dmention7
@dmention7@lemm.ee
- Comment on Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026 4 days 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 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 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? 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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. 3 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 1 month 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?! 2 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 2 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 2 months ago:
Got it, thanks!
- Comment on Advice / sanity check for torrenting & media server 2 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!
- Comment on Advice / sanity check for torrenting & media server 2 months ago:
Yeah, I’m using Unraid, so this would all be in dockers.
I think maybe I had a false understanding that radarr (for example) interposes itself between the actual media files and Plex/Jellyfin… which sounds like a PITA to undo, and was giving me pause.
- Comment on Advice / sanity check for torrenting & media server 2 months ago:
Thanks, this is helpful!
If I do a “clean” install, can i later identify specific pieces of media within a library to monitor?
- Submitted 2 months ago to selfhosted@lemmy.world | 14 comments
- Comment on The one change that worked: I set my phone to ‘do not disturb’ three years ago – and have never looked back 2 months ago:
I love scheduled and automation based DND, except that about twice per year, SOMETHING SOMEWHERE updates and causes my alarm to be silenced by DND, despite having my clock app exempted from every possible silencing mechanism I can find.
For the life of me, I can’t understand why that would ever be a useful behavior, let along default one.
Lucky for me, I have a pretty robust internal clock, but Holy Fuck is that annoying.
- Comment on Are Expensive TVs Actually Better? An Analysis of TV Prices and Review Scores 2 months ago:
Not to knock on you, because everyone’s got different priorities, but I think calling it a “huge expense that’s no longer relevant” is a pretty loaded framing. A decent 75-ish inch TV can be had for about the same price as a middle-road flagship phone.
Sure, I can certainly watch a movie or play a game on my little 6" phone screen, but it’s an entirely different experience–in the same way that eating a protein bar and eating your favorite meal will both technically nourish you.
Granted, I’ve spent quite a bit in excess of the cost of a decent TV on the audio system to go with it, but pretty much anything other than watching rando youtube videos or playing idle phone games, I would rather do in front of a large screen with immersive sound–gaming, shows, movies etc., even if it’s just me alone.
- Comment on Elon Musk just offered to buy OpenAI for $97.4 billion 2 months ago:
Destroy it?
Like he destroyed Twitter by turning it into his personal propaganda outlet, maybe.
It sounds to me like he’s just positioning himself to control an AI tech provider who will conveniently be contracted to replace all the government positions he is trying to eliminate.
- Comment on ICE Wants to Know If You’re Posting Negative Things About It Online 2 months ago:
I just saw few dozen identical comments with a bunch of upvotes, so the idea of people randomly dogpiling one single comment for no apparent reason struck me as funny!
I seem to recall a subreddit like that… chains of identical one word posts, 20 comments deep, all with a hundred upvotes… and one poor dude with like -1000.
- Comment on ICE Wants to Know If You’re Posting Negative Things About It Online 2 months ago:
Fuck ICE. All my homies hate ICE.
Scanning this thread though, I was kinda hoping there would be one single “Fuck ICE” comment amongst the rest, that was randomly downvoted to oblivion for no apparent reason.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
S22+ here, I found it in my installed apps via system settings.
- Comment on YSK Elon Musk's actions are not random and the Silicon Valley's hostile take over of the federal government was planned over the last decade. 3 months ago:
Honestly I don’t mind dictator esque people running the world into the ground if it means we get onto a hopefully better path later through shocking the system
LMAO that “if” is doing so much heavy lifting there, Elmo is going to claim he invented it to power the next gen of SpaceX rockets!