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Re:Jellyfin 12.0
on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @01:02AM (#49605754)
I moved from plex to jellyfin and got 10% of the way through organising the films the jellyfin style and then just moved the rest of the video files into a folder called 'ok' and it worked fine. try the lazy way first and see how it goes
Re:Stop Using Icons in Data Tables
on Monday February 09, 2026 @08:31PM (#46954179)
thats why all data should just be presented in an excel pivot table from the start
Re:US administration to require app, social media, possibly DNA for tr...
on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @12:47AM (#46775982)
you could put down the email address they end up in or you could learn to lie plausibly
Re:SQL Studio
on Thursday January 08, 2026 @06:10PM (#46547836)
I'd love to see a new SQL program that focuses on the design view/access style with the tables joined with lines. For people who aren't used to code its the easiest way to get what is in each table
Re:Self hosting my media library with Jellyfin and Wireguard on Hetzner
on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @05:50PM (#46519953)
it probably is you just need to spend more time finding it. why would you choose this over finding music that has been made by someone interesting that lets you form a community or see a band live?
Re:Backing Up Spotify
on Saturday December 20, 2025 @07:54PM (#46341226)
they made cd singles and single song purchases long before streaming
Re:'Guilty until proven innocent': Fight between docs and insurers ove...
on Thursday October 09, 2025 @06:51PM (#45533846)
In Australia I just take my blood test form to any pathology place and they do it for free (for me) and bill the government a set price from the medicare benefits schedule.
Re:Ring introducing new feature to allow police to live-stream access ...
on Saturday July 19, 2025 @11:50PM (#44621821)
at least 40% of police would
Re:Maximizing Battery Storage Profits via High-Frequency Intraday Trading
on Thursday June 12, 2025 @08:24AM (#44256939)
seems dumb to have electricity needing to be wasted when there is seawater to desalinate
Re:Why Molson Is Embracing Non-Alcoholic Drinks
on Sunday March 30, 2025 @09:10PM (#43529605)
weed dude
Re:Markov Chains Explained Visually (2014)
on Friday February 28, 2025 @05:43AM (#43204127)
markov chains are used for my favourite financial algorithm; the allocation of overhead costs in cost accounting. wish there was an easy way to visualise a model with 500 nodes
Re:Using AI for Coding: My Journey with Cline and Large Language Models
on Monday January 27, 2025 @08:00PM (#42847715)
I like looking at stack overflow for coding examples and seeing a couple of nerds getting angry at each other about the best way to do stuff. or some interesting other ways of doing stuff. this is also why i come to HN! so its weird when people want to drop that small joy from their workday
Re:'Never seen anything like this' – NIH meetings and travel halted ab...
on Friday January 24, 2025 @08:13PM (#42818517)
the american counteroffer sounds like zero and declining quality of living tho
Re:Enough water to fill trillions of Earth's oceans found circling a b...
on Tuesday December 24, 2024 @12:48AM (#42499961)
You can't compress liquids that waters gonna stay there
Re:The Drugs Young Bankers Use to Get Through the Day–and Night
on Monday December 16, 2024 @01:58AM (#42428640)
productivity isn't worth forcing yourself to have a toddlers bedtime
Re:Nearly all of the Google images results for "baby peacock" are AI g...
on Tuesday October 08, 2024 @11:25PM (#41784216)
why are image results mostly coming from recent uploads? if i search for cool frogs its super likely the best photo came from 1982 and thats what i want to see
Re:'Stop ripping us off': Senate grills Novo Nordisk CEO on Ozempic dr...
on Wednesday September 25, 2024 @06:23AM (#41645749)
maybe the american government should start negotiating drug prices more effetively like the australia does with the pharmaceutical benefits scheme
Re:Battlestar Galactica: Technical Manual (2005)
on Sunday September 08, 2024 @02:12AM (#41478529)
the 2004 series was so good. it was the main reason i got ADSL internet so i could torrent episodes as they came out
Re:Ask HN: What is the best software to visualize a graph with a billi...
on Friday August 02, 2024 @09:08AM (#41138563)
Unformatted csv and you scroll down through it real fast
Re:Humble Games Lays Off All Employees, Carries on in Name Only
on Tuesday July 23, 2024 @10:36PM (#41053140)
aftermath is such a good site
Re:Jail time for those caught distributing deepfake porn under new Aus...
on Sunday June 02, 2024 @05:59AM (#40552854)
no yanks in the thread
Re:ICC seeks arrest warrants against Sinwar and Netanyahu for war crimes
on Tuesday May 21, 2024 @12:50AM (#40424266)
sounds good
Re:Friends don't let friends export to CSV
on Tuesday March 26, 2024 @12:27AM (#39824269)
excel now has a prompt so you can tell it to not convert stuff automatically
Re:Teamster Food Drivers Won Their Strike by Taking It Nationwide
on Monday February 19, 2024 @12:32AM (#39426512)
stop fighting for the scraps large companies leave you and celebrate labour making gains dude!!!!
Re:California health officials shorten Covid isolation period to 1 day
on Friday January 19, 2024 @05:06AM (#39053673)
those treatments are $$$ and not available without access to healthcare providers and time and more $$$
Re:Posthog is closing their Slack community in favor of forum
on Sunday January 14, 2024 @01:02AM (#38987931)
good move, i certainly seem to get better responses when i post my hog on a forum compared to slack
Re:Ask HN: How do you deal with never ending noise and distraction WFH?
on Monday September 18, 2023 @03:48AM (#37553440)
my friend you were just delusional in the woods
Re:Police are not primarily crime fighters, according to the data
on Saturday July 29, 2023 @09:48PM (#36926914)
go less fast than the speed limit
Re:Excel never dies (2021)
on Thursday August 04, 2022 @07:41PM (#32349719)
Have you heard of microsoft Access?
Re:Ubisoft deleted account with hundreds of dollars’ worth of games fo...
on Monday December 27, 2021 @02:22AM (#29700295)
or you could keep a copy of your receipt