the-water-cooler

[clear ferry]

https://media.tenor.com/images/d0f179483694e8509191c96c66eee535/tenor.gif

[wet pilot]

https://youtu.be/_50m0Vm5VvQ

[hushed basalt]

It's been brutal past few days. Seems to be getting better now though.

She's been waking up literally screaming

What do people use for their notes apps.

I was thinking lotus notes /s 🤢

but seriously Notion looks interesting.

[wet pilot]

I just use Google keep for the rare times I need it

[hushed basalt]

I need something a bit more in-depth

[scenic radish]

I also use Google keep

inb4 "Google 🤢 "

[forest edge]

Google is master, google is life

[hushed basalt]

All hail our supreme lords Alphabet

I'd look into notion though

I've only tried it this morning but it's got some cool features without being heavy handed

Keep is really just a sticky note app

[spice depot]

Time to start using home assistant after tuya announced they were no longer supporting ifttt

[tough igloo]

Why not ditch the Tuya firmware entirely

[spice depot]

I mean I might, but the device that uses it is an extension lead so would have see if I can find out the pinouts for it

[spice depot]

When you flash something with tasmotoa does it give the gpio pins friendly names or do you have to figure out what each does yourself?

[covert moss]

i wanna have a mini httpPOST from a sticker based NFC ( could i trigger that to a node-red flow to run a routine on Google home) Maybe i rather control it on the flow itself

[hushed basalt]

@spice depot check to see if it's already a known device. I use esphome although their rgbw bulb firmware is garbage

[spice depot]

I don’t think it is though I have found one similar that might be the same electronically

The listing for the brand I brought doesn’t even exist anymore

[tough igloo]

Have you checked here @spice depot https://templates.blakadder.com

[storm summit]

Anything preventing people from using iFTTT is great IMHO 🙂

#anti-cloud

[spice depot]

Found it on the site. Bookmarked

Thanks for the help

[last dirge]

anybody ever had to deal with moles before?

the subterranian tunneling kind

not the covert operations kind

or the uncontrolled cell growth kind

[forest edge]

uh aren't they all the same lol

was unware some wore tactical gear while others didnt

[last dirge]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rc5G04nJecI

[last dirge]

I can't catch these fuckers and they're tearing up my yard

[wet pilot]

Traps?

[hushed basalt]

https://media.tenor.com/images/3ed18a7d5a97eb5de982e361aaa0c3e9/tenor.gif

[last dirge]

@wet pilot yeah. I got some mole traps from Trapline Products

no success so far

it's like when I determine which tunnel is active and set the traps they're like "LOL, we're over here now"

[keen citrus]

?rank other

[slim rampart]

That role no longer exists.

[clear ferry]

@spice depot most tuya is ota flashable unless you have updated their firmware

[forest edge]

atx replies 4 hours later as usual lol

[clear ferry]

[fading zodiac]

Morning

[clear ferry]

I've taken two days holiday and one day paternity leave, time to get some stuff done around the house while daughter is in kindergarten

[forest edge]

why would you get a paternity leave day?

did you get knocked up?

[clear ferry]

Because we get 40 or 50 weeks paid parental leave, and usually the mother gets 60% of it, but since she's a student I get 100% of it

[clever mortar]

Both parents get leave in the UK too, it's depressing to think that some countries don't do that ...

We only get 18 weeks though, and we're limited to 4 weeks a year (both per child)

[clear ferry]

Oh that's quite limiting

We can take the 40 or 50 weeks over 3 years

They are trying to push it to free flow between mother and father

It the Christian parties won't agree to that

[spice depot]

@spice depot most tuya is ota flashable unless you have updated their firmware
@clear ferry

I would of thought I had updated nthe firmware at some point but the ap claims version 1 so maybe there's hope?

[clear ferry]

Maybe

Tuya convert has worked for all my stuff

[spice depot]

Need to get myself a pi first though to run home assistant

[midnight adder]

new first wroking day of the week

lets goo

[clear ferry]

Better not wrok yourself goo hard

[tough igloo]

I’ve done that a few times and it’s not pretty

[modest smelt]

Yeah, it'll be a werck

[forest edge]

men don't get paternity leave here cause they don't want to put on a wig and lipstick and be all feminine.

[clear ferry]

https://media.tenor.com/images/8a12002c5a0dd7639ad53d1c5c07abab/tenor.gif

[forest edge]

joking of course, I think some companies offer it

but it's nto a national thing

[clear ferry]

Nothing is a national thing over there it seems

It's like it is not worth having a nation at all

[forest edge]

owning norway is national

we all get a part of it

and we're slowly selling bit by bit to germany so they may finally complete what they started

hope you like sausage

lol

[fading zodiac]

Does anyone own a Synology + nas?

which has VM on it?

[hushed basalt]

Virtual machines?

[tough igloo]

Viggo Mortensen?

[clear ferry]

VerdensMesterskap?

[fading zodiac]

Virtual Machines

[hushed basalt]

As in hosted on the synology

Or on another server with vm storage on the nas

[fading zodiac]

Hosted on the Synology

[limpid wind]

We can take the 40 or 50 weeks over 3 years
@clear ferry Is that paid 40 or 50 weeks?

Is there a show off loveface area?

[clever mortar]

The forum

[limpid wind]

thanks 🙂 - https://community.home-assistant.io/c/projects/frontend/34

[clear ferry]

@limpid wind Paid yes, 40 100% pay or 50 80% pay

[limpid wind]

Is this the US? how much paid holiday a year... feel jelous

[clever mortar]

UK, 30 days a year paid holiday here (plus bank holidays etc)

[limpid wind]

that is not the minimum though, I live UK, the mnimum is 28 days including bank holidays, its what I'm on in IT

[clear ferry]

@limpid wind Norway, plus 27 days paid for me

But I had 64 at the beginning of the year

[clever mortar]

Yeah, but ... getting the minimum is what you get when your disposable as far as your company thinks, or that they just can afford any more

[clear ferry]

A collegue in the us got 2 days paid when his wife was having a baby, and the wife got 3, she had a ceserian

But now my company pays 6 months paternity / maternity leave for all employees worldwide, even the US

[hushed basalt]

Is norways tax tiered

[clear ferry]

Yes

[hushed basalt]

So would you end up with a lower tax rate if you took 80%

[clear ferry]

Probably not for me, because I'm way above tier 2 pay

[hushed basalt]

We have like 5 tiers

[clear ferry]

We have lots of smaller brackets, but to major tiers, if you go past either of those you pay a little extra

[limpid wind]

I think there is other reasons too.. IE not wanting staff to be comparing how long each are off a year to guage worthiness, or the employee negotaties more pay instead of holiday

[clear ferry]

I think tier 2 is at $80k or something, and tier 1 is at $35k

[limpid wind]

Norway has loads of great initiaves, I am waiting to hear the bad side.... anyone 😛

[clear ferry]

People will say taxes, but heck I don't mind, I have free healthcare, and other stuff

But I only pay 33% tax, it could be worse, like if I worked in Denmark with the same pay I would pay 50%

[limpid wind]

is there a seperate cost ie, we pay tax then ''national insurance'' and then pension.

also it's not free if you pay for it 😄

[clear ferry]

Cars are expensive, that's a thing

Except electric, they are 50% off

[limpid wind]

So do you pay a seperate ''national insurance''?

[clear ferry]

No

[limpid wind]

So out of your yearly wage the only thing taxen off is ''tax bracket'' and pension... or is pension in the tax?

