ari_verse 4 days ago • 100%
Two candidates for my best-discovery-of-the-year prize,
Ptyxis terminal: https://gitlab.gnome.org/chergert/ptyxis A modern take at a terminal, gtk-4 native, gpu accelerated, container-aware etc that replaced tilix in my setup. And it comes neatly packaged as a flatpak
LogSeq notes: https://github.com/logseq/logseq A different approach to note taking & journal. Very nice looking, rich plugin ecosystem, could use some performance boost but I think they are working on it
Big shootout to flatpak/flathub that for me has finally taken off, I converted all of my regular desktop apps to flatpaks. Went from 3-4 apps last year to ~20 (including Firefox libreoffice, even my terminal app) this year and not looking back. This has made doing a major host SW upgrade almost painless for the first time in 25+ years using Linux desktops.
ari_verse 4 days ago • 100%
That guy that gave the release, what was he thinking!
ari_verse 4 days ago • 100%
What a weekend for Williams and most specially for Colapinto! Here's to hoping he will take this chance and make his 9-race-only chance the start of a brilliant F1 career. He seems to have what it takes
ari_verse 2 months ago • 75%
Well these days we have flatpak to solve the "not in the repo" (or 'old version in the repo') problem.
ari_verse 2 months ago • 80%
It's a fair point but I would rather diversify and also use something that is open / less opaque
ari_verse 2 months ago • 96%
A few years ago when my org got the ask to deploy the CS agent in linux production servers and I also saw it getting deployed in thousands of windows and mac desktops all across, the first thought that came to mind was "massive single point of failure and security threat", as we were putting all the trust in a single relatively small company that will (has?) become the favorite target of all the bad actors across the planet. How long before it gets into trouble, either because if it's own doing or due to others?
I guess that we now know
ari_verse 3 months ago • 100%
For a low end, small, low consumption Intel box for HTPC/Kodi, Home assistant, Frigate, small Home Server or all of the above, I can recommend any N100-based box or mini itx mobo. It's very fast compared to prior Intel low consumption CPUs (apollo lake etc), does 4K, HDR, AV1.
ari_verse 4 months ago • 100%
I.V. Drip blend from darkcity cofee in Toronto. Roasted a few days ago. Looking forward to my morning cortado!
Looking for recommendations for a touchless car wash. Currently using the shell at Burnharmthorpe and Mavis but its kind of far. There is another one I used in the past in Dixon and Islington that is supposed to give both touchless and roller options, selectable in the screen, but the last time i was there it didnt ask, used rollers.
ari_verse 7 months ago • 100%
I just checked that link and YES, actually it is, thanks for pointing it out. The docs must have been updated for v0.13, they added the ffmpeg prefix to the go2rtc stance, this wasn't there before. I found this originally in a github bug discussion with the frigate dev, where he suggested the person having issues to try this out and see what happens. There was no follow up after that suggestion though.
ari_verse 7 months ago • 100%
Note - another helpful tip for 510WA cams: in this github listing: Reolink Firmware Archive, you can find a link to version 3.1.0.1387 which I have been running for a week, this version is much newer than the latest official release (.764), it adds two useful new options in t he Stream configuration section (which is only accessible via the Web interface of the cam),
- interframe space: set it to 1X
- frame rate mode: set it to fixed
If you use Reolink wifi cams via the Frigate integration in homeassistant, you may be used to seeing tons of "ffmpeg has crashed unexpectedly" in your frigate logs. I have 3 older reolink wifi cams in frigate (510WA, 511WA) which most in the community seems to advise against and indeed since I've been running frigate, while they worked, they have been problematic since Frigate 0.12 and the arrival of go2rtc Cutting down to the chase, when I was using the standard common configuration with these cameras: ``` go2rtc: streams: driveway: - "http://192.168.x.y/flv?port=1935&app=bcs&stream=channel0_main.bcs&user=USER&password=PASSWORD#video=copy" driveway_sub: - "http://192.168.x.y/flv?port=1935&app=bcs&stream=channel0_sub.bcs&user=USER&password=PASSWORD" ``` ... frigate would generally work with them however in the logs I could see that the ffmpeg process that frigate creates for each re-stream would crash every few minutes, accumulating thousands of crashes over time. I assume that the crashes would also cause event detection to be unavailable for a brief period each time they happened. With Frigate 0.13, it got even worse, as with each crash, the HA dashboard would show a black image with a "No frames received" message that would only go away after a manual dashboard refresh. I believe the issue is that go2rtc was unable to properly handle the streams from these old cams, while in the past, ffmpeg directly in frigate could do it, adding some ffmpeg parameter. The solution I found a few days ago that ALMOST COMPLETELY eliminated all the "ffmpeg crashed unexpectedly" situations (I went from THOUSANDS of errors to just one or two errors after a few days) is to change the go2rtc configuration so that it uses ffmpeg instead of it's own code to connect to the cams: ``` go2rtc: streams: driveway: - "ffmpeg:http://192.168.x.y/flv?port=1935&app=bcs&stream=channel0_main.bcs&user=USER&password=PASSWORD#video=copy" driveway_sub: - "ffmpeg:http://192.168.x.y/flv?port=1935&app=bcs&stream=channel0_sub.bcs&user=USER&password=PASSWORD" ``` I also have the following global ffmpeg configuration in frigate's config file, not sure if it helps or not: ``` ffmpeg: global_args: -hide_banner -loglevel error hwaccel_args: preset-vaapi input_args: -avoid_negative_ts make_zero -fflags +genpts+discardcorrupt -flags low_delay -strict experimental -analyzeduration 1000M -probesize 1000M -rw_timeout 5000000 ``` This go2rtc configuration decreased CPU utilization significantly (frigate 0.13 itself also helped apparently). Hoping this will help others in the same situation, as the cams themselves are not bad, it's just their software that sucks, but that can be worked around quite nicely with ffmpeg.
