Faceman2K23

Faceman2K23 , 3 months ago to selfhosted in Cheap, but reliable SSDs?

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 , 3 months ago to piracy in Would you teach your kids how to pirate?

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 , 3 months ago to piracy in How to fix genres for thousands of songs? And where to download giant catalogs of music?

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 , 3 months ago to piracy in You are going to be trapped in a room for 12 hours with a mid 2000s office desktop with no internet connection and an external hard drive; what are you putting on the hard drive?

Morrowind, RCT2, Total Annihilation with all my mods and Deadlock 2 as well if I have time.

Faceman2K23 , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to piracy in Since when did 1337x start doing this crap?

Prowlarr is good because it combines usenet indexers and torrents. Makes it very easy to search for anything and compare versions/sources.

Faceman2K23 , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to technology in Unsmart a smart TV

Gets even weirder when you see LGs webOS kinda started out as PalmOS

Faceman2K23 , 3 months ago to technology in Unsmart a smart TV

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 , 3 months ago to technology in Unsmart a smart TV

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 , 3 months ago to technology in Unsmart a smart TV

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 , 4 months ago to mildlyinfuriating in I always click the wrong button.

I haven’t thought about powder toy for **so **many years.

Faceman2K23 , 4 months ago to selfhosted in Can a Raspberry Pi 5 with 8 GB of RAM handle my needs?

Yip, I have a Linux VM running on one of my boxes in the garage that is plugged into a video matrix so I can bring it up on any screen in the house, I use the pi to connect Keyboard/Mouse/controllers etc to that when I’m using it.

Faceman2K23 , 4 months ago to selfhosted in Preferred E-Book Library Server Software?

I use Ubooquity and Komga, both mainly for the OPDS service which I access on various devices.

Ubooquity is good for basic book and file serving, but does support graphics. Komga is very much graphic focussed and is very good at it.

Faceman2K23 , 4 months ago to selfhosted in Can a Raspberry Pi 5 with 8 GB of RAM handle my needs?

I replaced 4x Pi4 4gb with a single N95 mini PC with 16gb ram and wont look back.

Only PI left in my home is just running a 24/7 USBIP bridge.

the only reason to use a pi is if you need GPIO pins for custom devices.

Faceman2K23 , 4 months ago to selfhosted in Replacing CD Collection

In most cases yes, but hdd space is cheap enough that lossless compression is just the best option. Can always use them as originals to spin off mp3s or other compressed files when needed.

300cds would only be around 120 gigs flac compressed

Faceman2K23 , 4 months ago to technology in Your Kid May Already Be Watching AI-Generated Videos on YouTube

Yea no shit It’s also a significant chunk of regular youtube now too