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- Comment on Study Claims 4K/8K TVs Aren't Much Better Than HD To Your Eyes 21 hours ago:
I have 65" 4K TV that runs in tandem with Beelink S12 pro mini-pc. I ran mini in FHD mode to ease up on resources and usually just watch streams/online content on it which is 99% 1080p@60. Unless compression is bad, I don’t feel much difference. In fact, my digitalized DVDs look good even in their native resolution.
For me 4K is a nice-to-have but not a necessity when consuming media. 1080p still looks crisp with enough bitrate.
I’d add that maybe this 4K-8K race is sort of like mp3@320kbps vs flac/wav. Both sound good when played on a decent system. But say, flac is nicer on a specific hardware that a typical consumer wouldn’t buy. Almost none of us own studio-grade 7.1 sytems at home. JBL speaker is what we have and I doubt flac sounds noticeably better on it against mp3@192kbps.
- Comment on Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever 1 day ago:
The only ones that wouldn’t work are probably the ones with kernel level anti cheat. Maybe if I would be much younger, I might have had different opinion, but, as of today, I believe that all these games that wont run on Linux due to anti-cheat are cancer anyway.
- Comment on Mini pc for home server? 2 days ago:
Almost a year of S12 mini as services/HTPC. Cant be happier!
- Comment on Man Alarmed to Discover His Smart Vacuum Was Broadcasting a Secret Map of His House 2 days ago:
Am I too dumb to understand why sending cartographer data is wrong?
His model is iLife A11 that has Lidar. He probably has an app that is used to control robot and shows cleaning progression. Vac 100% Lidar’d his entire home and sent data to create map in the app.
How in the fuck he thinks it is getting that map? If his ass so smart to find a killswitch and reverse it, how come he doesn’t grasp that map data is sent to a server though which he ca use vac app? Like in what world is it not obvious?
Not even gonna discuss about TOS he signed, or that it is general cheap brand cheap but super smart model for it’s price.
Unless some FOSS firmware and software is installed, that thing most certainly will ping back home every chance it gets.
Sidenote: My TV now is offline cause when it kept calling home (ove 60% of my pi-holes querries of all time was TV), it would freeze due to pi-hole block. Once set offline - issue is gone. I also know my robo vac is pinging, but at the same time if I block it, I’ll lose app controls which I wont do. Sadly, my vac doesn’t support Valetudo.
- Comment on Selfhosting Sunday! What's up? 1 week ago:
Good catch. My IP is dynamic. I’ll look into it, thanks!
- Comment on Selfhosting Sunday! What's up? 1 week ago:
I have noticed that Microsoft and google are trying to scan my domain for /php-myadmin and similar links that I thankfully do not have.
I had already fail2ban running but it failed to ban a single IP. I did setup custom filters that would ban admin panel scanning attempts but somehow now it also bans my home IP and my phone 5G ip sometimes. No idea how to fix it so far. Also, this filter/jail doesnt necessarily jail everyone attempting to reach these links, just sometimes it does.
- Comment on ‘Death to Spotify’: the DIY movement to get artists and fans to quit the music app 2 weeks ago:
Bands? No or at least not all of them. Labels? Certain!
- Comment on Brits in disbelief as new refillable drinks ban implemented across UK 3 weeks ago:
Me and you (hopefully) both understand that that is not a human mistake rather than mega corpos profit-hungry strategies to hook people up on sugary drinks. Instead of limiting peoples choices, we should strafe to punish companies for their aggressive strategies towards customers. As simple as regulate how much actual sugar goes in a drink. People will complain and hopefully drink less if it is less sweet. The ones who would keep drinking would ingest less sugar. Win-win for humanity, lose-win for corpos. This new rule looks like is fighting the cause in a backwards direction.
- Comment on Brits in disbelief as new refillable drinks ban implemented across UK 3 weeks ago:
I am failing to understand how come a choice of a person or bad parenting should be enforced. Like if a person wants to drink more of sugary drinks he likes, it is purely up to him, right? Or parents letting their children drink as much as they want. That shit is purely on a customer. Why would anyone regulate that? Focus on other things like littering, public smoking and drinking, drug selling. This hast to be one of the least important things to regulate.
- Comment on Does anyone know? 3 weeks ago:
No fucking clue while being early 30s. When I was much younger, I thought my parents and adults around me knew much about the world. At my 30s I know one thing - world is fucked up and nothing can be in one’s control. All we have is to try to react properly to the world around us. Other than that, no idea what is happening and doubt anyone ever had an idea.
