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BigDaddySlim

@ BigDaddySlim @lemmy.world

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  • What is everyone using as a HTPC?

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  • Ryzen 1200/GTX 960 small build running Linux Mint. There's a UHD blu-ray drive in it as well with the custom firmware to rip disks. Media is stored on my NAS that handles Plex and transcoding. The parts were mostly old extras I had lying around, just needed the case, blu-ray drive and boot SSD. Oh and the like $20 wireless Logitech keyboard/track pad combo for control.

  • [LastPlaceComics] Hand Em Over

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  • At first I thought you were describing the Shit Mobile from Trailer Park Boys (Ricky's '75 New Yorker) but then it just got better and better.

  • which phone should i buy?

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  • To add to that, most of the time there are easy work arounds like just using the apps browser version instead of an app. The only thing I've had a couple times was my keyboards just wouldn't pop up. No matter what I did the keyboards were dead for about 3 minutes each time it happened, they started to work again but it's just a quirk of a privacy focused OS

  • Anyone else here self-hosting on absolutely shit hardware?

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  • Interesting, I haven't had any issues with things loading with mine, maybe it's your adlists causing issues? Try disabling some, there might be false positives in there giving you issues

  • Anyone else here self-hosting on absolutely shit hardware?

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  • 10400F running my NAS/Plex server and raspberry pi 5 running PiHole

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  • This is truly what you were eating in this soup as a kid, WAS IT WORTH IT???

  • The Ugly Truth About Spotify Is Finally Revealed

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  • I dumped Spooterfy over a year ago now, moved all my liked song library to Tidal. I moved to AntennaPod for podcasts too. I never really make playlists, Tidals mixes are usually pretty good. The daily discovery is leagues above Spotify's weekly shit that would constantly play songs from artists I had blocked. No Spotify, I do not want to be ear raped by 100 Gecs I told you this!

    They pay artists better and it's been a much better experience. My only issue was I couldn't easily like songs from the notification bar, but that was added a while ago in an update. It has started playing the same songs frequently lately, but thats not the worst I guess.

    Obviously if you care about supporting your artists, buy thier CDs, vinyls (if you're into that) or buy them digitally on Bandcamp, streaming doesn't pay as much as direct support.

    This reads as an ad but I'm genuinely just a satisfied user. Fuck Spotify.

    As someone else here mentioned, Pandora is still a viable option too, hell my mom uses Pandora.

  • Youtube adds setting for uploaders to allow third party AI training on videos

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  • Surprisingly I'm in the US and it's off by default, at least for now. They'll toggle it on then claim it was an accident after they make a couple billion dollars.

  • Leaked video shows UnitedHealth CEO saying insurer will continue practices that combat 'unnecessary' care

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  • The Adjustments will continue until society improves

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  • Post your setup. no matter how uggo

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  • Mines nothing special, i5 10400 with 16GB of RAM and a 1050ti for video encoding. System runs TrueNAS Scale for Plex and Immich and has 44TB of drives running through a Dell H310 PERC SAS card. I desperately need more storage but I've been lacking the funds for new drives, I'd also need a 5.25" drive bay converter to hold the 2 additional drives I need in this case since all the bays are full, and another SAS card since this one's used up.

    I'd like to move to Jellyfin but from what I've read it doesn't do as well for streaming from outside the network compared to Plex and half the users of my server are outside my network. So it works for now.

    Also have a Raspberry Pi 5 running PiHole

    Also a buddy 3D printed a fan mount for the H310 to make sure it doesnt overheat when doing file transfers and I slapped a Noctua on it

  • Never throw them out

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  • The Box ^TM just came in handy for me to find a VGA cable to change a BIOS setting on an old PC to output through PCI on boot. Had to reset the BIOS after installing a new CPU and it reverted that setting.

    The Box ^TM will stay with me until death.

    (Most of these old cables are organized, I haven't gotten to this box yet)

  • Jensen Huang is now worth more than Intel — personal net worth currently valued at $109B vs. Intel's $96B market cap

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  • He buys another leather jacket, as a treat

  • Man charged with allegedly assaulting mail carrier delivering 'Harris for President' mailer

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  • Funny how today is the first day we've gotten any political fliers in my office, and the same day I see this. Didn't take very long at all for a Magat to assault one of us over the election, and I guarantee it won't be the last.

  • No One Is Buying AMD Zen 5 CPUs, So What's Going On?

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  • My gaming desktop has a 5950x, I can run virtual machines and all games just fine. No reason to upgrade.

    My Plex server runs an Intel 10400, handles everything I throw at it just fine. No reason to upgrade.

    My home theater PC runs a Ryzen 1700 and again, runs just fine. No reason to upgrade.

    I think the newest CPU in my house is either my Steam Deck's APU or the one in my PS5.

  • Music industry’s 1990s hard drives, like all HDDs, are dying

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  • I've got several flash drives from 2 different brands that are less than 3 years old that are already dying. SanDisk and Lexar, both large brands and they're already losing reliability. Real shame that the older stuff works longer. I really only need them for making Linux bootable drives and they struggle with that.

  • Assistant Therapist

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  • Or use ADB and remove them, that's what I did with all the Samsung and Google junk in this phone.

  • If you live in the EU - you may also be faced with this Meta prompt. Info in text.

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  • I use it for one single purpose, browsing marketplace. I look for local used game stuff and that's really it. If something peaks my interest I have my girlfriend message them since she uses messenger, I refuse to have it on my phone.

    Even then, I'm using Firefox with UBO so even if they do use my browsing data for ads, I ain't seeing them anyway.

    Turns out you can in fact, cuck the Zuck