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Sweevo posted:I HATE the trend for organising everything by file type into separate folders or libraries. I don't want my holiday photos kept in My Photos and my holiday videos kept in a separate media library. I want them kept together - you know, like a human being would do. If you still have physical photos and videos, you probably have your pictures in a photo album on a shelf and your videos in a dusty box in the back of the closet rather than stored together.
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brugroffil posted:If you still have physical photos and videos, you probably have your pictures in a photo album on a shelf and your videos in a dusty box in the back of the closet rather than stored together. That's why I film my vacation footage with a 35mm movie camera. It costs tens of thousands per day, but the benefit is that my photos and movies are both in 35mm film format.
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Flipperwaldt posted:I just installed kodi on a fire stick to play files from my nas. I have a downloads folder within my video folder where new stuff ends up before being organized. The files in that folder do not get indexed. They are invisible to kodi for god knows what actual reason. This is not fixable from inside kodi. I'm sure there's an internal logic to explicitly exclude that folder based on something, but this is unknowable. And if it's documented somewhere, it is a translation error specific to kodi instead of a thing that broadly applies to most computer systems in the last fifty years. Kodi's library system hasn't changed much in the 16 or so years I've used it. Put your movies in one folder, your TV in another. Movies should be named 'movie name (year) [metadata]', TV should be organized 'Show name (year) [metadata]/season/Show name (year) - SxEx' where SxEx is used to determine the file's season and episode number, So S01E01 or 01x01 work here. Kodi doesn't scan subdirectories in movies libraries unless they're named as a movie (the files inside are then treated as part of that movie) so best practice is to keep your downloads directory out of your movie/TV directories. This has been the standard format for media library software (kodi plex etc) since they've been a thing. It's far more effort trying to force said software to conform to your standards than it is to conform your files to theirs.
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I thought kodi was a client that connected to stuff like Emby or Plex, does it have a server component too?
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Jul 9, 2022 19:03
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Kodi can function as a client for those things through add-ons but out of the box it's an all-in-one media center. It's not really a server, it's meant to be the way you play stuff on the HTPC that's running Kodi.
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Jul 9, 2022 19:26
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Use Plex for a Firestick/Separate library system. Kodi is good at some things, but was never designed to be used outside of an integrated system and it's networking abilities personally drive me insane due to this. I think most people who use it these days do so out of legacy reasons or for all the plugins you can install.
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Jul 9, 2022 19:33
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HKR posted:Kodi's library system hasn't changed much in the 16 or so years I've used it. Put your movies in one folder, your TV in another. Movies should be named 'movie name (year) [metadata]', TV should be organized 'Show name (year) [metadata]/season/Show name (year) - SxEx' where SxEx is used to determine the file's season and episode number, So S01E01 or 01x01 work here. Kodi doesn't scan subdirectories in movies libraries unless they're named as a movie (the files inside are then treated as part of that movie) so best practice is to keep your downloads directory out of your movie/TV directories. Nothing against kodi, btw. Fantastic piece of software if you're well aware of what files and folders are.
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Jul 9, 2022 19:41
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lobsterminator posted:That's why I film my vacation footage with a 35mm movie camera. It costs tens of thousands per day, but the benefit is that my photos and movies are both in 35mm film format. This is just good future proofing to be fair….
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Jul 9, 2022 22:01
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Sweevo posted:When I went to college in 1996 you couldn't assume everyone was already computer literate, and most courses had an optional class where they would teach you to use basic software like Word, Excel, Powerpoint, etc. A couple of years later when I began college, you could get credit for a required intro to computers class if you passed a proficiency test. The test was very basic Word, Excel ... and Access. In junior high, we had a couple of years of learning typing skills and BASIC. That class was the last time I ever had to use BASIC. I took a keyboarding class as a freshman in high school and it was typing proficiency, with textbooks that had been used for typewriter classes on Windows 3.1 computers. The next year, our fancy typing was in WordPerfect.
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WordPerfect’s for regular typin’, not fancy typin’
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It’s perfect for words, really
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Jul 10, 2022 03:29
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Lotus notes all day bby
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This thread reminded me that I still have these. I don’t remember how I obtained them or why I still have them, but they’re unused and (mostly) sealed in their original packaging.  
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LifeSunDeath posted:Lotus notes all day bby still stuck using lotus notes 7 to access process standards and email, it's been deemed too costly to upgrade anything ever even though poo poo gets wrecked by random malware weekly no IT person stays more than a few months, i'm sure these thing are unrelated
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My mother worked from home in the 1980s before working from home was even a thing people did. She taught me how to type using WordPerfect on a Compaq 8086 without a hard drive.
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Speaking of Plex... got my OG Xbox playing nicely with my PMS:
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Finally, Windows on Xbox! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrpkFuKh4CI
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Humphreys posted:Speaking of Plex... got my OG Xbox playing nicely with my PMS: I finally made a Plex server and was horrified to find my dixv rips from 2005 of movies look like rear end on a 4k oled. 
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FilthyImp posted:Nice! What's worse is they are probably the same size as modern 4k rips
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FilthyImp posted:Nice! I know way too many people who think they look perfectly acceptable and will happily put them on for movie night, while I try to tell them that since they are using  anyway, they might as well get the 2160p HDR file. It's the xillennial version of your parents stretching 4:3 shows to 16:9 and turning on Auto Motion Plus since they paid for the WHOLE TV and all its functions!
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ymgve posted:Finally, Windows on Xbox!
