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smiletolerantly

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  • Jellyfin 12 Released

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  • Does it actually? My VM has a lot of RAM, and Proxmox reports usage always around 90%, but that's no matter how much RAM it ACTUALLY has, because almost all of that is cache and not strictly necessary. free -m shows Jellyfin using maybe 2 Gigs.

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  • Haha. Might have slightly exaggerated. But only slightly.

    The Proxmox host in question has a 1Gbit connection to the NAS. (Unfortunately. The other hosts don't have a GPU, but SPF+... Oh well, can't have everything.)

    At some point in the last couple of months, it must have been damaged, and negotiated down to only 100Mbit. This must roughly have coincided with the Jellyfin 10.11 update, since I remember thinking that it must be the cause, due to close proximity of update and first issues.

    Anyways. For basically everything in my library, 100Mbit is fine. Streaming an episode NAS->Jellyfin and Jellyfin->TV at the same time basically never saturates the link.

    BUT, from what I've gathered by digging through Jellyfin issues and PRs, there's a separate issue where Jellyfin will pull the episode, and if you need subtitles extracted from the episode file server-side (to transcode them in, if the clients can't play them), it will at the same time pull the episode AGAIN, and together with the Jellyfin->TV direction, that's frequently enough that it saturates the link.

    Symptoms is (was) either a 20-30s wait before the episode would start playing, or complete freeze.

    However, I believe this particular issues has been solved for a while. I'm not sure, because I instead opted for the Subtitles Extractor Plugin, which runs nightly and pre-fetches all the subtitles and stores them on the Jellyfin VM itself.

    Where it was still noticeable though was if one of [Library Scan/Trick-play Extraction/Subtitle Extraction/Media Segment Scan] ran while playing an episode, the server would completely lock up.

    Long story short: cable swapped, 1Gbit, all issues gone.

  • Jellyfin 12 Released

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  • Sorry, but why not just fetch a single media file with multiple languages?

  • Jellyfin 12 Released

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  • Domain + reverse proxy. The security issues some people here claim are significantly overblown.

  • Jellyfin 12 Released

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  • Can't speak to that, I'm not involved. All I know is that,

    • Jellyfin server gets significant upgrades in subtitle capabilities and performance,
    • Jellyfin AdroidTV just released an RC that finally includes direct play for ASS/SSA subtitles,
    • and on Monday, I FINALLY resolved a hardware issue (faulty cable) that made my Jellyfin almost unusable whenever ASS/SSA needed to be played (and only in that situation. Fun!)

    So yeah, I don't know or really care about leadership change, I just know it's gonna run like a rocket now 😄

  • Jellyfin 12 Released

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  • Now THAT is a changelog.

    Really excited about the query performance improvements, and the improvements to subtitle handling.

  • What movies out there have horrible taste and poorly thought-out plots but were excellently executed?

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  • The Creator

    Relatively small budget, but looks better than basically anything else that landed in cinemas at the time, or since.

    Guess they saved on the script...

  • I hate packaging my software for Linux (fresh)

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  • Yeah. Honestly it might be a good idea to start a community project that's a "nix2everyDistro", and then go around and open PRs on FOSS projects to wire their project up to build in nix + output "every distro"

  • I hate packaging my software for Linux (fresh)

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  • Yes

  • What are the worst distro-specific problems you have faced?

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  • Are you sure you aren't either applying nixpkgs overlays, or following master instead of nixos-unstable? I've not really experienced anything like you've described.

    Anyways - I've additionally built my own cache server, which builds every output of my flake every time I push to main. System updates are ONLY downloads now. Also allowed all of my low-powered VMs to auto-update, since they'll never need to build anything at all.

  • Vibe [Mandatory Roller Coaster]

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  • How about only apply to non-FOSS software? Most hobby projects used not just by the author altend to be FOSS, and businesses can decide to go FOSS, making their software independently auditable by anyone, or go through certification.

    I guess there's a danger of a campaign to re-brand FOSS as "uncertified" then...

  • What if we forced every billionaires to give away $1 billion each year in $1 million dollar increments to 1,000 random families?

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  • Worse than just taxing them properly.

  • Which fictional universe do you wish you lived in?

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  • Most correct answer possible.

  • What loot would you drop upon defeat?

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    • Insulin
    • Sourdough Starter
    • An SSH private key that might come in handy later

  • What's a fun piece of free software I should learn to use this week?

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  • You killed him! NOW IT'S JUST "Lake"!

    Lmao this is fantastic, thank you.

  • What's a fun piece of free software I should learn to use this week?

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    • MuseScore 4 is a (the!) free music notation software. It is genuinely fantastic. It's also a lot of fun, if you know some notation basics and want to play around.
    • Darktable is a Raw photo editor in the vein of Lightroom. Except where lightroom is sleek, polished, user friendly and Adobe (🤮), Darktable is FOSS, and clearly so both in the design and functionality: it could easily make a UX designer cry, but if you're willing to give it a try, there does not exist a more potent raw editor on this earth. Lightroom is a toy in comparison. (Now whether you need that is another question... But I've been using it for more than 10 years, and am still finding new, incredibly useful sub-menus, drop-down contexts on hidden sliders,...)
    • rmpc is a really cool TUI music player

  • Reliable messenger for family use?

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    1. Signal
    2. XMPP
    3. Matrix

    In that order. I self-host both XMPP and Matrix, and I wouldn't want to stop using matrix. Spaces, arbitrary amounts of self-chats, and so on are great. I use matrix every day.

    But for chatting... It sooner or later fails you. It's slow. Notifications break. Messages are shown as sent, but somehow do not appear in the recipient's devices until TWO WEEKS LATER (yeah IDK, happened twice already, in different chats and directions. Best part is, I'm not even federated!). Encryption is great IF YOU KNOW SOME CRYPTOGRAPHY BASICS, and utterly confusing otherwise.

    XMPP just works. Especially the calls, holy shit, I had to fight Matrix for so long to make voice and video calls work, and xmpp just... Works. Notifications are way more reliable (as in, have been absolutely perfect). I really like monocles as a chat app on Android. (The downside is: can't decrypt old messages on new devices, and desktop clients are ugly.)

    So why Signal above XMPP?

    Because it's not your fault should something ever break in a vital service. Also the encryption and privacy afforded by it a great.

  • Auth apps

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  • I'll second Pocket-ID.

    I originally had Authentik setup. It worked well enough. However, their packaging constantly broke and no-one seemed to care.

    Switched to Pocket-ID and won't be looking back. Passkey-based OAuth was all I wanted anyways. (Also, the logins themselves are noticeably faster!)

  • Generative AI Is an Engineering Disaster. A shockingly inefficient trillion-dollar project.

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  • Burden of proof is on Astrology claiming to be real.

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    hass-closest-intent: Fuzzy intent matcher for HomeAssistant. Garbled STT output in, actual intent out.

    github.com /charludo/hass-closest-intent
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    Try BentoPDF if you haven't / are unhappy with StirlingPDF

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    Intent recognition for HomeAssistant without an LLM?

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    continuwuity vs tuwunel: where to go from conduwuit? (Update: probably continuwuity.)

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    Can't use Crunchyroll via WireGuard