I am the middle of struggling to backup my calendars from nextcloud after my GPU failed. Nextcloud in docker containers is terrible for any sort of recovery. They’re not even broke, you just can’t run them with a GPU setup, remove the GPU, and then expect them to still be able to run.

The major content websites deprioritise Australian and UK content outside of their respective countries.

That’s rough. Signal is the only app that can actually be trusted to resist state monitoring because it has a successful history of it.

I guess another option to throw into the pool is https://docs.cwtch.im/ then. It’s new though, and not as easy to use.

And just FYI, use case is simply texting with friends and family, while avoiding state monitoring.

Signal. There’s nothing better for security, ease of use, and features. It’s a drop in replacement for texts and imessage and facetime.

They’ve got xep-0503 on the roadmap, so it’s not there yet, but is for sure something worth keeping an eye on.

Xmpp already survived Google divesting from it, so I’m more inclined to believe it has real staying power compared to all these new apps partially written by ai or with problematic security policies.

I imagine sitting on coach, searching for show. Then you want to watch some, and then you have to wait half an hour for full episode (or even season?) to download.

This is a fair take on how a locally hosted video server would go. It’s the same as someone who has a collection of disk media instead as well. Finding new media to watch is not instant, even with the best setups.

I actually consider this to be a feature, instead of a bug. The algorithms that Netflix (and YouTube and everybody else that serves content) have a lot of issues. The ability to find content, the act of discovery, is something I think is actually very valuable, and has been lost since we switched to online streaming.

I run a jellyfin server for my immediate family, and one of the benefits of not running an auto-download tool is that we all have a groupchat specifically for requesting new series/movies. I didn’t expect it at first, but it has been a great way to connect with my family over varied media we watch, as well as a way of sharing what’s new and interesting to them.

Of course, I switched from Spotify to a physical mp3 player with my own personal library, so maybe my perspective is a bit skewed. For sure there is a place for a lack of barriers (including skipping out on analytical thought) for consuming content. I just don’t think it should be the default.

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Yeah. I ended up getting a couple ms of latency back when i pulled the isp router too.

Mine has been running flawlessly for nearly two years now. ISPs are lazy and only change things when they’re forced to.

what protocol does the ISP use over fibre?

Any way to figure this out?

This is a good place to start. https://pon.wiki/

It very strongly depends on which ISP they have. There’s a few that make it easy. There’s a much larger number that can be hacked by a competent pc person (which I’ve done). There’s also a small amount who have worked to make it impossible / hard to do, and don’t have any public info on the process.

My ISP is att fiber, and all I had to do was change the vlan id on the outgoing side and match the ip settings to make it work. I used the guides from https://pon.wiki/ to do it, and the discord is also incredibly helpful.

Of note, this used to be impossible / very difficult so you’ll still find forum posts saying it can’t be done. However, a couple nerds have changed that over the past two years so make sure your info is up to date before deciding it can’t be done for your specific setup.

One more bit of context; many hollywood movies have a male internal monologue used as a narration device. So it’s also technically stereotypically a male thing (even though I have no idea if it is actually related to sex at all). Fight club comes to mind as a prime example.

Valve’s better than Epic Games, but they still have every incentive to keep users in their ecosystem with DRM.

Very true.

Thats why Proton on the Steam Deck only works with Steam running in the background.

Lmao what? You have proof for this? It’s just as likely that it was easier to do it the way they did.

It really is always crazy to see the different perspectives. I’ve actually unsubscribed from a channel for the bad quality youtube put on all their 1080p videos. I’m also still eagerly awaiting the slomo guys bluray release of their greatest hits.

Well, that, and vhs is one of those things that is fun to play with. It’s never going to be perfect, and that’s enough to keep people like me coming back to see what new improvements I can make to my vhs setup this time.

New blurays are 30-50 each. New DVDs are 5 or less, each. Libraries usually have bigger dvd collections than bluray collections. People use what they can afford, not what is best.

Their service was genuinely good for the short time I used it. You’ll note in my post that I would still recommend it to anyone who doesn’t plan on doing more than average browsing and light torrenting.

They just wanted an excuse to cut me off since I made more use of it than the average person likely does, and their ‘unlimited’ advertising means you can’t actually know what their real limits are.

For what it’s worth, I’ve been enjoying the heck out of AirVPN since then, with absolutely no issues.

I have used this card for a couple years.

Pros:

• five m.2 sata slots
• single slot pcie, and short / not extending past top of slot
• incredibly cheap
• mine has been reliable
• no extra power needed
• no pcie bifurcation or other special motherboard features required (works in anything)
• the individual drives do show up as individual drives in Debian for me and can be accessed separately (not a hardware raid card)

Cons:

• pcie 3.0x2 speed in an x16 slot (2GBps)
• doesn’t support m.2 pci
• doesn’t support booting from the installed drives

If all you’re looking for is cheap, quiet, storage, and you don’t mind losing out on total read/write speeds, thisll actually do great just about anywhere.