Faceman2K23 1 week ago • 100%
I think a lot of people have facebook accounts but dont use it for facebook. Messenger, instagram, marketplace.. I'd guess that most people using those services don't actually "use facebook" and probably think they arent providing profitable data to meta by using those services.
Faceman2K23 3 weeks ago • 100%
you have been able to right click (or i guess two finger click for apple people) and open a second window forever.
Faceman2K23 3 weeks ago • 100%
You can have multiple finder windows in OSX, thats perfectly normal, but you cant have the network settings open next to the printer settings.
Faceman2K23 3 weeks ago • 100%
I'm pretty positive on mac OS, as an OS it's technically quite good, but their preferences app has always been atrocious almost entirely for this reason, I want to have two preferences windows open to different pages please..
Faceman2K23 4 weeks ago • 100%
Thus why im moving to 11. Lots of the PCs I work with are still 10 though.
Faceman2K23 4 weeks ago • 100%
Mostly 11 now. I honestly prefer it to 10 now, but that's with quite about of decrapification done to remove all of Microsoft's bullshit.
At home I'm mostly using Ubuntu, but it's basically covering firefox as all of my self-hosted stuff runs in thevbrowser and I don't game much.
Faceman2K23 4 weeks ago • 100%
I hope your firewall is up to scratch.
Faceman2K23 4 weeks ago • 100%
honestly I still cant figure out how to configure a network interface properly without using the old control panel.
Faceman2K23 4 weeks ago • 100%
its been on the experimental branch for a while now
Faceman2K23 4 weeks ago • 100%
These are the people that complain to their ISP when their game 'lags' on their wireless connected computer several rooms away from the router.
Faceman2K23 1 month ago • 100%
can you run something like iperf3 or openspeedtest between the server and client to prove its a network throughput issue?
do you have a network switch you can add to avoid switching through your router (if it is indeed bad?)
Have you ensured you arent unknowingly using wifi at either end?
Faceman2K23 2 months ago • 100%
NGINX is a bit more hands on than some other options but it's mature, configurable and there's a huge amount of information out there for setting it up for various use cases.
in my case, its what I set up when i was first getting into this and it works, so I don't want to go through setting up anything else.
Faceman2K23 2 months ago • 100%
Thanks for the insightful and helpful comment.
Faceman2K23 2 months ago • 85%
Unraid is great and I have been using it for over a decade now, but a paid OS on a 2bay nas seems excessive
Faceman2K23 3 months ago • 100%
I cant say I care as much as I used to, since encoding has gotten quite good, but I have also gotten better at seeing (aka. worse at being distracted by) compression artifacts so while I am less of a perfect remux rip supremacist, I'm also more sensitive to bad encodes so its a double edged sword.
I still seek out the highest quality versions of things that I personally care about, but I don't seek those out for absolutely everything like I used to. I recently saved 12TB running a slight compression pass on my non-4k movie library, turning (for example) a 30gb 1080p Bluray Remux into a 20gb H265 high bitrate encode, which made more room for more full fat 4K bluray files for things I care about, and the few 1080p full remuxes I want to keep for rarities and things that arent as good from the 4k releases or the ones where the 4k release was drastically different (like the LOTR 4k's having poor dynamic range and the colours being changed for the Matrix etc), which I may encode in the future to save more space again. I know I can compress an 80gb UHD bluray file down to 60gb with zero noticeable loss, thats as far as I need to go, I don't need to go down to 10gigs like some release groups try to do, and at that level of compression you might as well be at 1080p.
I cant go as low as a low bitrate 720p movie these days as I'm very close to a large screen so they tend to look quite poor, soft edges, banded gradients, motion artifacts, poor sound etc. but if I were on a smaller screen or watching movies on a phone like I used to, I probably wouldn't care as much.
Another side to my choice to compress is that I have about 10 active Plex clients at the moment and previously they were mostly getting transcoded feeds (mostly from remux sources) but now most of them are getting a better quality encode (slow CPU encode VS fast GPU stream) direct to their screens, so while I've compressed a decent chunk of the library, my clients are getting better quality feeds from it.
