Faceman2K23

Faceman2K23 , 8 months ago

the VHS vs Beta format wars, not the HD-DVD vs Blu-ray format wars for the young’ns out there.

Faceman2K23 , 8 months ago

I just rip any disk I get, I haven’t had to think about region locks for at least 15 years.

Faceman2K23 , 8 months ago

In the past I’ve used Volumio, but they’ve made multiroom a paid feature now.

One way around it would be to run a chromecast or airplay client, as they both have inherent multizone support, just not as polished as a sonos-style setup with groupings and stereo mapping when using DIY hardware.

Faceman2K23 , 8 months ago

I just have a “channel” on my plex (I use DizqueTV to setup the fake TV channel) that has a random continuous playlist of Mythbusters, Top gear + all the spinoffs and classic specials, Junkyard wars, classic robot wars, etc etc…

Faceman2K23 , 8 months ago

its just an app you run next to plex that lets you make fake TV channels with your own content. good for those “I don’t know what to watch” times where you just want to click a button and shut your brain off.

Faceman2K23 , 8 months ago

yea, sadly a lot of shows from those times were never released on decent formats, so all we have are poor broadcast rips, some of them from VHS, and occasionally a DVD encode made in 2003.

Faceman2K23 , 8 months ago

There is a complete pack of Junkyard wars / scrapheap challenge, but most of it is pretty poor quality, even the later seasons.

Faceman2K23 , 8 months ago

It is in a super wide format, so perhaps you are not used to seeing that because it isn’t all that common these days with a lot of big spectacle films moving back to taller formats

Faceman2K23 , 8 months ago

Gareth Edwards just seems like a fan of ultra wide formats, Rogue One was shot in a 2.76:1 format before being cropped slightly to 2.39:1 for release.

As much as I love that a lot of movies have been coming out in taller formats, which look great at home on our 16:9 TVs, there’s something special about the wider formats, at least when you see them on a suitably large screen at a proper theatre.

Faceman2K23 , 8 months ago

odysee is a weird place, lots of “creators” that were forced off youtube and other places for far out views or outright dangerous lies ended up there as they have almost no rules.

There are a lot of non-far-right weirdos that use it, but it is hard to scroll through without seeing some fringe crazy shit.

Faceman2K23 , 8 months ago

Wow that’s a surprisingly big jump in performance for a software based AV1 decoder.

Faceman2K23 , 8 months ago

it’s a standard cartoon bone shape, there are others in the meat lump.

Faceman2K23 , 8 months ago

I’m looking for it too, will let you know if I find it.

Faceman2K23 , 8 months ago

What indexer is that? I’m not seeing it on nzbgeek or nzbplanet yet

Faceman2K23 , 8 months ago

Well I guess it will show up soon.

Unless someone can share an .NZB for it?

Faceman2K23 , 8 months ago

I’ve been voting pirate party for years now, though thankfully I am in a country with ranked choice / preference voting so I’m not damaging democracy by voting for a third party, in fact I believe I’m actively helping democracy by using the tools given to me.

In Australia they are now part of the Fusion Party, which combines pro-science, pro-choice, pro-environment and secular minor parties.

Faceman2K23 , 8 months ago

might be from one of those FPTP countries where democracy is barely holding on in the first place.

Faceman2K23 , 8 months ago

Massive first preference vote losses maybe, but the preference flows would still trickle down to two major parties, it always does.

That preference flow data can then be used to shape future legislation to keep voters on their side and even to pull swing voters from the other sides, or at least that’s how it is supposed to work when the media isn’t actively working against you.

“hey we only won because of votes from this minor single issue party, maybe we should consider our position on that issue”

Faceman2K23 , 8 months ago

In ranked choice voting systems, single issue parties have a meaningful purpose, they don’t need a full platform covering every topic of running a country, they just need to show the major party that gets their preference flow that people support their cause and they need to take note of where those votes came from

Faceman2K23 , 8 months ago

there is some evidence of shadowbanning, where your comment isnt removed and you can still see it, but it is hidden from others.

Faceman2K23 , 8 months ago

Gotta download at least a few actual Linux ISOs to be a real datahoarder.

Faceman2K23 , 8 months ago

Yea I have 100tb of these weird Linux ISOs, I have no idea how they even got there either.

Faceman2K23 , 8 months ago

If you are into self hosting there is a very good tachiyomi plugin for Komga which is a manga and comics server you can self host and fill with your own content, it also supports connecting to multiple servers.

I have 2 Komga instances running on my home server (one for normal manga and one for the… other kind), content is collected by FMD2 which automatically downloads series I have set to monitor (similar to sonarr but less polished). then in tachiyomi I have access to all of that content streamed across the web to my phone and boox e-reader anywhere in the world. it’s pretty neat but the only missing feature is synchronising read status and position across devices.

Faceman2K23 , 8 months ago

It’s probably possible and safe for roms, but then there are already more or less complete packs for basically every console and retro computer ever made so it’s not that useful.

Faceman2K23 , 8 months ago

You’re in Aus right? How are your speeds?

I currently use both NewsgroupNinja and NewsDemon combined but still cant get past about half a gig a second but it very well may be a limitation in my download server somewhere.

Faceman2K23 , 8 months ago

Oh man, I feel you, I was on dial up well into the 2000’s and the first time I had anything better than a couple of megabit on crappy DSL with bad lines was just a couple of years ago when I was finally able to get 100/40. now I have fibre with a gigabit down, but still only 50meg upload.

Faceman2K23 , 8 months ago

I’s not a problem at all, it’s pretty sweet, just getting only about 400-500 mbits when I can get over 900 combined when testing with torrents and other services. ABB say they absolutely, unequivocally do not throttle usenet. So I just suspect it is a limitation of my server setup and I’m too lazy to try to find the cause…

Faceman2K23 , 8 months ago

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 , 8 months ago

The best way to improve plex/jellyfin performance is to make sure your players support what you are trying to watch and transcoding should only be needed if you are sharing remotely to someone with either slow internet or a crappy old player.

Of course, with hardware encoding the chip in that little computer can do what you are asking, including doing it at 4K if needed.

Faceman2K23 , 9 months ago

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

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

Now i’m hungry

Faceman2K23 , 9 months ago

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Faceman2K23 , 9 months ago

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.

Faceman2K23 , 9 months ago

FF6, FF9 and Links Awakening

Faceman2K23 , 9 months ago

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

something is definitely wrong with the config if its failing at a single 1080p, I did a plex server test on an intel n95 nuc (one of the lowest end cpus in their current range) and it blasted through multiple 4k HDR transcodes simultaneously.

Faceman2K23 , 9 months ago

It’s fine, it can do a few at once. I didn’t do a lot of testing since I never have to transcode these days anyway.

Faceman2K23 , 9 months ago

There’s tdarr, unmanic and fileflows as the popular choices.

Personally I use fileflows as it is extremely customisable and you can set up quite complex rules for how and what to convert.

Faceman2K23 , 9 months ago

your problem might be windows.

I think everyone here might be nerd enough to be assuming everyone is running Linux.