Do I need to run a virtual machine with win11?
Yes this definitely works fine. QEMU with Virt-Manager works well, you can set up as many versions of Windows as you like. Other people use VirtualBox, VMWare Workstation, etc. These all work well enough to run Windows + standard apps like MS Office or whatever you need.
Was it a free account, or paid? Tuta is pretty strict with the free accounts especially when new. I definitely would not consider using Tuta free for anything long term, they’ll just come up with all sorts of reasons to restrict or disable your account.
I’ve read they don’t do that sort of thing with paid accounts but can’t confirm, only ever used their free accounts for temp usage.
The Google Rewards Opinion app does this, scan receipts or answer random questions for Google Play cash. I assume they do it for market research to figure out better advertising (Google is in the advertising business after all).
Never heard of other apps doing that but I’m sure it’s the same idea, other apps must use or sell that data to ad brokers.
I’ve never needed to do this but have you looked into creating a Reverse SSH Tunnel? Maybe that can accomplish what you want https://www.howtogeek.com/428413/what-is-reverse-ssh-tunneling-and-how-to-use-it/
Similar to what you are trying to do - A while back when I needed to remote connect to a firewalled Windows computer I set up a reverse VNC connection on that Windows computer that would get initiated whenever I sync’d a file over to the Windows system via Dropbox/Syncthing (those work without port forwarding). Reverse VNC, like Reverse SSH or other connections basically try to initiate the connection out of the firewalled system, it’s an interesting workaround when you have no incoming port forwards. Not sure if I’d recommend that type of set up but it is more secure than sending emails so there’s that.
If you’re able to set up a mesh VPN that might work better but you do have other options if you need them.
Feels like this should have already been resolved with standard Linux permissions, any user on your system should be able to read/traverse that folder and files with the r-x permission on world.
From your earlier comment one of the parent directories is listing with “+” permission so it sounds like you are using extra permissions outside of the standard Linux, probably ACL permissions. I haven’t worked with ACL permissions on Linux enough to offer much advice but what you may want to do is run something like getfacl d64ea996-98aa-4eef-8a93-0a2ba2246f0f as well as run it on one of your media files, that might give you some clues on what the ACL permissions look like.
Also - I’m assuming you already did this - but if you didn’t already make sure your jellyfin service is actually launching with the expected user and user group. Based on your setup you may want to be sure the “jellyfin” Linux user is added to the “video” user group, and then make sure that’s what is being referenced in jellyfin.service.conf (by default is usually in /etc/systemd/system/jellyfin.service.d). If you edit that file be sure to stop the jellyfin service first and then restart it after editing e.g. “systemctl stop jellyfin” and “systemctl start jellyfin”.
Only other thing I can think of is that maybe there’s something wrong with the way your system is mounting the drive and folder. Since you seem to be using the autogenerated UUID for the mounted folder name (d64ea996-98aa-4eef-8a93-0a2ba2246f0f) maybe it’s better to edit fstab yourself and set up your mount as something more permanent with a normal name, and also double-check the permissions everything is mounting as.
Four spaces before the line you want to codify :)
e.g.
UUID=“your uuid” /mnt/external exfat defaults,uid=1000,gid=“your group id”,umask=002,nofail 0 0
vs non-formatted
UUID=“your uuid” /mnt/external exfat defaults,uid=1000,gid=“your group id”,umask=002,nofail 0 0
Debian by default uses the Nouveau open source driver for Nvidia GPUs and that driver does support Pascal. Debian installations will continue to work just fine even without Nvidia’s development support.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nouveau_(software)
I don’t know if that’s something that can be done on Arch but in theory you can test the fallback Intel driver vs Nouveau and see which fallback you prefer.
Nouveau works well for day-to-day use and works with Wayland. I’m not a hardcore gamer but have played low-mid range Steam games without issue. I suspect it may not do well playing high end AAA games but then again if you’re rocking a Pascal era GPU it’s unlikely you’ve been playing those type of games anyway.
EDIT: Just to add, pretty sure the built in Intel iGPU on your laptop is more power efficient vs the Nvidia GPU so it may be worthwhile to disable the Nvidia GPU entirely rather than worrying about software drivers.
Are the files within the folders the media folder also with permissions 775 (rwxrwxr-x)? The actual .mkv .mp4 or whatever files themselves should be the same permissions as the parent folder(s). Could be worth doing a chmod -R 0775 d64ea996-98aa-4eef-8a93-0a2ba2246f0f if you’re not sure.
