westyvw
@westyvw@lemm.ee
kde, linux, busses, open source and the good old Grateful Dead.
- Comment on The priorities of life 2 weeks ago:
You don’t just have your podcast auto resume whenever you start driving?
- Comment on Freed At Last From Patents, Does Anyone Still Care About MP3? 3 weeks ago:
Ogg at lower bitrates sounded better than mp3 at the same rate. Consumers dont care, but for a lot of game developers the zero patent risk and higher quality shipping with smaller files made Ogg a great choice at the time.
For me? FLACs are the only way… which reminds me, I wonder I can still convert all the SHN (shorten) lossless files I still have. I should get on that before a converter doesn’t exist.
- Comment on Tesla pulls out all the stops as Cybertruck sales grind to a halt 4 weeks ago:
Tesla made 2.8 billion last year from selling regulatory credits. So they really didn’t have to care how many cars they sold. But those surely are going away, so they are going to have to do some other government handout, which Elon is probably hand picking right now.
- Comment on I'll show them 4 weeks ago:
I am partial to freetube on the desktop. I can make a list of channels without actually subscribing or having a YouTube account.
- Comment on I'll show them 4 weeks ago:
Why don’t you just use a youtube player that filters the ads out? Seems like extra steps.
- Comment on Lemm.ee is recruiting new admins! 1 month ago:
I hope this doesn’t clog up the feed in your search for admins but I have to say: You are doing something right. I see people say Lemmy is slow, or there are large amounts of downtime. That has not happened on this instance. I have been very happy here.
I really hope you find the admins you are looking for.
- Comment on FCC’s Net Neutrality Rules Struck Down by Federal Appeals Court 2 months ago:
Wait! You will get in trouble for that. Instead you need to have an LLC that does that for Profit somehow. Then all is forgiven!
- Comment on FBI recommends coming up with a 'secret word or phrase' to make sure your family know you're you and not some hellish AI copycat 2 months ago:
Websites have been full of shit bots or not since forever. Nothing new here.
- Comment on When this post is 1 hour old, lemm.ee will go down for an upgrade to 0.19.7 3 months ago:
Thank you for hosting the instance!
- Comment on America's Next Health Secretary Enjoying A Meal With His Future Boss and Colleagues 3 months ago:
Wait, that almost makes him sound reasonable, please let him continue:
“I don’t have anything against fast food. I’m against food that has seed oils.”
Ok there is the crazy.
- Comment on Half-Life 2 is currently 100% for its 20th anniversary 3 months ago:
I disagree. Black Mesa is Black Mesa. It is no Half Life 1. The atmosphere in one is completely lost with Black Mesa. Start with Half Life and play to Alyx. Go back to Mesa for a second way to view 1.
- Comment on Looking to move on from Unraid, need suggestions. 5 months ago:
I have been using openmediavault for years and years. Basically debian with some configuration already done for a web gui, quick access to shares and user controls, and a simple but ready docker setup for your containers. Extremely light weight.
I have unraid on a test server, but I just can’t see the point of using it over omv. Raid is not important to me, you have to make backup either way. Containers are containers, and a vm is not something I need
- Comment on Youtube has fully blocked Invidious 5 months ago:
I agree with this a lot. I really do not like the term “content”. It is like going to a recipe for some “slop”, like using a term that is just a catch all for everything tossed on a plate.
Art is great. Movies, music are also fine terms. And so is simply saying they made a video. Watering it all down to the term “content” is just so boring and mind numbing.
- Comment on Youtube has fully blocked Invidious 5 months ago:
Time wasters.
- Comment on I just wanted to take a moment to enjoy how clean the web can be 6 months ago:
Although if you click through a few of them, your comment is probably applicable!
- Comment on Your TV set has become a digital billboard. And it’s only getting worse. 6 months ago:
People let their TV’s onto the internet? I thought we already had this discussion and nobody does this anymore.
- Comment on I just wanted to take a moment to enjoy how clean the web can be 6 months ago:
Every time you click that link you will get a different web page… so…
- Comment on 82-year-old Las Vegas McDonald's worker can't afford to retire after decades of service 7 months ago:
A 19 year old?
- Comment on m3u (iptv) client which is not Jellyfin? 9 months 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? 9 months 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? 9 months 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! 9 months 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 [deleted] 10 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 [deleted] 10 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 [deleted] 10 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 10 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 10 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 10 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 10 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 10 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.