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Can SteamOS be installed on a desktop or is it only for the handhelds?
Can SteamOS be installed on a desktop or is it only for the handhelds?
Had to look it up. They mean Home Theater PC.
Side note. Don’t use hardware acceleration with TDARR. You will get much better encodes with software encoding, which is great for archival and saving storage.
Use hardware acceleration with Jellyfin for transcoding code on the fly for a client that needs it.
If you know what your client specs are, you can use TDARR to reencode everything to what they need and then you won’t have to transcode anything with Jellyfin.
You have a point that it will be hard to explain this to everyone on why it is better.
From my understanding, when you use a password manager, the user will enter a pw into it that they remember and the vault will unlock. Then when they go to log into a website, a different, longer, and impossible to remember password will be sent to the site at login. (Assuming they are using the manager well). A week later when they go to log in again, the same long password will be delivered.
The problem is that if a bad actor gets involved, whether it is the website is attacked or they send the user a phishing url or something and the password from the manager is exposed, it will have to be changed. That scammer can now log into that website as the user whenever they want, and possibly any other website that user used the same password for. Hopefully they didn’t if they are using a manager.
With passkeys, a user will log into their manager with a password they remember, but when they go to log into a website, a different token will be sent, based on their key, every time. So if a scammer is listening at the router they still can’t log in again because it has expired.
It is still not a perfect thing, I would imagine that phishing sites could still get a scammer in, who could possibly do bad things or change the login credentials but it is still much more secure than sending a password to the site for the user.
Reading this makes me want to find a Linux distribution that does not use the gnu stuff at all.
My favorite thing is when banks don’t allow passwords that have spaces in them or are more than 12 characters long.
Honestly there should be a standard of what security means, like how passwords are stored and how TOTP is implemented, and if a bank doesn’t implement it then THEY are responsible for any “identity theft” that happens on their site, not the users.
I would say that both osx and Linux are flavors of Unix, not that macs run Linux.
Wow, I think I had an Okidata modem at one point. I haven’t thought about that in a long time.
I got a Canon MF3010 laser printer a few years back. It is attached to a print server made out of an old Mac laptop I had. It has been great. I can print to it from anything, Mac, Windows, Linux, iOS and I have had to replace the toner once since I got it.
I still have my WRT54G around somewhere. Loved that thing. What I found interesting was that when the firmware went open demand for that model went through the roof. Wish more companies would realize that there is a demand for that market.
I personally would not use it for anything that is being saved on your drive. Using cpu encoder is slower but I just let it run over night or whatever and it will be done later.
Save GPU encoding for when you need it smaller right now like when you are transcoding on the fly.
I generally think that for storage/archiving you should use CPU encoding and only use GPU for things like transcoding where real-time results are crucial.
GPU encoding is a lot worse quality than CPU, and you can’t change the settings to what you want. Better to just accept the extra time requirement to get a better result.
I would try making one video into the format you want and see if it plays where you want it.
I like the interface of Airsonic, but it looks like it hasn’t been updated in 4 years, and Airsonic-advanced hasn’t had any action since February of last year for the experimental branch or 2020 for the stable branch.
What do people use? I tried Navidrome a while back and wasn’t happy for some reason. Should I try it again?
I think that having a strong public domain is good for everyone. For instance properties like Sherlock Holmes really took off once it was in the public domain and people could write spin-offs and whatnot without worry that a copyright lawyer would come along and sue them.
Linux is the same thing, Amazon using the kernel and stuff to build an OS on doesn’t take anything away from anyone else who uses Linux as a desktop or server environment, and in fact can lead to some good pass back, even if it is just that the devices are easier to root. Take a look at the Open-wrt project, where Linksys built their router on top of a Linux kernel and it led to a whole ecosystem of open routers. People went out of their way to buy a WRT-42G just with the intent of rooting it, and Linksys got their money either way.
Tdarr is great if you are comfortable setting up a Docker environment. It is a great way to reprocess your whole library.
A good GUI alternative is Handbrake. It uses a different library than ffmpeg but can do the same stuff. One thing about Handbrake to remember is that it is centered around video encoding. So while ffmpeg can process your audio streams without touching the video stream, Handbrake will reencode video every time.
Or buy it on physical media. More and more studios are pulling their disks and it is getting harder to find. If you have a disk, it can never be recalled.
What are good cameras to use for self hosting this stuff? I have a NAS and would have no problem opening a port to allow access from outside the home but most of these companies just want to sell you cheap cameras that you really don’t have full access to.
They did. I think it was a regional database key collision problem. People n North America would see cameras in Australia and vice versa. But I could be wrong.
I love my shields, I have both the tube and the pro in different rooms. I like the Jellyfin AndroidTV app more than Kodi. I have side loaded a different launcher to avoid the ads.
I would love to try and replace it, but it needs to be able to handle 4K UHD rips with hdr and the original sound tracks in ATMOS or whatever.