Faceman2K23

Faceman2K23 , 6 months ago to selfhosted in Finally joined the "work was throwing it out" club

I put of grabbing one of these when my work was clearing them out, giving them away for next to nothing.

Now when I actually need one I cant find one for less than the cost of my best damn server. and nobody seems to make a basic cheap one.

Faceman2K23 , 6 months ago to news in Conservative group tells judge it has no evidence to back its claims of Georgia ballot stuffing

Then they should be fined for wasting the courts time, and spreading misinformation.

Faceman2K23 , 6 months ago to selfhosted in Off topic: do you think Wendel from level one techs could be the admin of star trek.website?

I don’t think he’s enough of an asshole to admin that instance.

You can get banned there for sneezing the wrong way.

Hell I once got banned for talking about being banned.

Faceman2K23 , 6 months ago to selfhosted in Jellyfin on FreeBSD

Is it related to this issue posted to the bsd forks github?

I cant help you directly as I run Jellyfin on linux, but that should be your first port of call. just keep in mind jellyfin on FreeBSD is 100% unofficial so you are on your own.

Faceman2K23 , 6 months ago to selfhosted in Best TV box for connecting to streaming services?

For maximum compatibility with all services you are limited in your choices due to DRM licence requirements.

You can mostly decrapify android based boxes via ADB to strip out much of the bloat, strip most of the telemetry entirely then block the rest in your firewall, and replace the launcher with a super barebones one like Flauncher but it will never be 100% perfect.

If you must be in full control of what is on the device and what it is doing, a small, low powered miniPC (intel n100 is a good chip for basic AV for example, 4k 10bit with perfect H265 and AV1 decoding) and use the operating system of your choice, but you are then limited in what you can stream via browser or third party apps, often in nowhere near full quality, again this is due to licencing and drm.

The best option is to avoid streaming services altogether and download your own content, then use an offline player like kodi or a server/client solution like Jellyfin (a free and open alternative to plex, with most of the base features well implemented) to play it.

Faceman2K23 , 6 months ago to selfhosted in Plex for books?

I have an Onyx Boox tablet and use ubooquity as an ebook OPDS server on my unraid box at home, it has an online reader that’s pretty good, but I just download the ebook file to local storage and use the much better reader built into the system. I’m a slow reader so I dont have to do it often.

I haven’t really found a third party reader that is e-ink optimised and can seamlessly integrate an OPDS server. I’d like to find one, particularly if it has syncing between devices as I also use a foldy phone as my main device so it seems some use as a reader sometimes.

I also self host a huge archive of manga in Komga, and access that on the tablet and phone via a tachiyomi fork, it handles e-ink optimisation pretty well. It also doesn’t sync between devices but if I use the komga web reader it does, it’s just a bit power hungry on the Boox and has no offline functionality so I just manually keep in sync which isn’t that hard.

Faceman2K23 , 6 months ago to android in Chromecast with Google TV is now serving full-screen, auto-playing Chicken Tender Wrap ads

Flauncher for absolute minimalism, or projectivy for a more featured replacement.

Faceman2K23 , 6 months ago to piracy in Upload is at 0. Losing my mind.

While it’s unlikely your ISP is blocking all uploads on that protocol, a vpn would bypass that.

So a vpn is worth testing

Faceman2K23 , 7 months ago to piracy in Upload is at 0. Losing my mind.

What does your Docker port mapping look like?

Perhaps the port is open and forwarded in the router but not getting through the Docker network? Are you mapping 1:1 or using different internal/external ports?

Faceman2K23 , 7 months ago to android in Chromecast with Google TV is now serving full-screen, auto-playing Chicken Tender Wrap ads

All the more reason to fire up adb and replace that launcher before they take that ability away.

Faceman2K23 , 7 months ago to piracy in nvidia shield recommendations?

lower res, low bitrate AV1 can be decoded in software pretty well (<1080p animation etc) but with high bitrate 4k AV1 it cant get anywhere near 24fps.

Faceman2K23 , 7 months ago to piracy in nvidia shield recommendations?

I hate it on high, but low looks excellent for everything I throw at it, but I had to set my TVs sharpness to zero to get it to play nice, otherwise its an artifacty mess.

Faceman2K23 , 7 months ago to piracy in nvidia shield recommendations?

I find it severely overdoes it on anime when set to medium and high but on Low it looks excellent.

I leave it on low 100% of the time and it works great.

Faceman2K23 , 7 months ago to piracy in nvidia shield recommendations?

The AI upscaling isn’t magic, it’s just a decent algorithm to get the best out of lower res content. tuned properly and combined with a TV properly configured to not oversharpen everything it looks excellent but is best left at the lowest setting.

My findings after using a 2019 shield pro since launch (also decrapified via ADB, and running projectivy) is that it is way too aggressive most of the time on the medium and high settings, leading to heavy artifacting and unnatural looking edges. for live action 720p and 1080p it looks fantastic on low and sometimes medium, but often over-sharpened on high depending on the content of the footage on high, for animation it looks down right deepfried meme sharpened sometimes unless you set it to low.

It cant make new detail where there was none before (it’s not anywhere near the same tech used in high end GPUs like DLSS), its just a smarter, more content aware smoothing and sharpening filter, you can turn it on and off and bring up a side-by-side to see how it is processing the content to help you tune it and also to dial in your TVs settings to suit. if you use resolution switching in plex it will not be active by the way, that will force the shield to output 1080p and the TV handles the upscale at that point, so turn that off if you want to use the shields scaler.

on 1080p high bitrate content (bluray rips) it looks great, again usually on low or medium, high is too much most of the time, it gets very close to a native 4k rip of the same source if the source is a bit softer to start with, like many films with 2k intermediate masters where the advantages of 4k aren’t fully utilised. Native 4k (some higher end films, many high budget tv shows, high value youtube channels etc) still look significantly better at true 4k than AI upscaled 1080.

So set the shield to Ai Low and set your TVs sharpness to zero or very low (mine is on 5 out of 100 for example in its movie preset, every one is different of course), there are calibration and test patterns built into projectivy (great feature!) you can use to tune motion smoothing, colours and contrast in SDR, HDR10 and DV as well as detail test patterns for upscaler and sharpness tuning so use them for the best experience.

One thing to note about the instructions on the website you linked for decrapifying via ADB, on the latest firmwares 9.1.1 and newer some of those commands will crash the shield, so go through them one by one rather than running the one line all in one, go through each line and if it forces a reboot, wait for it to come back and just go onto the next command. it wont do any damage but you have to skip a couple of lines to get it to work.

Faceman2K23 , 7 months ago to selfhosted in Alternative to Home Assistant for ESPHome Devices

The UI is definitely better than it used to be, but nodered can do some more powerful stuff like pulling the html of a devices web ui and parsing data straight from the page when there’s no API to use for example. I used to do that for a solar inverter at my last house.

Now I use it to control my AV switcher that distributes video through the house, it has no native homeassistant integration and only supports things like control4 and RTI so I implemented my own control using their REST API and hooked it all up to buttons and selectors in homeassistant. works great.

Also my home theatre receiver has a homeassistant integration but its terrible, so again, I’ve manually implemented the tcp controls in nodered.