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Dallaswho
| Favorite team: | Missouri  |
| Location: | Texas |
| Biography: | 5.5x Message Board Genius “I do think that Dallaswho MIGHT BE Drinkwitz, posting on SECRANT, not kidding.” -HRV |
| Interests: | Football, cars, building things. Failing at garden/landscape. |
| Occupation: | Oil/Tech |
| Number of Posts: | 3590 |
| Registered on: | 12/4/2023 |
| Online Status: | Not Online |
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Is there any reason to use Plex over jellyfin except app on more devices?
Jellyfin did have a serious security bug a month ago but it was fixed quickly. I haven’t heard of a billion dollars going missing or an entire password manager being compromised like what happened with Plex.
Jellyfin did have a serious security bug a month ago but it was fixed quickly. I haven’t heard of a billion dollars going missing or an entire password manager being compromised like what happened with Plex.
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so i killed that integration (for now) and my appetite for an IPTV program guide integrated into my media server is pretty low right now.
I got off of that also but eventually landed back on it. Dispatcharr is a big improvement over threadfin. I had AI set me up with a lightweight ffmpeg proxy profile at like 0.995x or something to build a buffer and gracefully handle out-of-order or missing chunks. It works as good as tivimate does.
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wait for a season of show X to end, grab the season from a torrent site; binge watch ad-free.
Of just pipe your Xtream account through dispatcharr and vod2strm plugin and then your plex/jellyfin already has your custom live tv lineup and every show and movie imaginable, all automated. My eyesight and TV distance makes me not really care about bitrates though.
Their UI is exceptional but their service is just privateiptvaccess/mybunny good enough for me but not a wife pleaser. Some other chaps around here have services that are more solid. Some are XC and proxy friendly but that wizard one is hydra and requires an app.
Definitely still proxy that shite or anyone with access to your HA or jellyfin also has access to your TV passwords. No big deal if it’s $10 but better safe than sorry.
Another fun thing to do is have Jellyfin build a library (plus artwork) for 300k movies and shows from .strm links. It takes a while but it works.
Definitely still proxy that shite or anyone with access to your HA or jellyfin also has access to your TV passwords. No big deal if it’s $10 but better safe than sorry.
Another fun thing to do is have Jellyfin build a library (plus artwork) for 300k movies and shows from .strm links. It takes a while but it works.
Lol the $10 128g patriot SSDs everyone used as plex/jellyfin transcode cache are $50 now.
re: IPTV users. Ever use ffmpeg to convert streams to play in a browser?
Posted by Dallaswho on 5/16/26 at 9:59 pm to VermilionTiger
What is MMedia?
The formats are just wrappers. Use dispatcharr to proxy. Its default light ffmpeg profile unwraps streams for about any browser without using much compute at all.
Bonus: wrap dispatcharr behind gluetun and get a fully private entry point while all your content is open and accessible from your proxy to plex/jelly/home assistant, tivimate, whatever. Only downside is your media server will have to transcode to reach external clients but that’s still way better than exposing your links that include passwords.
Bonus: wrap dispatcharr behind gluetun and get a fully private entry point while all your content is open and accessible from your proxy to plex/jelly/home assistant, tivimate, whatever. Only downside is your media server will have to transcode to reach external clients but that’s still way better than exposing your links that include passwords.
re: Update pg 3 - 43" bar information home assistant display now in beta!
Posted by Dallaswho on 5/14/26 at 8:21 pm to Zach Lee To Amp Hill
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i need a mini-pc bad
Highly recommend Core Ultra mobile chips.
I have Meteor Lake H (P) and Lunar Lake. Both are phenomenal and extremely well supported.
re: Update pg 3 - 43" bar information home assistant display now in beta!
Posted by Dallaswho on 5/14/26 at 8:45 am to bluebarracuda
Most mobile SOCs (not all) have excellent video decoders. Have to make sure the streams you’re sending are compatible with said decoder.
re: AI in the Workplace - Open Discussion
Posted by Dallaswho on 5/13/26 at 10:14 pm to Lazy But Talented
Management.
Get numbers every day instead of every week.
Get 10x more new numbers derived from old numbers.
Numbers sources are still reported and not measured.
Numbers are all manipulated to meet or exceed KPIs rather than solve problems.
Garbage in, garbage out.
Numbers are erratic and still take months to properly review.
We already had triggers for possible bad things. AI didn’t help there, just speculates.
We just talk about way more numbers way more often now.