[clear ferry]

Pension is paid by the state and the employer, I don't even notice anything missing

They are obliged to pay it as part of the salary, but it is on top of my salary, and I never see it being deducted as such

Remember seeing a bill from a hospital in the us where they were billed $30k for a birth, but 95% of it was deducted from insurance

[pure vine]

That's still $1500 to cover

And the reoccurring premium of the insurance

Those 2 combined exclude people from healthcare and in that case, it's not health care

[clear ferry]

I paid $40 for parking of my car for four days at the hospital, and $40 for the actual birth plus a room at the hotel

[clever mortar]

We paid... nothing, but then I found a sneaky spot I could park for free 😛

[clear ferry]

We had to stay for a few days, otherwise it would have been free

[clever mortar]

Pretty much no free parking here

Well, down in England anyway, up here it's different

[clear ferry]

Kilt country

https://media.tenor.com/images/3a5bdf80f4d678c99a25d4a25454b0eb/tenor.gif

[limpid wind]

Remember seeing a bill from a hospital in the us where they were billed $30k for a birth, but 95% of it was deducted from insurance
@clear ferry So 33% is not exactly high, lets say in the uk you earn 30k your be taxed 20% on 18K which is (can't be asked to do the maths on what percent overall that is) then you have 12% for national insurance, and then another 3-5% pension, that point its basically 33%?

[clever mortar]

Doods... is a fecking rabbit hole. Damn you @clear ferry 😛

[limpid wind]

or not fair by

[clever mortar]

You forgot the slice that's tax free 😉

https://www.gov.uk/income-tax-rates

[limpid wind]

12k off the 30k is tax free?

[clever mortar]

£12.5K

[limpid wind]

okay 12.5k then 😛

People should not compare tax as they sneak it in diffrent places to make it seem less

and what they actually provide also

[clever mortar]

The whole tax/pay thing is complicated, more so than most folks think

[limpid wind]

No point in comparing UK vs Norway when ones one provides better service overall

[clever mortar]

Not just that, but cost of living, and more, play into it

An in-hand pay of (say) £2K/month can mean very different things depending on where you live

In some places, that's masses of money, in others that may just pay for your commute...

[limpid wind]

Definitly makes it frustrating to see people comparing.. I would 100% find it intresting to pickup my life and drop me somewhere in US for a real life scenario

I think it can be cheaper either place as I bet either place you will be living diffrently

[clever mortar]

Or another part of the UK...

Friend of mine moved to London, for a higher salary, and couldn't afford to stay

[forest edge]

cost of living is vastly diffrent everywhere, even within the same country

[limpid wind]

Question my mother asked, why is there no oppurtunity in place like ''bradford''

There is, but they pay less because it costs less to live, nothing more, nothing less

[surreal axle]

Hello all does any one know of a video on how templtas work I have a weird dimmer and there is no existing templates thats im aware of that work correctly so i need to make a new one and am completly green at this

[forest edge]

@surreal axle #templates-archived

[surreal axle]

thanks

[velvet horizon]

Please DO NOT cross post. Read the channel description, post it and wait for folks to respond.

Command '~crosspost' was invoked by: Tinkerer

[surreal axle]

I was asking for something completly differnt but ok

thanks tho

I was hopeing for like a youtube link or somthing like that

but its all good m8t

point taken

[velvet horizon]

Videos are great to watch but are usually out of date QUICK.... Best to read the DOCS

Command '~videos' was invoked by: Tinkerer

[forest edge]

Remember seeing a bill from a hospital in the us where they were billed $30k for a birth, but 95% of it was deducted from insurance
@clear ferry it's not unusual to see outrageous costs on bills but the reality is the inruance companies pay nowhere near where the "supposed" cost of whatever it is. I think since our healthcare system is private they intentionally set crap super high and then just cave when the insurance company says nope. like two super powers going head to head

[clear ferry]

@forest edge yeah, I saw someone post something about a hospital bill that was 10k, but they asked to have it specified and got a new bill that was less than $1000

[clear ferry]

Busy day, I've built two wooden gates, and broke my phone screen while falling

[clear ferry]

Time to consider buying a xiaomi

Replacing the screen on my p20 pro is $300 atleast it seems

[hushed basalt]

I'm never buying a samsung again

[modest smelt]

THing I hate the most about samsung is the way they compl;etely overhaul the ui

[clear ferry]

Xiaomi note 10 is interesting, the mi 10 is Hella expensive

[mint estuary]

random question

im on unraid and added the home assistant docker

but i just added hassio vm because it has the addon store

is there a big difference? is hassio just a home assistant with added features?

[clever mortar]

https://discordapp.com/channels/330944238910963714/361518119421739030/672211319918952459

There is no Hass.io

However, yes, it's Home Assistant (Core) + a UI for installing other software, doing snapshots, and the likes

[mint estuary]

@clever mortar your the best, you have single handedly helped me every time ive asked haha

[low harness]

Got that right.

[clever mortar]

That's because as yet you've not asked any blindingly stupid questions 😛

[mint estuary]

give it time...haha

[clever mortar]

Besides, answering the easy questions is easy... answering the kind of stuff that comes up in #frontend-archived I leave to @low harness who actually knows what he's talking about 😉

[mint estuary]

hahaha

[low harness]

What on earth gave you that impression?

[clever mortar]

You're an expert

An expert is somebody who knows 1% more than anybody else 😉

[low harness]

https://youtu.be/BKorP55Aqvg?t=435

[hushed basalt]

Bought a new cpu cooler today

Should see it in a good 3-4 weeks knowing how postage is atm

[hushed basalt]

Went for one that was quiet

Big 120mm silent fans

Don't care much about oVERclocKing or RgB raInbows

[clear ferry]

[orchid rose]

Overclocking is much less useful at least on AMD than it used to be due to how the dynamic overclocking on these works

[clear ferry]

@clever mortar does that make us demidogs of some stuff then? If we know more than 5% more?

[orchid rose]

You can do lots of tinkering with RAM timings though if you're into that sort of thing

[clear ferry]

Lol tuning and clocking desktops, what is this? 1998?

[orchid rose]

just PC Gamer Masterrace

[clear ferry]

Cut your hair and get a job

[orchid rose]

Imagine not tweaking your RAM timings for two days after you buy a new PC, smh

[scenic radish]

[clear ferry]

Fun fact, just changing the workload profile on a customer server increased SAP HANA performance by 18%

That tweaks 10-15 bios settings, mostly numa, power and qpi stuff

[amber bramble]

anything with "SAP" in the name is terrible

[clear ferry]

HANA is pretty cool

We only do small nodes in Norway though, up to 1.5TB memory per node

[tame cove]

hi everyone

[clear ferry]

https://media.tenor.com/images/9291751b9442c66c8359ac608c98fd4d/tenor.gif

[last dirge]

Hi Dr Nick

[spice depot]

https://youtu.be/aHF9Y2pYqSM

[last dirge]

YouTube thumbnails are out of damn line

MOST OUTRAGEOUS EVER!

[clever mortar]

Also, frankly, anybody stupid enough to have their home automation all based off cloud services... deserves educating/mocking

[last dirge]

BEST THING SINCE THE BEGINNING

[spice depot]

guilty face

Also, frankly, anybody stupid enough to have their home automation all based off cloud services... deserves educating/mocking

[clever mortar]

It's an easy mistake to make until you know better... of course, you're here, surely you know better 😛

[spice depot]

That is why im here bc I havent had the need for home assistant in the past. I have more of a smart bedroom than house with only lights and sockets so everything could be managed by alexa and iftt.... not anymore

[last dirge]

lul

[distant willow]

Gold

[green inlet]

Welcome to the gold standard 😁

[orchid rose]

did that also break the HA integration of Tuya?

