CmdrShepard49

@CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just a little server⁩ ⁨⁨33⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago⁩:

  That might really limit your options as Quicksync is pretty much the gold standard for efficiency and performance. A discrete GPU works too but you might have trouble finding them in a Chinese mini PC.

  I used AMD for years (RX580) but it wasn’t always the best quality and having a separate GPU really sapped a lot more power. I don’t believe ARM processors are really optimized for transcoding either. Under the hood, Jellyfin, Emby, and Plex all use ffmpeg to do their transcoding so maybe you can research more about its performance with each platform.

  Again, used is always an option. You’re not giving money to any of these companies by buying used parts and it sounds like this would get you more ‘horsepower’ from your budget than buying a bunch of new stuff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨3D Printing Patterns Might Make Ghost Guns More Traceable Than We Thought⁩ ⁨⁨47⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t have to buy it for them to convince 8 average citizens that they used wizardry and science to definitively prove it’s ‘real.’ See bite mark analysis, fiber analysis, hair analysis, etc, etc, etc. Court rooms are full of pseudoscience because it helps convict more people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just a little server⁩ ⁨⁨54⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago⁩:

  For Frigate you can just add a Coral TPU to offload the heavy lifting but with Jellyfin you’ll likely need a GPU/iGPU (Intel) that can handle transcoding. I don’t know what specific models you’re looking at but you might try to determine their passmark score. I think it’s recommended at least 2000 score for a single 1080p transcode. Alternatively you can stick to specific file formats that won’t need transcoding but this might be some work.

  You could get a used Dell Optiplex micro. They have i3/i5 processors and can be found for around $100. This will at least get you going and you can always build something later.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it wrong that i would like to start a small 3d print business?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d say the only way to succeed at your dream is to actually do it, but at the same time I agree that there’s plenty of competition and 3D printing has become so accessible over the last couple of years.

  Ive found a little niche of a product that I customize and print while a buddy of mine handles the sales aspect of it. I print them out and sell them to him at a fixed rate and then he sells them to people for at least double what he pays me. He tried to bring in a guy to ‘invest’ in us but after talking with him it didn’t really make sense for what we’re doing. I’m perfectly happy to keep things small scale and I’ve already made enough to cover the cost of my Bambu X1C. I think like others said you can really destroy a hobby by trying to turn it into a business and that’s not something I want to experience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Like clockwork, Peacock is raising subscription prices again⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah still pricey. I believe the article stated they were $800 which puts them at $20+/TB. 5 years ago I could get new drives at $12/TB but now I can only find these types of deals on used server drives or no-name brands.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are password managers secure to use?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  And that’s how your uncle Billy starts a new life in Mexico using your identity. A tale as old as time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do people hate coldplay?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Because they incite married coworkers to cheat with one another.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Like clockwork, Peacock is raising subscription prices again⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to point this out about Hulu probably close to a decade ago on reddit and would get endless comments about how “it’s just a few shows,” “i never see any ads,” and “it’s not their fault.” I wonder if those same people exist here.

  There’s literally nothing compelling these shitty companies to advertise these plans as ad free when they do in fact contain ads. Just like cellular ISPs have no legitimate reason to call their data plans “unlimited” when they cap you after using a predefined amount of data.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Like clockwork, Peacock is raising subscription prices again⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  People only liked Blockbusters business model because there were no other options. Redbox came on the scene and decimated the company and they were even sued to get the distribution model changed so that they had to wait a month before they could rent new movies out. Now both companies are relics of the past since streaming became mainstream.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Like clockwork, Peacock is raising subscription prices again⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  HDD prices are up over the last several years even with greater density drives coming on the scene, but it still pales in comparison to the price increases of these streaming services.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sovol SV08 or Prusa MK4S⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  The Mainsail front-end for klipper has a Home Assistant integration so you’ll be able to monitor everything the same.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Seed Swap – for trading seeds with others⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Me too. I want some of those ranch flavored sunflower seeds that only grow in the ranch region of France.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTuber Faces Possible Jail Time for Reviewing Gaming Handhelds⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What about that American college girl whose roommate died and they accused her of murdering her in a satanic ritual which all turned out to be made up by the Italian prosecution?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTuber Faces Possible Jail Time for Reviewing Gaming Handhelds⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  An S-tier grandpa

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rough draft NAS is complete!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Z1 is just single parity.

  Sweet build! I have all these parts laying around so this would be a fun project. Please share your enclosure design if you’d like!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We need to start calling it Simulater Intelligence (SI): here's why:⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This is perfect. I’m definitely going to shoehorn this into any discussion that even tangentially applies to SI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are my Frigidaire door bins installed wrong? (Pics in description)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You could try stacking or leaning something heavy along the top edge or wedging it up from the bottom to help close the gap.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are my Frigidaire door bins installed wrong? (Pics in description)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Can you pull both these on both sides toward the center of the drawer and lift it up?