Faceman2K23 3 months ago • 100%
I use Plexamp for that, Jellyfin does it too. You can assign libraries per user quite easily.
So for 3 users you might have 4 libraries, one per user then a shared library they all have access to.
Faceman2K23 3 months ago • 100%
I have complete ROM sets for a couple of platforms in my archive, they're available on SLSK but not a huge amount of bandwidth available.
Sad to see the old giants like Vimms finally being attacked after all these years.
Faceman2K23 4 months ago • 100%
Soulseek has been getting hammered too
Faceman2K23 4 months ago • 100%
the 2.5" size of disks are now mostly direct USB controller disks rather than sata adapters internally.
3.5" disks are still SATA as far as i've seen but the actual sku's of the disks are often the lower grades. like you will get a disk that looks like another good disk but with only 64mb of dram instead of 256 on the one you would buy as a bare internal drive for example so they can end up a bit slower. and warranties are usually void.
Faceman2K23 4 months ago • 100%
Used to be my main source of disks, but these days there are better ways and it is easier to know exactly what you are getting.
Faceman2K23 4 months ago • 100%
Israel making an awful lot of "mistakes" lately...
Faceman2K23 4 months ago • 100%
Are you transcoding?
4mbit per client for 1080 is generally a workable minimum for the average casual watcher if you have H265 compatible clients (and a decent encoder, like a modern intel CPU for example), 6 - 8mbit per client if its H264 only.
Remember that the bitrate to quality curve for live transcoding isn't as good as a slow, non-real-time encode done the brute force way on a CPU. so if you have a few videos that look great at 4mbit, dont assume your own transcodes will look quite that nice, you're using a GPU to get it done as quickly as possible, with acceptable quality, not as slowly and carefully as possible for the best compression.
Faceman2K23 4 months ago • 100%
You're confusing a container format (MKV) with a video codec (AV1)
MKV is just a container like a folder or zip file that contains the video stream (or streams, technically you can have multiple) which could be in H264, H265, AV1 etc etc, along with audio streams, subtitles and many other files that go along, like custom Fonts, Posters, etc etc.
As for the codec itself, AV1 done properly is a very good codec but to be visually lossless it isn't significantly better than a good H265 encode without doing painfully slow CPU encodes, rather than fast efficient GPU encodes. people that are compressing their entire libraries to AV1 are sacrificing a small amount of quality, and some people are more sensitive to its flaws than others. in my case I try to avoid re-encoding in general. AV1 is also less supported on TVs and Media players, so you run into issues with some devices not playing them at all, or having to use CPU decoding.
So I still have my media in mostly untouched original formats, some of my old movie archives and things that aren't critical like daily shows are H265 encoded for a bit of space saving without risking compatibility issues. Most of my important media and movies are not re-encoded at all, if I rip a bluray I store the video stream that was on the disk untouched.
Faceman2K23 4 months ago • 100%
N5095 ? lots of reports of that one not supporting everything it should based on other Jasper Lake chips, CPU getting hit for Decode when it shouldn't for example. Also HDR to SDR cant be accelerated with VPP on that one as far as I know so the CPU gets smashed. I think you can do it with OpenCL though.
Faceman2K23 5 months ago • 100%
Was it an n100? They have a severely limited power budget of 6w compared to the n95 at 25w or so.
I'm running jellyfin ontop of ubuntu desktop while also playing retro games. That all sits in a proxmox vm with other services running alongside it. It's perfectly snappy.
Faceman2K23 5 months ago • 100%
One of my miniPCs is just a little N95 and it can easily transcode 4K HDR to 1080p (HDR or tonemapped SDR) to a couple of clients, and with excellent image quality. You could build a nice little server with a modern i3 and 16gigs of ram and it would smash through 4 or 5 high bitrate 4K HDR transcodes just fine.
Is that one transcoding client local to you? or are you trying to stream over the web? if it's local, put some of the budget to a new player for that screen perhaps?
Faceman2K23 5 months ago • 100%
I've had good luck with WD Blue NVME (SN550)
I've put several of those into machines at work and have had years without an issue. I'm also running a WD Blue SN550 1TB in my server as one of the caches, 25000 hours power on time, >100TB written, temperatures way higher than they should be and still over 93% health remaining according to smart.
