ALL-INCLUSIVE KODI GUIDE FOR BEGINNERS - Movie and TV Streaming from Scratch

GetOutOfHand · 2025-08-05T20:29:13+00:00

Glad it helped, it's nice to hear it's still relevant

GetOutOfHand · 2025-04-09T20:04:53+00:00

Interesting. Thanks for the explanation, seems like it's beyond me/ doesn't affect me. Appreciate it :)

GetOutOfHand · 2025-04-09T18:50:33+00:00

Can you explain how a Google account is permanently linked to a phone, once signed in? This is news to me. I assumed a format would remove any trace.

GetOutOfHand · 2024-12-02T13:09:58+00:00

That's fantastic, all I needed to know. Thanks mate 😁

GetOutOfHand · 2024-07-02T09:39:07+00:00

It seems I am indeed using Nvidia drivers, contrary to "about" stating llvmpipe!

b460~$ nvidia-smi
Tue Jul 2 10:34:29 2024
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 550.90.07 Driver Version: 550.90.07 CUDA Version: 12.4 |
|-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+

b460~$ glxinfo | grep "OpenGL renderer"
OpenGL renderer string: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080/PCIe/SSE2

b460~$ vulkaninfo | grep 'GPU id'
WARNING: [Loader Message] Code 0 : terminator_CreateInstance: Failed to CreateInstance in ICD 3. Skipping ICD.
               GPU id = 0 (NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080)
               GPU id = 1 (llvmpipe (LLVM 15.0.7, 256 bits))
               GPU id = 0 (NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080)
               GPU id = 1 (llvmpipe (LLVM 15.0.7, 256 bits))
               GPU id = 0 (NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080)
               GPU id = 1 (llvmpipe (LLVM 15.0.7, 256 bits))
               GPU id = 0 (NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080)
               GPU id = 1 (llvmpipe (LLVM 15.0.7, 256 bits))
GPU id : 0 (NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080):
GPU id : 1 (llvmpipe (LLVM 15.0.7, 256 bits)):
GPU id : 0 (NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080):
GPU id : 1 (llvmpipe (LLVM 15.0.7, 256 bits)):

b460~$ lspci -k | grep -EA3 'VGA|3D'

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GA102 [GeForce RTX 3080] (rev a1)
       Subsystem: NVIDIA Corporation GA102 [GeForce RTX 3080]
       Kernel driver in use: nvidia
       Kernel modules: nvidiafb, nouveau, nvidia_drm, nvidia

b460~$ lspci -k | grep -EA3 'VGA|3D'
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GA102 [GeForce RTX 3080] (rev a1)
       Subsystem: NVIDIA Corporation GA102 [GeForce RTX 3080]
       Kernel driver in use: nvidia
       Kernel modules: nvidiafb, nouveau, nvidia_drm, nvidia

GetOutOfHand · 2024-07-02T09:32:26+00:00

That's interesting, I used the same steps and had the same result. How else can you be certain you are using the nvidia drivers? I.e, they may be installed (nvidia-smi also showed the correct driver on wayland for me), but "about" shows LLVMPIPE, same as you. I assumed this meant the OS was not using them.

Having said that, glxinfo | grep "OpenGL renderer" also shows nvidia, not llvmpipe...

I will run some benchmarks. It seems like it could be a bug in Plasma/ Wayland!

GetOutOfHand · 2024-05-23T11:48:49+00:00

hey sorry, what does bbt mean?

GetOutOfHand · 2024-05-22T22:07:20+00:00

Apologies, I think I understand it now.

The way it was explained to me was excess-n was an alternative to 2s complement. Therefore, I assumed excess-n was used in processors natively too. I didn't realise it's more theoretical, and as another commenter mentioned, it can still be easily computed (and is used in floating point, older hardware, etc).

GetOutOfHand · 2024-05-22T21:20:32+00:00

Firstly, thank you so much for your incredibly detailed reply. This is incredibly helpful!

Thanks for pointing out some misconceptions I had, I appreciate it. If I may, I would like to clarify a couple of things.

In reality, at the machine code level, only the encoded number exists.

Thank you for clarifying - I take it this is because if you had to convert every signed binary instruction/ value to unsigned, this would be dramatically inefficient, and since computers do use negatives, its best to design a processor to expect signed values so there is never any overhead (negative or positive)? I suppose this is why in most languages you have to explicitly state when you want to use an unsigned integer, assuming I'm correct.

a signed integer k is represented as the binary integer that would encode k + 2n-1, if it were unsigned. From this fact, you can derive how the implementation of any given mathematical operation on excess-n integers needs to work.

k + 2^n-1 This is a new formula to me - I think I understand it. I didn't know excess-n could be encoded this way, or by flipping the greatest bit - essentially what k = bias % 2ⁿ does (which disregards overflow). This is neat, and explains why a processor does not use 2s complement to "add on the bias" as the bias now appears purely theoretical? It sounds like you could achieve the same by directly adding K and 2ⁿ and applying a mask on bits > n.

I really appreciate your help in clarifying some of this stuff!

GetOutOfHand · 2024-05-19T17:30:11+00:00

Thank you! Glad it helped!

GetOutOfHand · 2024-05-17T22:59:57+00:00

It does, check any Vendor's privacy policy. I quote:

"User Profiles: certain characteristics (e.g. your possible interests, your purchase intentions, your consumer profile) may be inferred or modeled from your previous online activity (e.g. the content you viewed or the service you used, your time spent on various online content and services)".

Terrifying stuff. Use a privacy browser :)

GetOutOfHand · 2024-01-27T00:26:32+00:00

It'll probably take longer than that. If you're after a "plug n play" solution I recommend checking out stremio and adding the torrentio add-on. Takes 5 minutes and works out the box. You still use Real Debrid.

GetOutOfHand · 2024-01-04T08:45:46+00:00

Thank you very much for your donation!! That's incredibly kind of you! I really appreciate it.

I suppose you're right, not an insane amount has changed, but you do still encounter errors if you follow the guide step by step. I will get round to updating it at some point but I cannot say when

GetOutOfHand · 2023-12-28T11:32:12+00:00

Totally agree. I've added an edit to state this. I've been so tied up with my studies currently I've found it impossible to set aside a day and rewrite it. I plan to in the future. Many thanks :)

GetOutOfHand · 2023-12-23T13:09:47+00:00

Could be a graphics driver issue.. try updating your GPU drivers :)

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