dmention7
@dmention7@lemm.ee
- Comment on Does anyone use a phone without a protective case? 6 days ago:
I refuse to use a case on principle. The idea that you need a case to protect a phone from everyday use is so ass-backwards it hurts my brain. (and was not always the situation!)
It would be so much more space, weight, and cost efficient to simply engineer in the durability provided by a case through the use of proper materials and construction. But apparently marketing thinks nobody would buy a phone that looks and feels out of the box the way a phone with a case feels. So we end up with these thin, elegant, glass and polished aluminum devices… that most of the population has to immediately hide inside a bulky plastic/rubber case to have a chance of surviving 6 months.
Imagine if a carmaker sold a premium vehicle with a polished metal and glass exterior that you had to protect under a vinyl wrap to keep it from rusting and chipping under normal use… they’d be a laughing stock!
- Comment on This new 40TB hard drive from Seagate is just the beginning—50TB is coming fast! 6 days ago:
I’ve been moved out for 25 years 😂
I just hoped that my family would take advantage of me offering up my server for them to stream from.
- Comment on This new 40TB hard drive from Seagate is just the beginning—50TB is coming fast! 6 days ago:
Same here. I initially had high hopes that my family would take advantage, but apparently my parents would rather bug my siblings monthly for their Hulu/Netflix/Max/Disney+/Prime logins than install Plex or Jellyfin lol.
- Comment on This new 40TB hard drive from Seagate is just the beginning—50TB is coming fast! 6 days ago:
Honestly, I get it. If you have a relatively small stash of media, say a couple TB worth, you can pretty easily say "well I watched this movie, so I’ll delete it and make room for the next. When you get into the 10’s of TB range, the mindset has switched from it being a dynamic, temporary library to a repository. And it becomes easier just to plug in another 10-20TB drive occasionally, rather than trying to curate thousands of movies and shows.
I can see both sides though. There’s definitely something to be said for being deliberate about the media you consume–and therefore only needing enough storage for your immediate viewing plans. I’m not quite into the 100TB range with my library, but I definitely have moments where I feel like having so many options makes any given option seem less appealing.
- Comment on Lidarr unable to load search results since yesterday 2 weeks ago:
Thanks, that would explain it. Not sure how I missed that!
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to selfhosted@lemmy.world | 3 comments
- Comment on 1955 was as old in 1990 as 1990 is in 2025. 2 weeks ago:
Well shit, that’s a core memory reactivated.
It’s crazy how vividly you can remember something like that, while moments earlier having absolutely no consciousness of it.
- Comment on Can you put a ship inside a Klein bottle? 2 weeks ago:
True, but can’t you cork a Klein bottle just as easily?
- Comment on It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System 2 weeks ago:
Problem is, by the time they’ve failed the test, the opportunity for them to learn the content is largely passed.
The purpose of school is to educate and teach thinking skills. Tests are just a way to assess how effectively you and your students are achieving that goal. If something (in this case easy access to AI tools in the classroom) is disrupting that teaching/learning process, sure it’s useful to detect that through testing, but I’d doesn’t do anything really to solve the problem. Some fraction of kids are disciplined enough to recognize that skating by on classwork will lead to poor test results and possibly retaking classes, but generally those aren’t the kids you need to worry about anyway.
- Comment on Can you put a ship inside a Klein bottle? 2 weeks ago:
I’d ask the inverse. What definition of “inside” can you apply to a traditional bottle–so as to say that a ship is inside the bottle–that could not also be applied to a Klein bottle. Both of them have a single opening that leads to an enclosed volume.
A Klein bottle may only have one surface, and therefore you can argue it has no topological inside. But a traditional bottle is topologically equivalent to a flat disc, so the same logic would say you can’t put a ship inside one of those either.
- Comment on Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026 3 weeks ago:
I also thought I’d miss Hulu and Netflix a lot more than I do. What used to irk me so badly was how utterly shit Netflix is when you just want to sit down and find something new to watch. Their front page would be list after list of things like “Hot New Comedies” “Best Independent Films of 2025”, “Classic Action Flicks” and somehow it always felt like the same 30 or 40 movies randomly shuffled together. So I’d spend 15 minutes scrolling through the same slop in different orders, get frustrated and search for a movie that I remembered wanting to watch, only to find that it was on none of the services I was subscribed to, and cost $8.99 for a single watch of a 20 year old movie.
We had been Netflix subscribers since the very start when they delivered discs through the mail. Kinda sad how they went from having virtually anything you could think of to watch (and having a halfway decent recommendation algorithm to boot!) to where they are today.
- Comment on Any resources on using a 3D printer as a plotter cutter 5 weeks ago:
True… but i mean lasers are cooler by virtue of being lasers. 😁
Personally, I’d be worried about subjecting the printer to the lateral forces and torques a knife would put on a printer that was never designed to contact the workpiece, if you ever wanted to use it for FDM printing again. But maybe that would be a good project for a printer that was already beat up a bit.
- Comment on Any resources on using a 3D printer as a plotter cutter 5 weeks ago:
Since you mention the Ender 3, mine came bundled with a laser cutter attachment. I have never actually gotten around to using it, so I can’t offer much other than to say that such an official accessory does exist and might be less of a hassle than some of the DIY options you are considering.
- Comment on Until now I thought drying filament wasn't that important 5 weeks ago:
Thats true, and a good point.
But as long as you go straight from the original packaging to your dry box, you shouldn’t have to worry much about it ever getting wet to begin with.
