LifeBandit666 @ Lifebandit666 @feddit.uk

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Yeah I get a little obsessive about my new hobbies to the point where a whole day of tinkering goes by and I barely notice.

I had an 11hr messing about session a couple weeks ago then we had to go out for a family meal because of some important occasion (my 40th birthday) and I got to the meal with a massive headache from staring at a screen all day, only to find it was a surprise party.

My Wife could not understand how on earth I hadn't worked out it was a surprise party beforehand, but my head was in setting Proxmox up and getting things working.

Not OP but I've been playing with Wireguard (and failing) for a short while and have noticed an option in my Android Phone's settings to always connect to this VPN. Probably that

Lexam@yahoo.com

Mine is the default password for the first router I got when I moved out. It's just 8 random letters, but they're MY 8 random letters.

I change the password to it whenever we move supplier, along with the SSID, and all my IOT devices just jump back in

I jumped in on Outlook when it was starting up and got fristname.lastname@outlook.com. I still have a Hotmail account though

Absolutely the same. I needed an account for Red Alert or something like that (Total Annihilation?) and it's still my gamer tag and screen name.

I remember the days when I spent time convincing people to use chat apps. The last one that stuck was WhatsApp.

I've since stopped installing new chat apps because people won't use them.

WhatsApp just works. Wanna video call my Mum? Push a button. Wanna send a Lemmy meme to my mates? Yeah it's 3 taps.

I open up Facebook on me birthday and press the ❤️ on the birthday messages then shut it down and don't use it for another year.

But if I do that with WhatsApp then I don't hear from people I actually care about.

I actually have a friend that refuses to use WhatsApp like I do with FaceFuck. "How does she do it then?" I hear you ask.

She uses Facebook Messenger.

That's the hold Meta has on our communications

I am currently working on a system that will allow me to get rid of all the letters but one. A pirate loves R but he always loves the C

My wife pays for X and y, and I pay for Z because I get next day delivery and Z is just kinda included in that. I would prefer for my wife to not pay for X and Y because they're profiteering cunts (as is Z but I like next day delivery).

Wife won't stop paying for X and Y because she doesn't understand how R works. She doesn't understand how X and Y works either but they do work all the time and R doesn't because I'm still learning.

The other day I couldn't get R working properly. While I was trying to fix it she went and paid for Z to watch the thing I was trying to fix on R.

Wife doesn't understand why that was a massive insult.

I thought you could set that up in the "Profiles" option.

Sometimes I smoke weed in my garden.

Gasp

If you're only intend to use Radarr you can set your NZB indexer there and your downloader.

If you plan to add more arr later like Sonarr you can use Prowlarr and just link it, and not have to configure your indexers again in Sonarr.

Honestly if you're using nzb you'll only really need the nzb indexer so it shouldn't be all that hard to set up in other programmes

I've integrated a Nest E thermostat myself so I know Nest devices work. The setup is a bit of a ball ache though.

For an age I had issues with Google Assistant integrated products though. It would be connected and then lose the connection and sometimes it would just not want to reconnect, for days at a time.

I've found it was mainly due to how I was remote accessing my instance. I was using DuckDNS and Nginx. I moved to using Cloudflare and bought my own domain name, and suddenly everything worked much better.

I would however have Nest drop off and require reauthenicating every time my HA instance was rebooted. This was until I had someone suggest I make my Google Project "Production" rather than "Testing" which stopped that.

I now have a rock solid connection to Google and my Nest thermostat works as expected except for one little quirk where temperatures are displayed in HA 0.2 degrees higher than they actually are.

I feel this comment. I've recently got into Proxmox and have found I'm having to occasionally boot into a "boot disc" to sort out errors on containers and I'm having to start the container up, go into console and spam all those keys just to get it to boot from the boot disc that doesn't really exist because it's a virtual machine.

Does my pipes in, WHATS THE BUTTON AND WHEN DO I PRESS IT?

I'm surprised at just how capable it is for the money. All in I spent more buying a Raspberry Pi during Covid to run my Home Assistant. I mean of course that was my learning device so I had more idea what to buy this time and already had a ZigBee usb stick for example. But this didn't require me to buy an extra SSD to run off, and so far it's running my Home Assistant on a couple of cores with 6gb ram (which is doesn't use all of, it was set up with 4 but was regularly hitting that so I added a couple extra) and I have plenty of room to play with other things.

Wish I'd bought it many moons ago

I've just gone down the hardware route and bought myself a refurbished Dell Optiplex with i5 6500 and 16g ram for under £70 on eBay.

So far it's running Home Assistant, Docker (I have a bunch of stuff in Docker rn and most of it doesn't work but hey, I'm learning), OMV and an ARR stack with Plex that takes up half the 500gb drive on it. Currently awaiting a powered SATA to USB cable so I can see if I can mount some of these old HDDs I have lying around.

Anyway point being it wasn't expensive and seems to be running Plex fine.

I have my Arr stack running on a Windows VM. I'd like to run it in Docker but I'm finding the VPN to be troublesome.

I was told in here that 7th gen chips are good for hardware transcoding. This is the 2nd number of the chip set. So my Optiplex has a 6th gen i5 in it (i5-6xxx) and it's doing the job.

Yeah I turned it down from 320 to 160and it seemed to help

Thanks for this, it totally worked although I'm not quite satisfied with the audio quality. There's artifacts in the sound stream, like a clicking, and Ozzy sounds a little strange when I play Bark At The Moon.

But all in all it's better than no audio, so thank you.

I of course tried to pass through the audio device again, don't wanna have to spend money if I don't have to, but it crashed Proxmox again so it was straight to Amazon.

You go down just like Holy Mary

Mary on a

Mary on a Cross

Not just another Denim Mary

Mary on a

Mary on a Cross

I hadn't even considered that as a solution, and I've literally just bought a usb to 3.5mm for my main PC.

Thanks for the idea, I'll purchase another cable.

I have a bloody drawer FULL of cables because I do stuff like this. To the point where I'm wondering if the meaning of life for a human male is to collect as many cables for various devices as possible before you die lol.