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  • No display at all? I suspect something else is at play there…

    On that model during bootup

    F2 = BIOS

    F10 = Boot Menu

    You should be seeing something in the Boot Menu, or at least be able to get into the BIOS?

    Also double-check the USB formatting, I don’t remember if that NUC has UEFI boot support or if it needs to be enabled in the BIOS beforehand. e.g. if your USB is formatted to boot legacy then reformat it to boot in UEFI, or vice versa.

    I actually have a few of those NUC models around but am not sure what it does exactly with no SSD, I think/thought it should still be able to handle USB boot in that situation.









  • they want to setup a server to host a simple “contact” website

    Not sure what sort of uptime/reliability your friends are expecting out of a self hosted solution but for something like that you wouldn’t need much processing power, even a Raspberry Pi can host a simple website. Not sure what to recommend offhand but there are definitely vendors in that space that sell simple DIY “contact us” form software, or I guess if you wanted to roll your own that’s an option too. I’d be more concerned about keeping it locked down/secure.

    Keep in mind for the internet your friends would likely need business class internet with multiple static IPs so you can give your little DIY box its own public IP address. Many (most?) residential internet service providers do not allow self hosting websites on their network and they’d be dynamic IP anyway though you could work around that somewhat with dynamic DNS since you’re going to need to purchase a domain name and point it to somewhere anyway.

    run an e-mail service (about 10 accounts for now but with possibilities of expanding it to support more)

    Like others said you really don’t want to go that route unless you’re well versed in that area. It would be annoying for a business especially a new one, those emails will likely keep going into other provider’s spam folders for a good period of time. All the big mainstream email providers are notorious for not trusting new email domains / new IP addresses.

    Seems easier to just go to Google Workspace / Microsoft 365 / whatever other provider you like to use, presumably the business has a business use case for reliable email among other things.

    Bonus: Those cloud services can easily host simple contact forms for you so maybe that’s your all in one solution. Look into Google Forms and similar.

    and to store and remote access documents.

    That sounds like the above commercial cloud solutions again :)

    But sure technically you could go through the extra step hosting that yourself. Depends on how the business wants to use/access this stuff, it’s really a question for them. Could be as simple as a Windows server with RDP (if they’re Windows people & just want to log into something “windows” to browse/open files) or maybe multi-user Linux with VNC (the geeks might like, maybe not so much the general Windows/Mac users). Or if you’re trying to do something web oriented maybe something like Nextcloud if you want to do all this in a web browser.

    You should triple check what exactly they are expecting when it comes to remote access documents… you really don’t want to spend the time setting up something that they totally weren’t expecting and end up hating.






  • It’s a nice gesture but I’m a bit doubtful that there’s enough people here to sustain a private tracker. Taking a guess at this but it seems most people here in c/piracy are general users, not specifically private tracker users - in fact a fair amount don’t even like the idea of private trackers.

    !trackers@lemmy.dbzer0.com exists but it’s pretty quiet by comparison.

    Not saying it’s a bad idea but it could be a while before a niche tracker like that would gain enough traction to sustain itself. And I’m just talking about a regular private tracker, not even going to touch on the idea of someone developing a “decentralized private tracker” whatever that means… TBH if you want decentralized just stick to public torrents with DHT/PEX, that’s already decentralized. Or maybe make a semi-private tracker like Demonoid if that’s more along the lines of what you want.



  • This way, private torrents could “escape” into the wild, still maintaining the privacy and social/closed community effects of the private tracker.

    Except that it wouldn’t. The infohash that the private flagged torrent generated is different vs a public non-private torrent of the same contents. Your suggestion would purposely share the same exact private torrent infohash into public DHT/PEX, that would certainly get people banned at the source private tracker(s). I also suspect most/all torrent client developers would consider that incorrect behavior.

    If you wanted to do a more “correct” approach on this - Create a brand new public non-private flagged torrent of those contents, which would generate its own unique infohash, then it’s just a regular torrent. You’d end up needing to seed multiple copies of the same torrent (the original private flagged torrent and your new public torrent) but sure that would be possible as long as the torrent client itself has DHT/PEX enabled. Most private trackers won’t care too much but some of that does depend on individual trackers and uploaders, you’d need to check their rules.


  • If it’s a movie blu ray you can usually play the “index.bdmv” file in a compatible media player e.g. VLC definitely works. MPC-HC / MPC-BE works too, I think(?) MPV can play them too. As well as Jellyfin and Kodi if that’s your thing.

    Alternatively browse into the “STREAM” folder, usually the biggest .m2ts file in there is the actual movie or whatever it is you want to play. The above media players can play that directly if preferred.

    For TV series the above usually works too but the episodes are usually split out among multiple .m2ts files so it might be easier just to play them directly in that case.





  • Jellyfin should work fine for what you’re looking for. I haven’t run it on a Pi but it should work on that. You’ll be able to play music using the web ui as well as mobile apps if that’s your thing. It can also transcode on the fly so if your current browser/device/whatever can’t play .flac directly it’ll automatically transcode the playback to .mp3 or whatever it needs to be.

    There are some other self hosted music/streaming projects you could take a look at that are much more built out for music playback specifically. Look into Airsonic-Advanced or Navidrome for example - I’ve been meaning to check them out myself but haven’t gotten around to it yet.