roofuskit

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roofuskit , (edited )

To anyone reading this, unless you absolutely must have the federation abilities of Funkwhale above your own sanity, it's not worth it. Funkwhale is an absolute bear to setup by comparison to every other music server. I have been bouncing through them all spinning up containers for the same library and putting them through their paces.

Spinning up 4 Navidrome containers with 4 different domains for my user's library preferences was quicker and easier than setting up one Funkwhale server for 4 users. It's beyond absurd how clunky it is. And worst of all, 4 Navidrome containers are extremely faster, less resource hungry, and easier to maintain.

None of the local library importing works in the UI unless you're the admin account. That means going into users to create libraries then spinning up an API container with a command to import the local files. But then it doesn't watch them unless you include that flag and leave the detached container running.

On top of that, so few people are running it that you cannot just search the web for issues. It's their lacking documentation only. You know something is obscure when you cant even find their own website by searching Funkwhale without going through the top result that links to it.

Funkwhale is just not ready for prime time compared to the other servers.

I have used Airsonic and then Airsonic-advanced for years after briefly using Subsonic. But recently as my more and more of my library migrated to FLAC I had issues with transcoding. Sometimes all transcoding would just start failing and when it did Airsonic would peg every thread it had available. (Heresy I know but when I or my users are on a mobile network I don't want to chew through data in a few day long outings.) So that's what led me down this path. I tried Navidrome and loved it except for the lack of library separation. I tried Funkwhale, and I tried Gonic. Gonic is wonderful in its simplicity but it's almost too basic. It supposedly had library separation and has transcoding but neither was working out of the box so I just said fuck it and went with 4 Navidrome containers because copy and pasting is easy and everything about Navidrome just works. Most importantly, Navidrome is lightning fast loading in an app which is the only way my users interact with the server. It fires up transcoding so fast you almost cannot tell the difference between loading the native file and transcoding in terms of response. I swear there was at least one more server I looked at but passed over and I cannot recall the name.

Edit: FYI Navidrome said that they are currently reworking the entire server backend, but after that it will be easier to implement multiple libraries.

roofuskit ,

Obviously the majority of content is not going to be available. It will essentially b a Tubi clone or what Netflix streaming was when they first launched it.

roofuskit ,

The 100 people who bought it will be crushed.

Follow-up On My FDM Purchase Advice Post

In my previous post titled Low End FDM for Miniatures, Hobby Parts, and Messing Around? I received a ton of fantastic recommendations, but ultimately went with the A1 mini due to its price at the time, ease of use, and several other factors. It came in today, and I've already made 10 different prints on it. The Benchy came out...

roofuskit ,

If you haven't found him already. https://youtube.com/@tombof3dprintedhorrors

His videos are great, he recently fell in love with the Bambu bed slingers. His minis are designed for FDM which is something you're going to have to look for.

roofuskit ,

The last thing you should be doing when going to bed is watching videos on your phone.

roofuskit ,

Lol, English is weird.

roofuskit ,

Good old /peopleliveincities content.

If I have a USB powered device, could I leave it plugged into a portable power bank (like the kind you charge your phone with) as a power outage backup?

Basically as the title says. We have semi frequent power outages where I live. The noise machine in my daughter's room goes out and wakes her up. If I were to buy a USB powered one, plug it into a power bank like one of those 10000ma ones you get for charging cell phones, would it have continuous power. Basically like a cheap...

roofuskit ,

DO NOT leave a lithium battery both charging and discharging indefinitely in your daughter's room. The suggestion below of a small UPS device intended for routers and they like is the way to go.

roofuskit ,

Lol, not here.

roofuskit ,

She certainly enjoys a good joke.

roofuskit ,

Xitter

roofuskit ,

That's the point. It's stupid.

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'Star Trek' Franchise Reboot: Simon Kinberg Eyed for Paramount Movie

So now this just sounds like a Trek prequel, not specifically a Kelvin prequel.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/star-trek-movie-franchise-reboot-paramount-1235904930/

@startrek

roofuskit ,

Oh yes all that valuable canon of, "oh actually they met the Borg earlier and nobody recorded it. And "oh actually they met the ferengi earlier and nobody recorded it."

roofuskit , (edited )

Not really. It's just a normal Zen 4 CPU with some server features like ECC memory support.

The biggest downfall of these chips is they have the same 28 PCI-E lanes as any consumer grade Zen 4 CPU. Quite the difference between that and the cheapest EPYC CPUs outside the 4000 series.

You're going to run in to some serious I/O shortages if trying to fit a 10gbe card, an HBA card for storage, and a graphics card or two and some NVME drives.

roofuskit , (edited )

We'll see if they even make them. I can't imagine there's a huge customer base who really needs to cram all that I/o through only two or 4 lanes. Why make these ubiquitous cards more expensive if most of the customers buying them are not short PCI-E lanes? So far most making use of 5.0 are graphics and storage devices. I've not seen any hint of someone making a sas or 10 gbe card that uses 5.0 and fewer lanes. Most cards for sale today still use 3.0 let alone 4.0.

