if it can upscale 1080 ti 4k, does that mean I don’t need my 4k collection anymore? It sounds too good to be true.
Because it is. While it does do a decent job upscaling, it’s not some magical thing. Keep the 4k, and be pleasantly surprised when older content looks nice on the larger display.
Interesting. Thanks for the extra effort to help out an internet stranger!
I’ll dig some more into these little buggers!
Awesome, thanks!
This little thing looks very interesting. What is the battery life like? Is the handwriting-to-text stuff only viable in specific apps, or can it be used in place of keyboard input?
I would probably use it just like my Kindle, keeping it in airplane mode until I actually need to download something (or in this case, upload notes).
honestly it’s baffling that I’ve spent 30 years on the internet and can understand so little of it
100% agree.
Honestly, I had to google it, too :D
As far as I know, they mean “Personal Video Recorder” in a fashion similar to “DVR”/“Digital Video Recorder” like the one your cable company provides. It’s a little misleading, imo, because it doesn’t do any recording, but I didn’t come up with the name, so who knows.
Sonarr (and the other 'arrs) is just a management tool. From the servarr wiki:
Sonarr is a PVR for Usenet and BitTorrent users. It can monitor multiple RSS feeds for new episodes of your favorite shows and will grab, sort and rename them. It can also be configured to automatically upgrade the quality of files already downloaded when a better quality format becomes available.
At a high level, you tell it where your current tv show episodes are saved, and add new shows as you want. It then automates the process of searching and downloading. But you still need to have an indexer and download client. If you’re not able to find shows searching your current tracker/indexer, Sonarr won’t have any better luck.
Finding a good source of the media you want is the most important part. If you’re not comfortable with installing and managing your own server applications, the *arr stack could be overwhelming at first. The wiki I linked has a lot of good information to get you started.
Worked for me, too. Thanks friendly stranger :)
Seconding this. Frigate is great, and I’ve been running it on an ancient Debian box with a coral tpu for a few years. The only dedicated camera I’ve had has been at the front door, but cams I’ve used for testing and “goofing off” have been great at motion detection and object recognition.
This is a pretty apt analogy, I think.
We’ve been using copilot at work, and it’s really surprised me with some slick suggestions that “mostly work”. But I don’t think it could have written anything beyond the boilerplate my team has done.
(I also spend way too much time watching Copilot and Intellisense fight, and it pisses me off to no end.)
This is actually a great theory. I’ve fixed several monitors and TVs that were just bad capacitors. It’s a logical conclusion with these, too.
I have my old Athlon fx lying around. Needs a case, psu, and the nic… Hmmmm
Yeah, those little micro units are what I had seen recommended. $300-400 is definitely pushing it for me. Especially when I would also want a bigger switch to accompany it.
Guess I need to stop eating avocado toast.
Edit: how is the stability/uptime for those little machines? Historically, I’ve always had problems with my routers needing to be rebooted at least once a month after they’ve been in service for 18-24 months. Even my current “business class” cisco router is crapping out on me every month.
I’m already using my own modem, none of that locked-down rental nonsense from my isp.
What hardware do you use for pf/opnSense? All of the recommended stuff I’ve seen is almost prohibitively expensive for my home networking budget.
I feel like it’s just me, but all of my devices with Open/DDWRT crap out after a couple years. Even well-reviewed prosumer-grade gear ends up becoming wildly unreliable in an unacceptably short amount of time. I had to double-check, and my order history puts me at a new router every 2-3 years. This “business class” RV260 will be hitting 2 years in the fall, and I’m already experiencing wonky behavior where it needs to be rebooted regularly. Maybe it’s just an unspoken truth that anything below true “enterprise tier” kit requires a weekly reboot. I should just put it on an outlet to cycle the power every Sunday at 2am or something…
That said, I do love DDWRT!
100%. I have some function nodes to do things in JS, especially for date checking. And I think you can even get it to call shell scripts? I’m sure there’s an add-on that would do it.
Agreed that it really is a pleasant experience.
I’m intending to upgrade to a pfSense router and some other switch in the future. This is just supposed to be a temporary-ish investigation into the potential fuckery coming from my ISP.
I’ve been using nodered with homeassistant for a few years, and have also used it to add minor integrations for some external apps to send push notifications through HA.
On the surface, nodered looks like “programming for non-programmers”, and I’ve seen it get knocked for that. It’s really not that at all. Yes, it’s a node-based system and you’re not “writing code” but it’s very robust and can do a heck of a lot. I highly recommend folks check it out, it’s a pretty powerful little system, and I’ve been running it on my ancient amd fx-6300 server (along side a bunch of other docker containers) without any noticeable system slowdown.
Ah. Good to know! I’m starting to dive down this rabbit hole, and we’ll see where it takes me. Thanks :)
The android tv app is why I switched to Emby. I mostly liked jellyfin everywhere except the one place I would use it the most.
A few of the fixes for things that strongly turned me off were added as feature requests, but the devs seemed to blow them off as unnecessary or “impossible” (even though the “impossible” is done in every other android tv app, including Emby). Their perceived attitude really turned me off of it.