You probably already tried this but just in case: In the Jellyfin admin pages, in Libraries, try removing that media library, then re-add the media library and when adding Folders paste in your entire media folder path/name: /media/velummortis/d64ea996-98aa-4eef-8a93-0a2ba2246f0f
The reason I mention that is that I did a quick test here with a bad permissioned folder, added the media folder, Jellyfin couldn’t see anything in it obviously. But even after I fixed the folder permissions Jellyfin still wasn’t seeing the media - I had to remove the library entirely and then re-add it to force Jellyfin to attempt to scan the folder with new 775 world permissions.
Also using Debian + Jellyfin normal install with basic permissions (in the future maybe I’ll try this with ACL permissions).
Starting out I tinkered with creating a specific user group for jellyfin but it never quite worked right… in the end I reset the jellyfin user/service back to defaults and set permissions on my media folders to 0775 so that the jellyfin service can read/execute (no write) as the world permission bit. Also made sure to set permissions recursively (chmod -R). For me it’s fine though keep in mind setting 5 for world does mean all users with access to your system can read and traverse through those media folders.
I’ve been using Debian with the default GNOME on an old laptop and main desktop and have been very happy with it. Coming from Windows I love that it’s way simpler and I don’t need to set a million options.
But remember the thing with Linux is you’re not locked into anything - So try GNOME or XFCE for a few weeks, then if you still want something else install and switch over to another desktop environment. You could even install all these desktop environments during the Debian install itself and just keep switching every time you log in.
You said you have a Framework PC, their support pages already have a list of supported Linux distributions and install guides for them
Yes, you can install other Linux distributions if you like and in fact most should work fine. But since you seem to be new to everything it is probably best to stick to the Linux distributions Framework themselves offer support towards.
Beyond that may just want to contact Framework support directly since you’re using their hardware.
Just to be sure, did you already test that the port is actually open and forwarded? e.g. with your torrent client running browse to a port test website like https://canyouseeme.org/ , https://www.yougetsignal.com/tools/open-ports/ , etc. put in your torrent client’s incoming port and check if the website can “see” your open port at your torrent client.
And the ISP (or router) itself isn’t doing anything weird to block torrents, right? In your torrent client if you click any working public torrent, click on the Trackers tab, you should see DHT as working along with whatever open trackers are on the public torrent. In other words you won’t see anything like “waiting” something (I forget the exact message you’ll see when DHT is being blocked but it’ll definitely not be working).
EDIT: Also if it’s a new ISP with new router it might have firewall rules set up that are slowing things down, something to check.
The copy protections on Blu rays are exceptionally annoying, to the extent where there is really only one closed source software – MakeMKV – that can work around them.
Not quite, RedFox formerly SlySoft (RIP) used to market their own Blu-ray ripper and it worked quite well. What it used to do is on-the-fly decryption so you’d run it in the background and could use any other software to read the decrypted Blu-ray (e.g. using Handbrake or whatever). It did also have an option to just rip to a file IIRC. Unfortunately they randomly disappeared so their software is pretty much done. (some background on wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RedFox)
That aside they always a competitor, DVDFab, that still exists today. Their Passkey software is the rough equivalent of what the old RedFox/SlySoft software used to do but they also sell a standalone Blu-ray ripper if that’s more your thing (see https://www.dvdfab.cn/).
But yeah, in some ways you’re stuck with MakeMKV, DVDFab, and maybe some others (?).
I’d have to dig it out but I actually bought a Blu-ray drive a while back that was on the list of drives compatible with these rippers but honestly it’s been a few years since I’ve tried using it. Most times someone else already ripped a Blu-ray I’d be interested in.
Speaking of - If anyone knows offhand, how do people do this stuff on Linux? Does the Linux version of MakeMKV work well for this and/or are there other tools (?)
Wake on LAN is a LAN feature, not WAN, so you’d need to issue that over the local LAN there at the house. You’re going to have a hard time trying to get that working over the WAN (if that’s even possible).
The other comments mentioning a scheduled boot would be a much easier/simple solution if it works for you.
But I’ll throw this in, the super basic least tech solution to this is to open a port forward to the house’s network router. Yes, I know you don’t want to do that, but it’s probably the only network device at that house that’s actually on 24/7 right? And by all means lock it down however you like. My simple method is to open the router login to a non-standard port number, with a IP whitelist, add my own home IP address to that IP whitelist, and bam you now have access to that remote home’s router for just your IP address. Log in remotely, issue a wake on LAN via the router’s own web ui, done.
