Kushan
@Kushan@lemmy.world
Formerly /u/neoKushan on reddit
- Comment on Jellyfin is not just good... but *better* than Plex now?! 1 week ago:
Hmm sorry not sure why it would be complaining about an invalid path. Is it all paths that are invalid, or just the ones to your media?
- Comment on Jellyfin is not just good... but *better* than Plex now?! 1 week ago:
I don’t think you should be getting downvotes for having an opinion and I appreciate your reply.
However I do love a good debate - what’s the advantages for you for installing apps on “bare metal” (I’m assuming you mean a base OS install rather than actual bare metal). What about virtualisation?
- Comment on Jellyfin is not just good... but *better* than Plex now?! 1 week ago:
I’m also on emby and it works well for me. My main grievance is setting up a new device is a chore, “emby connect” is far too clunky to use so I end up configuring via URL every time - and on some devices that’s a real chore.
- Comment on Jellyfin is not just good... but *better* than Plex now?! 1 week ago:
What’s wrong with docker?
- Comment on Jellyfin is not just good... but *better* than Plex now?! 1 week ago:
Let’s not rewrite history, 20 years ago desktop Linux was an absolute shit show.
- Comment on Let's Encrypt Ending Support for Expiration Notification Emails 3 weeks ago:
Yup it’s great
- Comment on Let's Encrypt Ending Support for Expiration Notification Emails 3 weeks ago:
I use uptime kuma to check my certificate isn’t going to expire.
Also tells me if any of my services are down.
- Comment on The Maw: what's new in PC games this week? 4 weeks ago:
Not a clue!
- Comment on The Maw: what's new in PC games this week? 4 weeks ago:
The Stone of Madness
- Comment on What are your Homelab goals for 2025? 1 month ago:
Yup I also use ntfy and it’s brilliant, easy to send notification events to it from almost anything and the android app is very responsive.
- Comment on What are your Homelab goals for 2025? 1 month ago:
Another vote for restic, best backup software I’ve ever used.
- Comment on JetKVM's Source Code is now public! ✨ 1 month ago:
There’s the nanokvm, similar idea but cheaper. I have one and it’s okay but a bit sore, I’m hoping the jet is faster
- Comment on KFC drops pledge to stop using ‘Frankenchickens’ in the UK 3 months ago:
KFC’s reasoning is that the chicken supply industry hasn’t transitioned to more humanitarian chickens yet, but frustratingly the article doesn’t validate this claim.
It KFC is correct and they’re reliant on an industry that hasn’t got the supply it needs, then it’s impossible for them to meet the targets they set and it makes sense they would have to walk back the pledge.
However if the industry does have that supply, then KFC is full of shit.
So which is it?
- Comment on Hope September doesn’t go by too fast 4 months ago:
It’s not a joke.
- Comment on What Ever Happened to MSN Messenger? 4 months ago:
People blame Google for the death of jabber because of one blog post from a disgruntled contributor but the truth is jabber was never popular and Google chat died as well.
Jabber was a mess, most of the clients were barely compatible with Each other and it was a wild west of feature support. Some clients were well featured with the ability to send richer messages, but typically only worked with a specific server and the same clients. Jabber did a crap job at making sure clients and servers interacted properly with each other and didn’t push the standards quickly enough, forcing clients to do their own thing.
Which is all Google did, they went their own way because nobody used jabber and the interoperability was causing more harm than good. It didn’t work, Google talk died and many years later clients like WhatsApp took over instead.
- Comment on Steven Spielberg is ‘a big PC Gamer’ — loves shooters, and insists on keyboard and mouse 4 months ago:
Yup I’m with you here. I love KBM and it’s my preferred way to play for most games, but when it comes to driving I’d much prefer a controller with analogue triggers and a stick (unless it’s a sim racer, in which case a wheel of course) for that extra precision.
