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submitted 2 months ago by shmanio@lemmy.world to c/jellyfin@lemmy.ml

I've found some discussions about hosting the Jellyfin server on lower end devices, but what about the client? I imagine the requirements to be pretty low, since a gen 2 Chromecast worked fine.

Has someone tried setting up a raspberry pi in kiosk mode? Can you suggest something cheap that would be good enough for 1080p?

[-] shmanio@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

Romero's Night of the Living Dead is in the public domain as well.

You can find it in the Internet Archive here: https://archive.org/details/night_of_the_living_dead

[-] shmanio@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

It could be an issue with the codecs (browsers are usually pretty limited in what they support). You could try to use a client like Jellyfin Media Player instead. It bundles libmpv, so it plays almost any video format there is.

[-] shmanio@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

Since you are sharing anecdotes, let me join.

For me FF has always been extremely stable, and I too regularly keep 100+ tabs open, on much more limited system resources. It is so stable that I've completely disabled history saving, and if there is something I want to read later I just keep the tab open. Never had an issue.

Tree Style Tabs also pushed me to have many tabs, because now I can actually organize those that I've opened and find them later.

[-] shmanio@lemmy.world 15 points 6 months ago

From their "Firefox name FAQ":

A "Firefox" is another name for the red panda.

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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by shmanio@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

I have Jellyfin installed on a remote machine, connected to my laptop and phone via Tailscale. Is it possible to cast from that machine to a gen 2 Chromecast?

From the Jellyfin instance installed on my laptop, in the same LAN, I can authenticate from the phone and cast to the Chromecast, so all the pieces work.

I have tried announcing the subnet from the laptop (--advertise-routes=192.168.1.0/24), with IP forwarding etc. The remote machine accepts the route and can ping the Chromecast (192.168.1.100). From the phone I can connect to the server and start casting. The screen shows the Jellyfin logo, but playing anything has no effect.

Has someone managed to make it work?


EDIT: As I feared, it seems it's not possible. I can't change the routing table of my ISP's router, so the Chromecast can't reach the remote server.

I'll try to find a newer Chromecast, or maybe just get a Raspberry and install the full client there. Thanks everyone!

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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by shmanio@lemmy.world to c/boardgames@feddit.de

Yesterday we've played two new games, and they both were a great success.

  • Incan Gold (or Diamant): push your luck cave explorers. The mechanics are easy to understand by everyone and the game flows very fast. We felt the game really forces you to think about how greedy you can afford to be. We also decided on the houserule of really suspicious explorers: when some go back they split the available gold in each room, instead of considering all that is available in the caves.
  • Hellapagos: cooperative castaways, for a while. This is a bit more complex and requires more focus, but with the right people it can be really funny. Everyone begins with a lot of good intentions, but when the rations start to get low and the hurricane close, curiously everyone starts looking for guns and bullets. This game probably requires a very specific mix of players, as being all cooperators make it boring, but selfish backstabbers can't survive alone.

We played both games with 4 players. For Incan Gold it we think 5/6 would be the best. Hellapagos maybe 6/7, more if you want complete chaos.

Some funny things that happened

  • In Incan Gold, a lucky explorer has been left alone in the cave almost since the beginning, and managed to survive with ~20 gold and 4 idols.
  • In Hellapagos, a castaway played selfishly all the game and in the end boarded the raft by stealing the conch (which made him immune to being voted out) from another player.

[-] shmanio@lemmy.world 21 points 8 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

You should put some quotes where you use the array:

not_what_you_think=( "a b" "c" "d" )
for sneaky in "${not_what_you_think[@]}"; do
  echo "This is sneaky: ${sneaky}"
done

This is sneaky: a b
This is sneaky: c
This is sneaky: d
[-] shmanio@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago

I haven't used Ubuntu since the pre-snap era, but from discussions online I think that every program is stored in a different squashfs that is mounted at boot.

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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by shmanio@lemmy.world to c/drg@lemmy.world

Here are my currently active ones (verified):

For those times we are too many I host with More Players Balanced, which however is only approved.

[-] shmanio@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

And the bucket!

[-] shmanio@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Regarding Tron: Legacy, I suggest you watch the fanedit Tron: Perfection.

It trims some of the terrible dialogue and most of what happens outside the grid (including the sequel bait). Also has the good idea to use the young Kevin, which some find uncanny, only for Clu.

It has become my favourite way to watch the movie.

[-] shmanio@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

I tried Regicide because of this post, really liked it.

Our few victories were always obtained by taking risks and was never easy. The mechanics are a bit overwhelming at first, but after a couple of matches the effects are easy to remember. We still haven't found some general strategies beyond "diamonds are really useful, don't waste them".

A game ended after we had J♦ as the last jack and Q♦ right after it, we simply didn't have enough cards to deal with them one after the other.

[-] shmanio@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

I heard paper burns at 451 °F

[-] shmanio@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

Subscribers can expect to see an average of 4 minutes of ads an hour at around 15 to 30 seconds each

Isn't this a lot? I can't imagine watching a movie and being interrupted every 5 minutes by an ad.

Do they clump them together and play 8 minutes of ads between the two halves of a two hour movie?

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English title: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

[-] shmanio@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

The original does not have the banner

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It can happen to anyone: a friend of a friend joins for the evening and suddenly Catan is not an option.

What are your goto games in those situations?

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