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Same for me, I had forgotten about it and someone mentioned seeing the same series of compute sticks getting mx in a video, and two of the sticks are still running it tbh.

Yup! Doesnt matter if its running in a reduced capacity by being in a x8 instead of an x16 either (which honestly won’t matter as much to performance as you might think anyway), just about any hardware acceleration makes a world of difference with those applications.

MX worked really well when I was playing with a few compute sticks recently. I did not do any major comparisons here, just was surprised at how responsive MX was on there.

Take a look, and consider one more option (I have this setup in one of my workstations).

A second GPU. Older is fine, I have an older quadro 2000 in one machine thats great for cad, when I load up my VM for AutoCAD architecture, thats the GPU its using.

I have a few others with quadro 620s in them, the Intel iGPU is accessed shared by being an lxc, the quadros I pass through to the VMs. Some need very different configs, so I only power up the VM when I need it, so they can all use the same passed through GPU.

I use markup for that, mostly mermaid.

Yes.

On my virt host, which I pass the GPU to. I remote into it from my laptop.

Single GPU or dual GPU laptop?

Have you looked at libvf.io?

virtio-gpu (if you look to the more recent work) has made big strides, but I also wouldn’t consider it “ready”.

It should.

Hell I have hardware dongles I have to deal with that work fine in a VM.

Are you sure you can’t go the easier route with a VM? Running off USB will be slow and unpleasant, especially with windows.

What’s the VM issue?

Wine for wintousb or make a vhd for Ventoy.

It runs under wine, but check versions at the winehq db for what to grab.

https://www.easyuefi.com/wintousb/

So they want the second one I mentioned, WinToUSB.

Edit: Though to be clear you can do this with Ventoy too, just make a vhd.

Since you’ve edited to clarify, you want WinToUSB.

I’m a bit confused by the question.

Do you want to write the installation files to a USB drive? There’s dd, KDE ISO Image Writer, Balena Etcher, Gnome MultiWriter, etc.

Do you want to boot a full windows installation off a thumb drive? You would want to look at Ventoy or WinToUSB.

Would you want to run windows at the same time in a VM? Thats essentially what I do when I need to run a specialty windows application.

I want to start by saying I am not suggesting you use any of the products these companies offer, but I’m linking to the standard strategy - 3-2-1.

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/the-3-2-1-backup-strategy/

https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/backup-rule/

https://www.techtarget.com/searchdatabackup/definition/3-2-1-Backup-Strategy

• 3 copies (original and two backups)
• 2 forms of media
• 1 copy off site.

For me, I have two boxes for NAS. One is the prod, one is the backup of anything I can’t replace (or can’t replace easily). I have another at the home of a member of my family, which gets a weekly diff. I also backup an encrypted set to cloud storage I got some time ago. So I actually have 4 sets of data (1 prod + 3 backups), two off-site locations. The media portion is treated differently today - it used to be tape, DVD backups, whatever, but today I consider different devices and cloud storage to fit that bill. In which case I have an abundance of forms of storage media

Mine goes a slight bit past what’s needed for 3-2-1 which is appropriate for me. I consider 3-2-1 the minimum for any data considered critical or irreplaceable.

For me, that includes home movies, family photos, financial records, etc. It does not include my rips of my DVD collection. It does include config files and backups of services I run though.

The right backup strategy depends on your own concern about data. If I lost the photos/videos of my kids, I’d be devastated. If I lost the rips of VHS tapes my dad recorded, I’d be devastated.

If I lost the iso for a random esoteric piece of hardware that has its drivers, I’d be disappointed but its not a big deal.

Prioritize your data. Absolutely critical, important, preferred to keep, annoying but replaceable, and who cares I’ll just download it again if I have to.

Once you know how much you need to store for each of those, add a bit to plan ahead, and see what backup strategy fits as you move down the priority list, and go from there.

There is a whole lot to jellyfin that mpv doesnt cover.

I’m glad youre enjoying the setup, but its hardly a replacement for jellyfin in the vast majority of cases.

with DKMS

Exactly what I was going to suggest here. This is the way to deal with it (and “it” is usually pain in the ass WiFi)

Literally just got myself a “new” laptop about 25 minutes ago.

Thanks Microsoft!

It definitely is, especially if you get a cluster going. FWIW, my media is all on a synology NAS (well technically two, but one is a backup) that I got used through work, so your setup isn’t the wrong approach (imo) by any stretch.

What it comes down to in the connection is how you look at it - with a VM, its a full fledged system, all by its lonesome, that just happens to live inside another computer. A container though is an extension of that host, so think of it less like a VM and more like resource sharing, and you’ll start to see where the different approaches have different advantages.

For example, I have transcode nodes running on my proxmox cluster. If I had JF as a VM, I’d need another GPU to do that - but since its a container for both JF and my transcode node, they get to share that resource happily. Whats the right answer is always going to depend on individual needs though.

And glad I could be of some help!