westyvw
@westyvw@lemm.ee
kde, linux, busses, open source and the good old Grateful Dead.
- Comment on m3u (iptv) client which is not Jellyfin? 1 month ago:
Pyrosis did a great job answering a lot of your questions, I will focus again on why I cannot recommend plex:
Opt-In is not acceptable. You need to opt-out of: data sharing, data sharing with partners (unless you are in the UK or specific States), sharing playback data, stopping discovery together and activity feed, and turning off all of their live tv and streaming services.
Sharing streaming habits with others is not something that ever should have been opt-out. They keep pushing the line.
By the way, several of the “features” you mention are not included by default. Hardware decoding, downloads, DVR, etc.
- Comment on m3u (iptv) client which is not Jellyfin? 1 month ago:
I run both concurrently. I have a plex pass from way back when, maybe a decade or more.
What plex is now is not what it once was. Trying to socialize viewing habits, opting in by default to analysis, ads, reviews, and sharing that info has gone too far. Plex also works on these features such as discovery which benefits them, instead of open bugs.
That us why I can’t recommend it.
As for a feature comparison. Jellyfin is snappier, and faster. Plex is more detailed in their interface, and has better Metadata. Jellyfin sometimes doesn’t restart where I left off. Jellyfin is much, much better on mobile devices, but has less clients for tv’s. Jellyfin doesn’t rely on any server but my own, where plex wants to authenticate with thier own servers and ask for accounts (and money) to have full functionality. Jellyfin always downloads to a client. Plex…might.
- Comment on m3u (iptv) client which is not Jellyfin? 1 month ago:
Because they are doing things in their best interest and not the end user.
As so many like to say here the enshitification is happening.
If you want to self host, plex isn’t it.
- Comment on "BeReal." FOSS alternative? Yes please! 1 month ago:
This is bizarre. My friends wouldn’t want random interruptions throughout the day and neither do I.
Follow? I don’t follow anyone, that seems so shallow …
- Comment on Windows 11 Start menu ads are now rolling out to everyone 2 months ago:
XP was bad enough that I was determined to switch to Linux then. I think you have Rose colored glasses.
2000 was windows Peak.
- Comment on Windows 11 Start menu ads are now rolling out to everyone 2 months ago:
That is such a bummer, and I blame the music manufacturers.
I have a dedicated Linux laptop for all my guitar effects to replace the foot pedals. I have found I need to pay attention to what I buy to integrate into my system, but they are out there.
- Comment on Windows 11 Start menu ads are now rolling out to everyone 2 months ago:
I switched in 2003, and I was happy to do it back then. I have an MSDN, support windows application development and back end Microsoft Services for a living. I still can’t stand their crap.
I do everything I could do in windows, play games, and generally have a better experience. If I absolutely need to access a windows desktop, I can RDP in an pay as you go Azure virtual desktop. But I will never have windows at home again.
- Comment on Fallout 4 2 months ago:
Guns don’t block a good chunk of the screen either.
But YOU do! That is why I do not like third person, I do not want to see me. All immersion is lost! \
But I started up my game, moused out to third person, and the gun sight didnt change at all. It is the same cross hairs based on gun accuracy either way.
- Comment on Fallout 4 2 months ago:
That was two New Vegas and one VR title. Fallout 4 aiming doesn’t seem bad at all. You can manage with a sniper rifle as good as any other game. There is a slight chance that one of the mods I applied might have improved it, I havent looked through them, but it seems to me that FO4 was not nearly as bad as 3 and NV by default.
- Comment on Fallout 4 2 months ago:
Interesting take. I very, very rarely use vats. My aim is much better, and certainly much faster.
Why do you have issues with the aiming system? I am making an assumption you are playing with a mouse and keyboard…
- Comment on Fallout 4 2 months ago:
I think that is a bit overboard. I modded the hell out of F04 and it still is a brain dead, choices mean nothing, game. It is kind of interesting wandering around and fighting things, but nothing really ever matters and the story progresses the same.
The second more important thing for this game besides modding, is playing in survival. Anything else is like whats the point.
- Comment on Fallout 4 2 months ago:
Like Skyrim this one is far more playable in third person
Wait, what? Fallout is much better in first person. How do you aim and shoot in third person?
I really dislike third person games to begin with, but this one just wouldnt work it unless you relied on VATS.
