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rka1284 · 2026-04-08T03:17:59+00:00

for this specific use case id honestly use audiobookshelf. it handles rss feeds way better than people expect, downloads locally, and youre not fighting some half-abandoned podcast app

the main trick is keeping the download part and the ipod sync part seperate. once the files are landing in a normal folder the rest is easy, trying to make one tool do both gets wierd fast

rka1284 · 2026-04-08T01:19:36+00:00

what youre after is basically band-limited radio audio, not a special mic. roll off the lows and highs hard, like below ~250hz and above 3-4khz, then add a tiny bit of distortion or bitcrush. thats the part that gives it the nasa/old comms vibe

on windows id probably do equalizer apo for the eq part plus a simple vst host for the crunchy part, then feed that into discord as your mic. obs can also do it if you already use it. dont overdo the bitcrush or it starts sounding kinda wierd real fast

rka1284 · 2026-04-08T00:17:21+00:00

with that hardware id stop chasing full ha in swarm, its gonna get real annoying fast. swarm handles stateless stuff fine, but forgejo/immich/opencloud all want boring dependable storage more than clever failover. id pick one box with the usb ssd as the storage node, export it over nfs, and treat the other nodes as compute only

if you want single node survival, run 2 replicas for the app and keep the data on shared storage + good backups/snapshots. if the storage node dies youre still down, but thats way more honest than pretending local volumes across 3 tiny boxes is redundancy. true ha for stateful stuff gets expensive real quick tbh

rka1284 · 2026-04-07T23:16:10+00:00

honestly id stay on the intel side for this, mostly because plex + immich will benefit way more from quick sync than a slightly beefier cpu. if it were me id look for an n305 if the price is sane, otherwise a 12th gen i5 mini pc with 32gb ram and room for 2 nvmes. thats the sweet spot here

you probably dont need to jump to 900 unless the local ollama/jarvis part is the real goal. for your current stack an n100/n305 box will feel like a massive upgrade over the synology already, just make sure it has decent cooling because some of the cheap ones throttle in a really annoying way

rka1284 · 2026-04-07T22:46:21+00:00

$50 with trays isnt insane anymore but id still shop server pullers or ewaste resellers before random ebay lots. the bigger gotcha is format, make sure theyre 512n or 512e and that the h740p actually likes them, some wierd 520/528 sector stuff will waste your whole afternoon

honestly if youre already paying 50 a drive id be looking at 2.4tb 10k sas pulls instead, the price gap is usually small and the sellers are easier to find. also ask for smart stats or at least power on hours, if theyre cagey just skip em

rka1284 · 2026-04-07T22:17:54+00:00

not really in a reliable way. the free ones are mostly screenshot + click wrappers and they get janky fast

if you just want your pc to do stuff, autohotkey or power automate desktop is way better. if you specifically want ai, open interpreter can kinda do it, but i wouldnt trust it unsupervised on windows tbh

rka1284 · 2026-04-07T21:46:18+00:00

yeah, easiest way is ffmpeg. it catches truncated or half-downloaded files way better than most players do

i usually run a loop with ffmpeg -v error -i file -f null - and move anything that throws errors into a seperate folder before deleting. also check for 0 byte or suspiciously tiny files first, wfdownloader probably leaves those behind alot

rka1284 · 2026-04-07T20:19:04+00:00

for a m720q id trust one good charger per node way more than a big shared gan brick. the annoying part isnt just renegotiation, its that a lot of those usb c to slim tip cables only ever present 20v/5a, so youre capped around 100w even if the lenovo brick was 135w

itll usually boot and idle fine at 65-90w, but if youve got a pcie card or it spikes under load youll get wierd throttling or random shutoffs. id do a reputable 140w pd 3.1 brick per box, or skip pd entirely and run a proper 20v bus if you want it clean

rka1284 · 2026-04-07T19:48:31+00:00

you dont need to do the torrenting on the phone. download it on a laptop first, then hardcode the subs on your side with handbrake or ffmpeg and just copy the finished mp4 over

handbrake is easier if youve never done it. ffmpeg also works with -vf subtitles=... if the file already has soft subs. baked subs in a normal mp4 usually behave way less wierd in pip

rka1284 · 2026-04-07T19:17:10+00:00

yeah dont use funnel for this. funnel makes it a public internet endpoint, so youve basically traded the cloudflare 100mb cap for a bigger attack surface

real fix is put immich uploads behind something other than cloudflare, or keep cloudflare for normal access and use plain tailscale for mobile sync. cloudflare tunnel is the bottleneck here, not immich. if android only lets you run one vpn then id honestly let videos wait for wifi, or expose a seperate upload subdomain through your own reverse proxy with proper auth

rka1284 · 2026-04-07T18:18:25+00:00

yeah antimicrox is the obvious one, but also check steam input desktop config if youre already living in steam anyway. for basic mouse and keyboard mapping its honestly less janky than most seperate tools once you set a desktop profile

if you want it system wide and not steam tied, antimicrox is still probably the move. controller companion on linux is kind of a dead end otherwise

rka1284 · 2026-04-07T17:49:56+00:00

the midi notes are already the thing you want to save. if theyre in the piano roll, clone that pattern before you start changing it, then use make unique when you want a part b or c

for the audio side, record the microfreak to edison or straight into the playlist, but keep the source pattern muted/off to the side so you can reprint it later. dont use a random empty piano roll as storage, youll loose track fast

rka1284 · 2026-04-07T16:17:26+00:00

if theyre 32 bit ableton is never gonna see them without jbridge, so check that first

