Self-hosting your own #media considered harmful (updated) | #JeffGeerling

I just received my second community guidelines violation for my video demonstrating the use of #LibreELEC on a #RaspberryPi 5, for 4K video playback.

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/self-hosting-your-own-media-considered-harmful-updated

#YouTube, the paragon of content morality, graciously warns us that self-hosting media (gasp!) is as dangerous as assembling your own IKEA furniture without an Allen wrench. Meanwhile, our hero Jeff Geerling, the Robin Hood of legal media purchases, is publicly scolded for owning a Raspberry Pi and a conscience.
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/self-hosting-your-own-media-considered-harmful #SelfHosting #JeffGeerling #RaspberryPi #ContentMorality #MediaOwnership #HackerNews #ngated

Exciting day! I just received my DeskPi RackMate T0 for my homelab setup.

This compact 4U rack is perfect for organising my gear, and I am thrilled to start setting it up. Big thanks to #DeskPi for their support and @geerlingguy for starting this mini rack project!

Calling all tech lovers! Jeff Geerling's new video, "Project MINI RACK - a Homelab Revolution!" is out now! He explores the potential of mini homelabs and thanks DeskPi for their awesome mini racks. And guess what? There's a giveaway for the DeskPi RackMate T0 Pi 5 cluster! Watch it here: https://youtu.be/y1GCIwLm3is or Invidious: https://invidious.reallyaweso.me/watch?v=y1GCIwLm3is #Homelab
#MiniRack
#TechCommunity
#OpenSource
#RaspberryPi
#DIYTech
#ServerRack
#JeffGeerling
#DeskPi

#JeffGeerling finally unlocks #RaspberryPi external #GPU support, and yes it runs Doom... 3 at 4K!
Raspberry Pi wizard Jeff Geerling has demonstrated 4K60 gaming on his #RPi5 setup. Crucially, the Pi 5 was given a considerable lift in the GPU department via the use of an M.2 to OCuLink adapter and an AMD Radeon RX 460 desktop graphics card
SuperTuxKart and Doom 3 can both run at 4K60 and max settings!
https://www.tomshardware.com/raspberry-pi/jeff-geerling-finally-unlocks-raspberry-pi-external-gpu-support-and-yes-it-runs-doom-3-at-4k

#MilkVJupiter is the first #ITX #RISCV board #JeffGeerling tested
It includes niceties like front panel IO, front-panel Audio, USB 3.0, and USB 2.0, 24-pin ATX power input, an M.2 M-key slot for NVMe, and an open ended PCI Express slot!
#Canonical seems to have a good relationship with #MilkV, so #Ubuntu seems to be the base distro off which #Bianbu #Linux is built.
It all works—a bit better than he expected. But RISC-V isn't ready for prime-time yet
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2024/milk-v-jupiter-first-itx-risc-v-board-ive-tested

The state of #Docker on popular #RISCV platforms
Docker and #Ansible, two tools for #devops work, both run stably—though with plenty of caveats since RISC-V is still so new.
A couple years ago, RISC-V was in very rough space, where #JeffGeerling would run into crashes, weird boot issues, etc. Today it feels a lot like #Arm #Linux in 2016 or so... there is some support out there, most things work, but you have to do a lot of manual tweaking to run real-world applications.
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2024/state-docker-on-popular-risc-v-platforms

Thanks to the Geekworm wiki and @geerlingguy, I now have
MXLinux 23 Raspberry Pi Respin running on my Raspberry Pi 5 with the PineberryPi HatDrive SSD HAT!

Say “hello” to Commander Fox, likely destined for Nextcloud duty.

Booting and app launching are FAST. The only thing that holds it back is the lack of a GPU, but it’s perfectly useable for light desktop work.

@mxlinux #Geekworm #MXLinux #RaspberryPi #PineberryPi #nextcloud #JeffGeerling

#RPi Cluster vs #Ampere #AltraMax 128-core ARM #CPU
The @Ampere@twitter.com system blows past the Pi cluster and #AMD desktop, but isn't even half as efficient as the silent little #AppleSilicon M1 Max #MacStudio on which #JeffGeerling wrote the post!
https://bit.ly/3tSkyii #HPL #Top500