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HKR: Jan 13, 2006; there is no universe where duke nukem would not be a trans ally

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.

I'm not against novel ways to organize our look at data, but the reality is that it's a translation layer on top of actual files and folders and now I have to understand how both systems work if anything goes wrong.

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.

# ¿ Jul 9, 2022 17:36

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# ¿ May 6, 2024 22:21

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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.)

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.)

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

# ¿ Jul 10, 2022 16:58

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Jim Silly-Balls posted:

Incineration? Are you sure it�s not shredding and melting for metal recovery?

As mentioned, burning old electronics sounds worse for the environment than just dumping them in a landfill

I work at an ewaste business and I absolutely grab all the good vintage stuff off the shred and melt pile for this specific reason. Something like a G4 Cube or an 8088 PC is worth more in the hands of someone who wants to actually restore it and use/display it than the couple bucks in recoverable metals it would provide.

every single person I know who works in electronics recycling is constantly racing to prevent rare and valuable gear from ending up in the scrap and for every piece they save there are dozens of others that get missed.

# ¿ Oct 15, 2022 15:14

HKR: Jan 13, 2006; there is no universe where duke nukem would not be a trans ally

Spoilers for a tech YouTuber channel you might watch but wanted to post a haul pic

# ¿ Oct 28, 2022 19:52

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Jim Silly-Balls posted:

Two things:

1) Sick Sienna

2) are YOU that youtuber?

E: related

I�m the behind the scenes person for that YouTuber :cool:

# ¿ Oct 28, 2022 20:56

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Humphreys posted:

I'm kinda intrigued which youtuber that haul is from but also appreciate that there are a LOT of famous/well known people on these forums just doing their private life thing.

I also don�t want the thread to feel like I�m advertising said youtuber, but figured this would be the most appropriate thread to show off a small tidbit after a week of treasure hunting.

rndmnmbr posted:

If you're the HKR I think you are, that copy of 2112 is still proudly hanging on my wall.

I have no memory of this, but I did recently ask myself where my spare copy of 2112 is, and it feels like this is something I would have done, so glad you�re still enjoying it :cheers:

# ¿ Oct 29, 2022 16:24

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Warbird posted:

Awesome, I can just sub once a year or whatever and pull down them all to Plex to watch at my leisure.

This is encouraged.

Also my spoilers are in this video.

PS you can find the link to the patreon post here

https://twitter.com/crdudeyoutube/status/1588571156847943681

# ¿ Nov 5, 2022 23:45

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Jim Silly-Balls posted:

Whaaaaaat is this weird add-on thing on this Mac?

It's a Kensington System Saver, a fan that sits on your mac, and also have power dongles to let you easily power on your system from the front

# ¿ Nov 16, 2022 03:03

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Cojawfee posted:

It would probably be good for him to turn each of these videos into a series, but maybe that's just not feasible.

It really isn't.

If you look at a lot of youtube series, especially from smaller creators, you notice a trend where the views start going down drastically as the series progresses. Contrary to popular belief, uploading short videos frequently is not inherently "better" than uploading a long video every now and then, especially when it comes to ad revenue, as you gain revenue from youtube premium subscribers based on minutes watched. Subscribers also seem to love the longer videos, as every time someone brings up the length issue many others chime in to say they prefer it.

Youtube's history feature is actually pretty well built; pausing the video on one device, walking away, and pulling it up on another an hour later will let you pick up from where you left off. Chapters also give you decent spots to stop at and pick up later.

In regards to outside editors and shorter videos, we've been trying to make a 15 minute video for over a year now and failing hard, because everything we've covered on the channel has just been a rabbit hole. Gravis likes to explain things "whole cloth," in fact this script was much longer when we initially tried to shoot it two weeks ago. The hour and a half video is the result of a rewrite. All that being said we're hoping to shoot a short one before the holiday.

With Youtube shorts, we're doing them again after stopping last year, as youtube fixed how shorts are presented to users (which caused a lot of backlash last year). A trend we've noticed with shorts is they tend to cast a much wider net and get a lot of views from people who are outside of the core audience. This is both a blessing and a curse, as new users tend to stick around and watch older content (yay!) but also leave some of the worst comments I've ever read on a public forum (I tend to do my best to prune bad comments, like people threatening to hang us for having a BLM sticker visible in older videos).

# ¿ Dec 13, 2022 18:51

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George RR Fartin posted:

On the way to drop my kids at school, I saw some stuff outside the local church. Turns out most of it was in a Toys for Tots box, so I expertly pretended I wasn't looking at that and wandered to their actual giant pile of garbage and found an old NAD 3220PE amplifier they were chucking out. Took it home and it works just fine. I'm using it to replace a newer amplifier for the purpose of mostly sending sound from my old video game consoles to the bookshelf speakers I have configured.