Oh I guess it didn't if Niper8 is here

[spice depot]

I dont think it will

but I will probably flash my tuya devices with tsamota anyway

[distant willow]

I've been asking to multiple youtubers so-called automators during their livestreams about HA, what they think of it, if they recommend etc. Nobody recommended. They all said they used it and switched back to cloud services like smartthings, orvibo etc I really think they are sponsored by those AliExpress stores and aren't allowed to say the truth

[last dirge]

I haven't started from scratch in a long time

[orchid rose]

Keep in mind also that HA is far from simple to set up

[last dirge]

but I'm a technical person

and I found it to be pretty easy

newer enhancements seem to be far better than they were when I set stuff up

[orchid rose]

It requires extra hardware first of all

[modest smelt]

I disagree @orchid rose

[last dirge]

the GUI does a LOT of stuff now

and it does it well

[modest smelt]

Instructions are ample, setting up is very fast

[last dirge]

vs how it used to kinda do some stuff

and it was buggy as hell

[modest smelt]

It's when you want to start tinkering that it gets interesting

But you can do a lot with just mouseclicks

[last dirge]

I was surprised at how well the automation editor worked when I updated recently

[orchid rose]

Instructions are simple but it's not a mobile phone app only which is what the cloud alternatives are

HA is for people who don't see smart home being just a wireless switch and a lamp. If you want to turn on your lights with a phone you can do it much easier with cloud based stuff like Hue

[last dirge]

eh

[orchid rose]

I have no issues setting HA up obviously, but that doesn't mean I would recommend it to someone looking to get Hue. They are just a different product

[last dirge]

the HomeAssistant cloud stuff looked pretty damn easy to set up

the problem is that you end up with dedicated hardware for all of that stuff

and nothing to bring it together

[orchid rose]

Oh I totally agree. But I can see why a lot of people don't mind that

[last dirge]

which is what HA is designed to do

like a universal remote

[orchid rose]

There's a difference between smart home and smart home. HA is for those who understand that difference and the rest can just change their bulb color with the hue app imo

[clever mortar]

Smart home != Home Automation

[orchid rose]

That's the point I'm trying to make. But there's nothing really smart with hue bulbs so the term is a bit weird

[last dirge]

there are Hue motion sensors

aren't there?

and plugs

[orchid rose]

It's still a switch turning something on and off, nothing particularly smart about that imo

[spice depot]

sniff sniff is that a marketing buzzword I smell?

[last dirge]

if you boil it down, isn't that the same thing HA is doing?

[clever mortar]

Sssh 😛

[orchid rose]

Mostly yes, but it allows you to combine stuff as you mentioned which makes it more complex than just one trigger, one action

[last dirge]

detect motion on sensor, do things with other things

k

it's more than light goes on, light goes off

[orchid rose]

Hue has some of these feature ofc as well, but most people I know that would get a Hue system wouldn't bother using them

That said, I think the biggest reason HA would be considered harder is the lack of dedicated hardware for it. If you could buy a HA box and just configure it quickly through an app, it would be much easier to explain to people

[last dirge]

what's Lutron stuff?

is it proprietary or some other communication protocol?

[clever mortar]

I think it's a mix. I know they do Z-Wave stuff, but they also seem to have some other stuff in the mix.

[last dirge]

they're super proud of their stuff

[amber bramble]

almost all of lutron stuff is ClearConnect

they used to have a zigbee remote but they discontinued it

im not sure how clearconnect works on the RF level but it just works. Most of my house is caseta switches for lighting and i've never had a delayed or dropped command

[jagged mantle]

Do you need plex pass to use hardware acceleration?

[velvet horizon]

:point_up: Let me Google that for you...

Here , try this:
http://letmegooglethat.com/?q=plex+hardware+acceleration

Command '~lmgtfy' was invoked by: Tinkerer

[clever mortar]

First hit tells you 😉

[jagged mantle]

I got different answers thus why i asked here 🙂

[clever mortar]

The first hit is from their own docs

https://support.plex.tv/articles/115002178853-using-hardware-accelerated-streaming/

Just as with HA, official docs win over random sites 😉

[smoky oak]

Looking for suggestions. I currently have an old raspberry pi that is setup as an MQTT (not persistant) to InfluxDB broker, using Telegraf. It's only one sensor, publishing every 10s. I'm also using the InfluxDB Hass.io addon for homeassistant. I'm torn between keeping the dedicated Pi for the MQTT sensor since it's writes so often... or just using the influxdb instance already setup for HA. Thoughts?

SD cards for both

[last dirge]

why would you not have plex pass though?

[jagged mantle]

First day with plex xD

[last dirge]

you should get plex pass

allows for DVR of live TV when combined with a network tuner

plus other good stuff 🙂

[clever mortar]

They also have an awesome forum 😉

[last dirge]

I've never use the forum

it's good though?

[clever mortar]

I've had success when I've used it

Also, get Tautulli

[jagged mantle]

Just 15 so ill need to get my parents to understand why they should pay 30$ a year for power and 5$ a month for some extra stuff

[last dirge]

it's not a lifetime sub any more?

[jagged mantle]

yes but 120$

[shy comet]

if you wait itll drop to 75 or so

[last dirge]

it's a banana, Michael

how much can it be, $10?

[jagged mantle]

for what?

[last dirge]

PlexPass

[jagged mantle]

https://i.imgur.com/Xx7YibC.png

[last dirge]

they'll put it on sale occasionally

I think I paid $100USD when I bought it

if you're using a low power computer as your server then you need to make damn sure your plex clients can handle playing your media at its current resolution

[jagged mantle]

Im using a i7-4770

[last dirge]

otherwise you'll get angry at the fact your transcoding can't keep up

that's way overkill

but okay 🙂

[jagged mantle]

apparently not lmao

[last dirge]

you're doing something WAY wrong if that's having problems

[jagged mantle]

using proxmox and gave it 4 cores and it used about like 40%

[last dirge]

are you trying to push 4K?

[jagged mantle]

no its just old dvds

[shy comet]

i got mine for 75

[last dirge]

stored how?

[shy comet]

they send a promo out that goes to spam

[jagged mantle]

harddrive

[last dirge]

what client are you using?

[jagged mantle]

?

[last dirge]

plex client

what are you using?

[jagged mantle]

i was using the server one, ip:someport/web

[last dirge]

that's the web client

[jagged mantle]

good bad?

[wet quail]

hey, some plex talk

[last dirge]

mine's been fine

same machine or no?

[wet quail]

anyone use Plex for music and have Sonos speakers?

[jagged mantle]

no

[last dirge]

@clever mortar they had a discord but it was always a PITA to get anything addressed in there

@jagged mantle what OS?

[jagged mantle]

Ubuntu LXC Container under Proxmox

Ubuntu 19

[last dirge]

I'm running Ubuntu bare metal

so something could be fucky with proxmox

I've had zero problems with my Ubuntu setup

my CentOS setup on a wimpier machine was even fine, just upgraded to a NUC and the wimpier machine used more power

[jagged mantle]

3 streams at the same time http://192.168.1.246:32400/web/index.html#

shit wrong thing lmao

gif coming soon

[last dirge]

give it more RAM

[jagged mantle]

yeah just did that

[last dirge]

it's having to swap to disk like crazy because you've barely got any RAM

[jagged mantle]

how much does it want?

[last dirge]

I'd give it at least 4

start there, see how that goes

[shy comet]

depending on how large of files are being played i would add more too

[last dirge]

if it's still got headroom, turn it down

[jagged mantle]

that is 3 streams now

[last dirge]

you've got PLENTY of CPU

[shy comet]

My plex server has 16gb of RAM but i alos play 4k stuff and have like 10 people streaming lol

[last dirge]

you're just making it do dumb shit 🙂

[jagged mantle]

what do you mean?

