ON TOP OF SPA-GHETTI!!!

Oh sure, you and your LOGIC.

My county changed the sheriff position from elected to appointed by the county council a few years back. A bunch of people flipped out over it but I think it has been great.

As a side note, why do counties tend to have councils running them instead of an executive, who would get the title “Count”. We need more Counts in America.

Side note. Don’t use hardware acceleration with TDARR. You will get much better encodes with software encoding, which is great for archival and saving storage.

Use hardware acceleration with Jellyfin for transcoding code on the fly for a client that needs it.

If you know what your client specs are, you can use TDARR to reencode everything to what they need and then you won’t have to transcode anything with Jellyfin.

You have a point that it will be hard to explain this to everyone on why it is better.

From my understanding, when you use a password manager, the user will enter a pw into it that they remember and the vault will unlock. Then when they go to log into a website, a different, longer, and impossible to remember password will be sent to the site at login. (Assuming they are using the manager well). A week later when they go to log in again, the same long password will be delivered.

The problem is that if a bad actor gets involved, whether it is the website is attacked or they send the user a phishing url or something and the password from the manager is exposed, it will have to be changed. That scammer can now log into that website as the user whenever they want, and possibly any other website that user used the same password for. Hopefully they didn’t if they are using a manager.

With passkeys, a user will log into their manager with a password they remember, but when they go to log into a website, a different token will be sent, based on their key, every time. So if a scammer is listening at the router they still can’t log in again because it has expired.

It is still not a perfect thing, I would imagine that phishing sites could still get a scammer in, who could possibly do bad things or change the login credentials but it is still much more secure than sending a password to the site for the user.

So…just a normal Friday then.

I would do a full backup of how it is today and then try it out. What is the worst that could happen?

It is 2.445 kilomiles from Los Angeles to New York.

I still have my WRT54G around somewhere. Loved that thing. What I found interesting was that when the firmware went open demand for that model went through the roof. Wish more companies would realize that there is a demand for that market.

I personally would not use it for anything that is being saved on your drive. Using cpu encoder is slower but I just let it run over night or whatever and it will be done later.

Save GPU encoding for when you need it smaller right now like when you are transcoding on the fly.

I generally think that for storage/archiving you should use CPU encoding and only use GPU for things like transcoding where real-time results are crucial.

GPU encoding is a lot worse quality than CPU, and you can’t change the settings to what you want. Better to just accept the extra time requirement to get a better result.

I would try making one video into the format you want and see if it plays where you want it.

I like the interface of Airsonic, but it looks like it hasn’t been updated in 4 years, and Airsonic-advanced hasn’t had any action since February of last year for the experimental branch or 2020 for the stable branch.

What do people use? I tried Navidrome a while back and wasn’t happy for some reason. Should I try it again?

I just had this problem last weekend when it got to 10 degrees Fahrenheit in Seattle.

I still refer to Bradley Cooper as “That guy from Alias”

Panera makes me mad because I used to really like some of their stuff back in 2005-ish, but the quality has really dropped in the last few years.

At one point they were the largest free wifi supplier in the US, but now they just provide disappointment.

Get a multi port USB charger. I have some from Anker that have 2 usb-c ports and 2 usb-a ports. Can charge everything from my laptop to all my gadgets.

You can’t have enough usb chargers.

I had an Itchy and Scratchy game (from the Simpsons). It was a mini golf game that was a lot of fun.

Tdarr is great if you are comfortable setting up a Docker environment. It is a great way to reprocess your whole library.

A good GUI alternative is Handbrake. It uses a different library than ffmpeg but can do the same stuff. One thing about Handbrake to remember is that it is centered around video encoding. So while ffmpeg can process your audio streams without touching the video stream, Handbrake will reencode video every time.

“Yes, my name is Scooby Doo, no I don’t want your snacks”