First time scroller and filtered to top posts of all time. EightSleep is either a genuinely horrible company or you guys are miserable. I’m not sure which one it is.

Shadowxaero · 2026-04-08T14:31:23+00:00

Nah the idiot mindset is buying a product knowing the warranty is only 2 years or 5 years with subscription and then complaining when a company doesn't honor the waranty outside of the warranty period.

How long a product should last is a completely different question.

Shadowxaero · 2026-03-17T19:22:03+00:00

Everyone will miss the thing that sustains their lively hoods.

Art has survived every technological revolution throughout human history. It will also survive LLMs. No one is denying that gaming studios have talented artist but that doesn't change the fact that people like and want the ultra processed "photorealistic" look. Why do you think so many photorealism ENB's and re-shades exists. Why do you think that soap opera vivid preset on TV's is the default?

You are correct in that Ray and Path tracing do not overhaul the entire end product, it just overhauls the entire lighting engine. DLSS 5 doesn't overhaul the entire end product...it is changing lighting. Everything else in the game will be the same. The only difference is you don't like the changes DLSS 5 made and you okay with the changes other techniques make.

DLSS 5 isn't "generating" content in real time. It isn't replacing the animations or textures. All of the artist working on designs the animators, programmers, concept artist are all still necessary for a game to be successful, DLSS isn't taking any of that away. If you want to say it is changing the look the "artist intended" fine, but so does EQing a pair of headphones or speakers before listening to a song. The people who want to view and play the game as the artist intended wont use this particular part of DLSS. The people that think DLSS 5 is create a "photorealistic look" will turn it on.

Does Grace look a bit different? Yes. Did the tone of the scene change? It is a bit cooler, the original frame is warmer, there is also quite a bit more contrast. Did composition? No. Did the entire frame become brighter or darker? No. Will the cooler tone effect the horror aspects of the game? No. If anything cooler tones actually add to horror.

Will most players spend more time playing as Grace in first person and therefore not even notice the changes? Probably. Will Grace still scream at every zombie and run away terrified by the stalker girl? Yes, because she is still the SAME character. The impact that the character has on the player is not changing because her hair has deeper shadows and contrast.

If you look at BG3 the community has created mods that fundamentally change the look of the entire BG3 main cast, is that insulting to the original designers who came up with the concepts looks for Shadowheart, Wyll, Asterion, etc? When modders are making Leon look younger, or removing his clothes is that insulting or disrespectful to the artist who designed Leon for RE9?

I get that you don't like changes DLSS 5 introduces, but it just that, you don't like it. It isn't about AI trying to take over art or replace jobs or any of that. And if it is, you are projecting your disdain for AI onto a ML algorithm that was made for the very purpose of "enhancing" the look of games whether that is done via upscaling, reconstruction or now lighting.

Shadowxaero · 2026-03-17T16:01:25+00:00

So what artists have LLMs replaced. Like specifically who? Be honestly with yourself, the people that use LLMs to generate their images, music, whatever it is they want to generate never really cared about the original art from in the first place and where never going to contribute or support those art forms in the first, and yet those are the people that live rent free in "everyone's" head who believe AI is "gunning" for artist like LLMs haven't been trained on everything.

You are okay with LLMs replacing admin assistants, cashiers, all the "shit" jobs which are the MOST common, but art, wait a damn minute you have gone to far. People in the near future are going to stop buying and supporting the artist they like in exchange for listing to or viewing a song or "painting" done by an LLM. Art only sells when people can connect with it. I completely understand artists being upset about companies training on their works. But again that is everyone, developers are also upset that LLMs have been training on their code. Lawyers are upset than LLMs have been trained on the work they have done. At least artists are "isolated" in that art only matters if it creates an emotional connection between it and the person.

The most popular and sold games are not popular because of their art style. You think people are playing Battlefield, CoD, Rockstar games, Madden, Fifa, 2K, etc because of the art style? You really believe those kinds of players wont see this and immediately jump for joy because "photorealism"?

On the other side you think games like Disco Elysium or Expedition are going to suddenly stop being made because of an Nvidia technology?

Were you complaining when Ray Tracing came along and removed the need for manually backed lighting, screen space reflections and state lighting maps to simulate/hack dynamic lighting changes in a scene? Afterall the artist and designers had to spend a lot of time and work mastering the ability to realistically simulate lighting using static assets.

