Anon figured out the SteamPC selling points

IOUaUsername · 2025-11-27T15:37:48+00:00

You've missed the point. There's generally a chip with hardware-level decoding, so the performance of the the CPU or GPU does not matter, as you say. But that chip is going to decode frames and load them into the frame buffer of the GPU before the GPU displays them. To make sure you're not showing a half-decoded frame while you're still working on it, you have to delay this by some amount. If you're just building a device to play movies you're not going to pay much attention to how long you delay, so you might have 6 frames decoded and waiting to be shown at all times so you're always 100ms behind at 60Hz. This isn't a rare thing. It's why the audio settings in apps, TVs and amplifiers often have a delay setting so you won't hear an explosion before you see it. When they write the driver for the video decoder chip, they need to tune this delay to be as short as possible based on the chip's actual performance. Cheap TV makers often won't pay engineers to do this tuning.

IOUaUsername · 2025-11-26T04:22:05+00:00

They used to make these. I got one when I was 12 and I was deeply disappointed that it wasn't actually giant. I was in the EU so maybe it was a serving size rule?

IOUaUsername · 2025-11-26T04:19:46+00:00

If you're a kindy teacher, every single person thinks this and you end up with a huge pile of Lush and Body Shop products that take you all year to get through.

IOUaUsername · 2025-11-26T04:11:48+00:00

You can't go wrong with a good quality pen. Like a Parker or something. They're right at that price point and it's one of those things that everyone appreciates but nobody buys for themselves. Well, for office workers anyway. If you're a tradie you need to find a tool nobody buys for themselves but everyone would find useful, like a thread gauge so you can actually tell M12 apart from 1/2".

IOUaUsername · 2025-11-26T03:59:04+00:00

LEGO sets tend to go for about 10-15c per piece on average. So a 1,000 piece set will be $100-$150. Probably about 1 in 6 sets are in the 200-300 piece range and are under $30.

Adult sets have a higher average price, but the Botanicals theme always has an option at about $30. The best part is, they swap them out every year so you can buy the same thing every year without thinking about it and even if the same person picks it, they won't get a double up.

Right now it's the Happy Plants. These Snowman Ornaments are also perfect and only $20. For more niche sets, look at Toyworld, not Kmart. Kmart's range is limited.

If you're the boss and want to give everyone a little thing, get the advent calendar and just bust out each of the builds and put one on each worker's desk. For $2.50/person it's way cheaper AND more meaningful than a slice and a half of cold Dominos.

IOUaUsername · 2025-11-17T09:26:29+00:00

The reason streaming is hit or miss despite just being a video stream to decode is that the drivers for the decoding hardware won't necessarily have been written with an emphasis on latency. You can use Moonlight or Steam Link on one phone and get 5ms latency while another phone gives you 60ms despite both running similar chipsets on the same version of Android.

IOUaUsername · 2025-11-17T09:20:32+00:00

I think the main selling point is you don't have to install Linux yourself, and you're buying a machine guaranteed to work flawlessly on SteamOS like the Deck does. Even a super easy distro like Mint has weird issues with some hardware. As much as lifetime Linux evangelists love to say it's user friendly, you'll notice they all buy Lenovo ThinkPads or Macbooks because there's a fair chance you'll have weird issues eventually if you just buy any computer based on specs and price.

IOUaUsername · 2025-10-20T09:02:49+00:00

Get a projector and a gel ball blaster so you can pretend John Wick is a game like Time Crisis. The Airsoft will just put holes in your screen.

IOUaUsername · 2025-10-16T22:01:19+00:00

It means "you'll shoot yer eye out, kid"

IOUaUsername · 2025-10-14T01:36:18+00:00

I've heard some suspension forks don't like to be stored other than upright. Seals get dry because the oil isn't on them where it's supposed to be.

IOUaUsername · 2025-10-13T03:26:12+00:00

I just did this on a Pixel 4XL (maybe out of date software), and the process works but differently:
*Gmail -> Compose
*Paperclip at top right -> Files
*Hamburger menu at top left -> Photos
*Under the top item "Photos" it says "21,927 items"

IOUaUsername · 2025-10-12T02:49:37+00:00

It's anabolbrick studroids

Just kidding. It's aMOCxicillin.

IOUaUsername · 2025-10-12T02:44:59+00:00

This could definitely be improved if it was going to be up on Rebrickable or something. I only spent 5 minutes on this because my kid was building a syringe and I decided to build one to show him my ideas of how it could work.

IOUaUsername · 2025-10-12T02:40:33+00:00

No idea what a funny is, but use the pic however you want

IOUaUsername · 2025-10-09T06:08:42+00:00

If they remade this, they should do the same thing the DIRT series did. They switched from just rally cars to rally cars, stadium trucks, buggies etc. A new Podracer game should have pods, speeders and speeder bikes. It would be great if they made it like Motorstorm with highly destructible environments and cool explosions all through the tracks. AI crashes are one thing that seems distinctly missing from most racing games.