[last dirge]

instead of streaming stuff from memory it's gotta write it to memory

then flush some of that to swap

then write it from swap back to memory to go out the network pipe

[jagged mantle]

what is swap?

[last dirge]

disk space used like RAM

you

[jagged mantle]

oh

[last dirge]

you've not given it enough RAM

[jagged mantle]

thought it was minimum ram to use

[last dirge]

so when it runs out of RAM it writes to SWAP

no, you set a VM's max

it's a bucket that it'll fill up as it needs

you just set the size of the bucket

[last plaza]

[jagged mantle]

https://i.imgur.com/r7w4ikp.png better?

[last plaza]

Much better!

[last dirge]

yeah, that's a lot happier

[jagged mantle]

okay, five streams is probably it's max https://i.imgur.com/61VwqYW.png

[last dirge]

that's screamin 🙂

but, it could be transcoding stuff

are all of those streams the web client?

@last plaza you do plex too?

[jagged mantle]

yes

it's so quiet now here right now when all of my diskdrives aren't busy lmao

[last plaza]

@last dirge not anymore. Used to.

[clear ferry]

Proxmox 🤢

[shy comet]

plex is what helps people survive during quarantine times lol

[last dirge]

hard disks with moving parts? 🤢

[clear ferry]

I usually have 4-6 consecutive streams out of my Plex, my friends love me

[shy comet]

@clear ferry same lol

[clear ferry]

I have all the strange stuff

British TV and adult humour

[last plaza]

Every time I look at friend’s plex collection, I’m like 🤢

[last dirge]

I don't share my plex 🙂

[jagged mantle]

Proxmox 🤢
@clear ferry why tho?

[last plaza]

Lol. People hoard a lot of movies - even the junk ones. I only keep the ones that I watch again and again. Not one time movies.

[clear ferry]

I dont download anything I won't watch

[last dirge]

@tidal bronze you do Plex, don't you?

[shy comet]

i hoard everything until im low on space

[clear ferry]

@jagged mantle I'm enterprise, proxmox isn't enterprise 🤢

[shy comet]

one my firends requests really obscure stuff like from 1930-1960 lol

[last plaza]

@jagged mantle features I guess. Not that I am a proxmox user. I use esxi (vcloud suite)

[jagged mantle]

Oh, and btw i tried turning of transcoding and it showed this. Im using mkv files btw https://i.imgur.com/5Bk3gfa.png

[clear ferry]

I run Plex on 11 year old hardware, it keeps on ticking

[orchid rose]

transcoding, smh

[jagged mantle]

could the mkv files have something to do with it?

[clear ferry]

Your server has everything to do with it

[jagged mantle]

What do you mean?

[last plaza]

I don’t rely much on plex these days - with Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney+, and Internet I’m good mostly

[clear ferry]

The text is pretty clear

[last plaza]

Clear as mud.

[wet quail]

@jagged mantle what client type? plex web?

[jagged mantle]

well then im stupid lmao beacuse i dont understand

yes @wet quail

[clear ferry]

YOUR SERVER ISN'T POWERFUL ENOUGH

Does caps help?

[jagged mantle]

someone said it was overkill

i7-4770

[last plaza]

Forgot to put it in BOLD

[wet quail]

when you play a video, there's an icon with 3 vertical slider bars

it'll tell you the playback quality settings. it should be "original"

[clear ferry]

4 cores and 3 GB ram?

[last dirge]

an i7-4770 is absolutely enough

[clear ferry]

Hello 2005 tbh

[last dirge]

that doesn't take into account whatever you've done in proxmox

[wet quail]

the decision to transcode is heavily dependent on the client

[last dirge]

that CPU has plenty of balls to run plex

transcoding MURDERS plex

[jagged mantle]

i gave it 4 out of 8 cores

https://i.imgur.com/65tCf7M.png no original option

[wet quail]

show all, force original

[clear ferry]

The nice thing in VMware, I give out 150 cores even though I only have 24

[jagged mantle]

wait what

lmao

[clear ferry]

And 300GB ram even though i only have 192

[last dirge]

with that setting you've got, you're forcing it to transcode everything to 480p

you said you're running DVD content which is 480i max

[jagged mantle]

show all dosnt show anything more

[wet quail]

i'm running an E3 from the same generation for my plex server, it's fine

[last dirge]

so it's attempting to upconvert everything

[clear ferry]

Also 8.1MBps for 480, what is this? QuickTime?

[last plaza]

Tim Apple 🍎

[clear ferry]

Brb 40 second movie trailer, 300MB

And barely watchable

[clear ferry]

I have no limiting on my Plex

[last dirge]

@last plaza is he friends with Donald Bleach?

[clear ferry]

Free internet, no caps

[last dirge]

oh, my annotation isn't on there

the "play smaller videos at original quality" is what you want

and Video Quality should be set to whatever your network's okay with

my non-web clients are all set up running native

[wet quail]

and if you're running in a container, the subnet may be different which will force it to think your client is remove

so set Settings -> Network -> LAN Networks properly to include your clients' subnet

[jagged mantle]

the container has it own ip

[wet quail]

i would sure hope so

[clear ferry]

Proxmox🤢

[jagged mantle]

its good for homelab okay

or i think so atleast

[orchid rose]

A 🤢 from atx is a certification you're doing things the right way

[jagged mantle]

LMAO

[clear ferry]

Brings no value as the experience you gain from using it has no real world value

[last dirge]

laughs in 72U Netshelter

[jagged mantle]

Im still just 15, thing will have changed when i go out, and ill probably be a programmer

[last dirge]

what languages have you learned?

[jagged mantle]

Python, JS and a bit of c#

[last dirge]

heh

JS

the absolute wild west

[clear ferry]

Just learn COBOL while you are at it

[last dirge]

@jagged mantle just remember that stuff that's "fun" likely doesn't make a career

at least in my experience

[jagged mantle]

well i find most stuff about computers fun

[last dirge]

if you want to mess with bigdata, learn Java

[clever mortar]

Of course, if you can combine career with fun, you're onto a winner

[last dirge]

indeed

beware of buzword stuff

just because it's big "right now" doesn't mean it'll last

and just because it's been around forever doesn't mean it necessarily sucks

[clever mortar]

And just because it sucks for somebody else, doesn't mean it'll suck for you 😉

[last dirge]

unless it's SQL

then it sucks for everybody

[clever mortar]

Pfft, SQL is fine

Easier to work with than Perl

[jagged mantle]

nah, i like txt files

much better

[clever mortar]

Doesn't work too well for millions, or billions, of records 😉

[last dirge]

whatever you're learning you should first learn its limitations

[jagged mantle]

it was a joke....

[last dirge]

and then figure out if that's okay for the type of stuff you want to do

otherwise you paint yourself in a corner

that node/express app might be cool but will it scale?

[jagged mantle]

down yeah, but probably not up

[last dirge]

serverless is HUGE right now

definitely look into that

[clever mortar]

Which is a wonderfully stupid buzzword 😄

[last dirge]

I don't see that going away

[jagged mantle]

offtopic, but i started riping dvds again and i miss the silence

fricking jet engines

[last dirge]

@clever mortar I don't know how else it'd be defined

it's not running a typical application server

[clever mortar]

No, but it's not actually serverless, just like cloud doesn't run on actual clouds 😛

[last dirge]

it's just scripts that run on a host in "the cloud" AKA someone else's server

[clear ferry]

Cloud 🤢

[clear ferry]

https://open.spotify.com/track/7uv632EkfwYhXoqf8rhYrg?si=3boWNdeqRgGe2IU7HDDFAg

https://imgur.com/axTifuY

[scenic radish]

uhhh... 0?

nobody liked that

[clever mortar]

That's funny enough that I can't stop giggling, and the wife thinks I've lost the plot 😄

[clear ferry]

https://media.tenor.com/images/947e15fa5f21f1e6261164e2c4487a07/tenor.gif

[scenic radish]

sorry/you're welcome tinkerer 😛

[hushed basalt]

@jagged mantle you've got a huge opportunity for you ahead if you're this young and looking at this side of things

[jagged mantle]

:)

[hushed basalt]

I would focus on learning how to learn, and how to find what makes you a high value hire

[clever mortar]

Never stop learning...

