FrederikNJS
@FrederikNJS@lemmy.zip
- Comment on And now I'm reminded I have two of these to repair. 1 week ago:
The ones in the kitchen will be set off by burnt food… Leading to people disabling the alarm anyway.
In your kitchen you can get heat sensitive fire alarms instead.
- Comment on MPV: The Ultimate Self-Hosted Media Solution You're Probably Sleeping On 1 week ago:
Holy shit… This is so incredibly out of touch… I can’t even…
The Basics That Blow Minds
Lol no… yt-dlp is a bit nifty, but everything else here is utterly expected of any media solution… Exactly zero minds were blown here…
No transcoding
Damn that sucks when the destination device isn’t capable of hardware decoding the media file, and too slow to software decode it… (also, you do know that you can just disable transcoding in Plex/Jellyfin, right?)
No server
SMB and NFS are both servers.
Send someone an SMB/NFS share to your media
Jesus, are you directly exposing SMB and NFS to the Internet? NFS is entirely unencrypted, and SMB has super scary vulnerabilities regularly…
Zero server maintenance
I really hope you are patching the OS, to avoid vulnerabilities in SMB and NFS which you are exposing to the Internet…
Plays literally any codec without setup
Sure, provided the device supports hardware decoding the codec or is fast enough to software decode it…
Works offline/online seamlessly
So does both Jellyfin and Plex (plex needs a one liner config change, though, to be fair)
cross-platform
How about TVs? How about Mobile?
Or just… teach them?
play movie.mkvisn’t rocket science.My mom has needed to call me and be guided over the phone 100% of the times that she has needed to scan a document… How do you think teaching her to navigate a file structure in a terminal is going to go?
My daughter still needs us to spell out the cheat codes for her The Sims game… Do you think she’ll remember the terminal commands.
If I forced any of my friends and family to use the command line to play media, they would just watch something else from a streaming service that actually offers some User Experience… Or do something else entirely.
write a simple script or just… remember what you watched?
Dunno… That seems like a hassle when it’s a built in feature in Plex/Jellyfin
It’s literally a config file. If you can set up Jellyfin, you can handle this.
No… It’s a config file per device, and SMB/NFS mounts per device. Now you need to handle syncing that config file, and any other user of the server will need their own config files…
… And what about other features…
- How do you browse metadata for your movies and series? I often like to read a summary about a movie to know a bit about what to expect. I also like being able to search for an actor, and see the cover art.
- How do you group your movies with the extra features for that movie?
- How do you stream your media to your TV?
- How do you easily fetch subtitles for a movie that didn’t come with any subtitles?
- When you are away from home on a heavily bandwidth constrained connection, how do you watch your nice high-quality movies?
Back when I lived alone, attaching my media drive directly to my desktop computer made perfect sense, it was the only screen I owned that I wanted to watch anything on… And I didn’t need to share anything with anyone… And I could easily use mpv or vlc to watch anything I want…
But now that other people are in the mix, and I like the convenience of using whichever screen I’m currently near, a simple network share + mpv falls so far short it isn’t even funny.
- Comment on 3-bean soup 2 weeks ago:
Wouldn’t tea imply it’s some kind of plant leaves being steeped in water?
- Comment on What games have mastered "Both emotional extremes"? 2 months ago:
Outer Wilds covered a lot of emotions for me. Wonder, excitement, sorrow, fear, relief, anger, frustration, calm, contemplativeness, despair, hope, terror, acceptance.
It’s my favorite game ever, and the less you know about it when you play it, the better.
- Comment on THE NVIDIA AI GPU BLACK MARKET | Investigating Smuggling, Corruption, & Governments 2 months ago:
Enjoy: youtu.be/Zh4ze5bWLcI
Also most videos by this guy: youtube.com/@foldingideas
- Comment on Vade Retro Satana 2 months ago:
That just gives me a nice sense of pride and accomplishment
- Comment on Homarr - A modern and easy to use dashboard. 30+ integrations. 10K+ icons built in. Authentication out of the box. No YAML, drag and drop configuration. 2 months ago:
Why not just write your yaml files in JSON syntax?
JSON is a valid subset of YAML
- Comment on Buy HDD on sale now or wait for Black Friday? 3 months ago:
Yes, the WD Red line used to be for NAS use, but suddenly they started including SMR drives in their WD Red lineup, people got pissed because SMR isn’t a good fit for RAID setups which NASes usually are.
WD continued the practice, but introduced the WD Red Pro line. So now regular WD Reds could be either CMR or SMR, but WD Red Pro are guaranteed to be CMR.
In my opinion it’s still misleading to even brand the regular WD Red line as suitable for NAS use, but at least now you can specifically pick a drive that fits your needs.
- Comment on What are some games with absolutely fantastic soundtracks? 3 months ago:
Outer Wilds - The way this game uses music and ambient sound to foster a sense of wonder, dread, excitement, sorrow, and much more is nothing short of incredible. Probably the best game I have ever played.
Subnautica - Equally impressive use of music as Outer Wilds, many of the same feelings, but a much much different vibe and genre.
Return of the Obra Dinn - A grim game where the soundtrack with church bells and heavy string instruments really underscore the mood.
- Comment on Amazon tumbles after cloud computing growth disappoints investors 3 months ago:
With the growth of Kubernetes, it’s getting very feasible even for smaller companies to rent their own colocation in a datacenter, shove their own servers into the racks and run the company’s own private cloud.
We did the math at my current employer, and AWS was roughly 20x as expensive as buying your own servers over a 5 year period, including the datacenter costs. Of course this also means you have to take on more responsibility yourself, like swapping hardware if it breaks, and cabling the rack yourself… But nothing that makes up for the 20x price difference.
- Comment on Proton releases a new app for two-factor authentication 3 months ago:
These are great points, but there is something more that phones have going for them.
All modern phones are full-disk encrypted by default, and can be remote wiped. I think this is only the case for Mac laptops, but not for Linux and Windows.
So if your phone is stolen, it’s not really a risk of the thief having your password manager and your 2FA at the same time, but rather can they get in to your phone and then password manager and 2FA before you can trigger the remote wipe.
Unless the attacker is sophisticated enough to mirror the whole disk and attack it offline.
- Comment on Mastercard and Visa face backlash after hundreds of adult games removed from online stores Steam and Itch.io 3 months ago:
I too am a bit speechless that two companies get to censor what all stores are allowed to sell.
- Comment on Hot take: 3D printing toys kinda sucks 3 months ago:
Oh yes… I’ve printed a bunch of train track parts that doesn’t exist otherwise…
For example this piece to go up and down from a carpet is indispensable: www.thingiverse.com/thing:4359335
- Comment on Deserved? Poll inside 4 months ago:
Upper lip or lower lip?
- Comment on This guy predicted the future!🤯 4 months ago:
I think the key word here is “unknowingly”… I don’t think Trump will get us into WWIII “unknowingly”…
“intentionally” seems like a more fitting word for what Trump is up to.