Unfortunately I can’t think of a good design to give that level of control to just one hand. Analogue keys are a thing but they sound awful, nowhere near enough precision due to the short travel of them.
- Comment on DeArrow is an open source browser extension for crowdsourcing better titles and thumbnails on YouTube. 5 months ago:
I used this within smart tube for a while, but honestly I kind of missed some of the clockbait titles. There problem I faced was that it wasn’t clear when a title had been replaced or not, so when you did find a video with a relatively clockbait titles, it gave you a bit of a false sense of security. I also found that sometimes the crowd sourced titles were just boring, albeit accurate.
Maybe I’m just weird or maybe I’ve just been browsing YouTube for so long that I’m used to it, but for now it’s an addon I’ll skip, though I’m very glad it exists.
- Comment on The UK section of my local supermarket is taking the piss 5 months ago:
It’s… Not good
- Comment on Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default to all desktop users worldwide | It is Firefox’s strongest privacy protection to date, confining cookies to the site where they were created 5 months ago:
Same, they’re an absolute game changer for me. I have to use multiple different identities in work due to separate active directories and container tabs makes it super easy
- Comment on Microsoft finally officially confirms it's killing Windows Control Panel sometime soon 6 months ago:
I honestly wouldn’t mind the new interface if it at least has all the options and functionality from the control panel, but it doesn’t - there’s so much functionality you can only access via control panel
- Comment on Smart sous vide cooker to start charging $2/month for 10-year-old companion app 6 months ago:
Unrelated but how would you rate sous vide cooking? I am tempted for a bunch of reasons but I’m worried it’ll be just another kitchen appliance that I rarely use.
- Comment on Teams finally fixed the most important problem! 6 months ago:
This actually is an improvement. Not everyone wants to be on camera and for those folks, getting pushed off to the sidebar often means they’re overlooked.
This at least means they’re given the same importance as anyone else.
No idea what the rant about presentations is about, when anyone presents it becomes the main content and everyone - camera or not - gets pushed to the sidebar. You can also pop out presentation content to give it it’s own dedicated window.
- Comment on TSMC Arizona struggles to overcome vast differences between Taiwanese and US work culture 6 months ago:
Not quite but tech for sure
- Comment on TSMC Arizona struggles to overcome vast differences between Taiwanese and US work culture 6 months ago:
This makes me laugh because I work for a UK company that was bought out by an American company, who’s trying to treat the UK staff how they would treat US staff - and it’s not going well.
Our American colleagues cannot fathom how much time we take off for holidays, especially around Christmas. They also got a shock when doing some recent “restructuring” they couldn’t just fire a bunch of UK folks.
- Comment on PSA: Libraries 6 months ago:
One of the “protect our children” protests in the UK yesterday involved burning down a brand new library because…reasons, I guess?
If you ever had any doubts about the right wing protests affecting the UK, remember they burned down a local community library for no fucking reason.
- Comment on HACS, microWakeWord, and Music Assistant projects have been added to the Open Home Foundation which manages open-source projects related to Home Assistant and Smart Home applications 6 months ago:
That will always be a thing, but there’s also clearly a demand for non official integrations and Lovelace components.
HACS isn’t the most popular add-on because people want a lot of stuff that doesn’t play by the rules, they mainly want functionality that isn’t officially within home assistant and HACS is a straightforward way to enable that.
- Comment on HACS, microWakeWord, and Music Assistant projects have been added to the Open Home Foundation which manages open-source projects related to Home Assistant and Smart Home applications 6 months ago:
Great news but HACS (or something similar) really needs to be officially integrated into home assistant out of the box.
- Comment on 7 months ago:
That’s fucking hilarious
- Comment on A "test" to judge Star Trek shows 7 months ago:
TNG’s the inner light is one of its best episodes and it spectacularly fails this test.
- Comment on The new Chinese owner of the popular Polyfill JS project injects malware into more than 100 thousand sites 8 months ago:
I’d be surprised if it’s directly linked