  An alternative solution is to just glue the crack where it sits and leave it be. I assume CA glue will still dry in the fridge and they make an activator spray to make it work faster IIRC. Not sure what is to be gained by removing, gluing, and reinstalling it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Say Hello to the World's Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Out of the roughly 20 drives I’ve bought over the last decade or so, the only two failures were Seagate and only they only made up five of the drives purchased. The other 15 are WD and all have been great (knock on wood).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People often say "Don't talk to the police", but what if a friend, neighbor, or a loved one gets kidnapped and you want to help the victim?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem is that the organizations themselves are corrupt and these “nice and helpful” cops will side with said corrupt organization and the piece of shit criminal cops they protect 99 times out of 100.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inserting "Anal" infront of trailer model names at the RV park makes some interesting combinations.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Anal 1500 Lariat XT

  Am I doing it right, guys?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Americans Can’t Buy the World’s Best Electric Car⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  By “legacy manufacturers” you mean every major auto manufacturer in the world that isn’t based in China?Nobody else is selling new cars for as little as $4k because other countries aren’t using slave labor in mines and factory floors. It’s impossible to compete against that unless you engage in it yourself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Americans Can’t Buy the World’s Best Electric Car⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Why are Japanese and Korean cars also better/cheaper than American cars then?

  They’re not cheaper than American cars. Go price some out.

  Citation needed

  reuters.com/…/canadas-trudeau-suggests-china-uses…

  The US doesn’t massively subsidise auto-makers?

  China subsidizes Chinese companies. The US gives subsidies to manufacturers from all over the world via tax credits to buyers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Americans Can’t Buy the World’s Best Electric Car⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The federal government ended the the EV subsidy a few years ago.

  Buyers of any EV not just American EVs.

  lmao. We know what slavery looks like, you can see it in the cotton fields outside Angola Prison, rows of enslaved people, and overseer on a horse, all behind barbed wire.

  I’m glad you find slavery so comical.

  Were these inmates enslaved for their religious beliefs being different than the official party line? We they imprisoned for not wanting to be controlled by a dictatorship? No. No they weren’t.

  Through 1 and 5 year plans, the CPC uses SoEs (and sometimes just asks private companies “nicely”) to ensure the foundational inputs, steel, rubber, chips, college graduates, etc are all available to industry at the specific price point and volume that competing private firms need to produce say, 100m EV or a million more apartments.

  Gee, it sure sounds like you’re listing even more slavery than I mentioned. Imagine Trump declaring that every college grad needs to make themselves available to build a border wall.

  Any country can do a little central planning to make sure private industry has what it needs, but this only works if you’re able to take action against companies that exploit the system.

  The only exploitation mentioned here is the government exploiting the people. It seems your argument is based on your warped belief that if the US is committing atrocities than it’s okay for everyone else to do so, yet your examples are in stark contrast to what’s happening here. Your views are frankly quite disgusting and proof of how absurd the Chinese government’s propaganda arm is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Destroyed my Glass Print Bed - What to do now⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t add a new glass sheet + magnetic sheet + PEI sheet on top of the original bed on a bed slinger because this is probably at least twice the weight of stock, which will cause issues when you get it moving back and forth rapidly. Think of how agile a petite individual can be compared to someone the same height who weighs 300lbs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Destroyed my Glass Print Bed - What to do now⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Just get the $25 magnetic sheet and PEI plate, and slap them both on there. If you do go the route of a new aluminum bed, you can heat this bed up to 80 or 90C and then peel the heat pad off of it and stick it onto your new bed. I did both these on my old Sidewinder X2 but didn’t notice much benefit to the aluminum bed (the OEM glass bed was slightly warped and concave), so I didn’t find it worth the money to be honest. I think it’s worth trying in stages since you’re not really out any money if you decide the simpler and cheaper solution doesn’t cut it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exclusive: Evidence of cell phone surveillance detected at anti-ICE protest⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They certainly are right-wingers when the support candidates and policies that are wholly right wing. I don’t care if they think they’re leftists just because they’re voting Democrat. They’re just deluding themselves. This is the origin of the adage “the road to hell is paved with good intentions.” The Democrats haven’t represented the left in decades.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Americans Can’t Buy the World’s Best Electric Car⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ford stopped making cars because they can’t compete with the current crop of cars coming from Japan/Korea and Europe regardless of how much money they throw at the problem. They have their niche with trucks and SUVs and are happy to stay there. China builds cars using massive government subsidies, slave labor, and local resources that aren’t available to anyone else in the world which is why I think it’s right to fight against them because it’s impossible to compete against them just like a small local grocery store can’t compete against Walmart.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exclusive: Evidence of cell phone surveillance detected at anti-ICE protest⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  In what way would you classify the Chinese or Russian governments that these tankies support “communist?” That’s like believing that Nazis were a socialist party simply because that word is in the name.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exclusive: Evidence of cell phone surveillance detected at anti-ICE protest⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  By “far-left” you mean the pro-Russia and pro-China segment of this place? They seem more like government mouthpiece than people who actually support leftist policies (which don’t represent the policies of the Russian or Chinese government).