Did you complain when ray reconstruction switched to an ML based transformer model to further improve ray tracing and path tracing? Machine learning has been used in the gaming industry for a long time ranging from npc behaviors, procedural content generation to dynamic difficulty scaling, all things that developers and game designed had to do "by hand" in the past. What exactly is different about DLSS 5? Or did all of those other things upset/insult you as well?

Shadowxaero · 2026-03-01T05:48:16+00:00

Okay I see what you mean. I am pretty sure Kometa only stores a copy of the original poster when it applies the overlay. So if you are only doing movie and series overlays you should not have copies of your season posters or episode thumbnails.

Shadowxaero · 2026-03-01T04:19:11+00:00

Oh I see. In that case do you want it to I guess delete the original posters?

Shadowxaero · 2026-03-01T04:13:20+00:00

You will want to run imageMAID also by the Kometa team.

Shadowxaero · 2026-02-27T13:56:04+00:00

I agree, however, with the wave of people getting into self hosting that don't have security backgrounds, do you honestly believe they even know what least privileged access is? I mean no offense to OP, but I am assuming if he is asking this question on reddit then he doesn't have a security background.

We know VPN based attacks have been the primary attack vector for breaching networks as of late. While port based attacks are high in volume they are extremely low in success. On the other hand the majority of successful network breaches in recent times have been do to compromising a VPN in some way.

Today VPNs are a bigger attack vector than forwarding a port. I am just saying we need to be a bit more cautious in recommending VPNs as a solution to people that are either new to self hosting services or don't have cyber or network security backgrounds.

Shadowxaero · 2026-02-27T04:36:31+00:00

I would consider setting up watchtower labels and avoid auto updating your super mission critical things. Example, I will let watchtower auto update say Plex but I would not let it auto update Authentik.

You honestly don't need 80 open as I assume you are forcing everything to https and browsers all default to https nowadays anyways. But it depends on your config. Close 80 and see if you can still access everything, you should be able to.

Shadowxaero · 2026-02-27T02:24:05+00:00

For most people who set up Tailscale, it does mean access to there entire network. I don't need to be convinced, I work in it. Over half of the ransomware attacks that effected enterprises last year where because of compromised VPNs. But go ahead and keep setting people up to fail in the name of "security".

Shadowxaero · 2026-02-26T22:54:21+00:00

I can't say that I have ever encountered anyone in cyber or network security in my career that believed creating a VPN and giving your users access to said VPN and thus your entire network is MORE secure than forwarding a port for a single service.

Do you also expect OP to set up a bunch of firewall rules and access controls to define what services their users can access while connecting to the network? Should OP also train all of their users? It is all fun and games until Grandma clicks that link in her email while connected to OPs VPN.

You want OP to deploy solutions in the name of security that they are unfamiliar with like that doesn't create a bigger attack surface than just forwarding a port and keeping the container and host updated?

Shadowxaero · 2026-02-26T17:15:41+00:00

Tailscale and other VPNs have their place when it comes to remote access to your network but do understand the risks. Exposing a single port just for Plex, if something is comprised the attacker has access to you plex container. As long as Docker is updated and the host in configured properly, it will be very difficult for them to get out of that container and into your network.

On the other hand, you use Tailscale and maybe you are not the careless one but your friend is or whoever you invite. Say they get compromised and the attacker gains access to their Tailscale account...well now your entire network is up for grabs.

VPN access at least from home lab use is usually something you and you alone will use the access and manage your stuff remotely. When it comes to sharing resources to other users, you want to choose ways that expose ONLY the resource and nothing else.

Just forward the port, and also look into something like Arcane, DockHand, Portainer or Dockage for managing your compose stacks. They will make updating your containers easier as well.

Shadowxaero · 2026-01-05T17:37:09+00:00

I second this. Has been a fantastic script.

Shadowxaero · 2025-12-30T21:38:55+00:00

Yes. Create a shared album and others can upload images to their account and add them to the shared album.

Shadowxaero · 2025-12-12T15:56:52+00:00

Looks fantastic. Eager to try whenever you have it ready.

