, please stand in front of that wall.

Family story. Maybe a fake one, I don’t know, there’s nobody alive to ask any more.

It’s crazy, given that all these devices have something powerful like an esp32, isn’t it?

I’ve done some of my home stuff this way, but I had to program it myself. Tasmota has some features which can be used without a server, but that’s just for simple stuff like switches. For whatever reason (simplicity for non tech people?), out of the box products don’t work this way.

If you don’t have days of spare time, you buy ready made products and set them up in minutes in Home Assistant

Additionally, libraries for XMPP exist in most languages, there is a varying degree of completeness, but they all do a good job of hiding XML from the programmer

Thos, exactly this. Whenever I ask the question OP asked, it’s always some people who used some ancient client in 2008 and never bothered to try again. And then Matrix came to existence with their marketing and they happily started using it, even though it didn’t have any better features

This prompted me to open Tempo I have installed from F-Droid but haven’t used in a while, and the app crashed on startup. Logcat had the most unusual message:

03-27 18:40:31.304 W/GooglePlayServicesUtil(6188): com.cappielloantonio.tempo requires the Google Play Store, but it is missing.

Two pitfalls I had that you can avoid:

• look at efficiency. It’s not always neglible, was like 40% of my energy usage because I oversized the UPS. The efficiency is calculated from top power the UPS can supply. 96% efficient 3kW UPS eats 4% of 3kW, 120 watts, even if the load you connected is much smaller than 3kW
• look at noise level. Mine was loud almost like a rack server, because of all the fans.

I replaced that noisy, power hungry beast with a small quiet 900W APC and I couldn’t be happier

No no, that’s how i’m working around the problem now, but i’m sure sni sniffing will sooner or later make my domain well known