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Xun posted:Dumb question about the Plex server thing, is it only for local connections or can I connect to it anywhere? It looks like it's just a server you set up at home and can connect to using LAN but I see people talking about setting one up to share with friends Both. Local streaming is free but to watch your content anywhere, or for friends to stream from you, it’s $5 per month or whatever the lifetime pass is going for. I have 1gb fiber and I have friends and family that can stream 4k content on the other side of the country with no issues. Edit: listen to this person not me vvv Bloopsy fucked around with this message at 19:27 on Feb 26, 2024 |
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Not true. You only have to pay if you want to use your graphics card to transcode. You don't have to pay to have it work remotely. You do have to pay one-time if you want the phone app.
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Having a buddy with a plex server kicks rear end
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Xun posted:Dumb question about the Plex server thing, is it only for local connections or can I connect to it anywhere? It looks like it's just a server you set up at home and can connect to using LAN but I see people talking about setting one up to share with friends
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Xun posted:Dumb question about the Plex server thing, is it only for local connections or can I connect to it anywhere? It looks like it's just a server you set up at home and can connect to using LAN but I see people talking about setting one up to share with friends It can be set up so any friends who want to watch movies on it can stream it from anywhere. If the viewer is firewalled and can't connect directly, Plex themselves will bounce it off one of their servers as a relay. To administrate it remotely we just use TeamViewer. The Plex app will run on pretty much anything and is even built into older smart TVs. I would have considered the open source variants, but a couple of us already had lifetime Plex passes, and it's nice that older streaming appliances have native apps. You can also set up Sonarr/Radarr on the server along with a request management thing like Ombi. The end result is a user types in a request on a website, then the server nabs it from Usenet and makes it available in seconds. I don't get why they need like 5 separate apps for all that but that's how it is. There's a Plex thread if you wanna ask more technical questions on it. Saalkin posted:Having a buddy with a plex server kicks rear end Yeah my friends and I pooled together to build a server and host it in the basement of the only one of us with fiber internet.
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I use Jellyfin instead of Plex, which is totally offline and still supports hardware transcoding (I have it use the Intel on-board video on my server, since I use the nVidia for running image recognition/etc. models). The only downside to Jellyfin is that it doesn't have the over-the-internet stuff. I did just make a VPN on my router that my friends and family have accounts for, though, so they can access it that way, but it's slightly more involved (for me, for them it's just "use this profile file with this app")
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Is there a workaround to the lastest imgur adblock fuckery yet?
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Denim Dude posted:by the way if you have an android based tv instead of a web os based tv you can sideload the "downloader" app and install smart tube. That Roku app is nice. Thank you. 
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Skinnymansbeerbelly posted:Is there a workaround to the lastest imgur adblock fuckery yet? I just uploaded something there and didn’t notice any problems. What are you seeing?
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Feb 27, 2024 13:28
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There's no way to extract video without javascript since yesterday
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Skinnymansbeerbelly posted:There's no way to extract video without javascript since yesterday there's no way to view 99% of large sites without javascript if you're gonna block javascript in ublock -- and I do this, it's great, you can cut out so much bullshit -- you have to be willing to twiddle the red & grey boxes until the site works again
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Feb 27, 2024 16:33
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Probably been mentioned but has anyone noticed random pop-up messages on YT with Firefox/Ublock where it says something like "experiencing delays/interruptions? find out why"? I saw a couple over the weekend right during times when videos would stutter for a second, guessing this is just YT doing annoying poo poo again because they can't control other companies' browsers/products.
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BOOTY-ADE posted:Probably been mentioned but has anyone noticed random pop-up messages on YT with Firefox/Ublock where it says something like "experiencing delays/interruptions? find out why"? I saw a couple over the weekend right during times when videos would stutter for a second, guessing this is just YT doing annoying poo poo again because they can't control other companies' browsers/products. I've only seen that when I've had temporary interruptions with my internet service in the past. 
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Yea I think that's a client-side message when the player detects some connection or playback issue. I don't think the 'find out why' actually has any answers.
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It also doesn't recognize user input, so if you're scanning around looking for something, skipping the video around, it gives that message too.
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BOOTY-ADE posted:Probably been mentioned but has anyone noticed random pop-up messages on YT with Firefox/Ublock where it says something like "experiencing delays/interruptions? find out why"? I saw a couple over the weekend right during times when videos would stutter for a second, guessing this is just YT doing annoying poo poo again because they can't control other companies' browsers/products. if it is client side you could run a ping -t youtube.com in command prompt/terminal for a while to see if you are dropping packets. a speed test might be helpful. i don't know where you are but cali has been having a lot of rain and our cable junction box? is underground. sometimes it gets flooded and i have poo poo internet for a while. edit: in linux i don't think the -t in ping -t is necessary but it's been a long time.
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I’ll give it a shot, no ISP issues & I’m in the Midwest but it has been pretty windy the last couple days. No trouble with any other sites or anything so that’s why I assumed YouTube fuckery was afoot.
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BOOTY-ADE posted:Probably been mentioned but has anyone noticed random pop-up messages on YT with Firefox/Ublock where it says something like "experiencing delays/interruptions? find out why"? I saw a couple over the weekend right during times when videos would stutter for a second, guessing this is just YT doing annoying poo poo again because they can't control other companies' browsers/products. A few times over the last couple of weeks I've had Youtube videos just stopped downloading, so the buffer runs out and then I get that message. I heard a while ago that they were doing something like that on purpose for ad blockers, but no idea if that's true or not. So it's not just you, but for me once it starts it sticks around - it doesn't go away after a second or two. I refresh the page a few times and it seems ok.
