You won’t need EE knowledge, that’s all abstracted away in silicon. You just need to know how to drive the chips, and they’ll manage the inputs and outputs.

I doubt the TV OS is any kind of Linux. Usually embedded systems run something like vxworks. Sometimes Minix. Real fancy ones run Android (which is derived from Linux, yes).

Embrace, extend, extinguish.

SQL Server runs on Linux. Azure supports Linux. The next step is to extend into their own distro, get everyone using it, then drop support for mainstream Linux.

Will it work? Maybe. They’ll have to make Microsoft Linux more attractive than Debian and Red Hat.

The current one is initramfs in case you too are old enough to get them confused

If you’re trying to look like a movie hacker, you need to have experience with your tools. Just learn them and use them.

I’ve not had issues doing distro upgrades in a long time, and I mess with my systems a lot. There’s been a lot of progress in 15+ years, and Debian is usually pretty good about keeping stuff working.

Debian. Set it to stable instead of trixie and it’s kind of a rolling release. Testing if you want newer versions. You won’t get breakage unless you use sid.

If you’re going to do that, get the grub debs from Debian sid, not a whole different distro.

Why do you consider this a problem?

We need more info. What model laptop, for starters?

I doubt kids these days know who that is. It shouldn’t be too hard to patch it to Taylor Swift Linux though.

I don’t think it stands for anything.

Plex lets you add multiple servers.

The jellyfin app lets you switch, but maybe not use multiple servers simultaneously. I don’t have a second one I can add to test.

Actually, they have a demo server. Be right back.

Edit: nope, the android app only lets you connect to one at a time.

Nah, use one VM on each node as the kube host. That’s fine. You’re doing it for fun, you don’t need to min-max your environment.

You’ll probably want to tear it down and redeploy it eventually anyway. That’s going to be a pain if you’ve installed them on bare metal.

I don’t think jellyfin supports that either. I tried it a while back and only saw partial success.

Docker packs the whole application and its dependencies into a container, hence the name. You can run and delete that application as much as you want without affecting the host system. (But you should probably keep your media library and config outside the container, and use a bind mount. The setup documentation covers this.)

Back up anything you can’t afford to lose. Then run do-release-upgrade. You may need to use some option to allow it to go from LTS to non-LTS.

Use cfdisk and just edit the partitions.

Please note that if you do this without first resizing the filesystems on the partitions, you are very likely to lose data. You cannot safely shrink a mounted partition.

Edit: oh you mean booted from external media, not an online system. Use gparted. https://gparted.org/

Proxmox can run lxc containers natively.

Personally I keep a Debian VM for docker, a holdover from before hypervisors supported containers natively. I use docker compose and it Just Works™.

I don’t think jellyfin runs on DOS.

VPN. Jellyfin is not intended for direct exposure to the Internet.

You should run it in docker anyway for convenience. A reverse proxy is optional, but I use traefik also for convenience (so that I can just use domain names on the same port, and so that it can automatically fetch certs).