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i’m using it at my desk where i have one USB-DAC for my speakers and one for my headphones connected to my PC.

that means i have to switch my monitor from DP to HDMI every time i want to play a game (using samsung’s nipple tech), as well as either running my speakers through a splitter cable hooked up the wrong way to get PC and switch audio, or have the switch on my speakers while having the PC on headphones.

way too much hassle, plus i can lose my cursor on the right screen where the switch is, as well as having to blindly drag apps from there as they start. plus i completely miss incoming desktop messages.

and yes, i watch youtube while playing games. that’s why i need PC audio.


but then nintendo wouldn’t be able to shove tons of 6-7 year old hardware down our throats. (the 1st gen’s processor is even older)

i literally own a switch, but getting that fucking thing to work with my display/audio setup is a pain. just to get 1080p at 30fps.

no thanks, i’d rather play it at 1440p at a more stable framerate, with a controller of my choice, with the ability to load mods.


if it runs better, at a higher resolution, with the option of using a reliable controller, i will emulate it.


If you don’t have one already, it could be turned into a linux-based input device for your TV.


with sonic runners, they had to reverse engineer the whole server infrastructure. i’d say the chances of you patching out server checks without decompiling the entire game are low.

but i’m not any kind of programmer, so i’d love to be proven wrong.


been using antrenamer, filebot looks like it’s gonna make my job much easier.

the next time i’m reorganizing my (3TB btw) library, i’ll give it a try.


that may very well be the case, but it’s still excessive. i would much rather have a .txt file with relevant information and the “ShowXY S03E07” naming.

at least manually identifying shows is easy in jellyfin.


filenames following the standards of library apps like jellyfin, plex, etc.

i don’t want every file to be named “[ASDF]some.shitty.show.S3E7.MULTI(360p h264 7.1 dual audio).mkv”

jellyfin can’t identify most of these, and the relevant information can be found out easily by tapping properties (in windows, anyway)


aren’t interviews possible? i’m not in any private trackers, but i heard some groups do interviews.

i’d have a chance at getting in, since my torrent box runs around the clock, and once i get a VPN running i’m not afraid to constantly upload at maybe 1/4 of my bandwidth.


they may be using really slow hard drives or an SSD without DRAM.

or maybe a shitty network switch?

maybe the bandwidth is used up by a torrent box?

there’s a lot of possible causes.


if there was a way to get spotify with at least CD quality and the artists getting the rest of the money that spotify doesn’t already take, more people would probably pay for it.

i am in a spotify family plan already, but i get that paying 12 bucks a month for 320 kbit/s and getting the artist fucked over is too much.

it’s a thing of morals for many people, like with steam. steam doesn’t actively fuck both the developer and the user over, they just take a 30% cut. you could argue about if that’s too much, but i’m fine with it.


which is eyactly why piracy isn’t theft.

it can still be a crime, just don’t call it what it obviously isn’t.


true, but my jellyfin server doesn’t care. if i didn’t want it, i would’ve unselected it when importing the torrent.


i had a similar one, godawful speed (i don’t remember how much, but it was measured in single or double digit kbit/s) and turned on their computer when i went to bed, and off exactly when i came back from work.

ended up leaving the computer on the whole day for a few days. this guy owes me 5 bucks.


maybe display it for the user for half a second. but nothing else.

my3d printer does this on long prints too, it’ll say 100% for up to 10 minutes when it’s a really long print. makes no goddamn sense.

probably rounding shit in the software and a lack of care on the manufacturer’s side.


if the cpu performance and memory capacity is still enough, i’d recommend upgrading the storage. SSDs are reportedly getting more expensive, but it isn’t that bad yet.

running an external drive through some kind of USB 3.X connection would also be possible, although at reduced speed. (won’t matter with a HDD, obviously)


in my experience, upscaling tends to either just blur the image or make up details. i recommend keeping the 4K media.


not OC, but i ended up redownloading whatever was x265 and replacing it with 264 or anything else.

also the 1060 in my NAS can do NVENC encoding. that helped a lot with compatibility.


yeah, check if any of them haven’t been made availbale through torrenting. at least try to seed the rest.


it was that way with vanced. once the original devs stopped, the revanced team took over and continued development. i fucking love FOSS.


yeah, FF with ublock, sponsorblock and return dislike on PC works fine.

revanced on mobile works perfectly as well.

youtube can stick it up their ass.


