merthyr1831
@merthyr1831@lemmy.world
- Comment on Poland's parliament rejects bill easing abortion access 4 months ago:
“centrist” yet voting in line with the far right wow I could never have foreseen this
- Comment on Multi-part "sample" mkvs refusing to import into plex 4 months ago:
Yeah I didn’t realise they were rar formats from how they show up on disk - Usually people name.their.torrents.like.this so it fucks up typical file name conventions.
I’ll keep that in mind too, thanks! Not using qbitmanage yet though I’ll have to look into that 👀
- Comment on Announcing the Ladybird Browser Initiative 4 months ago:
Mozilla has loads of projects, not just the browser. I doubt more than a 30 work exclusively on the engine nowadays.
- Comment on Announcing the Ladybird Browser Initiative 4 months ago:
Andreas Kling, the founder and lead dev, has a massive love for Twinings tea and spent a few Dev logs working on improving their website with the end goal being ordering his tea from them :)
- Comment on Multi-part "sample" mkvs refusing to import into plex 4 months ago:
EDIT: There’s a fix. unpackerr.zip Automatically unzips these rar containers into coherent files for importing via sonarr/radarr. I suppose you can do this manually with tar if you’re brave.
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- Comment on Announcing the Ladybird Browser Initiative 4 months ago:
It would be nice if people read the post and the project before randomly making assumptions such as implying the project started from scratch yesterday or its run by some amateurs, this is a 4 year old project! It’s founded by a former KHTML/Webkit developer for Apple!
- Comment on Announcing the Ladybird Browser Initiative 4 months ago:
Sure, but an individual website may use only a few of those standards. Ladybird devs will pick a website they like to use - Reddit, Twitter, Twinings tea, etc. and improve adherence to X or Y standards to make that one website look better. In turn, thousands of websites suddenly work perfectly, and many others work better than before.
Ladybird is largely conformant to the majority of HTML standards now. It’s about the edge cases (and where standards aren’t followed by websites) and performance. This isn’t a new project.
- Comment on Announcing the Ladybird Browser Initiative 4 months ago:
Ladybird was born from SerenityOS, which is a hobbyist unix-like (or POSIX compliant?) OS that simply aimed to do things “from the ground up”. It just happened that they needed to make a browser, and the response was to make one from scratch.
From there it seemed to have brought a lot of attention organically to the point where it can stand on its own, but originally it was never intended to be a “third browser engine” from its inception.
- Comment on Maybe those 20 seconds were because of the lack of getting raises? 5 months ago:
that $0.01 pay rise could’ve kept someone off the streets!
- Comment on Sainsbury's staff beat up shoplifter after dragging him into the back room 5 months ago:
Anything for that minimum wage huh? Pathetic
- Comment on Sainsbury's staff beat up shoplifter after dragging him into the back room 5 months ago:
I mean that’s one of the MANY reasons shop staff are told not to interfere with shoplifters
- Comment on Gaza war: Five Israeli soldiers killed 'by tank fire' in Jabalia 5 months ago:
did the soldiers condemn Hamas?
- Comment on Gaza war: Five Israeli soldiers killed 'by tank fire' in Jabalia 5 months ago:
Just because you dont like their content doesn’t mean it’s spam. Just filter hexbear posts and grow some thicker skin
- Comment on Mirror all data on NAS A to NAS B 6 months ago:
Rsync over FTP. i use it for a weekly nextcloud backup to a hetzner storage box
- Comment on What's a good NAS and server system under CAD$900 (USD$658)? 6 months ago:
If you don’t mind plugging stuff in yourself, literally any quadcore x86 CPU with integrated graphics after 2016 will run jellyfin just fine. Then you can load up on SSDs as you see fit.
Any prebiilt NAS you can find with anything within the last 8 years in the CPU will also be just fine.
idk what resolution you use for streaming but my raspberry pi 4B runs plex at 1080p just fine as long as it isnt using x265/AV1 (but on jellyfin you might be able to use the Pi’s GPU for transcoding).
I use nextcloud too but it’s a tiny bit slower than I’d like, but that’s likely a wifi issue i think.
- Comment on British tech firm Raspberry Pi lines up £500m float 6 months ago:
Doesnt Broadcom own a majority stake or something?