[hushed basalt]

I would read So Good They Can't Ignore you by Cal Newport

Do not "follow your passion"

[clever mortar]

Eh, I'd disagree with that last point

Don't follow it blindly

[jagged mantle]

Well I don't really have a choice, my passion is basically computers and programing

Anything with that and I'll be happy

[hushed basalt]

Trust me it seems controversial but it's not

For a small percentage of people their passions align with meaningful well compesated work

[clever mortar]

https://medium.com/thrive-global/ikigai-the-japanese-secret-to-a-long-and-happy-life-might-just-help-you-live-a-more-fulfilling-9871d01992b7

[hushed basalt]

https://www.themuse.com/advice/11-reasons-you-might-want-to-put-your-plan-to-follow-your-passion-on-hold

[clever mortar]

your passion should be balanced with a healthy dose of reason I agree with

Hence my comment above

[jagged mantle]

I think that is very person dependent, I basically love everything about computers

[last dirge]

ehhhhh

[jagged mantle]

Maybe not magic smoke from broken parts tho lmao

[last dirge]

it's a bit different after it's a gigantic part of your day

[hushed basalt]

You find passion in being great at something

[jagged mantle]

There will always be different stuff to do with computers

[hushed basalt]

But if you follow your passion you'll never be able to prioritise what actually makes you valuable

Seriously read the book. Download a free sample off kindle

You will be doing a LOT of reading in this career. And articles. And video lectures. And talks

[last dirge]

and StackOverflow

[hushed basalt]

And github issues

[clever mortar]

and learning how to search effectively is always useful

Any idiot can type words into Google, constructing a good search takes a little more thought

[jagged mantle]

Oh, I've already done that but the tinkerer continues to give me freaking lmgtfy...

[clever mortar]

😉

When the first hit on the keywords is the article answering your question, I assume you didn't even try

[jagged mantle]

Like I seriously hate you lmao but yeah you say good things some times

[clever mortar]

Maybe you just used all the wrong words 🤷

[jagged mantle]

xD

But I know how to search correctly on Google but sometimes I just want a more human answer but all I get is a lmgtfy

But time to sleep now, cya

[hushed basalt]

Read.the.book

Ciao

[clever mortar]

I'd rather watch the terrible remake of the film adaptation... is that out yet? 😛

[hushed basalt]

Even Steve Jobs didn't follow his passion

Here's a movie about following your passion :D

[bitter zinc]

Whats the easiest to use custom dashboard?

The lovelace one crashes my portal when i open the website

[forest edge]

what a depressing evening in chat.. passion and plex talk. sad times indeed

[wet pilot]

Lol

[last plaza]

@forest edge you don’t like the media talk? 🤣

[forest edge]

I don't like plex lol

[last plaza]

I stopped using it a long time ago...

[shy comet]

i only use it when im not at home....at home i exclusively use kodi

[hushed basalt]

Plex is overpriced but I wouldn't say it's bad

[last plaza]

overpriced? I wouldn't use it if it is free, let alone pay for it.

[hushed basalt]

It works for me

Plus it works for my mum

[last plaza]

did you pay for it?

[hushed basalt]

Smart tv with no external devices

[last plaza]

ok

[hushed basalt]

I don't want to buy a nvidia shield

[wet pilot]

I paid for lifetime forever ago because I figured I use it enough

[hushed basalt]

I wish I payed for lifetime, it adds up

I mean it's not the end of the world

Usenet and indexers cost more

[shy comet]

yea i got lifetime a while back too...when they offered 50% some friends use sync

[hushed basalt]

I try not to transcode anything

[shy comet]

and agreed usenet + indexers lol

[hushed basalt]

And plex has given the middle finger to subtitle users forever

[shy comet]

the speeds IMO is well worth the cost

for subtitles i use Bazarr

[hushed basalt]

Yeah bazarr is great

[shy comet]

foudn it be pretty good with the free services it can do

at least plex does open subtitles now

but yea bazarr is great just wish it did foreign audio only too

[forest edge]

plex had potential in the beginning but then went all greedy. they were charging for the exact same service/features xmbc/kodi offered for free just with a different looking front end

[last plaza]

USA crossed 1 million confirmed cases now. 😱

[green inlet]

You guys live a charmed life. I have an antennae for OTA and Netflix 😎

What is Plex. Like a NAS full of stuff?

[last plaza]

Same here... OTA, Internet.

Plex is a media server. You can stream and share your libraries.

[green inlet]

I had kodi dual booted on several raspis. Never saw the first boot

Maybe I should try it? But I envision people in movie theaters with video cameras like the old ftp days

[last plaza]

My suggestion would be No 😉 there are far more media players you can use that are hassle free. I’m sure many folks don’t agree with me, again, my 2 cents.

[hushed basalt]

In Australia we can't even get a lot of shows

[green inlet]

I don’t get “media players” though. How do they differ from Netflix, Apple TV, amazon prime ?

[hushed basalt]

Or you pay Foxtel like $100/month for HBO

Media player is just a device that plays media

:D

All tvs are media players now

A nvidia shield is a media player. A raspberry pi is a media player but I wouldn't recommend it anymore.

[last plaza]

@green inlet it is like your own movies and tv shows. Same look and feel.

[hushed basalt]

Plex is just like netflix except it's pulling from shows on your server instead of Netflixs servers

In a nutshell

[last plaza]

Kodi or olden days Xbmc is same.

[hushed basalt]

Plex's big differentiater back in the day was the any device anywhere experience

While XBMC/kodi were more, all your metadata locked to a device

[green inlet]

But that’s my point, you need massive amounts of storage yea

[hushed basalt]

Not necessarily

I use about 4TB for media

[last plaza]

Storage is cheap these days.

[hushed basalt]

And i get 4k stuff when I can

Just delete stuff you've watched

You don't need to keep a massive library

[forest edge]

A nvidia shield is a media player. A raspberry pi is a media player but I wouldn't recommend it anymore.
@hushed basalt pi's are awesome media players. wtf you talkin about? lol

[hushed basalt]

Not for DRM

Plus pi 3s couldn't support h265

[forest edge]

codec is in the software

[hushed basalt]

No it's not

[green inlet]

4TB. That’s a shit ton. I remember moving about 5 years ago and packing up the 500 CDs we had 😁

[hushed basalt]

You need hardware acceleration to play h265 on a pi

Go to reddit.com/r/datahoarder @green inlet

See how small 4tb is

[last plaza]

@green inlet CDs 🤢

[forest edge]

h265 plays fine on a rpi2, i know cause I do it

and if you want hardware acc the rpi4 supports it

[green inlet]

But data is going the same way. I get that 4TB is not a lot in the big scheme of things but how much of that 4TB do you really watch?

[forest edge]

I have yet to find a single media type the rpi can't play smoothly

[hushed basalt]

@green inlet i cycle my unwatched stuff pretty frequently

[green inlet]

Just get you breakfast club on DVD and you are set, top gun too

[hushed basalt]

Some people are datahoarders though

[green inlet]

Lmao

[hushed basalt]

Plus I can download anything in 20 minutes so I don't need to have it all there full-time

[green inlet]

One day I am going to hook up my laser disc player 🤣

[last plaza]

If I don’t like a movie, I delete from my collection immediately. I only keep the ones that I want to watch again and again and still enjoy. For everything else, I just use online.