It’s perfectly reasonable to make this a bit more secure if you wanted but it gets slightly more complicated - open a non-standard port for SSH access to the remote router’s SSH port that only allows SSH login with key. Generate a SSH key and share that key with yourself, then you can log in remotely to that remote house via non-standard SSH port using the SSH key (no user/passwords). From there you’d have to see if you can issue Wake on LAN on the SSH command line, or set up a SSH tunnel from that remote LAN to yours so you can proxy into the router login page and do your Wake on LAN from there. … yes I realize this got complicated :/ But you’ve got a few things to explore given your patience for tinkering with this stuff :)
Of course much of this relies on that house’s router having any of these features to enable and configure. The main takeaway here is that Wake on LAN requires something on 24/7 at that remote LAN for you to enable remote access into and issue a Wake on LAN command within that LAN. How to actually accomplish that is the tricky bit.
That’s fair, I don’t use Tailscale either but was thinking that would affect the WAN side of things rather than the LAN that the phone and Chromecast are on. Looking into it a bit more it sort of seems like OP would need to configure Subnet routing on their Tailscale configuration to enable their Tailscale to forward traffic to devices on the local LAN?
https://tailscale.com/kb/1019/subnets
That was just from some quick searching around but since I don’t use Tailscale I can’t say for sure if that’s a solution (or even if Tailscale is the culprit here).
And yes for sure if OP doesn’t specifically need/want Tailscale then maybe a different remote solution would be something to try like reverse proxy or whatever they decide on.
Yes pretty much, there isn’t really anything extra to configure for casting. I think to get it working
Do you know if the Chromecast there was accepting other casts from other apps / phones? I wonder if there’s just something configured oddly at that network, or their Chromecast just wasn’t working correctly like maybe it was offline. My Pixel 7 also has a feature to cast the phone screen itself so if your phone can do that it’s something you can test next time you’re able to. (that might just be for Google Pixel phones, other phones might not do screen casting in that way).
I don’t own a Chromecast myself so can’t really think of other things to try, they usually just work if they’re on and online.
Hi. What’s the best way to access my content from a remote location? I’ve got tailscale set up
Are you already able to access your JF content remotely? Wasn’t sure what you meant by saying that you set up tailscale but still asking about accessing content remotely.
If your JF app can already stream your content remotely on your phone, say when you’re out traveling outside your own home, then you already have the ability to cast. Just be sure to have your phone connect to the same network connection that the Google Chromecast is connected to (e.g. that home’s wifi network) then tap the cast icon at the top of the JF app. The Google Chromecast will appear there and you can tap it to start casting whatever you are playing on the JF app to the TV the Chromecast is connected to.
That’s how I do it when traveling to other locations that have a Google Chromecast set up on their TV.
When I first started using GNOME the top bar was a bit off-putting but I got used to it TBH. It’s not something I think about much nowadays.
However, you actually can move it to the side or to the bottom, and/or change it in other ways, with the dash-to-panel extension so definitely check that out if the top bar is bugging you https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1160/dash-to-panel/
Just curious was this a Tuta paid account, or a free one?
Tuta is very strict with the free accounts and flag them for all sorts of reasons. They take their time to “approve” free accounts just to be able to use them. And on top of that they might nuke your account anyway if they think it is being used for spam/illegal activity/whatever or they think it’s not being used.
But I thought those are just issues with their free accounts, presumably their paid accounts don’t get flagged for those things… or so I thought.
Also to echo the other comments - best to buy and own your own domain for your email, that way it doesn’t matter where the email is being hosted in case you need to switch email providers.
Set up SSH on it and make sure you’re able to connect into it while it works normally, that way when the issue occurs you can do a quick test to see if the system itself is still up and running.
I’m not on Linux Mint / Cinnamon but I’ve occasionally seen GNOME sort of hang/freeze so the screen display becomes non-responsive. After a couple of times of that happening I ended up setting up SSH on the system and configured a SSH client on my phone so I can do a SSH connection into the desktop and force-logout my user (which apparently fixes the issue and brings my main desktop back to a normal login screen). I haven’t quite figured out if it’s Gnome issues or something to do with my Nvidia GPU… though with Linux if Nvidia is involved then it’s usually Nvidia, ugh.
Also if you’re physically at the computer when it happens try unplugging/replugging in the monitor cable, maybe there’s something wonky going on there or with the display connection.
Just some ideas to help you along :)