I think people should rediscover the beauty of doing things offline on a computer.
I had a recent experience traveling on a train. A mother used YouTube to entertain her young kid with some children video. Every time there was an internet hiccup and the video stopped, the kid started crying…
You don’t need a NAS and a streaming media server or anything in cloud to watch your favorite media, or to listen to your favorite music. You can simply put them on a pen drive and whenever you need the media, plug it in and watch/listen offline. Using an OTG adapter you can even plug it into your phone (at least for the duration of the the time while copy the needed files off it).
Most people don’t need much more than this. And if that mother put the videos on the phone before the journey the kid would never cry.
If you need a file server, you can use a basic Linux installation and enable SSH. Then you can transfer files over SSH using Filezilla or other SFTP client. For versioning you can use Git (it’s not just for programming), and the remote is just a directory on that Linux server where you have previously created a bare git repo.
I think people should rediscover the beauty of doing things offline on a computer.
I had a recent experience traveling on a train. A mother used YouTube to entertain her young kid with some children video. Every time there was an internet hiccup and the video stopped, the kid started crying…
You don’t need a NAS and a streaming media server or anything in cloud to watch your favorite media, or to listen to your favorite music. You can simply put them on a pen drive and whenever you need the media, plug it in and watch/listen offline. Using an OTG adapter you can even plug it into your phone (at least for the duration of the the time while copy the needed files off it). Most people don’t need much more than this. And if that mother put the videos on the phone before the journey the kid would never cry.
If you need a file server, you can use a basic Linux installation and enable SSH. Then you can transfer files over SSH using Filezilla or other SFTP client. For versioning you can use Git (it’s not just for programming), and the remote is just a directory on that Linux server where you have previously created a bare git repo.