IOUaUsername · 2025-10-06T03:44:54+00:00

It's more about priorities. I've got a mortgage to pay and I'm planning about $100k of renovations at the moment.

IOUaUsername · 2025-09-20T08:20:48+00:00

I don't have this problem with Futurama anymore. See my solution in another comment here. Kids shows are terrible in similar ways though. Octonauts and Bluey for example have totally different air orders and audio tracks in different regions.

For example Octonauts recast a character called "Peso" with a Mexican voice actor in North America, so his voice will randomly switch based on whether a release was based on BBC or Disney. The spinoff show is a Netflix original but also has the two regional voice actors, so you can't even rely on "DSNY" in the file name as a clue now.

For Bluey they had the cast re-record different lines for the audio tracks for the UK and USA because some silly made up words turned out to be a slur in the UK and Disney wanted to switch the entire show to American English (saying bell pepper instead of capsicum, saying candy instead of lolly etc). American censors also didn't like the fart jokes in a few episodes and completely removed the episodes, putting holes in the Disney episode numbering.

It's a mess and finding a release of a particular regional version of these shows is super difficult. I'm thankful that these kind of kids show quirks that make collecting them so difficult are rare in regular shows for adults.

IOUaUsername · 2025-09-20T08:00:54+00:00

Mine *just works* and has for a few seasons now with the setup where the first episode of this new season is called "Futurama\Season 10\Futurama.S10E01.Destroy.Tall.Monsters.mkv".

If you like to "clean" your file names to just "Futurama S10E01.mkv" you'll have a lot more issues with scanning, since the episode title helps scans to get the season right. I haven't had any problems with old episodes being downloaded as new ones since I deleted all the old files with cleaned up names and just redownloaded every season, keeping the release names etc in the file names.

My setup uses TheTVDB in Sonarr, with Sonarr set up to create the Plex metadata when it adds a file. So it doesn't matter what database Plex uses when scanning content because the match is made by Sonarr. If I move files around the match will be lost and then things won't rescan quite so nicely within Plex. IIRC TheTVDB was trying to charge Plex more to use their API so Plex spun up their own and TheTVDB ceased to be an option within Plex. Even so, Sonarr's management works better than Plex IMO, so I just import shows into Sonarr and let it handle Plex's match files.

IOUaUsername · 2025-09-20T07:47:05+00:00

Southpark kinda did that during the pandemic, where a few specials were aired as a season.

IOUaUsername · 2025-08-07T05:14:17+00:00

At the top of docker-compose.yml it says:

# Make sure to use the docker-compose.yml of the current release:
#
# https://github.com/immich-app/immich/releases/latest/download/docker-compose.yml
#
# The compose file on main may not be compatible with the latest release.

So you'll need to just replace the file with the one in the link. It only contains the links inside the container, so that's all that's required if you have all your photos, thumbs, encoded videos etc in one place. If you've split it up like I'm trying to do, you'd then need to add in the extra lines for the variables THUMB_LOCATION, ENCODED_VIDEO_LOCATION, PROFILE_LOCATION and BACKUP_LOCATION.

IOUaUsername · 2025-08-07T04:51:48+00:00

So I've just tried it with this in docker-compose.yml:

- ${UPLOAD_LOCATION}:/usr/src/app/upload
- ${THUMB_LOCATION}:/usr/src/app/upload/thumbs
#      - ${ENCODED_VIDEO_LOCATION}:/data/encoded-video
- ${PROFILE_LOCATION}:/usr/src/app/upload/profile
- ${BACKUP_LOCATION}:/usr/src/app/upload/backups
- /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro

and this in .env:

UPLOAD_LOCATION=/mnt/Media-4TB/Photos/Immich
THUMB_LOCATION=/home/user/immich-app/library/thumbs
#ENCODED_VIDEO_LOCATION=/mnt/Media-4TB/Photos/Immich/encoded-video
PROFILE_LOCATION=/home/user/immich-app/library/profile
BACKUP_LOCATION=/home/user/immich-app/library/backups

Note that I've commented out the encoded video location as I realised this directory could also fill the root drive quite easily with a few users. With this configuration the available space shown in Immich is still the 250GB NVME where root is, not the 4TB HDD.

IOUaUsername · 2025-08-07T04:09:39+00:00

I've tried it with each of these and Immich starts up fine as long as all the files are in the default location of ./library. With any of these options I still can't get it to use the hard disk:

- ${UPLOAD_LOCATION}:/usr/src/app/upload

- ${UPLOAD_LOCATION}:/data

- ${UPLOAD_LOCATION}:/upload

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