[hushed basalt]

But yeah if you're happy with the streaming services just go with them

80% of the viewing I do is on Netflix

[forest edge]

Maybe I should try it? But I envision people in movie theaters with video cameras like the old ftp days
@green inlet I couldn't stand watching that crap recorded that way, don't know how anyone could. thnakfully those days are long gone

[hushed basalt]

Plex/Usenet/Indexers/Server/Storage isn't cheaper that's for sure

[green inlet]

You got dizzy trying to watch a movie

[forest edge]

you would have to be pretty desperate or have some seriously low standards to watch that shit

these days they are either cop[ied directly from the projector or you just wait for the BR rip or something lol

[hushed basalt]

My 4K tv has great upscaling

[green inlet]

Anyone know a good site for some common fail2ban jails? Think I have finally gotten that setup, just have to figure out regex to see if it fits my error logs

[hushed basalt]

There's not a huge difference between HD and native 4K content

[forest edge]

4k just dosen't seem to look all that great on my 720p tv

[hushed basalt]

I wonder why

[forest edge]

that was a joke

[hushed basalt]

So was mine :D

I'm thinking of getting a Chromecast ultra

For casting

Tv doesn't have a chromecast inbuilt

[green inlet]

Chromecast was one of the best purchases I ever made

[hushed basalt]

It's a pain to have another device, another hdmi cable, another ethernet port, another powerboard slot

[last plaza]

I don’t know why TVs don’t come with chromecasts. It doesn’t cost much on grand scheme of things.

[hushed basalt]

But I really want to cast lectures to the tv. And group cast music with the google homes

[green inlet]

Anything on iPad....bam, on the 75 inch tv

[last plaza]

Only when you use Tim Apple’s Apple TV

[forest edge]

oddly the only time i ever use mine is when the woman wants to show me the online menu for a food place or if our amazon order looks correct lol

[hushed basalt]

Does the chromecast ultra work with whole house audio with the homes

[green inlet]

I cast all kinds of stuff to my tv

[wet pilot]

It does

[hushed basalt]

Awesome

The spotify app on LG is a bit rubbish

[wet pilot]

Gotta do some tuning with the delay

[hushed basalt]

You have to select a user when you start it up

So you can't spotify connect from your phone to the tv without having to use the remote in between :/

Including HA automations

[green inlet]

badtelcotech, talk to me....you have killer tv speakers or you just want to see the album art?

[forest edge]

lol that whole trump mentioning the drinking disinfectant crap and now literally every business is finding themselves in the position of having to remind their customers not to drink disinfectant is both funny and incredibly sad at the same time

[hushed basalt]

@green inlet my tv speakers are way better than the google home mini

[forest edge]

how do we have so many dumb people in this world lol

[hushed basalt]

I don't have a hifi setup

[green inlet]

Auh, me either.

[hushed basalt]

For tv speakers they're actually very good

[green inlet]

Ok, so from google mini, cast to tv?

[hushed basalt]

No so you make a speaker group in your google home app

And you use that as a casting target in spotify or whatever

[green inlet]

Yea, ok, seems like if you have good tv speakers just turn off the minis

[hushed basalt]

But with the chromecast you can add the tv as a "speaker"

Yeah the minis are around the house

Plus you want something to pickup voice commands

[green inlet]

Auh, ok, that makes sense.

Not judging, I just always trying to learn

[hushed basalt]

Plus smaller speakers distributed are better than one behemoth setup in one room

I think I'd look at ceiling speakers when I get my own house

But they are pricey

[green inlet]

Man, fail2ban may just saved the rest of my hair

I had over 300 cidr IPs banned on my router and the list keeps growing. Now with nginx and fail2ban it does it on its own and at 4 hours at a time, I hope the script kiddies/bots just get bored and write me off their list

And tomorrow is upgrade day 🎉🎊🎁🤯

[scenic radish]

I don't have many malicious attempts to access, kind of odd to me

Though, the only way to access the frontend is with my domain name

[green inlet]

Do you have a duckdns domain or your own?

I imagine mine has been a mess for a while with me trying to figure things out. The only legit way you can get to my frontend now, I think, it through my duckdns

I have had 4 bans in the last hour after finally tweaking fail2ban

[last dirge]

my freedns domain name ends up a CNAME record in my domain

[scenic radish]

My own domain

[last dirge]

yeah, my own domain

[scenic radish]

I update the A record from home assistant

[last dirge]

my subdomain's got a CNAME record pointing at my freedns domain

[green inlet]

Is it worth it?

[scenic radish]

Yeah for sure. It's like $10/year

[last dirge]

a regular domain is like $10/yr

[scenic radish]

Multiple subdomains pointing to different services via NGINX

[last dirge]

for sho

[green inlet]

And how do you do ddns?

[scenic radish]

And cloudflare free tier for proxying the domain through them so my WAN IP is concealed

[last dirge]

THAT is why you're hidden 🙂

[scenic radish]

Through home assistant, there's a cloudflare integration that updates the A record

Yeah I thought that might contribute to it but it seems to work surprisingly well

[green inlet]

With your WAN IP?

[scenic radish]

Yeah

[last dirge]

who's your registrar?

[hushed basalt]

I should use cloudflare proxy

[green inlet]

So does the noproxy fail2ban jail block against URLs without your sub-domain?

[hushed basalt]

Cloudflare is my dns but it's just passthrough

[scenic radish]

@last dirge namecheap lol

@hushed basalt it's nice. The free tier is surprisingly feature rich

[last dirge]

I registered mine at godaddy forever ago

and I haven't bothered to move it

[scenic radish]

I'm probably gonna switch to a cronjob for updating my A record because cloudflare's API is well documented and seems easy to use

For some reason though I can't get it to work with updating my AAAA record. Gives me some weird error that doesn't seem to apply

[green inlet]

Welcome to my rabbit hole

[forest edge]

ask not what your dns can do for you but what you can do for your dns

[hushed basalt]

@scenic radish I probably need to migrate my plex to a different subdomain so it doesn't try to proxy when remote

[steel urchin]

what's the error @scenic radish? I was going to do similar, seemed simple enough iirc

[forest edge]

prob sqawks cause he's not an official member of the American Automotive and Alcohol Association

[scenic radish]

@steel urchin I'll try it again later tonight and let you know

@hushed basalt doit

I like using subdomains rather than paths

[steel urchin]

same

[hushed basalt]

Paths are death

I probably should have used a subdomain like service.int.domain.tld

Instead of service.domain.tld

[last dirge]

HOLY SHIT

have you seen how you get swabbed for the rona test?

[hushed basalt]

https://media.tenor.com/images/a46eb83159f6b58e6796471106f53438/tenor.gif

[last dirge]

https://www.reddit.com/r/BlackPeopleTwitter/comments/g9ws7q/no_need_to_go_outside_im_good/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x

[forest edge]

@last dirge you just now hearing about that? that was the first tests, the newer ones aren't like that

[last dirge]

that's like circus sideshow dude nailing a nail through his sinus levels of aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

local news said a college is "3d printing swabs"

what the hell are they using?

