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TedZanzibar

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  • Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in April

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  • Judging by the rest of the thread I'm going to get downvoted for this, but what the hell:

    I'm sure I'll switch to Jellyfin eventually but I tried it out a few weeks ago to see what all the hype was about and it just... wasn't great. It was difficult to setup, with way too many overly-complicated settings, and then it refused to play one of the two test files I tried. Like it or not there's a reason that Plex is the dominant player in the game, and a large part of that reason is that it verges on plug-and-play for simplicity of both setup and use.

    Yes, it sucks that they're removing remote streaming for free users, but I imagine there's a significant chunk of users who don't know or care how to properly open their server up to the world and are relying on the Plex proxies for their streams (which happens entirely in the background), and those aren't going to be cheap to run. Maybe putting them behind a paywall will provide the resources to make them faster.

    I did buy a lifetime pass last time they announced a price hike; it's honestly paid for itself many times over, and I've been encouraging other users I know to do the same before this next one, because yes, it is a significant hike this time around. That said, while I wouldn't pay monthly for it, I do still feel like the lifetime pass is tremendous value for such a polished product. It's a shame they've had to do it at all, but I don't begrudge them for it.

  • Which case is Pi-hole for?

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  • Good shout. I've just recently moved from Pihole to Adguard Home myself, complete with Hagezi lists. I consider myself very tech savvy and I work in the field but AGH suits my needs much better.

    One example is wildcard DNS to route all of my hosted services via reverse proxy. In Pihole I had to make weird blocking rules to make this work, but AGH has specific settings for it. It also supports DoH out of the box, whereas Pihole needs non-standard faffery to get it working.

    Very pleased with AGH in general.

  • Starting to self host

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  • HACS installs community integrations whereas addons are like external programs that hook in HA. You can do the same thing with HA in Docker by installing the addon containers separately and then hooking them in manually but HA OS makes it much simpler.

    For example I'm running the Mosquitto broker, Z2M, a Visual Studio Code server, diyhue, and Music Assistant as addons.

    Docco page about it is here: https://www.home-assistant.io/addons/

  • Starting to self host

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  • If you want to give Home Assistant a try like others are suggesting, save yourself some time and hassle and install Home Assistant OS in a virtual machine. While you absolutely can run it in Docker you lose out on some neat quality of life improvements like add ons (which, funnily enough, are Docker containers pre-configured to hook in HA).

  • Least terrible domain registrars

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  • Exactly this. Also it annoys me that Namecheap tries to automatically "top up funds" over a month before renewals are due. I think they've always done it but it wound me up enough this year to move to Cloudflare.

  • Upgrading from an ancient version of Home Assistant

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  • Uh, good luck! It's giving me cold sweats just looking at that version disparity!

    If it were me I'd be looking at doing some intermediate upgrades to help it along, if that's even possible. But hey, it might work, please report back!

  • How do you keep up?

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  • Yeah, everything that's already been said, except that I specifically chose an off-the-shelf Synology NAS with Docker support to run my core setup for this exact reason. It needs a reboot maybe once or twice a year for critical updates but is otherwise rock solid.

    I have since added a small N100 box for things that need a little extra grunt (Plex mainly) but I run Ubuntu Server LTS with Docker on that and do maintenance on it about as often as I reboot the NAS.

  • .DS_Store

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  • Were you talking about MacOS? It's been a long time since I last had to use it but I assumed it was case sensitive because it's Unix based. Uh maybe ignore me then!

  • Unionized

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  • Opened the thread hoping someone would've done this (and too lazy to do it myself). Thank you for your service.

  • .DS_Store

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  • NTFS absolutely supports case sensitivity but, presumably for consistency with FAT and FAT32 (Windows is all about backwards compatibility), and for the sake of Average-Joe-User who's only interaction with the filesystem is opening Word and Excel docs, it doesn't by default.

    All that said, it can be set on a per-directory basis: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/case-sensitivity

  • Plex migration from Windows to Linux

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  • Just to add to the info so far: while you're spending the effort doing a migration it's worth going the extra few steps and moving to their Docker image. It'll make any future server moves a doddle, not to mention updates etc.

  • How is it going with “Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition”?

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  • You're not wrong but the local whisper(?) engine is really slow running on my NAS. I have an N100 box that runs Plex but I haven't found much to suggest it would be any quicker running from there due to a lack of OpenVino support. Standard Whisper can be compiled to use it but it's potentially no quicker than faster-whisper without it.

    And that's where I'm up to really. Every time I think about getting some different versions installed and doing benchmarks my brain goes back to Christmas slob mode and fogs over.

  • How is it going with “Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition”?

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  • I ordered mine the day they were announced, right before Christmas at a period that I was enjoying tinkering with, and optimising my HA setup. I was looking forward to doing the same with this over the break.

    Unfortunately they didn't actually ship it until after Christmas and by the time it arrived I was in full slob mode with little desire to sit at a desk. Even now I'm still trying to get myself back into a working mindset.

    All of which is to say I added it to HA and have done nothing with it since.

  • Copied from another community: "Hoarder (the name) is being stolen from me"

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  • Isn't that exactly why so many of these company and app names have missing vowels? Because they can't trademark a word but they can trademark a collection of letters that sounds like a word when spoken aloud. It's really dumb.

  • BioShock Creator Laments It Was Just A 'Corridor,' But Corridors Have Given Us Some Of The Best Games Ever

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  • I like the idea of open worlds much more than I like the reality. With a full time job, kids, and a completionist mindset I just don't have the time or mental stamina to spend 100+ hours doing side quests and revealing every inch of the map. Not to mention reading all of that dialog and lore.

    Give me a corridor with a tight, focused story over a sprawling open world any day of the week. Coincidentally Bioshock was awesome.

  • Too dumb to understand where the gas tank opening is

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  • If it doesn't have an arrow then the correct side is denoted by whether the fuel icon itself has the hose on the left or right.

  • I was today years old when it occurred to me that it took three different actresses in Strange New Worlds to play all of Majel Barrett-Roddenberry's roles.

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  • Also the first thing that popped into my head. I know EVA was just a voice but teenaged me had the hots for her.

  • Nom nom

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  • I had no idea that people struggled with this so much and have come up with such crazy (to me) ways of figuring it out.

    Most of the world, if asked to write down numbers 1-100 on a line, would do so left to right. The < and > symbols are arrows pointing left and right. To the left the numbers decrease (less than) and to the right the numbers increase (greater than).

    All this stuff about crocodiles and ducks seems like such a bizarre way to remember it!

    Edit: thanks for the comments, it's fascinating to get an insight on how differently people's brains work. Something that seems like such an obvious concept is just as baffling to others as the crocodile is for me.

    To attempt to explain it better though: Say the number you're comparing to is 50. If x is less than that, say 30, then it would appear to the left of 50 in the list and the arrow would point that way <--. If it's greater than 50 then it would be to the right -->

  • The era of open voice assistants has arrived - Home Assistant

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  • Nice! Been holding off on HA voice stuff, waiting for a more plug and play solution, so I've been watching this pretty closely. Managed to get one ordered before they (presumably) go out of stock in the UK. Hoping it arrives soon so I can tinker during the break!