I might as well just drop the cash on a real EPYC CPU with 128 lanes if I'm only going to be able to buy cutting edge expansion cards that companies may or may not be motivated to make.

AI and Robots Are Automating the IVF Process: Here's How It's Already Helped 11 Women Get Pregnant ( www.ibtimes.co.uk )

Hopeful parents who continue to struggle with infertility have found an unlikely ally in Science and the advancements of in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) as a laboratory in Guadalajara, Mexico harnesses the power of Artificial Intelligence and robotics to help streamline the IVF process.

roofuskit ,

That would require the people writing articles to understand it in the slightest. Or be able to distinguish real AI from marketing.

roofuskit ,

Yup, just complex pattern recognition so far.

roofuskit ,

Is the x4 slot full length? Because the graphics card will likely work fine in an x4 slot. Especially if you are just using it for transcoding. PCI Express is backwards compatible, is just going to limit performance.

PCIe 2.0 with 4 lanes gets you 2GB/s. Which should be more than enough for video transcoding.

If it's not a full length slot you can buy a riser that converts it. Some x4 slots have a cutout at the end though to allow them to accept full length cards.

roofuskit ,

Re-reading your post, I just realized you're probably trying to put a video card in the second PCI-E slot and you need to make sure your board will support that. Some boards will not boot if the only video device is not in the primary slot. If you have onboard video from the CPU this won't be an issue. But definitely double check the manual for your motherboard.

roofuskit ,

It should work as long has you have integrated graphics. Make sure you have the integrated graphics set as default in your bios.

roofuskit ,

There are things you can do in Linux to unlock the max number of transcoding sessions as well. You can Google it if you ever hit that wall.

roofuskit ,

This is so they can record everything office workers do and sell their replacements to corporations.

roofuskit ,

Lol

roofuskit ,

Insurance is by definition not gambling. It is only indemnity. The reality is that without insurance you are gambling that you'll get to keep the money you didn't spend on insurance and not be financially ruined.

roofuskit ,

Conjoined twins usually have some pretty serious physical limitations.

roofuskit ,

The algorithms are toxic. Negativity gets more engagement so the algorithms push that content more.

roofuskit ,

I'd much rather spend my energy doing something useful like talking to them about the importance of pushing for ranked choice voting.

roofuskit ,

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranked-choice_voting_in_the_United_States

You're straight up wrong.

Giveaway! Win your Steam Copy of the 'Captain’s Edition' of Star Trek: Resurgence! ( startrek.website )

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roofuskit ,

I always want more Trek!

roofuskit ,

Correct. Lore was too human in some ways, but he lacked empathy.

roofuskit ,

Lore had anger, hatred, jealousy, etc... plenty of emotions.

roofuskit ,

A fitness band will have low power Bluetooth you can detect. You can get a miband for $20-30. You can detect it with one or two $5 esp32 boards running espresense.

roofuskit ,

Can confirm. Elevation may cause variance though.

roofuskit ,

As a father, love your child, accept your child, and above all listen to your child.

roofuskit ,

Everyone needs to feel heard. You won't always be able to solve all their problems. But you can make them feel heard. And often that's more important.

roofuskit ,

If you have a disk controller you can pass through.

roofuskit ,

No point in expending resources to support a dying social media platform people barely had reason to use from a game console when it was popular.

roofuskit ,

Everything has a cost. I would have cheered them removing twitter from a game console before it was ruined. Nobody really needs that. And the resources can go to something that supports the core functionality of the device.

roofuskit ,

Taking his Coren-sweet ass time while the sky beam is killing people.

roofuskit ,

DJT syndrome, they were always there but he told them it was good to be that way. And that's exactly what they all wanted to hear.

roofuskit ,

Even worse, negativity increases engagement on social media. So instead of shutting it down, it's more profitable for them and the algorithms encourage it.

roofuskit ,

I knew it wasn't for me when I immediately thought, who is this even for? And then all the reviews came out asking the same question.

How do you build complex shapes? ( i.imgur.com )

I've made a large number of custom prints, and all of them were created using TinkerCad. It's an amazing toolkit, stupid easy to use but versatile. That is ... until something needs a tiny adjustment somewhere. That's when I feel it would've been neat to use parametric CAD instead....

roofuskit ,

Not using Tinkercad. It's ok up to a point and judging from the thumbnail you are way past that point.

The teaching tech tutorials for on shape are great and I really enjoy using onshape. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGqRUdq5ULsONnjEEPeBxxStEsobDKAtV&si=lBiIIO_Bo1G9VzS4

roofuskit ,

Let's see that part cooling system.

roofuskit ,

Oh my sweet summer child, do not watch the other movies mentioned here.

roofuskit ,

In-cheast-iality is the word we coined for the end of that movie.

roofuskit ,

Oh man, you don't even know the ending? I'm guessing you haven't seen a lot of the movies in this thread.

roofuskit ,

Hooo boy.

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