ari_verse 7 months ago • 100%
what is the point of doing that? I just checked and I have hundreds of entities, it would take a huge amount of time to see which ones to keep visible / which ones are used in automations or visualization etc. What is the harm of just leaving them exposed?
ari_verse 8 months ago • 75%
I am no programmer either, mainly a technical-oriented user, and I made the switch to a linux-only desktop almost 20 years ago. I tried several distros but I keep coming back to ubuntu (in vanilla gnome mode), with it's closeness to debian and huge library of apps, with it's massive userbase you get a lot of online community support, and it's really polished these days. For the last 5-6 years or so I've been using "LTS" releases, doing major updates every two years, I found that to be a very reasonable cadence and it gives you great environment stability. The only significant downside I found these days is ubuntu's insistence in using their (proprietary?) snap desktop container app ecosystem, I personally much prefer flatpaks, and actually I use flatpaks extensively on my ubuntu desktop for SW that needs frequent updating (darktable, logseq, etc)
ari_verse 8 months ago • 100%
With all its faults, great fútbol still mesmerizes. So many of us look forward with passion to the fantastic ritual of the World Cup every four years. The best competition tournament in the world by a long shot.
There is a reco to wait for 4.6.1 due (for flatpak) in a few days that should fix a photo import issue
ari_verse 11 months ago • 100%
Baratza Vario W - daily use for the last 8 years or so and going strong. Zero ground coffee mess, decently accurate and consistent (grinds by weight), looks nice. Mine only needed one burr adjustment in the 5 year mark (it comes with tool and the instructions).
ari_verse 11 months ago • 100%
Generally it's the mobo chipset that determines which CPUs are compatible. Often the chipsets are compatible with two generations of CPUs, that was the case with H6xx from intel, i got one with an alderlake cpu amd could upgrade it a year and a half later with rocketlake. The mobo OEM needs to support this in their uefi/bios
ari_verse 1 year ago • 100%
Similarly here. After years and years using the likes of Zim and Joplin, I discovered logseq a few weeks back... and there is no going back! I do hope they will make the app more performant over time but not really a deal breaker for me
ari_verse 1 year ago • 100%
I concur with the first comment, RPi is not well suited for a media server, where you need solid storage and good performance for transcoding on the fly. However, RPis are fantastic media players
ari_verse 1 year ago • 100%
Did you check logseq? It's on flathub
ari_verse 1 year ago • 100%
Thanks all for the tips on this. I will explore the IFTTT + todoist route that seems to be the only current option to get the Alexa/echo shopping list integrated with HA's
With the release of 2023.8 I noticed there is built-in shopping list functionality in HA. Up to now at home we have been using Alexa's shopping list (we have an old echo in the kitchen so it's been practical). My question: is there a way to somehow have the Echo's/alexa's shopping list feature to manage HA's shopping list by default? I recall from ages ago that there were Alexa skills like todoist that could take over the shopping list in the echo, is there anything equivalent from the HA community?
New to pixelfed, is am using the android client. Overall it works very well but there is one basic thing I couldn't figure out, is there a way to have the feeds (network/public/home) sorted with some criteria, e.g. Show recent posts with more Likes at the top etc?
Linda nota de The Guardian sobre chicas y senioras fans de futbol, mas que nada Argentinas. Con algunas grandes fotos como no podia ser de otra manera.
DT 4.4.2 is out... And the website and forums are back up and running. Also the flatpak release in flathub has been updated and runs neatly
Cuantos recuerdos, esos heladitos en Cadore con amigos de la primaria! Una de las cosas que más se extrañan viviendo lejos de Buenos Aires/Argentina: la calidad de los helados, la institución de la Heladería
I wanted to create the first thread on this community about DT 4.4.1, only to find that the darktable.org site is down. Also the DT forum at pixls.us has been down for a few days. Regardless, what an amazing re DT release 4.4.1 is. Having used DT since the early 2.x days, it's incredible how far the software has evolved. It's very technical, but totally worth the learning curve. I am using the flatpak version these days, on ubuntu 22.04.
ari_verse 1 year ago • 100%
Tilix [https://gnunn1.github.io/tilix-web/] is missing from the list. My terminal of choice for the last (I lost count) however many years. Integrates nicely with gnome3+
ari_verse 1 year ago • 100%
This brings back so many memories! My first distro some 25 years ago now! Something to tell my kids about. I remember it took me a couple of days to get audio to work on my first install! And I still loved it. So much water has passed under the bridge. Now 100% of the production envirnoment at work is Linux-based and so are the devices at the other end of the wire/airlink. And so are our phones, home servers and on and on. Linux skills have had the highest return
With 2-bedroom rentals in the 3k+/mth range and 3-4br houses in the 5-6k/mth range, I wonder what level of family income is needed (specially to afford renting a house) and what kinds of professions/jobs are the ones that can allow you, in Toronto, to achieve that.
ari_verse 1 year ago • 100%
Pi4 for HomeAssistant + audio streamer with a HiFiBerry card, with external SSD, google Coral stick for Frigate, and a Zwave stick. Running OSMC as OS.
Pi3b with OSMC as audio streamer
Small fanless HTPC on a six year old Apollo lake mini ITX mobo. Looking forward to upgrading this one soon with one of the recently announced alderlake N100 fanless mini itx mobos.
Years on the waiting and finally a replacement for my fanless Apollo lake home server seems to be on the way! After the disappointments of Jasper lane and prior announcements this one seems for real. 3-4 times better compute metrics and half the power. Wondering what are others in the community using these days for always-on home server/media streaming needs?