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st3ph3n

@st3ph3n@midwest.social

Fleddit in June 2023. Was on kbin for a while but it’s been broken and janky lately, so I’m giving midwest.social a try now.

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Tesla is recalling its Cybertruck for the fourth time to fix problems with trim pieces that can come loose and front windshield wipers that can fail | The new recalls each affect over 11,000 trucks (apnews.com)

The company says in the documents that the front windshield wiper motor controller can stop working because it’s getting too much electrical current. A wiper that fails can cut visibility, increasing the risk of a crash. The Austin, Texas, company says it knows of no crashes or injuries caused by the problem....

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I think the ones in that lot were sitting there waiting for recall work to be done before they could be delivered to suckers customers.

what's your current linux distro?

wanting to hop into the world of linux on a dual boot method (one of my favorite games unfortunately cannot be run on linux at all, and it's a gacha. I don't want to gamble with my account being banned, so I'm keeping windows for it specifically.) this'll be my second go at it, I used Pop!_OS briefly but had some issues with...

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Seconding this experience with Mint 21.3, although on a laptop here. I just wanted something that works without much fucking about, and it delivers.

st3ph3n ,

They charge fast when the battery is fresh and healthy. When the battery health gets shitty the software automatically switches it to slowly trickle charge to preserve it, although you can go into the settings and re-enable the previous fast charging.

My SE is currently at 75% of its original battery capacity. I put it on at 8AM this morning after charging it all night, tracked one workout during the day and it is now almost 10PM and it is at 16% charge and dropping fast.

st3ph3n OP ,

Yep, I only noticed because I got prompted to update when I ran it today!

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It took about a week to generate for my library without hardware-accelerated MJPEG generation, at the default resolution in the Trickplay configuration. I let it use 8 threads but CPU use was close to nothing the whole time, even with priority bumped up to above normal.

It wound up consuming about 10GB of storage by the time it was done, for a library of 2.6TB. My library is mostly 1080p stuff, a mix of h.264 and x265.

st3ph3n ,

I assume I should probably wait for my multi-day running Trickplay task to finish before attempting an update, right? :)

st3ph3n ,

Mine's been running for about 5-6 days now, also not a huge library. I'm running Jellyfin in an LXC container on a host with 16 CPU cores. Started with 4 cores, but have bumped it up to 8. I have noticed that when it is generating the Trickplay images for h.264 content it only uses about 8% of the available CPU resources. When generating images for x265 it uses about 60-70%.It doesn't seem to matter what the priority for the trickplay job is set to.

st3ph3n OP ,

At the rate my Jellyfin server is generating trickplay images right now the Android client might have support for them by the time it finishes.

st3ph3n OP ,

My library isn't huge (in my opinion anyway, a few hundred episodes of TV and maybe 100 movies). My Trickplay job is about 16% complete after 3 days, lol. My AMD iGPU doesn't appear to be supported for the MJPEG stuff so I don't get GPU acceleration, but I have Jellyfin set to allow 4 threads for generating Trickplay images, and am running on a 4-core VM that sits on physical hardware that isn't slow at all. Looks like even though it is using 4 threads it is still only using one of the cores, as CPU utilization for the ffmpeg process doing it is always at about 25%.

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I use one of those tiny mini PCs, with an AMD mobile CPU in it. It sips power but has enough oomph for transcoding when necessary. I'm sure the NAS that my library actually sits on uses way more power with its mechanical HDDs.

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Schadenfreude intensifies

st3ph3n ,

I run mine in an LXC container. I just snapshotted it in case of disaster and then ran apt update && apt upgrade.

st3ph3n ,

While Google certainly has a lot of responsibility for how shit their search results have become and the effects they have on website operators, the SEO industry can all go eat a giant bag of dicks for being the driving force behind making search results worthless trash.

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Oh no! Anyway…

st3ph3n ,

Ayy, I have a Ryzen 7 based T14 Gen2. Wonderful machine. Enjoy!

st3ph3n ,

Some form of Novell-era Suse Linux when I was in college… 20 years ago. I didn’t get it back then. Mint is my daily driver today.

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The audiophile reality distortion field in effect again.

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Doctorow's not wrong.

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The feasibility of that will be highly variable depending on where you live. Much of America is a public transit desert.

Apple will require notarization for apps from third party app stores, and will disable updates for apps installed via third party app stores if staying outside EU (support.apple.com)

As far as I can tell this basically means that all apps must be approved by Apple to follow their "platform policies for security and privacy" even if publishing on a third party app store. They will also disable updating apps from third party app stores if you stay outside the EU for too long (even if you are a citizen of an EU...

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Malicious compliance. I hope the EU stomps on them hard.

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Free software that essentially lets you roll your own Netflix.

‘Grand Theft Auto’ Maker Rockstar Games Asks Workers to Return to Office Five Days a Week (www.bloomberg.com)

‘Grand Theft Auto’ Maker Rockstar Games Asks Workers to Return to Office Five Days a Week::Rockstar Games, a division of Take-Two Interactive Software Inc., will ask employees to return to the office five days a week beginning in April as the video-game maker enters the final stages of development on its next game, the hotly...

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Stealth layoffs strike again.

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Windows' approach now being 'everything is a cumulative update, lol' is what I suspect makes it take so long for the updates to actually install now.

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Yeah, I only remember even being asked to reboot after kernel updates, and it isn't forced.

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Bravia was Sony's TV line in recent years.

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The fact that a PC can't make an HDMI-connected TV wake up and go to sleep out of the box is fucking maddening.

st3ph3n OP ,

Update: I wound up getting one of the Chinese mini PCs from Amazon. $300+tax got me a Ryzen 7 5700U, 32GB of RAM, 1TB NVMe storage, and a single 2.5Gb ethernet port. I can add a second interface via USB-C if necessary. Really not bad at all. I have Proxmox up and running on it already, with PiHole and Jellyfin already running in LXC containers. Jellyfin took a bit of screwing around to get the CIFS shares from my NAS and hardware-accelerated transcoding going, but everything works now!

st3ph3n ,

STOP USING TWITTER, DUMBASS.

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I have real time pricing from my utility. It works out well because we charge 2 electric cars overnight for a fraction of what they would cost to charge at the standard fixed kilowatt-hour rate. My house is heated by natural gas; I don't think the savings would be there if I also was heating my house with electricity as I live in the midwest, where it gets cold as fuck for the winter.

st3ph3n ,

RIP.

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Boo fucking hoo, HP.

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