Mountaineer

joined 2 years ago
[–] Mountaineer 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Hence why I'm g[l]ad my motorbike doesn't count.
I guess I left my meaning too open to interpretation.

[–] Mountaineer 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I'm pretty sure Firefox doesn't know how to cast, that's a chrome feature.
Secondly, a chromecast dongle can either be targetted locally by an app (such as chrome) or over the internet via https.
If you are just hosting on your windows laptop, you probably don't have a domain with TLS, yes?
From localhost (the laptop itself), if you run chrome, you can probably cast to your dongle whilst on the same LAN.

If you have one of the newer Chromecasts with the remote, you can simply install the Jellyfin app on it directly, and address your Jellyfin install by IP and port.

Plex uses some fancy redirection work around these limitations, but it relies on an external service that they provide.

[–] Mountaineer 6 points 2 years ago

There's some nuance missed here.

The "observation program" mentioned here, was a $1.2 billion program that was announced in the last days of the previous government.
There were no contracts, no tenders, just a vague proposal with a nebulous tax funded dollar figure attached.
The sector as a whole was using that announcement to entice investors in their own startups.
Now that it has been axed, the startups are struggling to gather further financing in what looks like a shaky industry.

[–] Mountaineer 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

I'm gad that my motorbike doesn't count.
If I'm doing the maths right, 101 kW @ 259kg ~= 390 kW/tonne

[–] Mountaineer 2 points 2 years ago

I'm not a big fan of anyone other than the author having default rights to change anything.
But as the OP, you could copy the bots tldr up there.

[–] Mountaineer 1 points 2 years ago

And deregulate everything, and reduce funding to schools and hospitals...

Same shit.

Indeed.

[–] Mountaineer 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Labor is just a little right.
Our other major party, who are far more to the right call themselves the "Liberals".
When a new minor party started calling themselves the "Liberal Democrats" (espousing Libertarian values), the Liberals complained to the Australian Electoral Commission (who are in charge of running elections) that the Liberal Democrats were deliberately trying to cause brand confusion, they were promptly told that the Liberal Democrats name was far closer to the actual meaning of the words.
It's all a bit of a farse.

[–] Mountaineer 2 points 2 years ago

It's irrelevant to this community which is pro signal.

Signal provides a user experience comparable to iMessage in terms of features and ease of use, but with the big plus of cross platform compatibility.
That may not be what you personally are after, but it's what 99.99% of potential Signal users are after.

Signal tieing into the social graph we already have on our phones as user identifiers is a big win for 99.99% of users.
Signal being run through a centralised location is a big win for the 99.99% of users who don't want to host their own servers, or find someone to do it for them.
Signal attempting to earn income through things like money transfer is a good thing for the 99.99% of users who don't want to have themselves monetized in a different way (such as through showing users ads).

If a nation state wants to spy on you, you better be important enough to a different nation state that they protect you.
Because choosing to send GPG encrypted messages over XMPP isn't going to help you.

[–] Mountaineer 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

When you set up your libraries, it's important that you point the path at the root folder, jellyfin expects a fairly specific naming convention.
Here's how it is suggested to setup your tv shows for instance: https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server/media/shows

Simplistically, lets say you have 2 shows called "Friends" and "The Witcher", each with multiple seasons, and your NFS mount is /mnt/media.
You'd create something like: /mnt/media/tv
That's where you'd point your tv library, at that "tv" directory. It doesn't actually matter what the directory is called, but the library should be of type "shows".
Under that /mnt/media/tv directory, you would create a directory for each show, and it would be the name of that show, so you'd get: /mnt/media/tv/Friends/ and /mnt/media/tv/The Witcher/
Then under those directories you would create seasons, to put your episodes in, ie /mnt/media/tv/The Witcher/Season 01/The Witcher - 01x01 - The End's Beginning.avi
/mnt/media/tv/The Witcher/Season 01/The Witcher - 01x02 - Four Marks.avi

If you pointed the root of your library at /mnt/media/tv/The Witcher/Season 01/, it would probably fail to parse the episodes.
If you create your library as /mnt/media/allmystuff/ and just ram everything in there, it's unlikely to find anything.
This may all seem a bit complicated, but there's lots of tools that are useful to automate this process.
I personally recommend https://sonarr.tv/

If you are doing all of the above correctly, we'll have to dig a bit deeper for more details.

As for "unsupported formats", that most commonly happens when you have enabled hardware acceleration and it's not working properly.
Whilst there's several reasons why it may not be working, to rule it out, try temporarily disabling Hardware Acceleration under Dashboard -> Playback -> Transcoding.
The system should fall back to CPU transcoding which may be slow (hardware dependent), but at least it should function.

[–] Mountaineer 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

To paraphrase the Joker, this isn't about justice, it's about sending a message.

If Julian was Chinese or Russian, acting in the same way on behalf of his country, the US would be doing nothing right now.
But because he's a citizen of an ally (vassal), he's going to be hounded forever, anywhere, until the US shows just how tough they are on "traitors".

America: We fight in your wars. We spy on your citizens for you. We bought your bloody submarines. Can we have our problematic fuckwit back now?

[–] Mountaineer 4 points 2 years ago

Once upon a time it would have simply been a Telstra line item, subsidized by city users.

[–] Mountaineer 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I remember having to do the maths once upon a time, and decide that I didn't want a shift in my part time job, even though I could use the money, because it would effect my payments.
I had to reach an agreement with my employer where they promised to offer me at least X hours a fortnight (I can't remember what it was, and there was no guarantee, just a verbal promise), because there was a point at which I was not only losing the centrelink payment, but I'd lose the rent assistance, and health care card and all the other things, necessitating my reapplying for everything.
To someone on that knife edge of paying rent and eating, with electricity for heating... That was a bit too dangerous to play with.

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