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My mouse cursor is changing size when I hover over different windows in Linux Mint. Any ideas to fix that would help.
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It might be your xcursor that fucks from from my experience.
add Xcursor.size: [the size you want] you can also chose the cursor theme with Xcursor.theme: [theme] in your .Xresources
or
I think the GUI app lxappearence can do it as well but I haven't tried it in a while.
Hope it helps!
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I've been having a dilemma with my server. I currently have an old ThinkServer ts430 that I threw the swizzin package onto to download shows and play it on jellyfin. Problem is that some videos require conversion, and it uses most of the cpu to convert a stream. I can get a 50% more powerful cpu for cheap, but it doesn't really support a much more powerful cpu or a GPU unless I replace the motherboard and power supply, and that starts getting more involved. I was thinking it would be far better to just use the ThinkServer for video download and storage, and have another computer to run jellyfin and do video converting on its GPU or iGPU. Could I get by with a small miniITX build with internal graphics instead of an external GPU, and connect it to the main server over ftp or something? If they're on the same network switch it would be a high speed connection, and if the new server also has two ethernet ports I could hardlink the two servers together directly.
Update: after investigating I'll probably for for a <$200 nuc with an Intel N95 N97 or N100 cpu, as they will handle the video decoding just fine and are just as powerful as the ThinkServer. Then hook it up with NFS.
This makes so much more sense then spending $400 on a GPU just because it has native decoding for the newest codecs
Update: after investigating I'll probably for for a <$200 nuc with an Intel N95 N97 or N100 cpu, as they will handle the video decoding just fine and are just as powerful as the ThinkServer. Then hook it up with NFS.
This makes so much more sense then spending $400 on a GPU just because it has native decoding for the newest codecs
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I got a similar solution from the linux mint forums, so thank you.
I have to say that this is a pretty stupid bug.
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Does your monitor and GPU support dynamic refresh rates? I'd check the refresh rate settings as there may be a mismatch
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Well I have a free-sync monitor (200hz) and a RX 6600XT but I don't have that issue on EndeavourOS for example.
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Is sata or SAS better for a Media server? My current server uses SAS but only has 4 bays, I had the opportunity to get a slightly newer one for dirt cheap that had 8 bays, but it uses SATA. I'm able to get a supplier for used but tested SAS drives that are cheaper then SATA drives for the same capacity, so I'm wondering if this new server would be better. It has about 50% more power and can do some limited Intel quick sync, and I might be able to get it for $30-40, as it's on eBay with a really expensive shipping cost but is in my city and available for local pickup.
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Whichever your drives have. If you're building a server out of consumer hardware it's better to go SATA, since that's what those drives all use, but if you're getting enterprise or enterprise refurb, they're usually SAS. Enterprises prefer SAS because that's what high-end drives use, but chances are you're not making your array out of 15krpm disks anyway. You can plug SATA drives into a SAS controller with a SFF-8087 > 4xSATA adapter, but you can't plug SAS drives into a SATA controller, you'd need to buy a SAS HBA. Which are cheap and readily available, either as old enterprise gear on ebay or fresh-but-dubious quality on aliexpress. Since you already have SAS drives, see if you can move the bays over to your new server, and get a HBA card to plug them into. In the future, you can just buy SATA (and probably should).
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Well I'll place a bid and see if it's accepted, but I got suppliers for tested SAS drives that cost half the price of SATA drives. The drive bay modules are interchangeable between the two servers and I only have two SAS drives so far.
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What confuses me is that the specific part that determines of sata or sas is supported is the exact same part, and i don't know how that is possible.
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I looked up the parts list of the server I'm looking at and it says the backplate used is sata/sas, so my initial confusion of it coming with a sata drive is unfounded as it can be used with sas drives. Which is good as SAS drives are much cheaper here.
not sure what to do with my old server, I could bring it to my parents and rip their movie and tv shows collections to it, but it might be a bit beyond them
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Your parents probably don't really want a server screaming away in some closet, and it'll use a lot of power too since it's an old one. If you want to give them server, a better solution is setting up wireguard and giving them a raspberry pi with Kodi, so they can connect to your server and stream from that directly to their TV.
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I'll probably just ask around or sell my old server then.
I have a question, is using Usenet better then bittorrent for downloading ebooks and audiobooks? Bittorrent is fine for my movies and shows, but it seems to be very, very spotty for finding books. Would it make more sense to try to set up readarr to use a Usenet connection instead?
I have a question, is using Usenet better then bittorrent for downloading ebooks and audiobooks? Bittorrent is fine for my movies and shows, but it seems to be very, very spotty for finding books. Would it make more sense to try to set up readarr to use a Usenet connection instead?
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Likely yes, I've seen Usenet being more complete at specific things than random torrents out there. Personally, I use libgen.is for ebooks
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I think the main thing is that if I actually find a torrent for the book, there's no seeders so it doesn't download. I guess Usenet will help with that. I remember there being free download sites that had a download cap of 10gb/month, but I think I still had to pay for a tracker.
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It sucks how it seems Linux software is almost always distributed as this pile of "useless system files" that one has to know how to somehow compile into working software.