[hushed basalt]

Not sure I'd want to trust a 3d printed swab not to break off

Inside my head

[forest edge]

there's like 3 or 4 different tests now. that first one that requires them to swab your brain is the one they have the most of cause it was the first

[hushed basalt]

I wonder how the new ones improve it

I assume you gotta go where the virus cells actually are

[forest edge]

improve cause they don't need to swab your brain, plus they take less time to get the results

[hushed basalt]

But are they less accurate

[forest edge]

not from what they been saying

just imagine Trump went through that first test twice lol

[last dirge]

at least twice

more if the doctors were fuckin with him

[hushed basalt]

Now please lean back and hold still, this may feel uncomfortable. By the way I'm a democrat stab

[forest edge]

supposedly they came out with test we can do at home and then return to doctor or mail in. those won't be like that swab either

just need to give it more time for them to make the damn things

[hushed basalt]

Need to upgrade our nanotech skills

Or better yet replicators

Just replicate swabs onsite with all the chemicals and molecules required from pure energy

What could go wrong
https://media.tenor.com/images/a28e33c331ee4b1bc6d6c055aeb38743/tenor.gif

[last dirge]

Aluminum is basically solid electricity

[scenic radish]

@steel urchin nvm, got it to work. i think the error before was "this record cannot be proxied" which doesn't make sense but it works now 🥳

using this ridiculous command i found to grab my server's ipv6 address:

ip -6 addr | grep inet6 | awk -F '[ \t]+|/' '{print $3}' | grep -v ^::1 | grep -v ^fe80

[forest edge]

@steel urchin nvm, got it to work. i think the error before was "user nerd error" which doesn't make sense but it works now 🥳
@scenic radish fixed

[scenic radish]

@Möd @forest edge is attacking me

[surreal axle]

is there a differance in the versions of home assistant on the unraid community applications

whats the differance between core and supervisor

[scenic radish]

Core == the software we all run regardless of install method
Supervised == Core plus add-ons, snapshot capability, ability to update from the UI, etc.

Supervised is what was formerly known as Hassio

[forest edge]

Kind of like the difference between buying a car without a steering wheel and stereo and wheels and buying a car that has those things

[scenic radish]

More like buying a base model vs an upgraded trim level

[wet pilot]

More like the car or the car with the protection package, the maintenance package, and the undercoating

[hushed basalt]

More like buying a tediore or buying a tediore with the orderly who will keep his straitjacket secure and make sure he takes his happy pills

[forest edge]

like i said, no stereo, seats, windshield and hood

one has square wheels while the other has round wheels?

[hushed basalt]

Buying a motherboard & cpu vs buying an imac

[clear ferry]

[scenic radish]

@hushed basalt I said I don't NEED THE PILLS!!!!!!!!!!

[clear ferry]

Bi yearly mandatory check of car today

[forest edge]

https://hips.hearstapps.com/roa.h-cdn.co/assets/16/02/1452787848-reliant.gif

[clear ferry]

The greatest of British engineering

The valiant I believe?

[clever mortar]

Reliant Robin I suspect

Much mocked by Top Gear, even if they had to cheat to get it to roll 😄

[jagged mantle]

What are your opinions about Plex vs Jellyfin?

[clear ferry]

Jellyfin is interesting, but immature

[jagged mantle]

But it's totally free

[clever mortar]

That doesn't change the facts 😉

Of course, standard advice applies - try all the options, use what works for you

Plex, Emby, Jellyfin, Kodi, or whatever else is out there...

[jagged mantle]

What makes jellyfin worse then plex?

[clear ferry]

It's immature

and has a smaller community base

Bigger base is always a major plus

which is why running esxi is a way better choice than proxmox

and the same reason why you learn java instead of turbo pascal

[clever mortar]

Though, Cobol is a nice way of making money right now. It doesn't have a big base, but it has a critical base 😛

[clear ferry]

Yeah, they brought out two pensionares in norway

to fix some mainframe code

[jagged mantle]

But if we think from a stand point where i dont think that it's gonna be used everyday then a totally free alternative would be better. So for my case would it maybe be better with Jellyfin even when it performs a little worse then plex. But think plex without plex pass

[clear ferry]

Free isn't better

[clever mortar]

Free is free, that's all

As I said, try both, see which works better for you

Then try the other alternatives

I use Plex because it works on all my devices, without any issues

TV, ChromeCast, console, phone, tablet, laptop... easy to use UI, no problems for anybody

Photo backup from phones is just an added bonus

[jagged mantle]

But if we compare plex without plex pass and jellyfin then it might be better?

[clear ferry]

Probably not

again, usebase, software immaturity, overall features

[clever mortar]

As I said though - you compare

We don't have to agree with you. You don't have to use what we use.

If you're happy with Jellyfin, you're happy with it

[clear ferry]

I seldom agree with people

My wife hates me for it

🤣

[jagged mantle]

👍

[fading zodiac]

Morning

@clear ferry you did seem to agree to love each other

[clear ferry]

we did ?

noone informed me!

[forest edge]

Jellyfin wanted me to create a user account to "see it in action" that pretty much screams.. move along!

[clear ferry]

wait what

an online account ?

[forest edge]

I clicked the "see it in action" link on it's site and it prompted me to make an account lol

if they get a roku app i would consider giving it a try

[clear ferry]

natives apps is a must

[forest edge]

the only thing kodi lacks is a roku app

[jagged mantle]

wait so jellyfin in roku and roku in kodi?

[forest edge]

you would need a jellyfin app to watch content on a roku

jellyfin is backend, not a frontend

well i guess it's both

[jagged mantle]

lmao, thought roku was a media server aswell

it wasnt

[forest edge]

no

[clear ferry]

I've been very happy with my Roku Ultra actually

only thing I wish is that they would make more international apps, there are a few norwegian streaming services I have to use the TV for

[forest edge]

well norwegians need to make the apps then submit them to roku

[jagged mantle]

could also someone explain iptv for me a little, all i could find was sites trying to sell their iptv service

[forest edge]

iptv is internet tv, like youtube tv or google tv or direct tv online

[clear ferry]

It's TV, over IP

Instead of RF or Sattelite, or Coax

[forest edge]

like digital vs analog

not sure if cable tv is still considered analog tho

[clear ferry]

Much like how DAB is just internet radio in a usable car format

[jagged mantle]

a bunch of what i can find says its illegal in sweden

[forest edge]

lol

that would be pornhub

[clear ferry]

Sure, if you buy it from Slovakiatv.se or similar

but you have a lot of different IPtv vendors in sweden

ComHem uses IPtv if memory serves right

[jagged mantle]

do you know about boxer?

[forest edge]

illegal to buy anything but local Sweden providers? how communist

[clear ferry]

yeah, I was thinking of switching to a eastern european iptv provider

I get 2500 channels for $60 a month

And it integrates directly in plex

[forest edge]

plex is gross

[clear ferry]

you are too

[jolly moon]

You now any but for western european iptv?

[clear ferry]

they have eastern\western\scandinavian\american channels in those 2500 channels

heck, they have asian and middle eastern too

[forest edge]

you like 1500 of those channels are split between religion, home shopping and old black and white movies and tv shows right?

[clear ferry]

so, american channels then ?

😉

[forest edge]

pretty sure you are used to black and white tv lol

[jagged mantle]

IPTV services such as Youtube TV, Sling, Netflix, etc. are obviously legal. These services pay for the content they stream. However, most other IPTV services that package 1000s of live TV channels rarely pay for the content or obtain them legitimately. Therefore, use IPTV with Plex at your own risk. Or, use a VPN to protect yourself.

[clear ferry]

Those aren't really IPTV solutions per say

they are streaming services

[jagged mantle]

doesnt plex have plugins anymore?

[clear ferry]

Sure it does

I only use one though, to download subs automatically for my english inept friends

🤣

[jagged mantle]

September 2018 came and Plex announced the killing of plug-ins feature. This change would not allow IPTV plugins (or any plugins for that matter) to control what is played on Plex.

what?

