Dolby Atmos at no extra cost, except the headset is 10 bucks more than the old version. Seems to me like Dolby Atmos support actually costs 10 bucks.

Better than using what? All I see is a bunch of stars.

It’s quite normal as chip manufacturing improves and die sizes shrink. Smaller dies need less power and therefore run cooler, it’s a win-win. It’s also how the various slim models of consoles suddenly appear a few years after the regular version came out.

Presumably streamed via xcloud, which previously needed a separate app.

Yeah that’s exactly what I’d done but it was insisting on trying to redirect me to the site on port 4443 for some reason.

Fixed it in the end by reverting the NPM config to default (no advanced settings) and instead using Pihole’s VIRTUAL_HOST=pihole.mydomain.internal environment variable in the Docker compose file.

Cheers for your help anyway!

Just tried this myself and mine does the same thing but I don’t have anything set in the custom locations tab. What did you do to resolve it?

Synology has Container Manager, which is their GUI frontend for Docker, so if it’ll run in Docker it’ll run on a Syno NAS. I’m running Pihole on mine just fine.

As for the M.2 drives, you can use non-Synology ones as storage. Don’t quote me on it but I’ve a feeling it “just works” in the EU where they’re not allowed to force you to use specific brands, but if it doesn’t then there’s a script that removes the restriction: https://github.com/007revad/Synology_enable_M2_volume

You should check their repo as they have other useful scripts. I’m using the one that enables dedupe on non-SSD volumes myself.

Mind officially blown! I’ve just spun up a Debian KDE instance and it’s running beautifully. Exactly what I wanted, thank you!

Yes, big fan of XCP-ng, we use it extensively in work, but I’m not convinced it’s my best option in this case.

I’m using plenty of containers, accelerated and otherwise, but I also want a full-blown desktop that I can access from wherever. Even on a wired LAN, streaming that desktop is slow and laggy when it’s hosted on my NAS, which I think is due to the lack of hardware acceleration on that system. I want to move the VM to a host that has that feature (currently running Ubuntu Server) but I need a hypervisor that doesn’t require its own desktop system to be installed in order to manage it.

Plenty of good replies here to help me though.

Well indeed, that’s why I want to move the VM off the NAS and onto something with some hardware acceleration. Are there any remote frontend options for KVM?

Firefox. I’m fairly convinced it’s something to do with UBO or one of the blocklists but I’ve never taken the time to dig into it properly.

You’ve reminded me of a similar frustration that I’ve never found the answer to - though it may be adblock related - in that whenever I open a link to eBay it completely wipes the history for that tab. Or possibly it opens a new tab and kills the parent. Either way I always forget about it until the next time and then it drives me mad all over again.

Thanks, I’m going to have to put some research into this!

I’ve heard Shelly bandied about quite a lot in the HA circle but this is the first thing that’s made me sit up and take notice. You’re saying they’re far more customisable than, say, your standard ZigBee light switch?

Yes of course! I enabled experimental features to use a template add-on, but I later removed it and turned the option off.

Either they A/B tested this or they accidentally released some of it early because I got all of that new UI stuff a few months ago, complete with addons appearing in the HA updates section. A few days later, just as I’d got used the change, it disappeared!

At least I now know I wasn’t going mad.

To be fair the Synology lineup is confusing, but if you get the right model - one with a Ryzen processor and support for 32GB memory (officially; they can take more) - then you’ve got yourself a proper little workhorse with low power consumption, a stable, reliable OS, and super easy expansion thanks to the hot-swap drive bays and their Hybrid RAID option. My 8 bay model is running a couple of full-blown VMs and what must be two dozen or so docker containers while barely breaking a sweat. The DS723+ is the equivalent 2 bay model.

For things that need some acceleration like Plex and Immich I’ve added a little N100 box (a Beelink S12 Pro) with Ubuntu Server and another Docker instance, and mounted the NAS storage via SMB. This also sips power even when transcoding 4x Plex streams at once.

All of which is to say you don’t need to do a complex, potentially power hungry and difficult to expand self build to do what you want.

Neither does the BBC’s couch to 5k app, for who knows what reason.

You are a legend, thank you!