Faceman2K23

Faceman2K23 , 8 months ago to selfhosted in Plex/Jellyfin Transcode Performance on x86 MiniPCs or a ZimaBoard

Thats a pretty old calculation that doesn’t take into account hardware acceleration, which modern chips can do very, very well.

So you can get away with a celeron class intel chip (or whatever they are calling them these days) and mange multiple 4k to 1080 transcode streams without issue.

I have a mini PC with an Intel n95, which is around 5500 on the passmark chart, but can easily churn out 10+ 1080p to 1080p transcodes if needed, of course the ideal setup is to avoid transcoding wherever possible. that’s not my main server, but it’s nice to know that if I wanted to I could move my plex server onto it and it would be fine.

Faceman2K23 , 9 months ago to datahoarder in Need some advice to increase my storage capacity

not usually too hard to fine older Norco and similar cases with 16+ drive bays.

I got one on FB Marketplace for less than the cost of a new 10tb drive.

Faceman2K23 , 9 months ago to foodporn in I grilled steaks tonight.

Now i’m hungry

Faceman2K23 , 9 months ago to foodporn in I grilled steaks tonight.

A simple, reliable and always pleasing meal.

If you haven’t tried it yet, next time try tossing the broccoli with olive oil and a bit of salt then bake it in the oven until the florettes are brown and crispy. works great with cauliflower too, you can par boil them beforehand too if you prefer the softer texture and it still works great.

Faceman2K23 , 9 months ago to piracy in Bulk comics libraries

Not sure about a do-all solution for the Manga side of things other than some outdated archive torrents or things hidden in the depths of usenet, but a free program called FMD2 can automate the downloading and CBZ-ifying of manga from hundreds of sources. it can act like a sonarr for manga once set up with series you follow and of course you can bulk download just at a slower rate due to the same limiting.

Faceman2K23 , 9 months ago to piracy in Why so many *arr services? Why not 1 service that works with all media types?

People have tried and failed to make the “one arr to rule them all” but the current stack is pretty lightweight, stable and mature so it is better to just install them all in containers then have some kind of frontend and request system in front of them for users and admins.

I use Organizr as a frontend (keeps them all together in one interface and optionally handles SSO across all of them) then I have Overseerr for users to add media without having to give them access to the arrs directly.

Faceman2K23 , 9 months ago to selfhosted in How do you manage your music library?

I’ve tried to use lidarr but I think my archive is too weird for it.

Not only do I have a lot of obscure releases, but I also have things like vinyl and cd rips of every version of every album by certain artists. Like I have a huge amount of frank zappa for example, sometimes I will have 10 versions of the same album, sometimes more. I have collections of the different live variants of many tracks, archives of guitar solo variations ets…

Lidarr has no idea how to handle that so I do it all manually.

Faceman2K23 , 9 months ago to selfhosted in How do you manage your music library?

You rip your cds or buy direct from the artists (he says without suggesting you can easily find everything for free online)

Faceman2K23 , 9 months ago to piracy in Library Rebuild Suggestions

Sounds like a bug in the encoder perhaps. I dont have that issue with my setup, but I’m not using AMD GPUs

Faceman2K23 , 9 months ago to android in Keen to know how long your android battery last ? I used to fully charge all my previous android phones every 12 hours but that's now changed.

Fold3 5G, I charge to <85% nightly and it almost always lasts me all day from 6am to 11pm.

I’m not a super light user, but my screen on time is nowhere near yours, 7 and a half hours screen on seems crazy high to me. I usually come out at 3 to 4 hours.

I keep the screen brightness down, wifi and bluetooth are automatically on and off only when needed, very rarely receive phone calls or video chats so that’s saving quite a bit.

Faceman2K23 , 9 months ago to piracy in Library Rebuild Suggestions

While I tend to avoid encoding wherever possible, I use H265 10Bit at low RF to archive non-critical libraries (old TV shows in some users personal libraries, 1080p movies more than 1 year old and over 20gb etc…).

my average size reduction going from a 1080p Bluray remux of 35-40gb is about 50% with no significant effect to image quality. High action or high grain movies end up a bit larger, slower movies with no action and most animations compress a bit smaller. works well overall.

basically any modern device can decode them and the image quality tends to be a bit better than 8bit.

I’d like to go with AV1, but very few of my client devices can decode it, so its not worth the trouble to save a few percent,

Faceman2K23 , 9 months ago to piracy in Rip and index DVDs?

Yes I’ve seen some like that. just bonkers stuff.

Faceman2K23 , 9 months ago to piracy in Rip and index DVDs?

Automatically ripping movies is pretty easy, but TV shows often need manual work to get them right.

Sometimes you’ll get individual videos with the correct chapters, runtimes and they are listen in order, but other times they will be jumbled in random order, or will be one large video that needs to be split manually into episodes.

Faceman2K23 , 9 months ago to world in Australia rejects proposal to recognise Aboriginal people in constitution

Thanks to the media shovelling fear, misinformation and lies into our minds. I blame Facebook, Twitter and Murdoch for this one.

The conspiracy theories around this issue were fucking wild. Ranging from the UN taking control of our government, to abolishing all land ownership and goving them the right to have your home demolished, to some bizarre thing about the pope or some shit.

Faceman2K23 , 9 months ago to piracy in How to fix genres for thousands of songs? And where to download giant catalogs of music?

For bulk diverse, pre-tagged and sorted collections you really have to go to p2p like soulseek.

For tagging picard is really the only option that can handle bulk tagging with some level of trust and authority, but definitely have a backup or work in chunks just in case it goes awry.

For a spotify replacement, Plexamp is really doing well as long as you have decently tagged media. It can do all the mood radio and playlist suggestion stuff that Spotify and others have been doing.