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  • 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.

  • nvidia shield recommendations?
  • 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.

  • Need help finding a controller for less than 50€
  • I can't speak to the others, but I have a couple 8bitdo controllers and they're fantastic. If the aliexpress listing is legit, I'd go with that one, no question.

    I've never heard of the other two brands, but cursory googling doesn't sound promising for them.

  • Moving away from Kindle
  • Interesting. Thanks for the extra effort to help out an internet stranger!

    I'll dig some more into these little buggers!

  • Moving away from Kindle
  • Awesome, thanks!

  • Moving away from Kindle
  • 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).

  • Looking for a rec: story oriented RPG with minimal focus on combat
  • Fair. I did stray from the "rpg" theme on... Most of my responses.

    Will look up Spirit of the North though! It sounds right up my alley

  • Looking for a rec: story oriented RPG with minimal focus on combat
  • For real. Its high time I replay it, too. Been long enough that I just remember general themes.

  • Looking for a rec: story oriented RPG with minimal focus on combat
  • You sound a lot like me, and probably get annoyed with a lot of grindy mechanics. Especially when you have limited time to play games.

    Sea of Stars and Chained Echoes will really scratch that Chronotrigger itch.

    Outer Wilds is also incredible (don't read spoilers, just go in blind). It's mini space exploration with cartoon-arcadey newtonian physics.

    Sword & Sworcery is also great, and a good point-and-click adventure with an amazing soundtrack. I'd almost argue it's better on a tablet or largeish phone through. It's very touch input focused, which is OK with a mouse, but I think is better with a finger (as intended)

    Others I enjoy :

    • Kentucky Route Zero (point and click with a wild vibe)
    • Firewatch (walking Sim with pretty low poly art)
    • Dishonored 1 & 2 (gritty fps with stealth and magic)
    • Inside (short puzzle platformer)
    • Abzu (undersea exploration, relatively chill, but I never completed it)
    • The Invincible (more recent than the rest, a very pretty walking sim in a retro-future sci-fi setting (Stanislaw Lem) that kept me pretty engrossed and occasionally worried)
    • Horizon: Zero Dawn. (Absolutely adored this world and story. Story mode combat was good, but I just used cheats for a lot of the basic pickup/crafting stuff. Yes, I can take 30 minutes to run around and gather basic materials, but I don't have that kind of time irl.)
  • Android TV Alternative
  • Yeah. It's weird. Sometimes a show will pop up to load via jellyfin, which I didn't use.

    There are still some design choices in Kodi that I don't like (e.g. media continues playing in the background, and messes up the home navigation), but I just need to search their wiki for answers.

  • Android TV Alternative
  • Yeah, that's what I finally settled on. My only gripe is that it doesn't sync with the homescreen/launcher.

    My initial test with Kodi gave me xbmc flashbacks, and felt like I had gone back in time. But a more modern skin and different ui sounds make a huge difference

  • I'm sorry, but it is true
  • Oh man. That looks fabulous. I may have to give it a go some time. Can't do it tomorrow, but one day soon....

  • I'm sorry, but it is true
  • I'm with you. Maybe it's because I've never had truly good homemade stuffing? It's always a weird, damp, spongy mess. But that box of Stove Top, ready in minutes? I'll eat the whole thing by myself. It's also great to have an extra box to go with the leftovers, especially for the sandwiches.

  • Best practice for duplicating Borg backup repo?
  • Just a cheap and reliable bucket to rsync my local backups to. I'm leaning toward Hetzner, but was checking out filen after your suggestion, too.

    An over-complicated solution I was tossing around with some friends was to set up a cheap NAS at our respective homes, and just rsync to one another. Then we can just sneakernet the drives if we need a recovery.

  • Best practice for duplicating Borg backup repo?
  • I'm in the same boat, actually. I'm hosting at home, but want to set up off-site backups, and am looking for something cheap and reliable.

    As for the actual process, rsync is probably the best method. I just need to find a good host

  • Migrating off of Google Workspace, how do I handle linked accounts?
  • I know you can register a google account with an external/non-gmail account. However, you can't transfer the workplace accounts, or reassign them to other things. Once you close your workspace account/subscription, they're vapor.

    If there's a way to do it, that would be fabulous, of course!

  • How do Sonarr / related services work?
  • honestly it’s baffling that I’ve spent 30 years on the internet and can understand so little of it

    100% agree.

  • How do Sonarr / related services work?
  • 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.

  • Migrating off of Google Workspace, how do I handle linked accounts?

    I've been a part of the google ecosystem for almost two decades now. I was originally given free access to their original gmail hosted domain way way back (in 03-05?) and I've been there ever since, watching it grow into the god awful thing it is today. Workspace is absolutely terrible for personal use, and has been for a while now. Unfortunately, being so deeply enmeshed, it's tough to break away.

    Overall, I think I have everything I need set up between nextcloud and my host's email system. But the big remaining hurdle is how to handle the actual loss of the "google account". I've checked our accounts and they are no longer connected to other sites/services as the sole authentication, but I'm worried I'm still missing something. Yes, play store purchases will be lost, but that's mostly inconsequential anyway.

    There is just that one big nagging sensation in the back of my head that I'm forgetting something. Are there any extra steps needed before I shut the whole thing down?

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    Android TV Alternative

    Hi, All --

    I've been using Jellyfin on and off for the last month or so, trying to migrate away from Plex. Jellyfin's server, web, and mobile applications have all been great, and aside from some small quibbles and quality of life things that Plex does, I have no complaints. It's never been a hassle to work with or use.

    Except for the Android TV app. I have two Shield TVs (2019 tubes) and while Jellyfin has been outperforming Plex in terms of playback/transcoding, the app itself is insanely frustrating from an accessibility/usability standpoint. There are some quirks I can live with and accept as it's still a young application in active development. But a few critical problems make it an absolute nightmare for everyone in the house.

    The two big issues are: no text titles on the movie/tv series library screens and auto-play next episode frequently replays the episode we started from. Another big irritation is when it auto-skips an intro, the audio is desynced, but that's a plugin and something I can disable, and we can survive without it.

    Can anyone recommend an alternative app for Android TV that works well with Jellyfin and maintains watched/next up status? So far, all I have found is Kodi, but I've had bad experiences with it in the (distant) past, and recent anecdotal evidence implies it could bring its own set of problems.

    Thanks!

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    Bandwidth/Traffic Monitoring Options

    I've been getting repeated emails from my ISP about "exceeding my bandwidth cap" and they feel very incorrect.

    My current router is a Cisco RV260, and it doesn't have a great way of tracking traffic. (There's a port traffic screen that does give tx/rx bytes, but no way to see any date ranges).

    Is there anything out there that can give an accurate account of Internet traffic? It would be nice if I could see destination domain/IPs, just for kicks and giggles, but an overall traffic count is all I really need.

    Thanks!

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    Naate Naate @beehaw.org
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