Saltarello

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[โ€“] Saltarello 2 points 1 week ago

"What madness is this?" ๐Ÿ˜‰

[โ€“] Saltarello 1 points 1 week ago

Earthbound was great!

[โ€“] Saltarello 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I bought an i7 NUC to use as HTPC some years ago. It has W10 IoT on it. Handles Dolby Atmos like a charm & 4K to a degree (YouTube. Last time i checked, Windows still liked to give 4K media files a purple hue)

[โ€“] Saltarello 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Crap, I literally just bought a GL.iNet GL-MT600 Flint 2 which runs GL.iNet skin over OpenWrt & it has an option in its settings to switch direcrly to OpenWRT if you prefer, or you can also flash OpenWRT onto it yourself too.

[โ€“] Saltarello 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Loved it & used it for such a long time because at the time it was the only android browser with extension capability ...but it's on an outdated version of Chromium & development seems to have ceased. Switched to Firefox which is great, though I still miss "open new tab in group"

[โ€“] Saltarello 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

You made me do it, ive ordered one. Having spent money I guess that means we're all in on Jellyfin now ...but if its no good I'll be sending the boys round for a full refund lol.

Will keep you posted, might save you some money if you can hold out, cheers

[โ€“] Saltarello 2 points 3 weeks ago

Thanks for the info, I'll look a little deeper into the live TV side of Jellyfin. Ive not heard of FLIRC USB before. Very interesting, I'd love to know how that goes, thank you

[โ€“] Saltarello 14 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

I've liked the sound of Plex forever but after it taking years for the wife to finally be comfortable finding her way around Kodi I couldn't really try it.

Just last week I fancied a tinker & I'd heard Plex has potentially begun to enshittify so I ended up putting Jellyfin on our htpc just to test it. As well as all the usual groups, it was simple to create additional collections for stuff only the wife wants to see rather than things we'll watch together. Within a day or so she's already flying round it so we've pretty much moved to Jellyfin. It doesnt seem to like IR remote control like Kodi does which is a shame & I'm struggling a little with the live TV aspect which was also very straightforward on Kodi but I havent looked too closely into it yet.

Overall very impressed with Jellyfin.

[โ€“] Saltarello 46 points 3 weeks ago

Tech has definitely become worse since megacorps killed the little guys & sucked the fun out of everything. Open source & self hosting is becoming/has become the only way. So glad I taught myself how to do it

[โ€“] Saltarello 1 points 4 weeks ago

I've found Canon printers to be generally good overall but this is BS. If its any consolation I have a Canon printer with WiFi. Win 10 is so shit the scanner literally never scans over WiFi & ive given in using the printer over WiFi for anything & just use it via a cable

[โ€“] Saltarello 2 points 1 month ago

A close friend sells a product on eBay. A product most households have & my friend collects when it's no longer wanted which is cleaned, sorted & resold. Has now left 9-5 job to run it as a business.

This friend is exceptional at exploiting niches & will likely become amongst leading sellers of this type (is well on the way already having done it before with a particular collectible). Interestingly, reading through the suggestions here, previously collected & sold scrap before pivoting.

I'm very proud of them!

[โ€“] Saltarello 10 points 1 month ago

For me it's the first thing i learned how to self host: Nextcloud ...which in turn allows me to sync Joplin notes, which I use constantly

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R-Type Sound Box (social.consoledated.com)
 

I love to see some of the obscure memorabilia associated with SHMUPS. How about this 5 record vinyl album for the R-Type soundtrack?!

 

Not 100% SHMUP related but hopefully of interest - someone wrote a blog entry on their journey building an arcade cabinet from second hand materials

https://movim.slrpnk.net/blog/jacobcoffinwrites%40slrpnk.net/arcade-cabinet-built-from-secondhand-materials-vA0m3u

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Home cabinet (self.shmups)
submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by Saltarello to c/[email protected]
 

These home gaming cabinets looks cool, compatible with jamma PCB's, PC & Android boxes

https://www.unico-usa.com/

 

Dumb question time. I signed up via lemmy.world & can subscribe to communities on other instances. Im trying to sub to communities on lemdro.id but see the error message "This thread was retrieved via lemdro.id. You are not logged in there"

The only place i can find to log in is on my search page which shows the lemmy.world instance i signed up to. Whilst adding lemdro.id instance & I'm requested to sign in to it but my login credentials are refused.

Surely we don't need multiple log ins for multiple instances? Or is it because lemdro.id is very new & isn't yet federated to lemmy.world (although I can see lemdro.id & its communities just fine).

Thanks in advance for holding a newbies hand.

 

Solo cycling from Vancouver to Patagonia. A slow start to this episode but a great series

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