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Well, here we go. I've been sitting here all smug, running YT on a Windows 11 PC with ABP over Firefox without any problems, until now, when I click on a video to view it and see a message saying "You are offline. Check your connection". There is a 'Retry' button that does fat gently caress all. I can see suggested videos and hovering over them even plays a few seconds of preview, but clicking on them apparently sends me "offline". Pricks.
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think of it as your chance to find freedom and live a better life
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Frazzbo posted:ABP 
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Frazzbo posted:"You are offline. Check your connection". Oh man, I've been getting this a LOT lately. Refreshing the page tends to fix it, but if I'm on a playlist, YouTube keeps skipping to the next video and then finds a random video after the last one in the playlist. None of the playlist videos work (without refreshing) but the random one always does. Youtube has really been screwing up their platform lately.
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Microplastics posted:Youtube has really been screwing up their platform lately. This seems to be google in general. They really do seem to be just resting on top assuming that no one's ever going to compete with them again. As there are other good video streaming sites that people don't use, seem with youtube, at least for the foreseeable future, they're probably unfortunately right about that. Search I'm not so sure about. I think a competitor could pretty easily take the top spot from them for that, if they can make a search as good as googles used to be. It's pretty trivial to change what search engine your using, and people have been pretty unhappy with google search for a while now.
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I was randomly in a conversation with two other people earlier today, and we all universally concluded that Google search sucks now. Then we talked about which internet browsers we all use, instead of the resource hog of Chrome.
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Google's latest thing seems to be using ~*AI*~ to summarise the content of a page that supposedly contains the answer to the query you typed in, and then when you click through you find out that none of the claims made on the search results page can be found on the source. Also the increasing effort needed to make it search for what you typed in rather than what it thinks you meant to type - Windows 365 and Microsoft 365 are different products, yes the naming is stupid but stop giving me results for both as thought they are interchangeable.
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Yeah I've seen some gnarly cases where it cites something to a source that's saying the opposite of what it thinks it's saying. Misinformation machine.
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Saw one once where it summarised a page about poisonous foods for dogs as things you should feed your dog.
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Nettle Soup posted:Saw one once where it summarised a page about poisonous foods for dogs as things you should feed your dog. Ah, the C-Spam algorithm
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If google is going to AI la-la land then what's the most coherent/sane search engine at the moment?
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The Grimace posted:I was randomly in a conversation with two other people earlier today, and we all universally concluded that Google search sucks now.
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The other day I did a search for some pics on google and 7/12 of the top results were all AI generated garbage pictures. On a lark I wanted to see if Edge and Bing could do any better, thankfully Edge immediately told me not to waste my time.
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yeah Microsoft has gone really loving whole-hog on AI - they ate OpenAI after that board fiasco last year Nadella isn't any better than Ballmer ever was, they just had different obsessions in the end
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The General posted:The other day I did a search for some pics on google and 7/12 of the top results were all AI generated garbage pictures. On a lark I wanted to see if Edge and Bing could do any better, thankfully Edge immediately told me not to waste my time. Lol.
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The General posted:The other day I did a search for some pics on google and 7/12 of the top results were all AI generated garbage pictures. On a lark I wanted to see if Edge and Bing could do any better, thankfully Edge immediately told me not to waste my time. When using bing, after clinking on one of the search results I get a popup asking if I want to use Bing's ai results instead of going to the website I clicked. I then have to click "no" before clicking the same link again to finally going to the website I searched for. Edge is terrible and so is Bing.
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I really am sick of trying to find pictures of anything and 90% of the results being ai generated trash. This is not beneficial to art references or photoshops.
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But it's beneficial to shareholder value so shut the gently caress up and eat your bowl of ai slop
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AI imaging is the worst thing to happen to the internet
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The Grimace posted:AI imaging is the worst thing to happen to the internet As annoying as it can be when people try to use AI pics for anything beyond shitposting, the current use of AI text is a thousand times worse. AI poo poo images are mainly replacing stock photos and getting dumped on when people try to use it elsewhere; AI text is infecting and poisoning everything, flooding the already toxic swamp of SEO and turning the world into meaningless glop. It's the gray goo scenario except it's devouring information instead of buildings.
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Random Stranger posted:As annoying as it can be when people try to use AI pics for anything beyond shitposting, the current use of AI text is a thousand times worse. AI poo poo images are mainly replacing stock photos and getting dumped on when people try to use it elsewhere; AI text is infecting and poisoning everything, flooding the already toxic swamp of SEO and turning the world into meaningless glop. It's the gray goo scenario except it's devouring information instead of buildings. SEO or search engine optimization is a very important for all small businesses. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a crucial aspect of digital marketing to enhance visibility and drive organic traffic to your website. As far as SEO goes? Yeah I don't think it matters. Well it does matter in that it makes it easier and cheaper so more will be generated.
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The General posted:The other day I did a search for some pics on google and 7/12 of the top results were all AI generated garbage pictures. On a lark I wanted to see if Edge and Bing could do any better, thankfully Edge immediately told me not to waste my time. The reasons why I might need or want an """AI powered browser""" are never explained. It's shareholder value, as steinrokkan said.
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