Faceman2K23 5 months ago • 100%
Sonarr/Radarr etc make it very easy and safe for media, but apps and games would be more of a serious sit down and talk kind of situation as more can go wrong there.
Faceman2K23 5 months ago • 100%
Soulseek is more like an old school peer to peer network like kazaa, limewire, winmx, ed2k etc.
I haven't seen any clients with a playlist downloader, though that sounds like a cool feature to suggest.
You don't have to seed.
Faceman2K23 5 months ago • 100%
I played Crysis on a Vuzix VR920 in around 2008, that was my first VR other than a virtual boy.
Dual 640x480, frame interleaved 3d at 30hz per eye! if you drop a single frame the eyes got out of sync and switched! I think I had dual 9600GTs at the time and it struggled. I think it also struggled on the dual 9800GTX+ I had after that.
head tracking was purely gyro/accelerometer based and worked very poorly.
Faceman2K23 5 months ago • 100%
That is awesome.
I played descent 1 and 2 for hours on end back in the day, never got to play 3 as I didn't have a 3d card yet and they dropped the software renderer option.
Faceman2K23 6 months ago • 100%
Yea I've got 3 in my video distribution rig at the moment, one 2015, a 2017 and a 2019 and they are all going strong, all on projectivy and some adb tweaks though.
Faceman2K23 6 months ago • 100%
Morrowind, RCT2, Total Annihilation with all my mods and Deadlock 2 as well if I have time.
Faceman2K23 6 months ago • 100%
The shield pro 2019 is probably still the best overall, it's not perfect as there are some weaknesses due to the age of its chipset, but for all the common formats used in Movies and TV it works perfectly, especially if you are playing full remux files, not re-encoded compressed video. Kodi runs very well, Plex runs very well, Jellyfin is mostly perfect too, but has some limitations in the current version.
Yes it supports HDR10 (not10+) and Dolby Vision, which covers 98% of all 4K blurays and TV shows, anything HDR10+ just gets played in HDR10 compatibility mode, if you TV doesn't do DV it plays the HDR10 layer on 99% of files. There are some issues with HLG as it isnt properly supported but you don't come across that format all that often and there is usually an SDR or regular HDR version available, if your TV supports manually activating HLG then it works fine.
Yes there is a minor colour bug in some DV content, no it isn't the end of the world as some people make it out to be.
It is one of the only players that will give you full DTS:X and Dolby Atmos support, it has a very nice configurable upscaler for lower res content (AI upscale on low works excellently with minimal artifacts), it still has a lot going for it despite its age.
Also its easy to decrapify with ADB, you can easily configure third party launchers and other fun stuff.
Faceman2K23 6 months ago • 100%
Prowlarr is good because it combines usenet indexers and torrents. Makes it very easy to search for anything and compare versions/sources.
Faceman2K23 6 months ago • 100%
Gets even weirder when you see LGs webOS kinda started out as PalmOS
Faceman2K23 6 months ago • 100%
I have seen some talk over on XDA forums, but since there is more to an android TV than just the basic android OS, it's a bit trickier without risking losing licences/compatibility/DRM/features.
Some older LG webOS tvs can be rooted and custom apps installed too such as ad free youtube players etc.
Faceman2K23 6 months ago • 90%
Not sure if there's a list, but most Android based TVs can be cleaned and modded to some degree via ADB. If you can access the dev settings in android, chances are you can do a lot to make it better, strip out some google or branded packages, replace the launcher to block OS level ads etc. Projectivy usually works well since it supports input switching on many devices, but it's still better to do all of this to a separate box and then plug it into a TV that is firewalled/filtered/offline. more control and less to fuck up.
Rooting and unlocking bootloaders is more complex as these android devices dont have normal recovery systems and require a lot of custom drivers to make the video and audio processing work, so it's not worth going that far.
Faceman2K23 6 months ago • 98%
LCDs do tend to speak somewhat standardised languages, but there is a lot more to a modern TV than just an LCD controller.
