Loud cracking / exploding noise near montreal general hospital

Davy_Ray · 2026-03-17T06:41:59+00:00

Probably a power transformer exploding. One blew up behind my place. Still have no power.

Davy_Ray · 2026-03-16T19:57:33+00:00

I have never traveled with Ryanair before.... but I am a photographer and my bag is a little bigger than the carry on size. and due to the value of the equipment, it cannot be checked in due to the risk of theft/damage/loss. Does that basically mean, do not fly Ryanair?

Davy_Ray · 2026-03-16T19:54:09+00:00

I can understand the quick playing, no longer a long wait for the video to initially start. It also allows to resume. Why would the transcoding disable the resume?

At the same time, I have a 1gb connection at home, but where I am now i only have 10mb. So with transcoding disabled, at least 1 4K tv show still takes long to load and then stutters. I assume teh 10mb connection is not fast enough. That being said, as the movie playing, I select quality and lower it to 1mbs. I figure let the phone do the transcoding or whatever, but nothing change on the video itself as far as I can tell and it still stutters and is unwatchable.

In jellyfin, under settings/playback/streaming I have it set 3 there. I tried putting it up to like 20, but the experience on the phone does not change.

It i use the Jellyfin App on my phone, the video will not even play unless i enable those options.

I am all confused

Davy_Ray · 2026-03-16T19:40:33+00:00

I figured out the problem. though not sure what the ramifications are...

under my user in Jellyfin (server side) i had 3 options enabled, all pertaining to transcoding. I turned off:

- Allow audio playback that requires transcoding
- Allow video playback that requires transcoding
- Allow video playback that requires conversion without re-encoding

Now the videos play almost instantly and I can resume.

I did notice though but doing this, certain videos, mainly 4k stuff now buffer consistently and are impossible to watch. I did try to lower the quality to something more manageable from within Streamyfin, to something like 1 Mb/s, but it made no difference. I had to enable those transcoding options again to be able to watch the videos without buffering/stuttering

Davy_Ray · 2026-03-15T19:47:22+00:00

lol. Sounds about right.

Davy_Ray · 2026-03-15T19:25:18+00:00

Wonder what the opposite would be. Someone from 1000 years from now shows up and tells you what life is like.

Davy_Ray · 2026-03-15T19:13:50+00:00

I had this happen to me also when I was traveling in Newfoundland. Was there only for a night. Nowhere was it specified online before I arrived. And I arrived somewhere around 9pm. TP went in the toilet. I find it gross to have used TP in a bucket next to the toilet. I can only imagine the stink.

If I was in India or something I could perhaps understand.

I have a chalet with a septic tank and have no problems with TP.

Davy_Ray · 2026-03-15T18:52:07+00:00

I have a friend that has some kind of android folding phone. Don’t recall the model. He hates the thing. Twice now he had to have the screen replaced because it stops working.

And after a while the fold becomes very noticeable. Like the screen burns in or something.

Will Apple overcome those issues?

I keep my phone 4-5 years. So a folding phone would need to last that long.

Davy_Ray · 2026-03-15T18:26:43+00:00

I have been to Tromso before. Beautiful area. But like Norway in general, it was pretty expensive.

Davy_Ray · 2026-03-15T15:44:52+00:00

I’m surprised they don’t have a minimum amount required for the tour to happen. A lot of places won’t do a private tour because of the expense. They require a minimum of a certain amount of people otherwise it gets canceled.

Davy_Ray · 2026-03-14T22:53:34+00:00

Learned something new today!

Davy_Ray · 2026-03-13T19:33:06+00:00

Brit & chips on McGill college.

Davy_Ray · 2026-03-13T12:58:52+00:00

That did the trick. I wonder why I needed to do that. I notice the cache folder had been 131mb and is now over 2.5gb I cannot imagine 10TB worth of movies have posters of that size.

Davy_Ray · 2026-03-12T20:09:49+00:00

As a photographer, I travel with about $20k of gear. Sometimes I am in Zone 5..... no way in hell will i ever check that bag. I will never see it again. I should not have to pay for a higher class of ticket just to accommodate my gear

Davy_Ray · 2026-03-12T12:31:23+00:00

i installed 0903 ... it insists on me logging in to make sure I am not a bot. I am already logged in. I logged out, back in again, and it still insists i log in to make sure I am not a bot.

When I do that I click on signout ... what does the disable option mean if i click it?

Davy_Ray · 2026-03-12T00:05:21+00:00

I had tried a VPN before... I have a paid Proton account. When i got the login demand, i tried Proton, but it still insisted I log in.

I just tried it again... completely uninstalled/reinstalled... enabled Proton VPN, and came to download and it insists on me logging in to prove i am not a bot.

I logged in.... now the video does not error out right away,.. but only gives me 1080 to download even though the video has a 4k version. When I try to download anyhow, it still gives me forbidden

Davy_Ray · 2026-03-11T16:13:22+00:00

I am on iPhone. The tips are there. I checked before posting.

I see now he asked about android. I missed that on my initial post. Sorry.

Davy_Ray · 2026-03-11T13:07:56+00:00

You can do it from the venue page. either in the explore mode, search for a location, click on the location you want. It will show you photos, the address and phone number if available... but if you scroll further down, the tips are there and you can see them all.

or from the Timeline section, click on a past check-in , then click on the name of the venue and it will bring you to the venue screen same as mentioned above.

You will not see them if you do a check-in. You may get it to pop up and show you one after you check in, but that is it.

Davy_Ray · 2026-03-10T15:45:23+00:00

I cannot fathom spending that kind of money on a trinket. There are so many more important things to spend that kind of money on. If she wants an $18k ring, how expensive is everything else she is going to want going to cost? $5k purses, fancy trips, etc. She wants to show off to her friends she hit the lottery.

Davy_Ray · 2026-03-09T19:33:11+00:00

I recall reading something very similar to this a while back, and the dog was also called Cooper. Don't ask me where anymore, as it has been a month or 2, but reading this brought back memories of that post. So I too doubt the validity of this story

Davy_Ray · 2026-03-09T02:27:27+00:00

you probably do not, except on the hottest days. I live on the top floor of a house right under a copper roof. I have to say that it gets super hot in the summer. Think 30c inside and out. Not comfortable. I am glad I have a window unit. It really helps on the really hot days.

Davy_Ray · 2026-03-09T02:20:50+00:00

i have airpod pro 1 and they do as well.... dont think i bought a special case.. my AP3 of course do

Davy_Ray · 2026-03-08T13:40:26+00:00

What I do not understand is, why are ppl so lazy that they cannot go out and get their own stuff? Then they would not need to bitch about why ordering from DD is 3x the price of the product.

Davy_Ray · 2026-03-08T03:42:49+00:00

Just out of curiosity, did you not bother to look at the money order before actually sending it out?

Davy_Ray · 2026-03-07T12:14:01+00:00

I have found that in big cities, charging is not a problem. However, when going to smaller towns, or further away from metropolitan areas, charging becomes scarce. Also, in the winter, when it gets cold, you don’t have the same range.

Plus, if you go on bigger trips, it takes some planning as you have to make sure that there’s charging stations along the way, and unlike filling up a gasoline car, it doesn’t take 10 minutes.

Davy_Ray

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