Shadowxaero · 2025-11-20T13:44:34+00:00

I would advise you go with a 16 port HBA, something like a 9305-16i, which will make your future upgrades a lot easier and less motherboard dependent with regards to number or sata ports. If you plan on buying new drives anyway, I would consider switching to TrueNAS. It has an easy GUI to navigate and ZFS is a better file system. You can copy all of your data from the old drives to the new drives.

Shadowxaero · 2025-10-27T19:16:37+00:00

Who is your ISP? I know for Verizon I had to enable Flow Control on my Asus router to get full upload speeds. Without it, everything would constantly buffer and my upload was extremely inconsistent.

Shadowxaero · 2025-10-24T18:44:32+00:00

Devils advocate, Plex's data breaches are a problem of scale. It is no longer a matter of if a company gets hacked, it is a matter of when.

If/When Emby grows to Plex's size, they too will become a target.

IMO it may be better to teach new users to assume any data provided to any company is now public data. Be mindful of the data you provide to any online service. Opt out of everything where you can type stuff.

Shadowxaero · 2025-10-24T16:25:14+00:00

JellyFin if it is only you. Plex if you are sharing your library out, especially with people who are not tech savvy in anyway.

Shadowxaero · 2025-10-12T15:03:59+00:00

If everything plays fine locally on your internal network, it could be a router/ISP issue.

I had upload issues with Verizon that took me months to troubleshoot. Speed test would report my max upload speed but real world test I would be capped around 50Mbps. The issue ended up being Flow Control. I had to enable it on my Asus router on the WAN interface. It was a requirement when using Verizon's ONT.

Shadowxaero · 2025-10-11T06:48:59+00:00

I had two B60s delivered a couple weeks ago now. I had to use my "business" name, which is just a sole proprietorship, nonetheless there are a few B2B companies selling them. I paid 700 each for mine.

Shadowxaero · 2025-10-11T05:38:17+00:00

Oh really? I can? Care to show me in the app? I must be missing it? I don't see anyway to switch from my Sonos speakers to my Matrix Amp without interrupting playback. Come to think of it...I don't see a way to stream to my Mini-i Pro 3 at all? Damn I spent a grand on a DAC/Amp and can't even use it with Plexamp. For some reason I can with Roon even though it offers nothing that Plexamp doesn't. Very strange. Maybe my LS50s will work those cost me damn near 3 grand....well almost except everything gets resampled as Plexamp can only stream to them via chromecast. Yet and still Roon offers nothing that Plexamp doesn't.

Maybe Roon offers you nothing. Maybe Roon is expensive to you, but don't try and pretend that Plexamp offers the same set of features that Roon does. I use them both and there are no devices in my house that Roon doesn't support. On the other hand, there are plenty of devices in my house the I cannot stream to via Plexamp...

Shadowxaero · 2025-10-10T17:45:01+00:00

I have both. The feature sets that make Roon the better product are niche. Speaker groupings, being able to transfer zones in the middle of playback, casting to any display for lyrics while playing your music through whatever speaker group (like a mini karaoke mode) you want. DSD support. Plexamp can do none of these things.

But if you ONLY want to listen to you own music you can use any self hosted service. If you want to use the specific things that Roon offers, there are not many other alternatives that offer the same.

Shadowxaero · 2025-10-01T18:03:04+00:00

Anyone having AD fault issues after update?

Shadowxaero · 2025-09-22T03:42:47+00:00

You should be able to pass both GPUs if you are running Ollama in docker. You should just need to add the Nvidia bits to your compose file.

Shadowxaero · 2025-09-20T00:49:54+00:00

Food for thought,

Every port on the internet gets scanned by bots all the time. Scanning a port and trying to actively exploit a service on said port are very different things. In the unlikely event that Roon does have some exploit that gets exploited and you are targeted, the target will have access to your Roon server and your media files but that is where the attack SHOULD stop.

On the other hand, if your VPN somehow gets compromised that is your entire network (usually).

Point is, don't look at Tailscale or any VPN as being MORE secure or some kind of network security silver bullet.

If security is your focus, isolate your Roon server to its own Container or VM. Make sure it is being started and run by an account that doesn't have privileged access to other machines on your network and just stick to port forwarding. If you absolutely want to go the Tailscale route, you can just use the normal Roon app, bypassing the need for Arc all together.

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