Color and white balance calibration, image/motion processing, HDR Processing, backlight control/dimming zones, input management, audio decoding/encoding/passthrough, digitizing analogue sources, HDMI licencing, Dolby licencing, etc.
If you want a better smart TV the best thing to do is to get a hackable TV like most android based models, replace the launcher, strip out system apps and telemetry with ADB and start fresh, then either leave it offline or use filtering to only allow access to the services you approve.
Faceman2K23 6 months ago • 100%
Aussie here, We're still very much a car centric country, but for major public events we are pretty much hardwired to use public transport. I dont know what the actual parking capacity of the MCG is, but Marvel Stadium (Docklands) is only 500 cars with 55000 seats(not including the many nearby free and paid parking locations), that is much smaller than the MCG at over 100000 capacity, one of the worlds highest capacity stadiums despite our puny population.
Apart from most stadiums having extensive train, bus and drop-off access, we also have Park and Ride programs that can temporarily scale up to cover events like this which can basically turn any unused land into a large temporary carpark with dedicated bus services that take you either to the venue directly or to the local train station when they both have limited parking.
Classic.
KAUAN - Ice Fleet. Achingly beautiful music, doom, atmospheric, ambient, progressive. If you haven't listened to them, they played two albums, Pirut and their masterpeice Sorni Nai live in full in Kyiv some years ago, it's [here](https://youtu.be/DcajesMusnU?si=vU4Vp2Qvy5DOlPa6) for those interested. If you've never cried to music with lyrics you don't even understand, give that a go.
I didn't have any vinyl starting with H, so tonight it's I. Ihsahn - Das Seelenbrechen Probably his most experimental solo album, and one I'm quite fond of, though i prefer After or The adversary personally. Standout part of this album has to be the semi improvised drum parts by Tobias Andersen range from groovy to unhinged and I love it.
In my opinion, Gojiras best work. Love the story and lyrics on this album.
https://eadoom.bandcamp.com/album/ea-taesse Atmospheric funeral doom with a neat gimmick of being in their own ancient language and lyrics based on sacred texts of said civilisation. Combining my love of conlangs, worldbuilding and funeral doom!
Yea I'm skipping to the end of the alphabet for a special play because I felt like it. My first play tonight wasn't metal so here's this. Glorious Ukrainian black metal with avant garde jazz and noir influence.
I adore this album. That is all.
This is Alcest - Écailles de Lune, one of the quintessential Blackgaze releases. My copy here is the Prophecy Productions 10th Anniversary reissue, a lovely quality remaster pressed to a gorgeous deep blue and black swirled vinyl.
Gday folks, Has anyone have any luck tracking down a source for surround and or Atmos music? whether it by DVD-A, BD-A, SACD, DTS-CD etc etc. Not looking for concerts here (I have plenty of those) but proper albums specifically mixed in multichannel and spacial formats. I have pretty much everything I can find on Usenet and public trackers and have backed up all of my physical media but there is a lot out there that I know exists.
cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/464987 > If you aren't already using the mover tuning plug-in, now is a good time to have a look at it. > > The latest update allows per-share settings override for detailed control over how your caches are used. > > I use this plug-in to keep files in cache based on their age, so for example in a media server, you can have the last 14 days of TV shows kept in cache, while still running the mover regularly. > > It can also do a full move if the disk is above a certain threshold value, so if your cache is getting full, it can dump all files to the array as per normal. > > So you always keep the most important recent files on the cache, with a greatly reduced risk of running into a full cache issue and the problems that causes. > > Now, with the latest update, you can tune these settings PER SHARE, rather than being across the whole system. >
If you aren't already using the mover tuning plug-in, now is a good time to have a look at it. The latest update allows per-share settings override for detailed control over how your caches are used. I use this plug-in to keep files in cache based on their age, so for example in a media server, you can have the last 14 days of TV shows kept in cache, while still running the mover regularly. It can also do a full move if the disk is above a certain threshold value, so if your cache is getting full, it can dump all files to the array as per normal. So you always keep the most important recent files on the cache, with a greatly reduced risk of running into a full cache issue and the problems that causes. Now, with the latest update, you can tune these settings PER SHARE, rather than being across the whole system.