Decipher0771

joined 2 years ago
[–] Decipher0771@lemmy.ca 7 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Maybe it’s time to move on from 12v being the “high power” standard in PCs to something higher. Similar to how cars are slowly shifting away from 12v accessories. 48v would cut the current on the wires and connectors significantly.

[–] Decipher0771@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 weeks ago

It never got over you

[–] Decipher0771@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I feel old. The only one of those I haven’t ever used is that AAUI port. What’s that for?

[–] Decipher0771@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

To add to this….ive added a layer of protection against accidental deletion and dumb fingering by making each year of my photos archive into a separate zfs dataset. Then each year I set each dataset to read-only and create a new one.

Manual, but effective enough. I also have automatic snapshots against dumb fingering, but this helps against ones I don’t notice before the snapshots expire.

[–] Decipher0771@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

I did (am doing) something very similar. I definitely have issues with my indexing, but I’m just ordering it manually by year/date for now.

I’m doing a little extra for parity though. I’m using 50-100gb discs for the data, and using 25gb discs as a full parity disc via dvdisaster for each disc I burn. Hopefully that reduces the risk of the parity data also being unreadable, and gives MORE parity data without eating into my actual data discs. It’s hard enough to break up the archives into 100gb chunks as is.

Need to look into bacula as suggested by another poster.

[–] Decipher0771@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

You’re absolutely right, I couldn’t agree with you more. My bad on “judging a book by its cover”.

I probably should tone down the old curmudgeon stuff. I’d just recently realized how much I missed very good content by Mentour Pilot just because his titles and thumbnails were also very YouTube algorithm-y, but his content is fantastic. Just need to accept this is how good content avoids being buried under all the brainrot junk.

Thanks for the reminder, cheers.

[–] Decipher0771@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I actually do know Scott’s stuff very well and respect him alot, ever since his KSP days. But this title is still pretty click baity, and I’m rather disappointed that he along with a lot of other good YouTubers all have been increasing the baity titles along with the Face + outrageous background thumbnail thing lately just to work the algorithm.

[–] Decipher0771@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 months ago (7 children)

No there isn’t. The Moon’s gravity is very lumpy and there are very few stable orbits. It’s extremely unlikely anything passive will orbit the moon more than a couple weeks. This is stupid clickbait.

[–] Decipher0771@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

The universe does seem rather badly designed these days

[–] Decipher0771@lemmy.ca 31 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Decipher0771@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 months ago

Different devices. iOS, android, AppleTV. Most of it is likely Apple’s fault for the limited options in the ecosystem tho.

[–] Decipher0771@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago (3 children)

It’s not a transcoding power issue. It’s a UI consistency and usability issue. With every device having a slightly different UI, with some apps having issues if playing back natively and some needing transcoding, the experience is inconsistent and frankly doesn’t pass the “wife acceptance factor” test, or the “let your friends use it without needing to handhold them through regular troubleshooting for their particular device” test.

I still don’t use Plex and exclusively use Jellyfin, but it’s still a hard sell to non technical users. Plex has much more polish.

 

I’m getting tired of the extremely loud ads on that don’t seem to be subject to the old TV broadcasting laws that prevent them from being blasted 10db louder than the actual content. Wondering if there’s stuff out there that would let me take the hdmi stream from my Apple TV or other streaming source, and do ad detection like the olden days so that it could just mute or do volume leveling at least.

I suppose something very basic might just be an hdmi splitter to a rpi with hdmi that’ll detect ads via the black screens or “this ad will over over in 30s” overlays, then send a mute signal over CEC or something to a receiver or TV….but would be nice if it could modify the hdmi signal directly.

Thoughts on what to search for to do something like this?

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