Faceman2K23
@Faceman2K23@discuss.tchncs.de
- Comment on Microsoft finally officially confirms it's killing Windows Control Panel sometime soon 2 months ago:
you have been able to right click (or i guess two finger click for apple people) and open a second window forever.
- Comment on Microsoft finally officially confirms it's killing Windows Control Panel sometime soon 2 months ago:
You can have multiple finder windows in OSX, thats perfectly normal, but you cant have the network settings open next to the printer settings.
- Comment on Microsoft finally officially confirms it's killing Windows Control Panel sometime soon 2 months ago:
I’m pretty positive on mac OS, as an OS it’s technically quite good, but their preferences app has always been atrocious almost entirely for this reason, I want to have two preferences windows open to different pages please…
- Comment on Make Heroine ga Oosugiru! • Makeine: Too Many Losing Heroines! - Episode 7 discussion 2 months ago:
I’m just now realising that Nukumizu’s name has mizu (water) in it, and looking up the nuku part can mean “to extract” … and they guy’s hobby is water
- Comment on Microsoft finally officially confirms it's killing Windows Control Panel sometime soon 2 months ago:
Thus why im moving to 11. Lots of the PCs I work with are still 10 though.
- Comment on Microsoft finally officially confirms it's killing Windows Control Panel sometime soon 2 months ago:
Mostly 11 now. I honestly prefer it to 10 now, but that’s with quite about of decrapification done to remove all of Microsoft’s bullshit.
- Comment on Microsoft finally officially confirms it's killing Windows Control Panel sometime soon 2 months ago:
I hope your firewall is up to scratch.
- Comment on Microsoft finally officially confirms it's killing Windows Control Panel sometime soon 2 months ago:
honestly I still cant figure out how to configure a network interface properly without using the old control panel.
- Comment on Please help me stop my baby from crying because kodi keeps buffering 2 months ago:
can you run something like iperf3 or openspeedtest between the server and client to prove its a network throughput issue?
do you have a network switch you can add to avoid switching through your router (if it is indeed bad?)
Have you ensured you arent unknowingly using wifi at either end?
- Comment on Why do so many people use NGINX? 3 months ago:
NGINX is a bit more hands on than some other options but it’s mature, configurable and there’s a huge amount of information out there for setting it up for various use cases.
in my case, its what I set up when i was first getting into this and it works, so I don’t want to go through setting up anything else.
- Comment on OS recommendations 3 months ago:
Thanks for the insightful and helpful comment.
- Comment on OS recommendations 3 months ago:
Unraid si great and I have been using it for over a decade now, but a paid OS on a 2bay nas seems excessive
- Comment on Looking for a music server 4 months ago:
I use Plexamp for that, Jellyfin does it too. You can assign libraries per user quite easily.
So for 3 users you might have 4 libraries, one per user then a shared library they all have access to.
- Comment on What file format do you store your media in? 5 months ago:
You’re confusing a container format (MKV) with a video codec (AV1)
MKV is just a container like a folder or zip file that contains the video stream (or streams, technically you can have multiple) which could be in H264, H265, AV1 etc etc, along with audio streams, subtitles and many other files that go along, like custom Fonts, Posters, etc etc.
As for the codec itself, AV1 done properly is a very good codec but to be visually lossless it isn’t significantly better than a good H265 encode without doing painfully slow CPU encodes, rather than fast efficient GPU encodes. people that are compressing their entire libraries to AV1 are sacrificing a small amount of quality, and some people are more sensitive to its flaws than others. in my case I try to avoid re-encoding in general. AV1 is also less supported on TVs and Media players, so you run into issues with some devices not playing them at all, or having to use CPU decoding.
So I still have my media in mostly untouched original formats, some of my old movie archives and things that aren’t critical like daily shows are H265 encoded for a bit of space saving without risking compatibility issues. Most of my important media and movies are not re-encoded at all, if I rip a bluray I store the video stream that was on the disk untouched.
- Comment on Self-hosted Jellyfin CPU or GPU for 4K HDR transcoding? 6 months ago:
N5095 ? lots of reports of that one not supporting everything it should based on other Jasper Lake chips, CPU getting hit for Decode when it shouldn’t for example. Also HDR to SDR cant be accelerated with VPP on that one as far as I know so the CPU gets smashed. I think you can do it with OpenCL though.