Eventually AI will get smart and realize this whole numbers charade is a scam to keep COO happy.
Get numbers every day instead of every week.
Get 10x more new numbers derived from old numbers.
Numbers sources are still reported and not measured.
Numbers are all manipulated to meet or exceed KPIs rather than solve problems.
Garbage in, garbage out.
Numbers are erratic and still take months to properly review.
We already had triggers for possible bad things. AI didn’t help there, just speculates.
We just talk about way more numbers way more often now.
Eventually AI will get smart and realize this whole numbers charade is a scam to keep COO happy.
So you can pop up different dashboards via automation? Ok I’m interested.
Most of my home assistant is notification based for things going wrong or people where they don’t belong based on time of day or garage door status, etc. The rest is voice controlled.
Basically I never look at HA except to turn on the hot tub and that’s only because I don’t expose the heater to assist or Alexa.
If I had some better dashboards though…
Most of my home assistant is notification based for things going wrong or people where they don’t belong based on time of day or garage door status, etc. The rest is voice controlled.
Basically I never look at HA except to turn on the hot tub and that’s only because I don’t expose the heater to assist or Alexa.
If I had some better dashboards though…
I’ll always advocate for a proper door station at the door and a proper surveillance camera for surveillance and never a “video doorbell”. But that’s just me.
If you don’t have much interest in these things, at least get something with person detection so your alerts actually mean something.
If you don’t have much interest in these things, at least get something with person detection so your alerts actually mean something.
re: Update pg 3 - 43" bar information home assistant display now in beta!
Posted by Dallaswho on 5/12/26 at 3:01 pm to bluebarracuda
I mean if I’m not getting paid, dashboards are too painful for me. Are you using AI to write the yaml or building via the UI?
re: Update pg 3 - 43" bar information home assistant display now in beta!
Posted by Dallaswho on 5/11/26 at 4:41 pm to bluebarracuda
Nice. I need a better mobile dashboard. Mine is just my lighting scenes, pool/spa, chatbot, and a button to reset dispatcharr that I haven’t needed since an update or two ago.
What are you using to make dashboards?
What are you using to make dashboards?
re: If you had to live in any Texas city or town which would you pick?
Posted by Dallaswho on 5/2/26 at 2:08 am to kywildcatfanone
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Suburb of Fort Worth
Southlake here. We consider ourselves Ft Worth or Funky Town, but its' not that exciting. Keller might be worse but they have liquor stores now.
for me:
1. San Antonio.
2. New Braunfels
3. San Marcos
4. Marfa
3rd down trumpets
Posted by Dallaswho on 5/2/26 at 12:46 am
Mizzou has institutionalized EDM while the rest of the SEC is stuck in the 70s.
Do ya'll ever feel like you're living in the past?
Do ya'll ever feel like you're living in the past?
re: Did AI ruin Amazon search?
Posted by Dallaswho on 4/22/26 at 11:32 pm to LemmyLives
DDG is just a bing wrapper that attempts to hide your data. Bing scores lower than Google in search honesty, hiding results further, but at least they haven’t leaked that they give you bad results on purpose so you have to click around and look longer. DDG is my phone default.
Did AI ruin Amazon search?
Posted by Dallaswho on 4/22/26 at 7:06 pm
I’m having to use Google to search Amazon. Looking for 696 2-gang masonry box today. Amazon shows trash. Google finds 20 at various prices right away on Amazon.com.
Yesterday I was looking for the guts of a Polaris reverse valve. I put in the exact part number, nothing close. Google found 10 right away on Amazon.
Nobody wants semantics when looking for things. This is garbage.
Yesterday I was looking for the guts of a Polaris reverse valve. I put in the exact part number, nothing close. Google found 10 right away on Amazon.
Nobody wants semantics when looking for things. This is garbage.
I don’t know what “Apple Intelligence” even is but Apple itself is doing just fine with AI in general. They just don’t have fancy LLMs like Google but neither does anyone else except the “AI” companies.
Siri is a lot like Alexa. It has to manage winging it for nearly instant home and app control while they also try to add some ability for more complex tasks.
Siri is a lot like Alexa. It has to manage winging it for nearly instant home and app control while they also try to add some ability for more complex tasks.
re: Posting images from imagur
Posted by Dallaswho on 4/20/26 at 2:10 pm to theantiquetiger
Imgur.plen.io takes an Imgur link and makes it a raw image link.
If you’re using 5g internet then you’re already double NAT, so now you’re just triple. No big deal.
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