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The Nvidia Shield seems to be the gold standard, but it's kind of pricey. I'm using a Raspberry Pi (2? 3?) running LibreElec with the Jellyfin plugin. It works great for video but has some issues with music playlists. You could also try a cheap Onn box from Walmart.

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Sorry, I'm not sure - like I said, I'm on a Pi.

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Good call. I have some old suede slippers sitting around that I was going to use for strops - but if there's enough material I could use them for this. The bass I made it for contacts the spine at its metal neckplate, so that doesn't need cushioning, but the body does.

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The neighbors love me.

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It would be improved by some googly eyes.
But then, what wouldn't?

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Thank you! It was made specifically for a Fender P bass, which is not particularly delicate. I have another one with a different design that I made for my acoustic, but that stand is more of a prototype made out of pine and not as impressive.
I do like the idea of moving the 'head' forward so it cradles the neck. I only just had enough stock to make this (well, without cutting into some bigger, nicer boards) so I didn't have a lot of room for features or experimentation.

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Better light outside and the patio was a mess.

AMillionMonkeys ,
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I'm pretty happy with Pixels for the moment, so it's a $5 USB-C to 1/8" dongle for me. That or the Pixel Buds I got for free as as promo with the phone. I've never had to charge and use the converter at the same time, but I believe there are cheap dongles that can do that too.

AMillionMonkeys ,
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you are better off buying xiaomi/poco

If they have the cell bands you want in the US - which they don’t necessarily.

AMillionMonkeys ,
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6.1 inches while still too large is actually usable.

That’s what she said.

Jellyfin struggling to play high quality files, crashing after a few minutes.

Hi I have jellyfin installed in a VM with 24 cores and 32GiB RAM (VM also used for Docker). Whenever I attempt to play higher quality files, jellyfin crashes after a few minutes. I haven’t seen it struggle with lower quality media....

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If the crashes are seemingly at random when transcoding I would suspect overheating hardware. Transcoding uses more energy and produces more heat than playing directly. If it were a software issue it would either work or not.

AMillionMonkeys ,
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I use an ancient guitar tuner app called Pitch Lab. Tiny, no ads. It’s great. If they don’t kill it this round it feels like it will be soon.
Anyone have a suggestion for a replacement?

AMillionMonkeys ,
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Thanks. FWIW there are a couple of apps called Tuner on F-Droid. The one by Michael Moessner seems to be better maintained.

AMillionMonkeys ,
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Quick! Someone tell us why this isn’t a good thing because the government did it! Surely there’s some secret corruption at work!

AMillionMonkeys ,
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You can already do this, but it’s not at all intuitive. So I’m glad they’re making it easier.

AMillionMonkeys ,
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‘splurging’ on a dumb tv

This might not be the best advice if money is an object, but some LG OLEDs can be rooted simply by visiting a website:
rootmy.tv
So you get a top-quality screen and complete control over the software.
Personally, I’ve never connected my LG OLED to the internet and it works just great.

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I’ve got a cable DVR and a Raspberry Pi running LibreElec plugged into it.
I’ve only experimented a little with gaming since I don’t own a console and my PC is in another room. I had the whatever the Steam software is installed on the Pi for awhile, so I could stream games from the PC.

How to Figure Out What Your Car Knows About You (and Opt Out of Sharing When You Can) ( www.eff.org )

Cars collect a lot of our personal data, and car companies disclose a lot of that data to third parties. It’s often unclear what’s being collected, and what’s being shared and with whom. A recent New York Times article highlighted how data is shared by G.M. with insurance companies, sometimes without clear knowledge from...

AMillionMonkeys ,
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Looks like a lot of info is shared through the manufacturer’s app which interacts with the car. Easy to avoid if you don’t install the app.
What we’re all here looking to avoid is the car itself uploading data. The article isn’t as clear about that, I guess since it depends so much on your exact model of vehicle.

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Right… I use multiple browser windows as tab groups. Tried tree tabs, but since I keep one window per topic I rarely get enough tabs open to need them.

AMillionMonkeys ,
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Especially since modern desktop environments will have a gesture or something to give you a preview of all your open windows. What’s annoying is that they all seem to shuffle the spatial order of the window previews whenever they feel like it.

AMillionMonkeys ,
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Awesome! … What’s a CI?
(I started reading the link but it doesn’t introduce the term.)

AMillionMonkeys ,
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Meta isn’t heavily influenced by a government adversarial to that of the US, so the risks to US security are not the same.
The mental health risk looks pretty similar, though.

AMillionMonkeys ,
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Capitalism is bad and they should install Linux.

AMillionMonkeys ,
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Now if only someone over there would order their plain logo shirts in common sizes I’d give them $15.

Hardware recommendations wanted for Jellyfin server

Right now I’m running Jellyfin on an old mini-PC with a Celeron J4105. That seems a bit underpowered. I’m using Linux Mint and the installation is with Docker. I’m looking to replace it with something better, so what would you recommend? My criteria are:...

AMillionMonkeys ,
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I’ve been shopping for the same thing. I can report that Intel N100-based computers currently (February 2024) have issues with Linux WiFi drivers. Not a problem if you’re hardwiring it.
I’d also avoid the really tiny PCs because they use the shortest M.2 drives (2242), which limits capacity and upgradeability. You want one that fits a 2280 M.2 drive. Or a 2.5" SATA drive.

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