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Re:Jellyfin 12.0 on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @01:07PM (#49613185)
You hate it so much that you're doing it yourself?
Re:Jellyfin 12.0 on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @01:06PM (#49613159)
Quite the opposite, the upgrade was completely painless for me. The only things that can trip it up are mentioned in the release notes: avoid multiple usernames that only differ in case and make sure you're upgrading from 10.10.7 or any 10.11.x.
Re:Jellyfin 12.0 on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @01:02PM (#49613101)
Infuse is the best I've tried so far on Apple TV. They also make a version for iOS and iPadOS.

Neptune is an up-and-coming client that looks promising.

Re:Jellyfin 12.0 on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @12:56PM (#49613021)
I've been using Jellyfin for roughly 5 years, most of my library are Blu-ray remuxes (50-100 GB) and I haven't had a single one fail to play. My setup is Apple TV with Infuse connected to a LG C9 with a modern Yamaha receiver.

Transcoding is a whole can of worms I chose to avoid by playing everything directly.

Not completely true, many games on Steam in fact do not have any DRM. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48755132.
Re:StarFighter 16-Inch on Wednesday May 06, 2026 @09:43AM (#48036175)
Has the availability of Starlabs hardware gotten better? Back in August 2024 I ordered a Starbook and then cancelled the order 4 months later when the laptop was still not delivered and Framework started selling in my country.
Re:Obsidian Bases on Thursday May 22, 2025 @10:45AM (#44062622)
The repo is now almost 3 years old (started in December 2022) but you still can't install the plugin via Obsidian. Looking at their roadmap, several features have been completed but for some reason they don't think it's ready to for use.
Re:Obsidian Bases on Thursday May 22, 2025 @04:20AM (#44059926)
Bases seem like a great alternative to Dataview [0] but better supported and with simpler syntax than literally writing inline JavaScript for more complicated stuff.

You can also export your table as CVS and they plan to properly support Obsidian Publish which was never supported in Dataview.

[0]: https://github.com/blacksmithgu/obsidian-dataview, I was a big fan but it seems the author has stopped actively developing it at some point which is a shame.

Re:Obsidian Bases on Thursday May 22, 2025 @04:10AM (#44059856)
If you pay for the Catalyst license (which you need to anyway to use this beta feature), when you log into the application, under General there's an option to enable "Receive early access versions". Then if you click on "Check for updates" it will download the latest version.
Re:Free-threaded CPython is ready to experiment with on Tuesday July 16, 2024 @04:10AM (#40974495)
That does not match my experience. I've been working with Python for a year or so and the packaging problems come up every now and then still.

I've installed/built a few packages written in Go and Rust specifically and had no problems.

I'm a happy consumer, too, but I would say speed is not Photoprism's strength.
Re:Llamafile lets you distribute and run LLMs with a single file on Thursday November 30, 2023 @05:54AM (#38471995)
On a fresh install of Ubuntu 23.10, I made it executable (`chmod +x llamafile`) and it worked just like that. After installing `nvidia-cuda-toolkit` it also worked with my GPU. So far the most seamless method I've tried.
Re:Fixing Mass Effect black blobs on modern AMD CPUs on Monday July 20, 2020 @03:24AM (#23895501)
Seconded. Outer Wilds was absolutely wonderful. The gameplay is lacking in places but after watching the making of documentary [1] my mind is still kind of blown by the technical side, even if it didn't transfer 100% smoothly to the player's experience.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbY0mBXKKT0

Re:Fixing Mass Effect black blobs on modern AMD CPUs on Monday July 20, 2020 @03:19AM (#23895474)
Have you tried Disco Elysium?
Re:Chrome phasing out support for User-Agent on Thursday March 26, 2020 @04:59AM (#22691684)
You need: 1. Usenet provider (this allows you to download the links) and Usenet indexer (this allows you to search for content you want because files like movies usually have obfuscated filenames). Example of the former is Frugal Usenet, example of the latter is Drunken Slug (free-ish) or DogNZB (paid). One of the many things you need to watch out for with providers is retention, the length of time they keep the files so you can download them. In general, the older content you find on the indexer, the less likely it's still going to be available. The downloading itself can be done in an automated way (for example with Sonarr and the like) or kind-of manual with tools like SABnzbd.
Your link has a ">" at the end which makes it not work.
Re:Language Learning with Netflix extension on Monday January 13, 2020 @05:57AM (#22033396)
It's not really what you asked for, but subtitles that you download from websites like zimuku.com or zimuku.cn have dual language versions: separate English and Chinese flag means the ZIP file contains separate language subs, pirate flag means it has one set of subtitles containing both languages - super useful if your video player doesn't support displaying more than one set or you don't want subs at the top of the screen).
Re:Foliate – A simple and modern GTK eBook viewer on Thursday July 11, 2019 @04:03AM (#20409892)
Installing it via "flatpak install foliate" didn't work? Downloading the .flatpakref seems like an unnecessary step to me but I'm on a different distro (openSUSE Tumbleweed).

edit: I can also open files from anywhere on my PC. Could it be that the flatpak on Debian Stretch is not correctly configured?

It's a personal decision with far-reaching societal impact [0]. Even types of addiction that are not obviously health-destroying can, in fact, be killing you and thus imposing indirect burden on society [1].

[0]: https://www.erswhitebook.org/chapters/tobacco-smoking/ [1]: https://www.alternet.org/2012/09/how-gambling-can-kill-you-f...

This is not correct. Roger McNamee, who was Zuckerberg's mentor and also helped recruit Facebook's COO Sheryl Sandberg, said they simply do not want to do it. He tried to push them in that direction but was met with resistance.
Re:Facebook Loses Top Executives, Including Chris Cox on Friday March 15, 2019 @04:02AM (#19397588)
For free? Oh, you're paying, a lot. Just not with money.