At the same time I kind of wish streaming services were actually satisfying/ethical enough that I didn’t have to do this, I am glad that I got the following working:
- I found a USB Ethernet adapter in my pile of adapters and the old laptop is now connected to the router.
- The old laptop mounts a NFS directory on the Pi that’s connected to the big HD where the media files are on boot (wouldn’t work until I put x-systemd.after=network-online.target in fstab).
- The old laptop will never go to sleep when it’s closed. None of the Settings UI does this. It
- The docker Plex server runs. (There wasn’t much to this, actually.)
- I found an English subtitles file for the Ryuichi Sakamoto documentary, and Plex reads it.
- I found a lighting cable/USB/extension cord combination that will keep the old iPad Mini always on, and it can now replace the old iPhone whose battery expired that was acting as the downstairs speaker-controlling music client.
- Sort of unrelated: The Pi isn’t constantly chugging anymore because it does not run a Plex server, and I turned down the backup frequencies.
Next, I’ll get sonarr (or is it radarr?) going, but I’m pretty happy about where all this is for right now.