- Comment on Until now I thought drying filament wasn't that important 5 weeks ago:
There are probably cheaper bulk options–but I personally bought some 50g satchets that change color when they start to saturate, for convenience. 3 of those keep a large bin dry for a few months depending on ambient humidity and how often you open it.
- Comment on Until now I thought drying filament wasn't that important 5 weeks ago:
It’s crazy easy too. You can get a decent size plasric tote with weatherproof gasket for about $15-20, and a few packs of reusable dessicant packs will.run another $10-15.
For about $30 all in you can keep 6-8 rolls of filament below 10%RH full time with zero hassle.
- Comment on What OS should I use for self-hosting that doesn't require extensive terminal knowledge? 1 month ago:
Beginner here (to Linux and networking anyways), running Unraid for about 18 months now. Fully agree, it’s been great for actually getting up and doing useful things quickly and relatively pain free.
Eventually I would like to try working backwards and getting things running on a more “traditional” server environment, but Unraid has been a great learning tool for me personally.
It’s like… Maybe some folks learned to overhaul an engine before they got their driver’s license, but lots of people just need to a car to get to work and back today, and they can learn to change their oil and do a brake job when the time comes.
- Comment on Slate, a no-nonsense EV pickup for $20k 1 month ago:
Honestly, as long as it’s easily DIY upgradable (accessible speaker mounting locations, standard DIN panels, etc) I am all for this. Most OEM audio systems are stupidly overpriced and suck complete donkey balls compared to what you can get for a few hundred bucks at Crutchfield and install in an afternoon.
For the last 20 years or so, most factory audio systems are so integrated into the rest of the electronics that they can be an absolute nightmare to upgrade unless you are a pro–which means you get the worst of both worlds.
- Comment on Macaroni and cheese is just nachos made with flour. 1 month ago:
What kind of weak-ass, soggy, no-meat-and-beans-having, baked-and-topped-with-bread-crumbs, bring-to-the-church-potluck, topologically-fucked-up nachos are you eating??
- Comment on Synology restricts choice of hard disks for new Plus NAS 1 month ago:
Just speaking for myself here, but as someone with only basic literacy in networking and almost zero prior experience with Linux or Docker, I found Unraid extremely straightforward to spin up–especially with the numerous guides floating around on Youtube. I started out with a used SFF PC that cost about $120 and a few drives I had lying around, and was up and running with basic NAS functionality in an afternoon.
I’ve mucked up a few things trying to do something more advanced without fully reading up, but I haven’t had a single hiccup with Unraid itself.
1.5 years later, and I’ve got ~80TB worth of refurb enterprise drives and hosting several media and other storage services, and I don’t see myself outgrowing it anytime soon.
- Comment on This ICE-snitching app is actually promoting a meme coin 1 month ago:
Thats what I thought too. The reality is still fucked up, but I don’t feel one iota of bad for people getting scammed for using an app to snitch to ICE.
- Comment on Multiple Tesla vehicles were set on fire in Las Vegas and Kansas City 2 months ago:
Man, if I had the poor luck/foresight to have purchased a Tesla earlier, I would be driving like the politest mofo in existence these days.
- Comment on Radarr manual import workflow 2 months ago:
No you’re right, the hardlinks themselves are not directional. I just misunderstood the advice as meaning that Radarr would create a hardlinked file in my torrent folder, using the existing file in my media library. (It will not)
The part that was tripping me up was that it seemed like I had to manually add the movies to Radarr’s library before it would let me import any of my torrent files. Otherwise it would give me an error saying the movie was unknown.
I think I’m starting to get the hang of it though.
- Comment on Radarr manual import workflow 2 months ago:
Thanks, that makes sense.
I’ve been going cross-eyed staring at the Trash guides and Servarr wiki trying to get hardlinks and all the file paths working correctly (stupid simple fix in the end), so a little nudge in the right direction is appreciated.
- Comment on Radarr manual import workflow 2 months ago:
Sure, that would get all the torrented content into radarr quickly, but I guess I should have stated that my intent is to continue seeding that content from the qbittorrent client on my media server.
Unless radarr is somehow smart enough to hardlink the opposite direction (from the media library back to torrents folder) and let qbittorrent know that content is ready to seed…?
- Submitted 2 months ago to selfhosted@lemmy.world | 7 comments
- Comment on Jellyfin is not just good... but *better* than Plex now?! 3 months ago:
Not OP, but I can answer part of your questions:
if I migrate to Jellyfin do I need to fuck around with my folder structures ? No special case just /movie/title | tv/title in my use-case with the usual arr stack for grabbing.
I have Plex and Jellyfin running off the exact same media library no problem at all. So there should be zero need to modify anything–if anything Jellyfin seems a little better at catching “extras” folders than Plex.
I don’t need remote playback for movies/tvs but I have no idea how to replace Plexamp and if you have suggestions, feel free to mention it.
The Jellyfin app plays music–but it’s definitely NOT a music app. I always hear Symfonium highly recommended, but have not yet given it a whirl myself.
- Comment on Advice / sanity check for torrenting & media server 3 months ago:
Thank you, this clears up some misconception i had about how the *arrs work!
- Comment on Advice / sanity check for torrenting & media server 3 months ago:
Got it, thanks!
- Comment on Advice / sanity check for torrenting & media server 3 months ago:
If all your current files are still in the “download” folder, you could probably setup the arrs and qbit as recommended in the guides
Yeah, that’s the rub… they are all currently in separate movies, shows, and music folders as Plex/Jellyfin want them to be.
But it’s sounding like the best bet is to leave the existing content alone for now and spin things up per the guides until I have a better handle on how it all works. Appreciate the input!
