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- Comment on Discord Launches Teen-by-Default Settings Globally 4 hours ago:
I would say yes, it works well enough, and with updates, it should get better. Discord’s streaming is server-based, which is why it works well. When server-based screen sharing is released, it should exceed Discord. You also won’t need to buy Nitro. My group has been on TeamSpeak for years, and I’ve looked at a lot of different replacements but none of them fit my requirements (self-hosted, voice chat rooms, screen sharing.) I think the main thing for your group is if TeamSpeak would be sufficient to replace Discord. TeamSpeak currently doesn’t have the same features, such as text-channels, as Discord, so that has been a deal-breaker for some. My group never used them because we’ve been on TeamSpeak from the beginning. Text-channels in particular have been the most common request outside of screen sharing, so I think they will get implemented eventually, but the development team is smaller, so it will likely take many more months. Outside of the screen sharing, if TeamSpeak as an application works for your use case, then I would try it. You can host your own server or use one of their communities. You can also just add each other as contacts and start a call.
- Comment on Discord Launches Teen-by-Default Settings Globally 4 hours ago:
Correct, TeamSpeak 6, which is still in beta so it requires an account.
- Comment on Discord Launches Teen-by-Default Settings Globally 5 hours ago:
Because it’s client-side, it just depends. The specs of the computer sharing and available internet bandwidth will be a factor. In my experience it’s pretty reliable for non-video content, YT videos vary but are mostly fine. With games it depends on the video bit rate of the game. Minecraft would probably be fine, but Battlefield 6 may struggle. You only need the TeamSpeak 6 client to hop in a group call and try it out (an account is required as it’s in beta). If you do configure a TeamSpeak 6 server, you can screen share within the voice chat channel. Though I understand it probably isn’t easy to persuade your friends to try a new program. If you run into any issues, the support forum is very active.
- Comment on Discord Launches Teen-by-Default Settings Globally 6 hours ago:
TeamSpeak has screen sharing, but it’s currently only p2p. Server-side screen sharing is still in development.
- Comment on The Lessons of SOMA Are Timeless 1 month ago:
Thanks for posting. I’ll definitely check this out.
- Comment on HP and Dell disable HEVC support built into their laptops’ CPUs 2 months ago:
So in this case, even if your hardware was impacted by this, if you tried to play a H.265 (HEVC) file within Windows, it would play, but will software encode / decode. What if you are playing something through a client like VLC or Jellyfin Media Player? Prior to this change, would Jellyfin report Direct Playing (using iGPU) and now it will be forced to transcode on the server side, and VLC would still use the CPU for encoding and decoding, since there is no server to do it for you?
- Comment on What are you guys using to sort and name music? 4 months ago:
MP3Tag + MusicBrainz Picard. I use MP3Tag to set the ID3 tags and picard to move them into the folder structure I want.
It takes a couple hours to set everything up, but I can’t rely on Musicbrainz alone because my music has no metadata on Musicbrainz, so I set the tags myself.
- Comment on Scary games. . ? 5 months ago:
Just so you know, after you “complete” the game and are returned to the main menu, there’s still a bit of content left, so be sure to continue your save. Though it’s pretty obvious, I still missed it until I started watching a video about the game and realized I wasn’t finished.
- Comment on Scary games. . ? 5 months ago:
SIGNALIS plays similar to Silent Hill, but is more focused on story.
- Comment on Bandcamp Clubs [new Bandcamp feature] 5 months ago:
Looks like there are currently four “clubs”. Each club has an album release every month. Are the tracks all released by the same artists (new material) or do they select current tracks on Bandcamp to feature in their monthly list? If it’s the latter, then it’d be closer to humble monthly but it’s DRM-free and you get to keep what was available to you when you were subscribed, even after unsubscribing.
I think my ideal scenario would be a spin-off of this idea, where you pay a monthly fee to select, say, five artists on Bandcamp. For the month you would be able to download all of their content, and the monthly fee is split between the five artists. With this it just seems random, but if you are looking for new content, it may be nice.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
I also use Jellyfin. Before being able to set custom tag delimiters, you had to ensure your music artists and album artists ID3 tags were correct. I believe it used a ‘;’ to separate multiple artists. Now with custom delimiters you can set your own. You may be able to try and fix things by setting ‘feat.’ as a custom tag.
Ultimately, I would recommend just using mp3tag and spending a few minutes setting up an action that replaces ‘feat.’ with a delimiter, such as a ‘|’. Run it through your current library and you should be good.
- Comment on easy way to manage audio metadata / file organization? 6 months ago:
I haven’t tried it, but Metadata Remote is a web-based metadata editor.
Personally, I use MP3Tag with custom actions to set the tags, and MusicBrainz Picard to move files. My music isn’t on MusicBrainz, so I do the tagging myself, which usually doesn’t require too much effort from me.
- Comment on What are your favourite single-player games without much fluff, grinding or difficulty spikes? 7 months ago:
+1 for Enderal
- Comment on New Jellyfin Server/Web release: 10.10.7 10 months ago:
Thanks! I thought most people don’t use navidrome if they have multiple users because they can’t create user-specific playlists. Is this not the case? What music features do you find limiting on Jellyfin? Also, how did you get your family to switch off music streaming for your navidrome server?
- Comment on New Jellyfin Server/Web release: 10.10.7 10 months ago:
Could you please explain your use case for Music Assistant if you already have Jellyfin/Plex and Navidrome?
- Comment on The System Shock 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster pages are on GOG & Steam 11 months ago:
Nice! Is this basically SS2 with QoL and graphical enhancements mods? Or are these changes being created in-house?
- Comment on Trying to find a game I remember... 1 year ago:
What about The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker?
- Comment on Trying to find a game I remember... 1 year ago:
I’ve never played it, but perhaps Mask of the Rose?
