atomWood

atomWood , 20 days ago to piracy in Is Windscribe a good VPN for torrenting?

I find their pricing to be rather reasonable. They even have a lifetime plan.

atomWood , 2 months ago to android in PSA: Nova Launcher is owned by an analytics company

Are there comparable alternatives? I never found another launcher that I like as much.

atomWood , 3 months ago to selfhosted in New Unraid OS License Pricing, Timeline, and FAQs

There’s no enshitification happening if the product hasn’t gotten any worse. It’s just a pricing change. In fact, if the pricing change does in fact lead to a better product then this is the complete opposite of enshitification.

atomWood , 3 months ago to selfhosted in New Unraid OS License Pricing, Timeline, and FAQs

While I was initially skeptical about the pricing changes, the more I learned about it the more I was okay with it. I think part of the initial problem was the talk of annual subscriptions, when in fact it’s much closer to paying for version upgrades. Their new standard licenses have come down in cost from the old perpetual licensing and the price of a version upgrade is only $36.

atomWood , 3 months ago to selfhosted in Would it be possible to run Pi-hole, Octoprint and Home Assistant on the same RPi 3 mod. B?

Definitely agree they should be split up if possible. Octoprint and Home Assistant are both rather demanding on a Pi, particularly the Pi 3B.

I would however opt to run Pi-Hole on the Home Assistant device as there is a plugin built in for it, and Home Assistant is the kind of thing you would be more likely to leave on at all times.

atomWood , 3 months ago to android in Buying Music on Android

They sure do!

atomWood , 3 months ago to piracy in Please recommend me some android tv boxes that can play local .mkv h.265 video files :)

I wouldn’t recommend most of the cheap Android boxes. Most of the are full of malware. LTT did a video comparing most major Android boxes: youtu.be/sdLnieL90d0?si=6nAX8E0d9c4OZXqM

atomWood , 4 months ago to selfhosted in Unraid Moves to Annual Subscription Pricing Model

All existing licenses will stay lifetime. Basic and Plus will no longer be sold, but they will still be honoured.

atomWood , 4 months ago to piracy in Hard Drive Shucking

You can also use SnapRaid along side MergerFS to provide some data redundancy. MergerFS will allow you to create a parity drive, without requiring all of your drives to be in your typical RAID pool. This way, if you have several drives die, then you can still access whatever data is available on the remaining drives.

atomWood , 4 months ago to technology in What's a good piece of hardware to run a jellyfin server?

A Raspberry Pi will work as a Jellyfin server, but it will really struggle if it has to transcode any media.

If you want your Jellyfin server to be up and accessible at all times, I would suggest getting a second hand PC. I’m personally a fan of small form factor mini PCs. Anything with a 7th gen Intel processor or newer, with integrated graphics, will be able to hardware transcode anything but AV1.

atomWood , 4 months ago to android in Chromecast with Google TV is now serving full-screen, auto-playing Chicken Tender Wrap ads

Carls Jr. didn’t decide to place their add on your TV. Google is the one that would be held responsible.

atomWood , 6 months ago to technology in What DID Apple innovate?

Blackberry did all of that years before Apple. Sure, they didn’t have a touchscreen, but all of the capability was there.

atomWood , 6 months ago to android in Out of the phones released past 2015 you used, which one is the closest to the heart?

It’s really too bad Blackberry got out of the mobile phone market. They were the only large corporation I truly felt I could trust with my data.

atomWood , 6 months ago to technology in YouTube will have fewer ad breaks on TV — but the ads are getting longer

I certainly prefer fewer and longer ad breaks, over several short ones, but this still sucks.

atomWood , 7 months ago to pics in A masterfully hidden cell tower

That looks to be a fake house that is used to hide some kind of city infrastructure. That would also make it a great place to put a hidden cell tower.