- Comment on Marvels Rivals requires creators to sign a contract that removes your right to give a negative review to access the playtest 6 months ago:
The opinion of what is and isnt “subjective” is up for a lot of debate even if you dont personally have a major stake in a videogame’s marketing campaign (such as the authors and enforcers of these contracts).
- Comment on Microsoft Edge experiment blocks access to settings if Windows 11 is not activated 6 months ago:
surely giving edge more functionality to mac and linux users isn’t a good idea right?
- Comment on Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT 6 months ago:
If i was stack overflow I would’ve transferred my backups to OpenAI weeks before the announcement for this very reason.
It’s a small act of rebellion but SO already has your data and they’ll do whatever they want with it, including mine.
- Comment on How do you handle family requests that you disagree with? 6 months ago:
I’d keep the physical library around and just digitize as and when she asks for specific stuff. You’ll probably never back up half the library. That or stick it on a HDD out of the way and transfer the few she wants, then tuck the drive in a draw forever in case she wants something else.
Jellyfin must have a feature like Plex where certain user accounts can have certain libraries attached? You could use that to avoid having to look at those crappy movies in your library.
I don’t really have much of an issue with family recommendations but I do tell them that the space isn’t unlimited so if they don’t watch something they asked for I’m likely to remove it for something we WILL watch. In your case, you could at least have leverage to get her to narrow down what needs hosting and what doesnt.
- Comment on The Verge shows how Google search is useless 6 months ago:
If I’m looking up something general, like some actor or tv show, then DDG is perfect. If im troubleshooting some weird software issue then i find it doesnt always list as many results, as if it hasnt indexed as many sites.
DDG at least now means I can search random shit without it suddenly being inserted into my social media algorithms like some kind of psychological torture.
- Comment on The Verge shows how Google search is useless 6 months ago:
Google used to list sites with backlinks highly, it was their first ever search algorithm iirc. Once people learned you could game that by planting useless backlinks, Google realised it was a bad idea.
Somehow, they’ve reinvented this all over again with parasite SEO that fundamentally works the same way. All they did was add some “domain ranking”. Now, unreliable-but-popular sites coughredditcough will always score highly regardless of quality, because Google deemed them superior.
- Comment on Chinese startup launching RISC-V laptop for devs and engineers priced at around $300 6 months ago:
Yup agreed.
China, like the US, hasn’t got the means nor the motive to track billions of people abroad; they both have a hard enough time keeping tabs on people domestically despite years of expanding their respective police states.
Of course there’s always the propaganda and soft power stuff but again, every single state is doing this, but the insinuation is that Europe or the anglosphere in general are the only propaganda-free places on Earth!
- Comment on Chinese startup launching RISC-V laptop for devs and engineers priced at around $300 6 months ago:
Willing to bet money this was posted on hardware that actually does have backdoors to some 3 letter agency in the US, to much more personal consequence than any metaphorical Chinese government spyware
- Comment on Chinese startup launching RISC-V laptop for devs and engineers priced at around $300 6 months ago:
With reddit getting worse, these kinds of vapid “i only post snark about [insert US designated enemy]” users are gonna be all the more common.
- Comment on Thomas Edison was the Elon musk of his era 6 months ago:
So instead of one dumb guy founding Tesla and running it into the ground, TWO dumb guys gave everything over to another dumb guy to run it into the ground. Masterful gambit !
- Comment on Ah, Yes! AI Will Surely Save Us All! 6 months ago:
AI isn’t on track to displace millions of jobs. Most of the automation we’re seeing was already possible with existing technology but AI is being slapped on as a buzzword to sell it to the press/executives.
The trend is going the way of NFTs/Blockchain where the revolutionary “everything is going to be changed” theatrical rhetoric meets reality, where it might complement existing technologies but otherwise isn’t that useful on its own.
In programming, we went from “AI will replace everyone!!!” to “AI is a complementary tool for programmers but requires too much handholding to completely replace a trained and educated software engineer when maintaining and expanding software systems”.
- Comment on Is Lemmy growing or shrinking? 6 months ago:
Anyone downvoting can go back to reddit: sorry your favourite democrats arent astroturfing the front page with heckin police puppers or whatever slop you miss from that cesspit.
- Comment on Is Lemmy growing or shrinking? 6 months ago:
Oh get over yourself lmao. Like reddit didnt have the_donald up on the front page for years