- Comment on Once again, looking for PS2 game suggestions! 3 weeks ago:
Dragon Ball Z Budokai Tenkaichi 2 or 3
- Comment on You should know how to coil cables 3 weeks ago:
It also prevents cables from coiling up. Cable that has coil form is the most fucking annoying thing to work with.
- Comment on Animal guessing game!!! 4 weeks ago:
You found where lemonade is made?
- Comment on 1919 (correctly) 4 weeks ago:
Massive adoption of smart watches helps this quite a lot. 2 devices ringing or vibrating is quite annoying. People set silent on phone and feel messages on watches.
- Comment on Need help with VPN 4 weeks ago:
MiniPC runs Mint. I will check firejail. Thank you!
- Comment on Need help with VPN 4 weeks ago:
I am thinking to do this but only one thing bothers me. I want only qBittorrent to be using VPN, not the rest of the machine. Is there a way to set only qBittorrent with Tailscale?
- Comment on Need help with VPN 4 weeks ago:
I will look into WireGuard! Thank you!
- Comment on Need help with VPN 4 weeks ago:
I have to pay for a VPN service. If I can skip paying by hosting it myself, I’d go the distance. It has been fun selfhosting services so far. I want to go deeper.
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to selfhosted@lemmy.world | 16 comments
- Comment on Immich mobile app sync V2 4 weeks ago:
I had same issue gut relog helped to fix it
- Comment on Immich mobile app sync V2 4 weeks ago:
Running minipc with immich pointed to NAS drive with photos. I had issues with uploading files in the background on previous version but it seems to be fixed right now.
- Comment on Immich mobile app sync V2 4 weeks ago:
I had issues uploading big files to it due to it stopping uploading once app is minimized. As long as app is open on screen, it would upload files with no interruption. New version seems to fix this issue for me.
- Comment on Google says adblockers caused YouTube views count to drop - this is what adblockers told us really happened 4 weeks ago:
Are these “we all” people you talking about are in the same room with us right now? I don’t really think that would apply to all of us.
- Comment on Selfhosting Sunday! What's up? 5 weeks ago:
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Yes. Kind of. It is in EU but afaik piracy is not an illegal thing there yet or is not enforced as much compared to where I live now.
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Too late. NPMplus is up and running. Also, I like dark mode.
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- Comment on Selfhosting Sunday! What's up? 5 weeks ago:
I’m a newbie to the whole selfhosting thing. Been doing NAS+minipc for past 6 months with a few services running. 2 days ago I embarresed myself.
So, I been running 5 services on nginx proxy manager. But I heard that NPMplus is slightly better and can renew certs automatically. I had transferred settings from NPM to NPMplus by hand off the photo and for some reason NPMplus couldn’t work with services ran on NAS. I went back to NPM and haven’t touched the issue til last Sunday.
During troubleshooting I found out that my dumb ass didnt pay attention and put ‘’:‘’ instead of ‘’." . So 192.168.xxx.xx became 192:168:xxx:xx and that was the reason I spent whole day troubleshooting the issue.
Next goal: go back to my homeland and set Pi3 at my parent’s place to be my VPN so I can setup an arr stack and automate media downloads in a way that govt. of my current residence couldn’t put a deep hole in my wallet.
- Comment on Dinner is ready! 5 weeks ago:
A mini dog pizza? What is this?
~booking next flight to Japan ~
- Comment on We've all been there 2 months ago:
You been there.
- Comment on TikTok Shop Sells Viral GPS Trackers Marketed to Stalkers 2 months ago:
If one lives in an area with tons of LoRa enthusiasts, this might work exceptionally perfect.
- Comment on TikTok Shop Sells Viral GPS Trackers Marketed to Stalkers 2 months ago:
I have just realized that in of 2020 TikTok was about to get banned in US by Trump administration and he even signed an executive order for the ban. But since he lost elections later that year, ban was reversed by Biden administration.
THE FUCKING SAME EXACT THING HAPPENED IN REVERSE IN 2025 when Biden’s admin ordered it to be banned in january and it was unbanned (postponed ban) 3 times with the last one lasting until September.
I call extreme sus on this one. There are weird powers around tiktok that are/were important in info-war and elections in general.
- Comment on Study: Social media probably can’t be fixed 2 months ago:
Exactly. Once we are a mainstream page to visit, it will go down as fast as any other page like this before.