- Comment on Best TV box for connecting to streaming services? 4 months ago:
I have a roku, and I gotta ask… what ads? I think they run one on the side at the menu screen but I never even notice it. Because the only time i am on that screen is to get to a channelm
Then when something isn’t playing it just goes to the aquarium screen saver.
What are you doing that had so many ads?
If you want to talk about how chatty the damn things are with their servers, yes that is an issue.
- Comment on Another Patient Recommendation: Saints Row IV 4 months ago:
Does the legacy version contain all the same content and support all the dlc?
Thanks for the heads up about this on steam.
- Comment on it always interesting when multi billion dollar company's costing system is a 63 tab excel 97 spreadsheet at it's core... 6 months ago:
There is a skit from Sat Night Live with Brian Cranston and Aaron Paul that is a spoof of their real lives as celebrities. Up to a point he is mild mannered, and then suddenly he gets very dark and serious. He is really good at portraying an aloof person and turning it on a dime. Point is in the that skit you certainly can see both.
- Comment on Just a JSON file in Windows 11 enables Edge, Bing, and Search ads removal 7 months ago:
Postgis and Qgis don’t require windows. ArcGIS is such bloat ware. They live by the cult following rather than merit.
- Comment on What NAS to get for running plex and is there anything I should know? 7 months ago:
What is using the ram? The arrs? My media server uses hardly any ram with plex, jellyfin, and a lot more…
- Comment on Looking for a new server 7 months ago:
Your requirements are confusing.
I get the sata ports, but why the 2 m.2 SSD’s?
Why the 16 GB ram minimum? My server has multiple containers/services and barely uses 3 gb ram.
I say this because this is the crux of the issue:
- Enough performance for various docker containers
What you do here effects everything else right?
- Comment on Meta is promoting Threads posts on Facebook and there’s no way to opt out 8 months ago:
No need to opt out if you never opted in.
- Comment on Russia and China-backed hackers are exploiting WinRAR zero-day bug 8 months ago:
Winrar in ancient times? Lol. People have been arching for a long time before that. Unix, amiga, apple, pc… that is a funny sentence.
Don’t remember PKARK, ARC, and PKWARE?
I believe Winrar became popular because it was easier to use with multi volume archives. Which conveniently worked well with parity files, which all worked great for distributing on usenet.
- Comment on Spotify re-invented the radio 8 months ago:
Right. In another comment i wondered how funkwhale was handling copyright.
Personally, I gave up on copyrighted music. I just don’t care, there is so much freely traded music out there it just doesn’t matter to me.
But then again 99 percent of music on my server is live so I know I am the oddball
- Comment on Spotify re-invented the radio 8 months ago:
More like get them changed of course, the rules make absolutely no sense. Of course that will be hard because the publishers and corporations have a nice racket going.
- Comment on Spotify re-invented the radio 8 months ago:
True about the enforcement, that would be difficult. If one of the federated nodes suddenly had copyright material, how would we know and deal with it? How does Funkwhale deal with it?
At that point just set up a server for streaming/downloading those files… except that already exists with their existing free distribution methods.
No, the whole point is distributed servers (and users), and there are not easy distribution using a single server method.
I can’t believe we cant get past this, it is ridiculous.
- Comment on Spotify re-invented the radio 8 months ago:
Doesn’t have to he illegal at all. Plenty of freely shared music out there, and some with less restrictive licenses.
On the other hand it seems absurd I am not allowed to let other people browse my library and listen to songs. Not copy them, simply stream them.
What if we collectively bought the music and lent it out in library fashion? Only I user per stream. I refuse to give up having control because of stupid backwards laws.
- Comment on Spotify re-invented the radio 8 months ago:
I am on lemmy right?
I only skimmed, but not one single suggestion to federated our music? Isn’t that what we need to do now, and not for downloading, simply sharing libraries. It’s out there…
- Comment on Goodbye Youtube and thanks for all the fish 8 months ago:
Nope not clear at all.
- Comment on Are there any good self hosted software that can create subtitles for videos? 8 months ago:
What does he edit the video with? My video editing software does speech to text subtitles. Which is nice because I can edit where and how the subs are displayed.
- Comment on Goodbye Youtube and thanks for all the fish 8 months ago:
What are you trying to say? Who is an entitled brat? This comment makes no sense.
- Comment on Goodbye Youtube and thanks for all the fish 8 months ago:
Start charging people who monetized their videos, like any other web host. They can run youtube ads, or pay money. Subsidize the free users.
- Comment on YouTube isn't happy you're using ad blockers — and it's doing something about it 8 months ago:
What sucks about it for you?