MSids

@MSids@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to easily add a backup internet connection to your home office - and why you should, A failover internet connection is a good idea if you work from home - and it's not complicated to set up.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I can only remember one 45 minute outage caused by Comcast in 4 years at my house, before that I can’t even remember one. The rest of the time it’s been storms/power - things that would knock out other wireline providers. People shit on Comcast, but it’s plenty reliable these days. I’ll just use my phone’s hotspot and save the $4800 over 4 years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jellyfin is not just good... but *better* than Plex now?!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is there a reason that you don’t organize your music by artist\album and leverage tags? It’s been some time since I tried Jellyfin, but Plex does an excellent job of tagging (not directly written to original files) and categorizing. It’s a good experience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jellyfin is not just good... but *better* than Plex now?!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You should not be using NAT to access your Plex externally, I will explain.

  App.plex.tv and the apps use Plex services to generate a point to point connection from remote clients through your router to the server. This is important because you never need to expose a private IP to the Internet, and the authentication can be protected with something robust like a Google account which support 2FA and even phishing-resistant 2FA.

  The combination of more advanced security and secure/convenient SSO authentication are one of the biggest benefits of Plex in my opinion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Arm ends legal efforts to terminate Qualcomm’s license⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Wasn’t it ARM doing the licensing shenanigans here? I’ve got no real skin in the game for either, but companies with IP to license seem to have become a commodity, and price themselves out of practicality. For that reason I tend to like when they lose their battles. On this one specifically, I was hoping for Qualcomm to win, but only because they’re cranking out these incredible laptop processors, showing Intel what a windows laptop on ARM can be - fast, cool, all day battery.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ditching Spotify and YT Music⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Plex is excellent, and even if you prefer the features or interface of Jellyfin, you should never expose any application (Plex, Jellyfin, or otherwise) directly to the Internet. This should be non-negotiable. Plex solves for external access with the mobile/desktop apps and app.plex.tv by brokering client connections into your network without a NAT/PAT on your router or firewall.

  For a music library, even a small one, tracks should have proper metadata applied to them and be stored in directories. Plex provides guidance on this here: …plex.tv/…/200265296-adding-music-media-from-fold…

  My own strategy: I deviate slightly from Plex’s file and directory naming strategy, but it works perfectly. I start with high quality music, mostly from Bandcamp and process it through Musicbrainz Picard into <ALBUMARTIST><YYYY - ALBUMNAME>\01 - TRACKNAME.FLAC. Picard sets the metadata and ensures that there is an album cover image also.

  Before moving the organized files to my Plex server, I run them through MP3Tag and overwrite any mismatched artist names with the album artist (getting rid of artist fields with 'feat xxxx artist’s). This is important for when I syncy files in Media Monkey to my iPod, since the iPod would break apart albums with multiple artists. My preference is to keep them grouped together.

  Hope this helps good luck 👍. Let me know if you want to know a decent strategy on movie backups also.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta has suspended several Threads and Instagram accounts that track the private jets of celebrities such as Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Kim Kardashian, and Donald Trump⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s public information transmitted over airwaves and several sites exist already. Flightradar24 and adsbexchange are the two I use, though Elon and Taylor Swift are far too boring to pay attention to when you can watch refuelers and jets instead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Syncthing Android app discontinued⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I used it on an Android DAP to sync my music collection from my NAS after giving up on Folder sync due to its issues with new file detection breaking after a daylight savings time change. Synching was definitely more reliable but it takes ages to do the scan.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Targets YouTube Accounts Showing Emulated Games⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m going to stand by what Retro Game Corps stated that they don’t want to advocate for piracy. Lawful backup of your own games is protected. The aggression against Russ and others is uncalled for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Targets YouTube Accounts Showing Emulated Games⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well hang tight there, the games are dope. Just the legal dicks are the scumbags.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Targets YouTube Accounts Showing Emulated Games⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been gradually building up my Switch digital and physical library and stuff like this makes me want to just switch back to Steam and spend my dollar elsewhere.

  The strikes are absolutely frivolous and Russ sets a great anti piracy example for others. Backups of your own content are protected.