Lmao the first thing that came to mind was the “is there anyone else you forgot to ask” meme with apple in between the user and app developer.

I used to have a lot of apps back then that would use them as advertisement banners, it was really annoying. I forget when it happened but I’ve been using Android since honeycomb so I’ve seen a lot

I’m hoping and assuming that apps would need to ask for permission to use this, lest this turn into every app fighting to push their own dynamic island notification to the top bar, just like how back then every app wanted to have its own persistent notification and also that time when every app provided minor status updates using global toasts that didn’t specify which app created it, so you could be doing something in a completely different app and you’d get a completely random and unattributed toast with some vague message like “connection failed” with no way outside of third party apps to figure out which app sent it. /rant

I concur about rechargeables - it doesn’t seem common for devices that take AA or AAA to have a battery gauge and it would be nice to be able to check the level on my rechargeables stock so I can know if I should top them off without needing to put each of them into the charger.

At least with radicle all the forks will still exist even if the authoritative copy is taken down. And even then I think because radicle is like BitTorrent, anybody who pinned the main repo would still be seeding it so it would be very hard to scrub it completely. The main challenge in using radicle is getting an active contributor with some reputation to maintain their copy on there. Otherwise there’s no momentum and nobody will pin the countless mirrors published by randos.

They seem to just keep getting better and better. When I scratched the lens on my index due to my own carelessness they replaced the headset for free. It’s been 5 years since I bought it and the controller strap broke last week and they sent me a free replacement. Any other company and I would have expected my only option to be buying a new controller.

Hah I wish we could ignore them. It seems to just vary from ISP to ISP in the US but our small town ISP turns off your connection and puts you behind a captive portal forcing you to click through and accept what you did wrong before your connection is turned back on.

Yes I do this. Same exact library folders so I can let my friends use whatever they prefer. If everything is named in a Plex friendly way it should just work in jellyfin.

My main complaint is when it decides to just stop casting to Chromecast in the middle of episodes randomly - then I have to open the app, reconnect, and resume.

Also I find the Chromecast controls stop responding frequently making it so I can’t pause what I’m watching - it’ll like disconnect from the Chromecast but keep playing.

My partner also complains about lots of bugs on the iOS app.

Our ISP sends 3 strike letters :(

I would just accept the terms and disable wifi, or if you don’t want to double nat just use a switch and accept the terms / login on every device connected to the switch.

I’ve done a backup swap with friends a couple times. Security wasn’t much of a worry since we connected to each other’s boxes over ssh or wireguard or similar and used tools that allowed encryption. The biggest challenge for us was that in my selfhosting friend group we all prefer different protocols so we had to figure out what each of us wanted to use to connect and access filesystems and set that up. The second challenge was ensuring uptime and that the remote access we set up for each other stayed up - and that’s what killed the project as we all eventually stopped maintaining the remote access and nobody seemed to care - so if I were to do it again I would make sure all participants have alerts monitoring their shared endpoint.

I tried the .ps one and it worked for me

You can achieve a similar thing using vlans - usually by default they’re isolated but you may add specific rules that allow traffic between vlans if it meets certain criteria (specific ports, specific types of traffic, traffic to or from specific hosts, any combination of those). So yeah you can imagine client isolation being like having each client on their own vlan - except without needing a different subnet for each client.

To add to the other reply, client isolation is about controlling whether an ap, switch, or router willingly sends traffic between clients. Because of that, it doesn’t kick in if you listen to packets over the air before they’ve been received by an AP. For that kind of security you need a wifi specific security measure - which I think “enhanced open” is what you’d be interested in. It allows you to have an open passwordless wifi but it generates temporary encryption keys for each connected client, then the rest is as if it was using WPA, so that you don’t need to enter a password but your traffic gets encrypted and protected from anyone else listening in on the WiFi.

If you combine both then you should have a network where each device is isolated both over the air and from a routing perspective so that each device only sees an Internet connection and no other devices.

The same way filebot and any other tool does - the file needs to have some label, either an absolute episode number or a season + episode number. I’m not aware of any tool that is able to look at the contents of the video to figure out which episode it is visually without any information from the filename - but I’d be happy to be proven wrong because I would be impressed.

Sonarr/radarr does analyze the content somewhat but that’s just for gathering resolution, codec, HDR, audio languages, and subtitle information, which can all be added to the filename format for inclusion during renaming.

I second using sonarr/radarr, once imported it detects episodes and lets you one click rename to a specific format and folder organization.

If you don’t want any of the other features of sonarr/radarr (like having a way to filter and manage your collection to see what’s in what quality or from what release group, searching multiple indexers with a single search, being able to send a specific search result to a downloader and have it automatically imported and organized when complete, or have auto downloading based on requests using scoring rules that you set), then there’s also filebot which a lot of people seem to like and seems to be just for matching with online metadata and renaming.

But I haven’t tried filebot since I like the extra features and capabilities of sonarr/radarr. It makes it easy to manage several library folders like an archive for anything that’s been reviewed, is complete, and in a quality/codec that I’m satisfied with, and keeping track of currently airing shows in my active folder which is where I also keep auto downloaded stuff I haven’t reviewed.

Probably because he already did an nft collection apparently, according to the article.

I use a nuc10i7fnkn and since transcoding is almost entirely done using the dedicated quicksync hardware in the CPU you don’t end up actually using the CPU much. So I’m sure it would work on an older generation or the i5 version. I don’t know much about the N100 but it looks like it would be very capable. Supposedly it boosts to 3+GHz and it’s a 10nm node compared to my NUCs 14nm. But the GPU has the same number of execution units so I’m not sure if the quicksync transcoding performance is that different. I saw someone mention 3 simultaneous 4K transcodes and I think I got about that much on mine. Generally for quick sync performance you just compare the Intel hd or uhd graphics model (like 630, 730, uhd, etc) and the number of execution units and that should correlate to the performance. Also check the Wikipedia page for quicksync for codec compatibility (under the Hardware decoding and encoding section), but anything recent will handle most stuff you’d need: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Quick_Sync_Video

I actually run my arrstack on a Synology, it has official support for docker and docker-compose. Granted I do have a higher powered model (the DS1621xs+) but most of the arrstack is fairly low power friendly.

You can also get away with running Plex on a nas but I would only do it if 1. Your nas has a quick sync supported CPU and you get that enabled properly or 2. You go the direct streaming only / no transcoding setup - which means checking the codec support for all client devices and either only downloading exactly the supported codecs or pre-transcoding everything.

What I do is actually run Plex/JF on a separate nuc and point it at the nas using a network mount. Just don’t use a network mount for the Plex app database (maybe same applies to JF too), just mount the media files itself. Running Plex and having it access the DB over a network mount is a big no no for various reasons.