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djdarren

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  • The Evolution of Streaming

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  • I've got Nebula. Took 'em up on a deal on an annual sub when Tom Scott started his new series on there.

    It's...fine.

    It's nice to watch channels like Mr Mobile without adverts, but channels like Not Just Bikes and Mustard already run on YT without ads. Sure, there's an ad for Nebula at the end their episodes, but it's right at the end, so is easily skipped.

    Don't get me wrong, there's loads of stuff on there, but discovery isn't particularly easy, and most of it is USA-centric, which doesn't really interest me.

  • FANTASTIC video on configuring Openwrt VLANs

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  • You've posted this right as I'm about to begin setting up an OpenWrt router. Thanks!

  • A major Windows 11 UI redesign is coming, Microsoft is dumping legacy code for WinUI

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  • I was talking about the Windows UI on Mastodon the other day, particularly in reference to how I have it set to dark mode on my PC at work, but when I hit Send/Receive in Outlook I get a bright white, XP-ass-looking box pop up. Someone replied, "the older the settings boxes look, the more useful they are". And I can't disagree.

  • Can the M.2 slot in my Dell Optiplex 3070 micro be used for ethernet?

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  • This is the output of dmidecode

    Handle 0x0026, DMI type 9, 17 bytes System Slot Information Designation: SLOT1_M.2 Type: x4 M.2 Socket 3 Current Usage: Available Length: Long Characteristics: 3.3 V is provided PME signal is supported Bus Address: 0000:ff:1f.7

    Handle 0x0027, DMI type 9, 17 bytes System Slot Information Designation: SLOT2_M.2 Type: x1 M.2 Socket 1-SD Current Usage: In Use Length: Short Characteristics: 3.3 V is provided PME signal is supported Bus Address: 0000:ff:00.0

    I'm guessing the top one is the M.2 in question, on account of it saying "Available". And from what I understand having searched for some of the info on that, it should work, assuming the firmware allows for it.

  • Can the M.2 slot in my Dell Optiplex 3070 micro be used for ethernet?

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  • So the currently unused slot won't work with an ethernet adapter? It's purely for storage?

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    Can the M.2 slot in my Dell Optiplex 3070 micro be used for ethernet?

  • It really do be like that

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  • Almost too good, I find.

    I tend to have safe search off, because I'm a grown up. But it can be kind of annoying to search for a completely innocuous term, only for the image results to somehow be rammed full of people getting rammed full.

  • GrapheneOS duress PIN could land a man in prison

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  • It doesn't look like anything to me.

  • GrapheneOS duress PIN could land a man in prison

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  • Brb, just submitting a merge request on the Graphene git.

  • Power On [Bob the Angry Flower]

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  • I somehow managed to factory reset my Kobo that way a few days ago. It had frozen, so I held the power button for a few seconds as I usually do when it freezes. Didn't work, so I held it a little longer.

    And suddenly, BOOM, it comes back to life, shuts down, and heads into factory reset town.

    I did a few swears, then set it back up, reset the sync to Grimmory, and got all my books back.

    Stoopid shit.

  • McSexy, get in here! [War and Peas]

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  • All Cops Are Beautiful?

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  • Ah, but Linux is faultless, so no such thread could ever happen.

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  • Yeah, the one and only PC on which I ever used Vista was a comically under powered laptop that my Mum bought. If it was running XP it would have been solid, but alas, it had 512mb RAM and Vista was thiiiirsty.

  • "Ultimate" guide for literal beginners

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  • I started with Mint, then dipped into KDE Neon and Kubuntu, and these days I rock Debian on my server because I want absolutely nothing to fall over if possible. And that's how it's been for me. I SSH into it every couple of weeks to run updates, and that's about it.

    Debian is great. Boring, and great.

  • 1 year into navidrome with dilligent tagging and rating, and this is how someone has the perfect theme song when they walk into a room, every SINGLE time.

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  • This puts me in mind of the smart playlists I built in iTunes. Several playlists of 3/4/5* tunes, plus a few other rules to bring lesser played tunes to the surface. These all fed in to one bigger 50 track playlist that would pick something like 30% of its tracks from 5*, 25% from 4*, 20% from 3*, then make up the rest with the other stuff. Oh, and it would filter out any track that wasn't 5* that had been played in the last two weeks.

    Then, when I was rocking my iPod, if I was digging something that wasn't rated, I could spin up a rating and it'd get shifted to the corresponding list ready to drop into the pool for future enjoyment.

    It was properly great.

    I guess you can still do it with Apple Music, but it's not as much fun when your library is thousands of songs you added and never listened to again.

    Anyway, I'm going to see if I can recreate it with Navidrome. I've got 14k tracks in there and a willingness to listen to them all.

  • Is they're an easy way to make my Jellyfin accessible outside of my home network for free?

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  • Just be aware that if you want anyone else to connect to your Jellyfin, you'll still have to route it through a domain and reverse proxy, unless you're comfortable letting them log in to your tailnet.

    It's a bit of a fiddle to set up, but once it's done it's quite satisfying.

  • Florida bans local governments from pursuing net-zero emissions goals

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  • Recommendations for music-setup?

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  • I use Navidrome, and have set up Lidarr to feed it if I'm feeling a little hook-handed, if you get my meaning. Lidarr was a bit of a bollocks to set up, but once it's running it's pretty neat. I access it via Tailscale so can add stuff to the library wherever I am.

    As for accessing it: again, I use Tailscale to run it through a reverse proxy on my website, so I connect to it using a subdomain. But as long as I've got Tailscale active on my phone, I could always access it that way. As others have suggested, I use Symfonium on my phone, and I use Feishin on everything else.

    It all works pretty well, to the point that I don't really use Apple Music anymore.

  • What TV shows are absolutely worth watching?

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  • It might not be "absolute cinema" and had maybe 5% of the budget of Chernobyl, but given that people have suggested Ted Lasso, I'll go one step further into the realm of fuzzy feel-good TV and drop a mention for my favourite TV show of all time.

    The Detectorists

    There isn't a single moment in that programme where any of the characters are mean to each other (save for the when dealing with a rival club). It's just 20 beautiful episodes of people looking for gold, living their lives, and doing their best to be supportive.

    And it's incredibly funny.

  • What TV shows are absolutely worth watching?

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  • As someone who hates football, Ted Lasso was wonderful because at no point was it ever really about football.