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I built myself a Plex server a few months back. It's really nice, much better than my old method of putting video files on a USB stick and plugging that into the TV. And the remote-access feature made it super simple to point my parents' Roku at it so that the shows I get for them just magically appear. (And as far as I've been able to determine, it's implemented well and doesn't leave a gaping hole in your network security.) However, once you activate the remote access, it requires credentials on the central plex.tv service to access it, even from a TV on the same LAN. This normally isn't a big deal, you just enter the username/password once and it remembers it. BUT, if your Internet connection should happen to go down, then your Plex can't verify those credentials with the mothership and won't let the TV in. So if you figured you'd wait out an Internet outage by watching some local media, think again. Discovered this one the hard way.  (Fortunately, going back to an old school USB stick always works.)
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Powered Descent posted:I built myself a Plex server a few months back. It's really nice, much better than my old method of putting video files on a USB stick and plugging that into the TV. And the remote-access feature made it super simple to point my parents' Roku at it so that the shows I get for them just magically appear. (And as far as I've been able to determine, it's implemented well and doesn't leave a gaping hole in your network security.) don't mean to turn this into plex chat, but there is a way to use your plex server in the event of an internet outage. Go to your settings, Network tab, scroll down, enter in your local IP and netmask here 
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Humphreys posted:Speaking of Plex... got my OG Xbox playing nicely with my PMS: Why do you have 40 000 Xboxes?
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Why do you have 40 000 Xboxes? look at the thread title
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Why do you have 40 000 Xboxes? Let he without 10 Amigas throw the first stone. Glass sauna and all that.
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Couple of pickups from a work friend; Intergraph Voodoo Rush;   Creative Voodoo Banshee;  Got the Banshee up and running on a PII 300mhz testbed, but I've got real bad input lag on the mouse. Graphics performance seems fine, trying to figure that out now. Love that Intergraph card.
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madeintaipei posted:Let he without 10 Amigas throw the first stone. I only have three I'm not weird!
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HKR posted:don't mean to turn this into plex chat, but there is a way to use your plex server in the event of an internet outage. Go to your settings, Network tab, scroll down, enter in your local IP and netmask here There's this, but also a checkbox to enable DLNA access that is handy to have too. 3D Megadoodoo posted:Why do you have 40 000 Xboxes? What do you mean? That's only 3? I do have a LOT more. Did a little tidying up around the house the other day and found 9 intact Xbox360s and a few in parts for repairs/donours. Then a mate reminded me he his wife is getting annoyed about the 2 more Xbox 360s and Phat PS3 that I need to pickup.
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After binging beige macs for a couple years my hoard is about 30 systems 8 compacts (3x SE/30, mac plus, SE, classic, 2x color classic) beige g3 tower, beige g3 desktop, 6100, 9600, lc 630, 2x quadra 840av, 5400, 5500 2x MDD g4, g5, g4 digital audio, g3 b&w towers, various laptops no i don't have a problem i can quit whenever i want!
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Humphreys posted:What do you mean? That's only 3? I took short maths because of my overly long D*. Humphreys posted:I do have a LOT more.  Seriouspost: I always feel bad for having more than one of Old Thing because there's plenty other people who want them. But then the reality of it is you're going to need spares at some point sooner or later. *) Speaking of relics, that's what it was called when you took Latin from the seventh grade all the way to the third. (A being one's native tongue, B starting on third grade [the first third grade, not the other one], and C starting on seventh grade).
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Humphreys posted:What do you mean? That's only 3? They meant 40,000 lbs of Xboxes.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Seriouspost: I always feel bad for having more than one of Old Thing because there's plenty other people who want them. But then the reality of it is you're going to need spares at some point sooner or later. Well yeah, a lot of it is when I do mod work for clients, sometimes I feel nice and trade them up in shell quality etc and put the scratched up stuff aside for future custom paint jobs. Also helps having spares when party of your install guarantee is 'if I break your poo poo, I got a replacement for you on hand" I learnt that lesson on my very first ever mod over 10 years ago on a PS2. Sneezed while soldering and ripped a bunch of pins off the EE.
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Humphreys posted:I learnt that lesson on my very first ever mod over 10 years ago on a PS2. Sneezed while soldering and ripped a bunch of pins off the EE. The imbecile: fume removal while soldering is for you're healthy The wisemind: fume removal while soldering is to minimize risk of sneezing e: I solder on the veranda with a through-draft so I don't actually know if the fumes make you sneeze 
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I haven't noticed any sneezing, but I'm apparently a bit allergic to rosin flux - it makes my skin itch for like half an hour. (I solder on the stove in the kitchen, with the extractor fan running. Seems to help.) Computer viking has a new favorite as of 13:15 on Jul 11, 2022 |
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3D Megadoodoo posted:The imbecile: fume removal while soldering is for you're healthy I'm pretty sure it was a random sneeze. I've done a LOT of soldering since then, and I think the fumes off burning flux gets me more than the solder.
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Humphreys posted:There's this, but also a checkbox to enable DLNA access that is handy to have too. Get a 4th working one and connect them for a 16 player Halo 2 LAN party.
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Computer viking posted:I haven't noticed any sneezing, but I'm apparently a bit allergic to rosin flux - it makes my skin itch for like half an hour. i hope you arent using leaded solder on a food prep surface 
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freelop posted:Get a 4th working one and connect them for a 16 player Halo 2 LAN party. I have enough for 8 boxes setup. So two brackets. (I just don't have 32 friends)
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Raluek posted:i hope you arent using leaded solder on a food prep surface Lead free solder. (And I don't prepare food directly on the cooktop; there's typically a pot or frying pan in between.)
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