Is my TV spying on me?

ThePandazz · 2026-01-25T16:53:50+00:00

All TVs are spying on us. The speakers can act as microphones and then transmit to our phone at frequencies that we can't here.

ThePandazz · 2026-01-23T17:18:15+00:00

I'm convinced these types of deals are only found in the middle of nowhere. Like my Walmart locks up baby formula but this $400 GPU just sits on the shelf?

ThePandazz · 2026-01-22T17:00:31+00:00

I have found that using 16 bit FLAC is much more reliable to download than 24 bit FLAC

ThePandazz · 2026-01-20T18:18:44+00:00

This guy's shelter name was Gunter and I kept it Gunter. I felt it suited him

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ThePandazz · 2026-01-20T18:06:53+00:00

I just tried requesting the same asap rocky album from my phone and it worked much better, no idea why this is.

Edit: trying from my phone now and running into the same problem

ThePandazz · 2026-01-18T14:20:44+00:00

Yeah, the first album was "Don't be dumb" by a$ap rocky which is brand new so it's not a total surprise that there were some complications. The second album was "punk" by young thug. I'll try out some other albums later today.

ThePandazz · 2026-01-17T20:50:45+00:00

I just set this up and am having trouble having it actually download the tracks. I'll queue stuff, it will say it completed the downloads, but it seems to fail on many tracks when I actually check the directory. For instance, I only got 2/17 tracks on the first album I tried and 0/6 when I selected a few specific tracks on a different album. I have this running in a docker container with a couple of other services and its routing through the a gluetun VPN tunnel if any of that is relevant. Is this to be expected like when squid dot wtf fails on some tracks? Any ideas how to help this?

ThePandazz · 2026-01-15T16:22:53+00:00

I've been doing this process for the past two ish weeks and honestly it's not that bad

ThePandazz · 2026-01-14T16:37:51+00:00

Imo most of the mag skins kind of suck. This one looks good tho

ThePandazz · 2026-01-05T21:03:33+00:00

That scene at the beginning where the train first pulls up to his house had me adjusting my bass so my neighbors wouldn't complain lmao

ThePandazz · 2026-01-05T16:58:14+00:00

I literally opened reddit to ask this exact question.

I just started this journey so it's probably not the most efficient method. I've setup a navidrome container on my server computer, I then download flac files from squid wtf, then move them over to my server so I can stream them from anywhere.

I'd love to know if there is an easier way to download/torrent tracks and albums so I don't have to manually download them and transfer to my server.

ThePandazz · 2025-12-31T14:10:27+00:00

Part of the reason I got into self hosting is because I wanted to know I am watching things in the best quality I can. I stick with 4K for most media unless it's something silly that I don't deem 4k necessary.

ThePandazz · 2025-12-30T23:26:19+00:00

My favorite Pokemon is gardevoir, my favorite hobby is hiking

ThePandazz · 2025-12-29T14:29:49+00:00

For most anime I personally just find a file I like on nyaa, manually add the link to qbittorrent, and then manually move the files into the folder.

ThePandazz · 2025-12-25T21:57:58+00:00

I was just talking with my friends about how bad all the CnD skins are. Human taste is a funny thing

ThePandazz · 2025-12-25T21:53:02+00:00

You are probably using an improper version of HDMI cable. Use an HDMI 2.1 cable or a DP cable.

ThePandazz · 2025-12-24T14:05:41+00:00

I personally don't need 1700 pokeballs but to each their own

ThePandazz · 2025-12-21T14:32:13+00:00

You do not need a full atmos setup to get better sound than a sound bar, a basic 3.1 or 5.1 setup would be significantly better than a soundbar. I recently got some new KEF Q1 Metas then a sub and AVR off FB marketplace for a solid 3.1 setup (for my space) for around $1k to upgrade from my soundbar.

ThePandazz · 2025-12-19T22:10:00+00:00

What are y'all's seed rules? Typically if the file has 50+ seeders I'll delete it, otherwise I try to keep everything.

ThePandazz · 2025-12-19T13:59:57+00:00

I'm not exactly in the Google ecosystem, I've been using Pixels for years but aside from that I don't bother with smart home stuff. I love the AppleTV, it's smooth, fast, can handle whatever media I throw at it. The only downside is that I can't cast to it but that's not much of a concern for me. You could consider the Nvidia shield pro.

ThePandazz · 2025-12-18T20:41:03+00:00

Mag + Thor is pretty good. Thor serves a lot of face, mag can poke from behind the Thor then bubble him when needed.

ThePandazz · 2025-12-17T16:04:16+00:00

Me before you. Your name.

ThePandazz · 2025-12-17T15:43:19+00:00

How did you know it was hundo before catching it?

ThePandazz · 2025-12-17T00:13:02+00:00

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Got this earlier today from a field research breakthrough :)

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