There is one thing I wanted to run by this thread though (since there are a number of experts popping in and out and it's almost certainly the sort of thing that's an obvious answer from someone who deals with/dealt with similar): The newer amp I'm replacing has an FM tuner on it while the old one does not. Can I just cut an RCA cable in half, stick the bare wires into the left/right speaker outputs, and plug the RCA jack into a pair of inputs on the amp to get radio out of it? I don't know if this sort of thing is converted in some manner and I'm gonna blow something up. I don't expect or care about "adding power" or anything if that were even possible. I just want to sort of pass the radio output to the better amp. Is this an insane plan?

For reference, the newer amp is one of these things:

https://www.amazon.com/Sunbuck-Wire...mplifier+system

nope, that's an incredibly bad idea. If you need FM radio, there are a number of vintage dedicated tuners out on the used market for cheap that'll usually have much better reception. If you need a digital FM tuner for whatever reason, there are dedicated tuner models that go for about $100-$200 on ebay.

# ¿ Jan 9, 2023 20:22

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CaptainSarcastic posted:

Do you have enough RCA cables? Because I'm pretty sure what I suggested would work fine, as long as the radio is getting signal. Radio amp RCA from tape out to AUX in on new amp, set radio amp as though you were recording radio to tape (whatever the combo of switches might be on that specific device) and set new amp to play from AUX.

the newer amp listed does not have any line outs, only speaker outs.

# ¿ Jan 9, 2023 20:47

HKR: Jan 13, 2006; there is no universe where duke nukem would not be a trans ally

It doesn't help that in order to test a cap you need remove it from circuit, which is half the step to recapping anyway.

Recapping is fine and all I just question a person's troubleshooting and EE skills when it's the first thing they go for.

# ¿ Mar 7, 2023 17:22

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Sweevo posted:

I have a ~30 year old Laserjet 4+. Toners are �2 each in a local office clearance shop, and last ~8000 pages. And it uses a generic PCL5 driver that's been built into every version of Windows since 1995.

this is the way to go.

# ¿ May 25, 2023 19:32

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Cojawfee posted:

I think there's a difference between the people who want old keyboards and the keyboard nerds who spend hundreds of dollars to make their boards. Those people are buying niche and bespoke components like modified switches and putting different dampers on them and doing different kinds of lube and using different stabilizers and materials in the case to cancel out noises they don't want and amplify the noises they do want and then having boards with custom firmware. I don't know of anyone who wants the switches from old keyboards, unless they are restoring another keyboard or something. Keyboard switches are so crazy nowadays with being able to choose how much force is needed to activate them, where along the travel the switch activates, if there's a clicky feel or if it's linear, how much noise it makes.

Sadly there is a segment of those people that are ripping alps switches off older keyboards specifically because they want to use those old style switches, which aren't made anymore. Alps64 projects etc. They are a scourge on the retro computing scene and everyone has their stories. It's why I can't find a x68000k keyboard for less than $150 these days

# ¿ Jun 18, 2023 21:37

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sleepy gary posted:

If you throw that stuff into e-waste I will buy this cursed forum from Jeffrey and ban you so hard.

luckily they live in seattle. If they have to take the ewaste route, give them to RePC, they will make sure good stuff gets into the hands of the community for a fair price instead of being shredded.

# ¿ Jun 19, 2023 04:42

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I went flac some time in 2008, haven't really looked back since (this includes my SID/MOD/etc collection so the number is huge. Just flacs the number is a bit more sane)

When the iPhone 3G came out I had to purchase a seperate flac player to listen to my music, but transfering was a nightmare. I used the new Audio Galaxy for a while to stream my collection, but when that died I used spotify for a few years before giving it up. I'd rather just buy bandcamp releases for current artists I'm listening to.

# ¿ Jul 16, 2023 16:36

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Starsiege: Tribes

# ¿ Sep 13, 2023 22:50

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rndmnmbr posted:

Even changed the startup picture to Borgified Bill Gates and startup sound to the "You will be assimilated" speech.

Anyone remember PowerToys?

Power Toys still exist and add some cool poo poo these days https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/

# ¿ Sep 15, 2023 06:53

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Beve Stuscemi posted:

Is DC++ still a thing anywhere? I get why everything went to torrents, but DC++ was honestly a good system

yes, but it's mostly russian servers run by people with questionable morals serving mostly porn.

# ¿ Sep 18, 2023 23:59

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insta posted:

So we have CRD hiding here, what about vswitchzero? How many other YouTubers that I'm subbed to am I just ignoring posting alongside?

for the record I'm not CRD, just his girlfriend/production assistant/person with the SA account

# ¿ Nov 3, 2023 22:08

HKR: Jan 13, 2006; there is no universe where duke nukem would not be a trans ally

Thanks everyone! I'll pass on the messages.