[clear ferry]

that is IPTV plugins I guess

because plex dvr exists

[forest edge]

like i said, plex is gross lol

[clear ferry]

we don't need plugins anymore

Article from 2020 on how to install a plugin manually, so I'm pretty sure they still exist just fine, as I use atleast one https://support.plex.tv/articles/201187656-how-do-i-manually-install-a-plugin/

I just want to subscribe to a IPTV service so I can get the british BBC channels tbh 🤣

damn you BBC and your excellent television

[forest edge]

lol bbc

I wouldn't trade our tv channel selection for anything. just wished movvies didn't release over seas before here

[hushed basalt]

@clear ferry are a lot of your mil sites completely independent

I guess what I mean is

If aws, gcp, azure, docker, npm, linux mirrors were all wiped from existence

They'd still hum along

[clear ferry]

Yes

Dark sites are off grid

Same for military in most countries

Airgapped

[hushed basalt]

Do you have to load software in on BD-Rs or something lol

[orchid rose]

probably floppies with the army

[clear ferry]

No, but software is scanned and downloaded by the client

[hushed basalt]

Reel to reel

[clear ferry]

I don't even bring my laptop onsite

At most I bring a screwdriver

[hushed basalt]

Xrayed for usb sticks I'm sure

I've seen Snowden!

[clear ferry]

We don't do that, but I know Microsoft does that at their DC's

[hushed basalt]

I went to a mil site once. They took our phones but we rolled in with our trucks including our laptops

This was 10 years ago though. But the laptops did have sims

[clear ferry]

There are lax sites, depends on the security grade

[hushed basalt]

This was also pre snowden

[clear ferry]

Some I have to disable GPS on my phone before leaving home, and my wife can't know when I'll be back

[hushed basalt]

There's a certain billionaire heiress here who makes contractors sign an NDA before visiting her homestead

Rich people are the worst

Especially if they've inherited it

[clear ferry]

NDA isn't really a thing here

We just abide by the laws regarding national safety

[forest edge]

Some I have to disable GPS on my phone before leaving home, and my wife can't know when I'll be back
@clear ferry and how would they know if you followed that?

@hushed basalt that is likely to prevent photos etc. very common aboard yachts

[hushed basalt]

It was to stop people telling people where she lived

[forest edge]

lol

[hushed basalt]

Like i said. The worst

[forest edge]

it's hard to know what it looks like on the other side

I would imagine anyone and everyone trying to sue you for every little thing just because they know you havve money would get annoying real quick

[clear ferry]

@forest edge because I am trusted based on security clearance

[forest edge]

so they asked you to follow it but in reality they could give a shit lol

[orchid rose]

Most people will do what they are asked to do

[clear ferry]

Not muuuuuricans

Because freedom @orchid rose

[orchid rose]

tru

[strange vapor]

hmmm, https://github.com/porech/roborock-oucher

[forest edge]

when dealing with the military they don't just simply ask you to follow the rules, they make sure that you do lol

but then I guess Norwegian military could be compared to Bedazzle club lol

[clear ferry]

https://media.tenor.com/images/8a12002c5a0dd7639ad53d1c5c07abab/tenor.gif

[forest edge]

https://i.gifer.com/OtNt.gif

https://media.giphy.com/media/5tuzHlnDqlW7e/giphy.gif

[clear ferry]

That last one looks about right

[forest edge]

they are both norwegian lol

[hushed basalt]

@scenic radish I can't use cloudflare proxy with my current network architecture

Long story short synology won't release the ports I need

When I migrate to K8S it'll all be fun

🔜

[zealous rune]

Can anyone recommend a simple LAN speed testing utility (Windows)? I wired up an Ethernet connection using a telephone cable and wanted to see how it actually performed compared to my actual Ethernet cables and also wifi.

[hushed basalt]

You'll have lots of fun packet drops 🙂

[zealous rune]

That's what I need to find out

[hushed basalt]

Is it in a wall?

[zealous rune]

Yes

[hushed basalt]

Yeah it's not fun

Is it like an RJ12 socket

Have you confirmed if it's not cat5 or something

[fading zodiac]

WEll then:

https://www.belkin.com/us/support-article?articleNum=316642

[clever mortar]

iperf should run

[zealous rune]

When they built the house I asked the electrician to give me 15 VDC in a couple locations to install my Doorbird doorbell and intercom. They used a cable that has 4 pairs (but the wire colors don't match any CAT standard I'm aware of so I think it's a telephone cable). The Wifi performance was mediocre so I used the unused pairs to create an Ethernet link.

Wanted to try that before pulling the cable and going with POE.

Have you confirmed if it's not cat5 or something
The pairs are: red/blue, brown/white, green/white, yellow/white. The whites are solid white, not stipped with the paired color.

No shielding and nothing printed on the outer insulation to tell me what it is.

Also, there was an uninsulated solid copper wire as well.

This is in Germany, so could be something specific to building code here

[hushed basalt]

Are the pairs twisted

It's probably 4 pair cat3 riser cable

I would just use it as a draw string if you can for some cat5e or cat6

It's not worth the hassle trying to use it. Intermittent faults aren't fun you're better off with wifi

[zealous rune]

I tried fishing an extra cable in the plastic pipe they used to bring the cat3/phone cable up in and there's a bottleneck of cables where it enters my technical room that will be a huge PITA to access. I can't even see the cable I need buried under all the others and no way to access it without dismantling the cable tray for all the wires. This was a check to see how it worked but I agree, I need to use it as a pull wire for a proper cable and I have a POE router all ready to go as well.

[hushed basalt]

Yeah it's just gotta be a real cable

Cat5e will be easier if it's a tight spot

Send me some photos if you like

[snow hedge]

Can anyone recommend me a 433mhz doorbell that I can buy in the UK? looking to hook the signal with a Pi and RF receiver so needs to be 433mhz

[zealous rune]

iperf should run
I can only seem to get the client side running which doesn't show packet loss or am I missing something obvious (again)?

[clever mortar]

You need a server somewhere

https://iperf.fr/

There's public servers too

[zealous rune]

My router (FritzBox) had an option speficially setup to work with iperf. I followed those directions and got it working

But I need to do the test from the server side, correct?

[zealous rune]

I figured it out! 🤯 I ran the server on my spare Pi and got it working! 🎉

I learn by failing. And I'm learning a LOT 😉

[viscid solar]

@strange vapor i set up that ocher on my robot a few weeks back. it was quite amuzing 😄

[midnight adder]

Hey everyone , i have my thesis work comming up and i need a good open source TTS software, Can you guys recomend any?

Homeassistant uses google translate but that wont suffice considering it has a pricing after a while

[clever mortar]

Did you look at the voice integrations 😉

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations#text-to-speech

[midnight adder]

@clever mortar Foolishly enought i didnt

[clever mortar]

Now you can 😄

I don't think any of the free ones are "great" but they're probably "ok"

[midnight adder]

Yeah I feel the same . The best open source one is Mary and I don't think that one is totally offline ?

I'll check this list out and talk to my thesis handler. Thanks again

[hushed basalt]

Tediore could always sing it in Klingon opera form

[scenic radish]

Never watched star trek, sry

[hushed basalt]

Your loss

Anything made this millenium you can ignore though

DS9 is the best

I would invest in some GPU rigs and upscale them to 4k for us please

[fathom jetty]

Q: Where's the right place to ask "is my hardware supported?" ?

[clever mortar]

#hardware-archived

[last plaza]

@fathom jetty #hardware-archived

[clever mortar]

See, right there 😛

[last plaza]

🤣

[fathom jetty]

you know... I looked and didn't see that...

Thanks

[loud tide]

so is declarative config just no longer a priority?

or were we wrong to have ever thought it was?

[clever mortar]

https://discordapp.com/channels/330944238910963714/361518119421739030/699736605438640230 explains it