SpatchyIsOnline

@SpatchyIsOnline@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's a good HTPC OS and software?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve found Android TV to be the most usable TV OS tbh. I use Konstakang’s LineageOS Android TV 15 image on a Pi 5 which is source available (non commercial only licence). And Projectivy Launcher (closed source but is by an indie dev and better than the stock Google one). The Pi is CEC compatible so I can control it with my TV remote no problem, and I use Moonlight to stream games from my PC.

  If you already have hardware, there may be an Android x86 TV release somewhere but I haven’t personally tested any, and you have to make sure the apps you want support x86 (all the open source ones like Jellyfin should)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨3-2-1 Backups: How do you do the 1 offsite backup?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I built a near identical server for my parents and just sync my nextcloud folder to theirs using syncthing

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why am I seeing political ads for Donald Trump in April of the year of his second inauguration?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  ReVanced mods the official YouTube apk, meaning you maintain syncing watch history, subscriptions, likes, comments etc. Which iirc NewPipe doesn’t. Whether you care about that is entirely up to you though, NewPipe is certainly better if you care more about privacy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alternatives to Roku/AppleTV for Jellyfin Client⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember trying the Android TV 14 image a while ago and it was basically unusable as you describe, the new Android TV 15 image has fixed virtually all those issues for me. YMMV but IMO it’s worth experimenting and seeing if it works for you, there’s a chance I just got lucky though

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alternatives to Roku/AppleTV for Jellyfin Client⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m currently using a raspberry pi 5 flashed with Konstakang’s Android TV image, it works pretty flawlessly and takes less than an hour to set up, assuming you have the APKs of everything you want to install. You don’t need to mess around with Google play services because most TV android apps are also designed to run on firesticks which don’t have it.

  The one issue I have encountered is that the Jellyfin client very occasionally won’t play some 4k HDR media in the default player (all my 1080p stuff works fine) so I also installed MPV and I turn on alternative player in the Jellyfin settings in the rare case something doesn’t work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Selfhosting Sunday - What's up?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I use sunshine and moonlight using a pi 5 running Android TV as the client. It works perfectly for the occasional video stream but latency for games is a bit rough. You’ll probably be fine playing something relaxed like Stardew Valley but platformers (I’ve tried Ultimate Chicken Horse) and racing games (Mario Kart Wii running in Dolphin) are just bad enough to be unplayable. This is with both devices connected over Ethernet (albeit through a powerline adapter and my router is fairly cheap) so WiFi will probably be worse.

  Not sure if sunshine and moonlight just have loads of overhead or if there’s a part of my setup causing the latency.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Someone help me understand the sonarr to jellyfin workflow⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I use Glutun for this

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Managing Subscriptions: Rocket Money Alternatives?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I read about ActualBudget and although it’s not the most useful thing for me (I only have one bank account and my finances are about as simple as you can get), I spun up a docker container for it anyway out of curiosity. It allows you to categorise all your transactions and set up rules with simple name matches and even regex for more advanced matching. It took me a couple of hours to create all my rules but future transactions should now be categorised automatically. There’s also a tab where you can setup charts and graphs to see visually how much you’ve spent on certain categories in the last X days and so on.

  It might be overkill for what you’re looking for, but you might find it useful or just nice to have for other reasons, and it certainly should cover your use case.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Private parking rules review prompted by £2,000 five-minute fine⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Remember: If they can use ANPR to send you a large fine, they could just use it to charge you for the parking in the first place. The only reason they don’t is corporate greed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Old fashioned⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I would argue that keeping your own digital library on a home server is “better” (more convenient) than a bunch of discs that will also degrade over time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New plans to ensure the BBC’s financial sustainability set out by the Culture Secretary⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There are only two actions that require a TV license:

  • Using BBC iPlayer for any reason
  • Watching live broadcast TV from any source

  YouTube does not have a broadcasting licence (granted by Ofcom) so YouTube live streams do not count as broadcast TV.

  At least I’m pretty sure that’s how that works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨gen z gorillas⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The poachers have just been selectively breeding hyper intelligent apes this whole time

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cost of ‘bat shed’ to protect colony near HS2 has topped £100m, chair says⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You’ve heard of “Bike Shedding” (wasting time arguing about a pointless tangent)

  Now get ready for “Bat Shedding” (wasting money arguing about a pointless tangent)