To bring the topic back to topic, we are currently looking for anyone that has a full copy of the Amiga Toaster 3.x manuals. To save time, let me post the patreon post he made about the subject and why we've had difficulty finding them:

(version 4 upgrade kits likely came with replacement pages for the 3.x manuals, which is part of the reason we're having trouble; anyone who upgraded to 4 likely tossed the old documentation long ago)

HKR has a new favorite as of 00:34 on Nov 4, 2023

# ¿ Nov 4, 2023 00:32

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Data Graham posted:

Is this also why we still rely on stenography in court proceedings, because in this age of miracle and wonder, automatic transcription or even just recording of audio is considered witchcraft?

you cannot rely on automatic transcription for things as important as court transcripts, and it needs to be in text so it's searchable, and audio is thousands of times bigger than text.

# ¿ Dec 10, 2023 04:56

HKR: Jan 13, 2006; there is no universe where duke nukem would not be a trans ally

even in the paradise of seattle electronics thrift, you have to sift through a lot of garbage, and you have to go often if you're actively hunting for stuff because every ebay flipper looking to make a $300 NO LOWER I KNOW WHAT I HAVE on a used piece of gear are out there competing with you. The frequent trips mean you see a lot of the same things over and over and you can't help but making quips about it. Lots of stores holding onto garbage that should have been recycled and recycling treasures that should be in a museum type scenarios.

There's also the feeling of how the best days of electronics thrift are behind us. When I first moved to seattle 18 years ago and started hitting repc every week, there were a lot more interesting things on the floor. Most of that stuff has sold at this point, so instead of walking in and finding an entire table of neXTcubes (a real thing that happened to me), It's a table of old xenon workstations next to a table of recycled aliexpress sludge. That's not to say they don't get treasures in; that's why we're there multiple times a week, just the feeling of retro has shifted to stuff we still consider modern.

The goodwills here used to be really good up until about 2019 when there was a massive shift towards their online business. For a while it felt like the dream was completely dead because their electronics section shrunk to a quarter of its original size and was filled with literal garbage most of the time. It has gotten slightly better in the last year or so, hence feeling more comfortable with the idea of doing thrift videos again.

Over the last couple years I've tried to convince gravis to do a road trip thrift video; but we mostly come to the conclusion halfway through the trips that the only exciting finds are in major cities, if we're lucky. We did okay with the california trip but we shot it extremely poorly because we weren't even sure if we wanted to do it. If we ever do another trip like that again we'll be better prepared.

(there is another thrift video in the hopper, up on patreon now, should be released to the general public in the next week or so)

# ¿ Jan 18, 2024 21:15

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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

What's up with the current cassette revival? They sound like poo poo

records got too expensive and too hard to get. Tapes are cheap (for now)

# ¿ Mar 23, 2024 01:45

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Flipperwaldt posted:

I wonder if there is going to be nostalgia for early warbly free mp3 encoders. I want to say no, but I honestly can't tell.

already happening

# ¿ Mar 23, 2024 20:31

HKR: Jan 13, 2006; there is no universe where duke nukem would not be a trans ally

the ps5 is x86-64, as is the xbox. at this point consoles are just a worse gaming pc

# ¿ Apr 8, 2024 21:02

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c-band satellite tv. Back in the day if you had c-band your entire house could only watch one satellite channel at a time, as the dish had to physically move to point to different satellites (Meaning that changing channels could take minutes). My parents had two decoders in the house, one in the living room and one in their bedroom. Many arguments on who could watch satellite when were had, my dad usually winning out to watch cops, followed by my mom who would tape sitcoms to watch in the evening. When the chase happened dad of course tuned to it. I remember it interrupting a program I was watching but I can't for the life of me remember what.

# ¿ Apr 11, 2024 18:27

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I would blow Dane Cook posted:

who could forget this classic

There's even a story to go with this photo now

# ¿ Apr 12, 2024 08:47

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History Comes Inside! posted:

Who were PIP TVs even for

my step dad used it to switch between cops and nascar all the time

# ¿ Apr 19, 2024 21:03

HKR: Jan 13, 2006; there is no universe where duke nukem would not be a trans ally

simple math in my head is still infinitely faster than pulling out my phone, figuring out where the calculator app is, trying to type in the digits but it missed an input, erasing and starting over and then getting distracted when a notification pops up.

imo you need to at least have your multiplication tables up to 12 memorized, as well as a basic understanding of fractions. Everything else can be fudged.

# ¿ Apr 24, 2024 20:10

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# ¿ May 6, 2024 22:21

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Star Man posted:

Why is Descent 3 not open source?

Reasons

https://github.com/DescentDevelopers/Descent3

????

# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 21:25

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