Is there any way of adding more apps to the 'share' option? I'd really like to be able to share to my printer app.
The only apps available to share to are not apps that specifically deal with documents.
Tia
DTS-HD Master Audio or Dolby TrueHD and you want passthrough
Can you elaborate on this please - what's passthrough and dts?
I have a shield - can I use it as a server, or is it just a client?
I'll bear it in mind, thanks. Is this something that you've done?
Some great food for thought - and some ideas that I hadn't considered before - esp. about the mood I'm trying to convey.
Your comments about taking lots of photos makes good sense - with a few batteries and a couple of sd cards, I could take hundreds of photos - and maybe if I see one that I like, I can return to explore more of the same.
Many thanks for the great tips.
This is an area of Photography I really struggle with. So I'm interested to learn if anyone has any good tips for capturing photos of trees.
It's winter here in the UK and most of the trees are now leafless.
Grateful for any thoughts.
Absolutely correct. I was referring to videos/films that I'm watching that are hosted by plex. Apologies if I didn't make that clear. The videos that it hosts for me do not have adverts.
Thanks for the very detailed advice. Definately some interesting things to follow up on. I got the plex pass when I bought the shield but never got it to connect remotely, but due to them putting ads in their films, I'm now thinking to switch to something else.
Great, I'll repost, thanks. What's a mesh network btw?
Emby sounds interesting, thanks.
Thanks. I couldn't get plex to run from 'off site', it was probably something that I wasn't doing properly.
I'm not sure if it was the vpn or not, but it never connected even though I set the tunnelling like it said.
I'd like some streaming help please.
I've got a linux mint laptop, a windows pc, an nvidia shield and films that I'd like to watch from anywhere. Can you suggest a best way to do this, or any 'best' method that I can adopt?
I'll add that I'm not great at Linux, and all these devices will be on sleep mode when I'm away from home (apart from my nvidia) - which I believe is always on.
If possible I'd like to keep costs down, but I'm open to learning some new stuff.
Thanks for any help.
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Hi, apologies for the delay in replying and thanks for the advice - I've been following it this weekend after getting some more logs.
So far it's working well - I'm on top-down (Scandinavian) method - gets a really nice fire going quick and heats up the flue pretty quickly too. Your tip on getting a moisture tester: I'm gonna follow up soon when I get paid. I get that it's going to be pretty useful.
I got the two controls mixed up: left being main air vent (which I now keep open until the fire gets red hot) and the right (which I used to keep closed all the time) and now leave open. So, it's running pretty nice now, my next challenge is keeping it going! I got some complaints that the room was going cold so I'm not sure if leaving the logs to go to embers was leaving it too late before putting more logs on.
Again, thanks for the heads up, this is a learning curve for us, but I really appreciate the help.
Leather strop for sharpening
I'm genuinely curious here - really? As someone who always has to mess with the old fashioned 'steel' (mind your hands cus there's no guard on it!) sharpener, are they better? Honestly, heard of them, never used but interested.
Funny, but I see soo many kids walking to school with their worldly belongings in their back packs! Worse is they're hanging soo low - at least get a hip strap. Life lessons I guess. In my day we had lockers in the school.
I'll fuckin bet someone came out singing ! Why do we allow this to continue to happen to penny shareholders? And workers alike.
Now, a Sony Bravia - what size and price may I ask ? And how difficult is it to remove all the shit ad functionality from it ?
I've had my 32" for like 8 years but definately looking for the same quality piece of kit.
Excellent! Glad you found what you wanted - I'll bookmark this for when I have to replace my trusty Bravia! 👍
Try this in the 'do it yourself' group. It's got some great users and advice.
Good luck.
I'm dreading replacing my dumb tv, but can confirm that the nvidia shield was the best thing I ever bought for entertainment: just sideload your apps and off you go.
Take the cable out of the tv, plug it into your android box and hdmi to the tv.
Can recommend STN, cloudstream and plex.
Good luck.
Great advice and thanks for taking the time.
For what it's now worth, this has been my way so far (which by the sound of it may be why I'm unsuccessful): load kindling, one log and a couple of firelighters, light fire, keep control open and also door.
Close door after 3-4 mins, wait until log is burnt on one side then turn it over, wait until its burnt through then add another log then repeat turn and refill.
Not getting chance to watch tv properly as I'm constantly watching the fire!
Do you find any type of log better than others?
Thanks again for the advice.
Thaks for the oxyclear tip and yeah, loading the fire up initially is something I struggle with - it stays in our it goes out. I'll try that loading fashion - cheers.
We've got a small log burner with a light grey stone surround.
Every time I open the door to poke the logs, bits of soot fall out and mark the stone when I brush them up.
I'm getting a little worried as the house is rented, so I want to leave it in good condition.
I've tried washing liquid and cream cleaner but they just don't shift the stains.