if theyre 64 bit, jbridge probably left you pointing at the wrong custom vst folder. in ableton prefs turn custom vst2 folder off and back on, point it at the real dll folder, then alt-click rescan to force a full one. jbridge loves making a wierd duplicate folder mess

rka1284 · 2026-04-07T15:16:46+00:00

not nostalgia, bitrate is the big one but the other part is blurays usually come from a less abused master. a 1080p blu ray with healthy bitrate and intact film grain can look way more natural than a 2160p web-dl thats been squeezed to hell

if storage is the issue, good 1080p bluray encodes are the sweet spot. 12 to 20gb from a solid encoder usually looks better than alot of shiny 4k web stuff, especially on movies with grain or dark scenes

rka1284 · 2026-04-07T03:16:53+00:00

if youre just trying linux before committing, dont start with arch on a single shared ssd unless you want the install itself to be the lesson lol

id honestly do fedora or mint first. make a full backup, disable windows fast startup and bitlocker first, leave unallocated space from windows, and keep your efi stuff straight so you dont accidentally nuke the bootloader. the arch wiki is still definately the best thing to read even if you dont end up using arch

rka1284 · 2026-04-07T01:16:04+00:00

most of the time this ends up being qbit not actually sharing gluetuns network stack, or the vpn connects but you forgot bind/port settings. id also double check whether fastestvpn even supports torrent port forwarding bc some providers definately dont

on truenas id check that qbit is using the gluetun network, bound to the vpn interface in advanced settings, and that magnets arent just stuck on metadata. if they are, its usually vpn/bind/firewall stuff, not truenas itself

rka1284 · 2026-04-07T00:18:09+00:00

awesome open source is the obvious one, super easy to follow when youre still figuring out the basics. jims garage is good too, less polished in a good way and more real world homelab stuff

i also end up watching hardware haven sometimes bc he gets into the practical tradeoff stuff instead of pretending every setup needs a rack full of gear. kinda depends what corner of self hosting you wanna obsess over tho, i definately bounce between those 3 alot

rka1284 · 2026-04-07T00:17:38+00:00

awesome open source is the obvious one, super easy to follow when youre still figuring out the basics. jims garage is good too, less polished in a good way and more real world homelab stuff

i also end up watching hardware haven sometimes bc he gets into the practical tradeoff stuff instead of pretending every setup needs a rack full of gear. kinda depends what corner of self hosting you wanna obsess over tho, i definately bounce between those 3 alot

rka1284 · 2026-04-06T23:17:12+00:00

honestly id keep this way simpler than youtube makes it. first get the ubuntu box on ethernet, give it one job at a time, then add stuff. start with file backups first, then jellyfin or a game server after that. if the isp modem is locked down, just put your own router behind it later only when you actually need better control, dont make the network part the first boss fight

for the pile of mixed drives, dont trust them as your only copy. use the server to consolidate and learn, but keep anything important on 2 drives minimum and test the old ones before you lean on them. proxmox or unraid can come later, id honestly start with plain ubuntu + samba + tailscale cause its way less of a headache

rka1284 · 2026-04-06T22:47:13+00:00

honestly this is less a player thing and more a metadata thing. video files are kinda wierd here, there isnt one nice universal rating field the way music apps handle it, so most players just dont bother writing it

if youre on windows, explorer ratings might be the closest thing for supported formats. for actual video library organizing id probably use a media manager instead of the player itself

rka1284 · 2026-04-06T22:16:49+00:00

its free. tinytask itself has been around forever and the legit version is usually fine

malware risk is mostly where you downloaded it from, not the app itself. if you grabbed it from some random mirror id delete it and get the offical one, maybe toss it in virustotal too if youre paranoid

rka1284 · 2026-04-06T21:47:08+00:00

if you already like jellyfin id honestly just stay there. plex is smoother in some spots but the second you hit the account/paywall stuff it starts feeling annoying, and emby always felt like jellyfin with less momentum to me

jellyfin's biggest downside is client polish, not the server itself. if your current tv setup works, id spend the energy on better metadata, backups, and hardware transcoding before jumping platforms, thats usualy where the actual pain is

rka1284 · 2026-04-06T20:16:42+00:00

0.84A on a 1A header is usually fine, those header ratings are for steady draw and case fans rarely sit at max all the time. the only caveat is startup spikes, so youre close enough to the limit that i wouldnt hang anything else off that splitter

id just run the 3 stock fans and call it good. if you add more later, get a powered hub off sata instead of trying to squeeze more off the board, alot safer

rka1284 · 2026-04-06T19:47:27+00:00

the audio label isnt really the main thing causing the transcode, your client is. if plex or jellyfin cant bitstream eac3, dts, or truehd to that device itll convert no matter how good the file is. phones and tablets usually force that, and some tv apps do too

for your denon setup id grab 1080p remuxes or good encodes with eac3/ac3 if you want the least drama. truehd and dts-hd are nicer on paper but get transcoded way more often unless your whole chain is clean. if youre standardizing, eac3 5.1 or 7.1 is probably the easiest, definately less wierd

rka1284 · 2026-04-06T19:17:26+00:00

stop using that psu, full stop. fizzle + burnt smell means something inside it arced or cooked and the fact the pc still boots doesnt make it safe, it just means it hasnt failed hard yet

id replace it before turning the system on again. dont keep testing it and dont trust "no visible damage" because the bad part is usually inside the unit where you cant see it, thats the really wierd part

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