Virt-manager works ok

If they’re still on Xitter it means they approve of this

Maybe they hoped for someone more competently evil?

I wouldn’t know, my drives are in RAIDZ and I’m always seeding Linux ISOs, so they never spin down.

Wireguard is quite magic itself

If you take charge of maintaining this system, maybe it would be easier to install HA supervised in a docker container and have another container for wireguard+syncthing.

A pi5 with 8gb should be enough unless your parents’ HA is an hypertrophic installation with hundreds of devices.

I had an embedded Celeron server, passively cooled with 1 hard drive and 2 SSD which used to idle in the range you mentioned, measured at the outlet… It had a random PSU that came with the mini case it was in.
Realistically, how low do you aim to go? Disks for example add a lot of wattage.

I’m sure he doesn’t know your family as well as you do, but as for jellyfin, that’s exactly what you do, open it in a browser and stream, I don’t understand what’s your objection to that

If only it were so eco friendly

“Please move all comments from in-line to the line above, and add a separator line”

It’s possible he actually doesn’t like Haunted Chocolatier, therefore escaping back to work on Stardew Valley when he can’t force himself anymore

Weird. That’s one issue I didn’t have, luckily.

It slows down A LOT over time, the bigger the file, the faster, it seems… I close and reopen it often, luckily it launches in an instant

Why not use Debian? Non-free packages issues?

Yeah, unfortunately 1.0 is the version I’m talking about

I do keep trying, but I miss what I’m used to. I’ve tried a VM but it’s too slow, and I fought with GPU Passthrough but gave up. I do hope the whole Trump situation pushes the EU to support Linux more, but I’m not holding my breath.

As someone who hasn’t used Ubuntu since the time they used to mail disks for free, may I ask why? Why not install another distro?

I’ve been… Struggling with FreeCAD for a while. I really want to support it, you know, open source and all, but it’s really rough. Something that takes 10 minutes in SOLIDWORKS takes at least one hour in FreeCAD, not accounting for crashes, and complexity increases time exponentially.
Importing and placing .step files is rather difficult, big assemblies tend to degenerate despite careful binding; I try to bind to the origin as much as possible, often sacrificing adaptability, but it still gets messed up after a while.

I’m missing SOLIDWORKS after converting my last Windows PC to Linux

There’s one objective metric: money.

PC games can be had for cheaper.