After upgrading my mediacenter to the latest Ubuntu LTS version, Kodi on Ubuntu 22.04 crashed continuously. Turned out these frequent Kodi crashes resulted from the default Python 3.10.4 on Ubuntu 22.04 (see this Kodi bug). In the end of August 2022, Python 3.10.5 was not available for Ubuntu 22.04, which would have fixed the issue. […]
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My new laptop is a Lenovo Thinkpad T14s AMD Gen 1 and I opted for Ubuntu 20.04 as the laptops operating system. Ubuntu 20.04 is a LTS release and therefore has the advantage of longstanding security updates + security Livepatches. In the following, I briefly outline some (obvious) configuration I needed for my setup. I […]
In October 2020 I upgraded the hardware of my home server. In particular I decided to upgrade my existing setup by replacing the mainboard with a ASrock J5040-ITX. I opted for this board for three reasons (loosely sorted by priority): Support for Intel Quick Sync for media trans-coding, lower TDP, and support for 4K via […]