shyguyblue @ shyguyblue @lemmy.world

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Great, another holodeck episode...

Yup, as soon as they started the mandatory login bullshit, I bounced. Companies keep adding this "feature" as a way to control your stuff: Doom on Switch, Halo Master Chief edition, nvidia, my fucking mouse(!?); all need a login for no other reason than to add a point of failure/killswitch.

Or a water balloon full of gallium!

Which is why i said they could easily be removed for flight...

Light paint keeps the heat away, so it's the default. Plus, this entire kerfuffle has been a matter class in lack of planning. They never thought they would need it, so why bother painting 50+ year old planes another color.

My guess: You can remove the tires for flight, paint adds weight and I don't see the Russian army scraping off the current paint without fucking up the primer/anti corrosion layer.

I covered mine with a mylar emergency blanket and it's dropped the temp quite a bit. Not perfect, but it works in Texas

He's terrified that his employees are going to do to him, what he did at his last place...

I had a Netgear nighthawk r7800 with ddwrt, which finally crapped out. I went with the TP-link Deco Mesh router as a replacement, and so far it's working better than the ddwrt router. There are versions with Wi-Fi 6, but i went with the "3 stations for ~$120" and haven't had any problems with speed, since tht bottlenecks are usually external/cable modem related anyway.

My biggest selling point for the tp-link, it's much easier to set a local dns, with a fallback to 1.1.1.1, something i could never get to work on ddwrt. So whenever my Jellyfin transcodes bring the Pihole to a screeching halt, it will at least fallback to external dns and not take the whole network with it.

I can also have a base module Ethernet connected to my pc in the office, another hooked up to the cable modem and zimaboard in the livingroom, and eventually, a raspi with a couple of low resource containers (pihole, home assistant, nginx). My goal is to hardwire as many things as i can for speed/signal noise purposes.

If you're looking for something you can do while watching YouTube, origami. It lets you ease into a hobby, without completely taking away your vice.

Here's some i made yesterday while watching schadenfreude vids about the Netflix Cowboy Bebop disaster...

You can only enjoy the perks during your 45 minute lunch break. Food or fun, your choice ..

Try typing "exit" and hit enter. I have a dual boot laptop that defaults to this screen every reboot.

I'm still trying to figure out why kirks brother is being shoehorned in. Most of his season one scenes had him just standing there. He was even knocked out 5 minutes into a mission. I love the "holodeck" they use for set extensions, definitely better than any green/blue screen from previous series. At least brother-Kirk is getting more to do in season 2.

I'm using the full *arr suite, a vpn container, transmission, Jellyfin, Audiobookshelf, Kavita, pihole, nginx, and a few others.

The only problem I'm having is memory. There are times when pihole, Jellyfin and BitTorrent are all fighting for resources, and the network stalls. I picked up the formerly mid-range with 4/32GB of RAM/Storage, and i should have picked up the 8/whatever GB. They have a new one called the Zimablade, it uses a desktop RAM stock, and I've got a few of those knocking around. It's cheaper than the Zimaboard, so I might pick that one up as a supplement, and split the load so that my pihole/nginx/vpn don't all go down because Jellyfin just had to transcode something.

If you're just doing the arr suite and Jellyfin (I haven't used Plex since they started the mandatory sign-in bullshit), the 4GM RAM version is adequate. If you're trying to run 20+ containers (raises hand) you'll find you have to stop the containers you're not currently using.

If nothing else, use Sonarr! Once you add a tv series to the monitored list, it'll automatically search/find/send the latest episode to your torrent client. There's something special about not having to think about it. Movies are pretty hit-or-miss, I've had Back To The Future on deck for a while now, but all it's finding are Blu-ray files too big for my zimaboard to transcode.

Brooklyn Nine Nine was prescient..

Glad i could help! My autism is finally helping someone at least.

I'm using a Netgear r7800 with ddwrt, with hopes to eventually move dhcp handling over to the Zima Board.

You've got me thinking about media streaming though, Zima uses the Intel quick sync for transcoding, so that might also have something to do with it. I eventually want to move to dedicated hardware for streaming, with some stronger hardware/software like an NVIDIA based solution. I do have an old graphics card kicking around, but i haven't played with the pcie slot yet, so I'm not sure if that even a non starter?

I'm going to look into it more, since i don't need 4k, but would be nice to have.

I've been using a Zima Board for my home network. I have the mid-range, 4Gb memory, 32GB onboard. It's got two SATA ports, dual gigabit Ethernet, an Intel processor and PCI express port that I'm eventually going to use to run an old wifi card so i can isolate my IOT devices on a dedicated wifi network.

The only problem i have with it is RAM and transcoding. I have 22 containers running things from the "arr" suite (Prowlarr, Radarr, Readarr, ect), pihole, Jellyfin, Home Assistant, etc. I stay around 80% memory usage, so i should have gotten the 8GB. And forget about trying to transcode Blu-ray rips, which most of my devices can't stream natively, so transcode is the only option. The audio stutters and playback pauses every ten seconds or so. I don't have a problem streaming the file through samba, it just doesn't have the "omph" that it needs for hardware transcoding of Blu-ray.

All that being said, i would get another one over the Raspi. Case/heatsink built in, SATA, PCI-E, dual gigabit, everything i need for a basic server.