Does anyone have any good tips that might help. I'm in UK, so products I can get my hands on here would help.
Many thanks.
This may not be the correct place for this, if so please point me elsewhere.
My other half doesn't have broadband, so I'm looking to write dvds so we can watch then on a dvd player.
To this end I've gotten a copy of ashampoo and downloaded some films (.mkv files) and I'm now looking to copy them onto dvds. Now I know I can't just copy the files on, and the software's asking for mpeg files only.
Has anyone come across - or know how to actually convert and write properly? A guide perhaps?
I know it's old technology, but it's gotta be better than just watching the crap on free tv. TIA.
Edit: many thanks to all for the great - and varied answers. Certainly lots of info to 'chew' on.
Just started using the above setup and gotta say this is the bees bollox - I'm so impressed by just how fluid it all works - free from an insane price too - it just works flawlessly!
I've got to add in here - Unchained (F-droid) which connects to an RD account and allows to search stuff and either 'aside' for later or download immediately - the app (imho) is wicked and definately worth checking out and supporting.
The great stuff aside, I have one general question: feel free to add more...
Saving stuff: I know that torrentio will save links into my RD account for me to pick up later, but can I get it to auto download into a folder of my choice - to any folder on my network? I can get it to save onto my phone (via Unchained) but then I've got to transfer it into my library.
I'm looking for a easy/lazy way I guess.
Any thoughts?
I've just found Syncthing and I'm blown away by this app. So, I'm interested if any of my other apps can be replaced by foss equivalents that can be synced.
My first suggestion is Obsidian - which, at first I had problems syncing with paid solutions, but syncs flawlessly with Syncthing.
Does anyone have any more suggestions? Ideally looking to sync between android devices, but any info is much appreciated.
Update : many thanks for all the suggestions - some good ones. Hopefully we can keep adding the ones we find that can be synced from local folders.
Is it possible to get sync to clear the cache? As someone who has ocd I'd like the option to leave everything behind me clean when I leave.
Edit: added words.
I've had this Vax upright for about 5 years. Recently it's started to cut off when I'm using it. I feel the base - and it's hot. Any ideas for anything that I can do to fix it?
I'm not technically minded but I will have a go - if it will save me having to buy a new vacuum.
Edit: many thanks for all the replies and advice.
Does anyone know of a foss android app that will notify me if I load certain apps that I also need to use with vpn on?
I don't need my vpn always on, but I do for some apps. Ideally I'd like to be able to toggle the apps I want it to monitor.
If it could switch the vpn on as well that would be top.
I'm seeing this happen more of late: the message 'View more (1)' appears in-between a thread (the number varies by the way), when I click to expand the comments a message 'loading' appears followed by 'no comments added'. Why does it think there are more comments and why can it not retrieve and show them?
I'm using Sync for Lemmy.
I'm pretty thy a newbie when it comes to networking and stuff, but was wondering if it's possible to run jellyfin as a server on my shield. A bit fed up looking at plex and wondering what alternatives I have. Does anyone have any good suggestions?
Edit: thanks all for the replies and suggestions.
I downloaded fedilab from fdroid and it looks on the surface as though it can access instances of the fediverse as well as lots of other stuff - like I can see lemmy.world and lemmy.ml but not lemmy.ee but I'm not sure how to see individual communities - unless there's a post I can see to follow.
So my basic understanding of all this - coming from reddit, is that these instances all federate together - as one, so to speak.
I'm just getting a little confused here. So can anyone explain just how this piece of software works please?
Thanks.
What's the best functioning music streaming app for the tv - I'm currently using vi, but are there any others? I'd prefer ones that don't need a mouse to function properly.
I read that garlic pressed hard by the back of a knife releases oils, but then some recipes just say to chop. Are there any preferred ways or does it depend on the dish being cooked?
Trying to setup obtainium and I'm forgetting just where I got some of my apps from. Does anyone know if I can get a list of all the apps that I've installed by repo? This could be just a way to achieve this or an app itself - not too fussed, but I feel updating my foss apps is getting on top of me. Thanks.
I have my calibre synced from pc to Nextcloud and use the android app to link them together.
I mostly read reference books - recipes, photography, history - so I don't need, or have the space to keep the books on my mobile phone.
This works great however, what I'd really like to do is read my books without having to download them first.
I guess I'm looking for a lazy approach to reading my reference books without storing them all on my phone.
Anyone have any different approaches that I can learn from?
Is there a way to cast from my phone to a first gen chromecast without using mobile data? I thought I could do this by downloading films to my phone and then stream to cc, but it seems to throttle my tethering data.
So I'm not sure if I'm understanding the way this works: I thought it would just cast from phone to tv - but it's using huge chunks of data for small films and my plan is limited.
Any advice on this or better ways to do this?