i either download shit locally, or stream from a server I run. (maybe a little spotify, since it’s not known to take half your library “because licensing”)


didn’t have money for an external hard drive or anything like that growing up, so a lot of stuff got lost over the years. but when i upgrade my NAS’ hard drive i will buy an enclosure and scrape all of the important stuff together. like recovery codes for my 3ds collection, old photos of my late cat. that kinda stuff. then i’ll see how frequently i’m gonna update the data.


these two sites might be able to help out.

https://fmhy.net/videopiracyguide/

https://rentry.co/megathread

i have visited and tried out most interesting websites and added them to my bookmark bar. whenever i can’t find something, the next website will probably have it.

the pirate bay isn’t listed on these (for good reason) but i have been using it forever, just try to not download game torrents from there. that’s where the viruses are at.

in minecraft


the simple answer is: me big stupid

i had a domain, but dyndns and all the other stuff required is too complicated for me to figure out.


i torrent video files via qbittorrent from my PC onto a truenas folder on my server (my old PC), which is attached to a jellyfin jail, from where i can watch it with every device i have wireguard vpn installed on. boom. private video streaming service.

for ebooks, the same thing happens, but i manually move the files onto my kobo libre 2. i don’t have very many ebooks to manage.

the syncthing idea is great, but i suspect your ebook reader is running android. the libre 2 runs a closed down version of linux i believe.


exactly, had a pirated version of frostpunk. but when i played through it the first time i immediately wanted to play the DLC.

so i went on epic games and bought it for full price.

good job devs, that game is a masterpiece and you deserve my money.


that’s why i use spotify, almost all songs i want, great UI, the discovery algorithm is rad, and sharing a playlist for the communal work speaker is easy.


yeah, after trying to figure it out for a whole day, i’m tempted to either set up a linux mint vm or just get a slow pc do do it. i don’t care enough.


if i was to build one, i would go for a thinkcentre. easy to get for cheap and perfectly able to stream video (with linux, of course).


i had a transmission jail once, but couldn’t figure out where to mount the jail, and how the file paths would have to look. but a jail seems like the way to go. i might be able to put more energy into figuring that out now.


I found a third party app which basically just opens the web-client and might be able to register itself as the opener app for magnet links. i’m gonna try that one when i get home.


Build a Thinkcentre or try to fiddle with VMs?
Hi, i've been running a Truenas server for a while now. i currently have my totally legally aquired movie saved on there and jellyfin to stream them. but the one complaint is: i can't torrent without my Workstation pc running, because its running qbittorrent and uploading it through SMB. is there any way to install a torrent program on the server and remote control it via my PC? Ideally with magnet link support? i would imagine it being done via a VM and connecting it to the server via SMB or FTP as well my electronics engineer brain also had the idea to buy a passively cooled thinkcentre for 50€ on ebay and just keep it running inside my office 24/7. any help is appreciated!
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i can’t code for shit, but i am willing to help in any way i can. at the moment thats money and bug reports.



my brother has a budget samsung tablet. i’m not a fan of samsung myself, but he says it’s great. way easier file management too. hmu if you want to pirate anything specific, i may know a few websites.


they are very committed to not save any of your data, to the point that their servers run entirely in RAM and get cleared daily. but i am considering switching to mullvad when my subscription runs out.


sounds like you might wanna underclock stuff, LTT made a video about a cost competitive gaming pc which is more effficient than an equivalent gaming console. or get something like a rockchip-based Raspberry pi clone with pci-e slots


i may have figured something out, godaddy doesn’t support ddns, but you can change the ip of an A record via the API. and i have found a program that runs under linux as a service that does exactly that. problem is, where in my nas do i run it? do i try to install it in truenas? or jellyfin? or do i create a new jail with the sole purpose of running said program?

https://github.com/navilg/godaddy-ddns


I‘m trying to set it up so i don‘t have to switch VPNs on my phone all the time. Also my Company IPad doesn‘t allow me to set up my own VPN connection.


A few Questions about reverse proxies and running your own Jellyfin server
First things first, the setup is currently up and running. but i would like to modify it to use a reverse proxy through my personal domain. Currently, i'm using an old pc with Truenas and a jail with jellyfin in it. i'm connecting to it with the free Fritz!Box VPN service. but that's stupid and slow. so i've bought a domain at godaddy.com. but i don't understand the principle of whatever is managing the domain knowing the public IP-adress of my server. i've heard of Caddy, but it's also running locally, so i don't understand how i connect the pc to the domain. if anyone could simplify this down for me, it'd be very helpful.
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i have a kobo libra 2. it can read pretty much any e-book file out of the box. though it has pretty limited storage at 8gb. enough for text only, but good luck building up a manga collection.