- Comment on Self-hosted Jellyfin CPU or GPU for 4K HDR transcoding? 6 months ago:
Was it an n100? They have a severely limited power budget of 6w compared to the n95 at 25w or so.
I’m running jellyfin ontop of ubuntu desktop while also playing retro games. That all sits in a proxmox vm with other services running alongside it. It’s perfectly snappy.
- Comment on Self-hosted Jellyfin CPU or GPU for 4K HDR transcoding? 6 months ago:
One of my miniPCs is just a little N95 and it can easily transcode 4K HDR to 1080p (HDR or tonemapped SDR) to a couple of clients, and with excellent image quality. You could build a nice little server with a modern i3 and 16gigs of ram and it would smash through 4 or 5 high bitrate 4K HDR transcodes just fine.
Is that one transcoding client local to you? or are you trying to stream over the web? if it’s local, put some of the budget to a new player for that screen perhaps?
- Comment on Cheap, but reliable SSDs? 6 months ago:
I’ve had good luck with WD Blue NVME (SN550)
I’ve put several of those into machines at work and have had years without an issue. I’m also running a WD Blue SN550 1TB in my server as one of the caches, 25000 hours power on time, >100TB written, temperatures way higher than they should be and still over 93% health remaining according to smart.
- Comment on Mahou Shoujo ni Akogarete • Gushing over Magical Girls - Episode 12 discussion 7 months ago:
I haven’t watched this one but every clip I see is increasingly unhinged.
I guess I have to add it to my watchlist.
- Comment on Can a Raspberry Pi 5 with 8 GB of RAM handle my needs? 7 months ago:
Yip, I have a Linux VM running on one of my boxes in the garage that is plugged into a video matrix so I can bring it up on any screen in the house, I use the pi to connect Keyboard/Mouse/controllers etc to that when I’m using it.
- Comment on Preferred E-Book Library Server Software? 7 months ago:
I use Ubooquity and Komga, both mainly for the OPDS service which I access on various devices.
Ubooquity is good for basic book and file serving, but does support graphics. Komga is very much graphic focussed and is very good at it.
- Comment on Can a Raspberry Pi 5 with 8 GB of RAM handle my needs? 7 months ago:
I replaced 4x Pi4 4gb with a single N95 mini PC with 16gb ram and wont look back.
Only PI left in my home is just running a 24/7 USBIP bridge.
the only reason to use a pi is if you need GPIO pins for custom devices.
- Comment on Replacing CD Collection 7 months ago:
In most cases yes, but hdd space is cheap enough that lossless compression is just the best option. Can always use them as originals to spin off mp3s or other compressed files when needed.
300cds would only be around 120 gigs flac compressed
- Comment on Your Kid May Already Be Watching AI-Generated Videos on YouTube 8 months ago:
Yea no shit It’s also a significant chunk of regular youtube now too
- Comment on is this the moment spez became Heisenberg? Reddit CEO warns users: "We know your dark secrets' 8 months ago:
We know spez’ secrets too.
Dude loved the jailbait subreddit before it was banned for obvious reasons.
He was a moderator.
- Comment on NBNCo reveals plans to uograde speed tiers 8 months ago:
The original plan to run it as a public service was very quickly shot down.
- Comment on NBNCo reveals plans to uograde speed tiers 8 months ago:
eh. for most tiers probably, but its an excuse to reshuffle the options and pricing.
- Comment on NBNCo reveals plans to uograde speed tiers 8 months ago:
I’ll really annoy you by saying that VDSL2 (the tech you are using) supports up to around 250mbit throughput but no Aussie ISP has enabled that option. Your modem probably already supports it because its a pretty old standard.
Enjoy, have a nice day.
- Comment on For those thinking of going back to reddit. Gaze upon this comment section and reconsider. 8 months ago:
I feel bad for the AI this is going to be trained on this.
- Comment on Controversial benchmarking website goes behind paywall — Userbenchmark now requires a $10 monthly subscription 8 months ago:
I’m certain he must’ve lost a lot of money betting against amd on the stock market right around the time of zen1 and he never got over it.