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The only defense I'll make towards the $600 launch price is the console shipped with a bluray player and at the time the cheapest bluray player was $1,200. I remember joking "why buy a bluray player when for the same money you could buy two PS3's?"

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    Before i break out the solder gun and make one myself, i wanted to ask. Is there a unit that uses magsafe magnets that does wireless charging pass through? The idea would be to have this device on the back of a phone and when a charge is applied while it's on a phone it passes the charge through to the phone.

    [–] [S] 1 point 1 month ago

    Unfortunately i think i know the local ham guy and his tower is a lower elevation than my back yard. I'd debated asking him if he wanted to move the tower to my house but i'm not interested in being responsible for somebody else's gear on my lot, at least not gear that expensive.

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  • [–] 24 points 2 months ago

    Years ago i saw someone do a breakdown of what you're talking about and if memory serves it's the Herb episode that changes the vibe of the show. Until that point bojack feels like every other crude comedy on air but from that point on it breaks the traditional format. Its the first time on screen, and possibly in bojacks whole life(outside of family issues), that he faces consequences for his actions that have a serious negative impact on him and the fix is out of his control. In the face of this truth he spirals into a world of indulgence and avoidance and we the viewer begin to see the impact that has on those around him.

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    If I understand correctly line of sight, and height, are key to extending how far you can transmit. What tricks have others used to gain height around their area? I'm kicking around a lot of ideas that range from a flagpole in my backyard to asking the local musicality if I can mount a node on our water tower. What has given you the most success for extending range in a tricky area?

     

    My work flow depends heavily on Win + V and Win + Shift + S, both on my main desktop and RDP'ed into other Windows systems while sharing a clipboard. I'm interested in trying Linux as my daily driver, and I am looking for suggestions that will offer the least friction in how I operate. The above items are must haves and my hope is that the solution "just works" without having to set up a whole mess of macros or workarounds.

    I am familiar with Debian and Ubuntu, so Linux will not be a new experience for me, though most of my work has been from command line interactions. My hope would be a distro I can stand up in a few hours that will let me continue to RDP into Windows systems and keep using Windows hot keys on both the Linux desktop and the Windows systems.

    [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    Can you not remove a fish from your inventory and place it on the ground? It should show up in a little plastic fish tank. I don't know if that's an option in multiplayer but i've done it in single player to open up inventory room.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    When i say that imagination is the limit i mean it. I ordered some car seat pressure sensors and soldered them to either end of a door contact sensor and put them under our couch cushions. Now i have a battery powered, zigbee based, way to override the motion based automation if we're on the couch. The lights stay on if we're too still or they stay off if we're napping and a pet walks in.

    I watched a video where a guy used meshtastic to reach the back of his property and those radios can run on solar.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    I don't doubt thread is getting better and could be the more future proof of them all but i bought some zigbee motion sensors for less than $10 and haven't changed the battery in them in nearly two years. When thread devices are that cheap and can run on battery that long i'll gladly recommend them too. For now, for beginners, i like to recommend zigbee for it's low cost in both money and power usage.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    It is as vast and customizable as it gets. The sky, and your imagination, is the limit. I've been at it for years and i'm still tinkering with automations and services. It's biggest strength, in my eyes, is being able to run everything local and off line. My advice is to start with zigbee so as to not congest your Wi-Fi traffic and add in zwave where the budget allows and range is needed.

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    I'm on a budget and i'm looking to mount a node on a pole in my back yard. I have access to a 3d printer, i have soldering skills, and i'm okay with buying individual components and assembling them myself. I'd like it to look nice but it doesn't have to if that keeps costs down.

    The first goal is reliability, i won't be able to easily access it once it's up. The second goal is cheap, i'm on a fairly tight budget. It's possible the device might be in wifi range where it's mounted so that would be a nice bonus.

     

    I'm not sure where else to ask this other than maybe self-hosted, so let me know if I'm in the wrong place. I'm trying to overcome a minor issue with Jellystat. Coming from Plex, I used Tautulli fairly heavily, and one of the features I'd use for various internal monitoring was the IP address tracking. Jellystat has IP address tracking, but unfortunately, due to the structure of my network, it only shows the address of my firewall when the connection is coming from outside my network.

    I'm fairly sure this isn't an issue with Plex, since their site does the authentication and the service exits through NAT port forwarding, but with Jellyfin, I use a reverse proxy to route all external traffic as needed. I'm open to additional software or different methods of tracking, but I'm not sure where to start. Any advice would be appreciated.

     

    I've seen a couple articles about an android tv alternative and it's got me thinking about a streaming box again. A while back i gave kodi a try and didn't care for the experience. Granted, it was on a pi so expectations were low but it missed the mark for me. This time around i've got a modest nuc with proxmox i was thinking of moving to the living room and standing up a fresh vm of kodi to stream to.

    I could just access the files over the network but i'm already running both plex and jellyfin so why not use either for my watch history. All that being said is kodi still my best bet?

    Why proxmox? At some point down the road i'd like to get a capture card in the mix to stream games and that feels like the most flexible way to do everything.

     

    I have a routine that plays an audio file on the top of every hour and it worked great for the first few days but lately the audio has been lagging or stuttering. At first i thought it was because i was using an old chromebook in kiosk mode but my home assistant voice is doing the same thing with voice replies. Any idea what could be causing this? Home assistant is being ran as a vm on my hypervisor and the audio file in question is an mp3 saved locally in the media folder on home assistant.

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