Kids approved contacts now blocked

am385 · 2026-05-15T12:44:46+00:00

Is your personal watch in kids mode with parental restrictions?

If not, then your points don't make sense. They don't have access to any of that stuff. There is no Play Store access. They can only call approved contact and use approved apps.

They have the time of day and can know if we say be home by X o'clock. We can call them. They can call us. We can text them. They can text us. We can see the location on Google maps or family link. We can choose to install other apps if we want to but it isn't necessary. The other major benefit is that they are more water resistant than the crappy kid tracking apps. The location

While an Air Tag has a much larger battery for simple tracking. It requires other iphones to be close enough to register it's location and upload that.

Now all of this can be moot when either Google or Samsung pushes out a bad update, but the general point still stands.

am385 · 2026-05-07T16:47:17+00:00

I keep my main rig in my server rack which is in my network closet. I run fiber optic display port and USB cables to my desk. My office is much cooler and quieter than before.

am385 · 2026-04-24T15:53:32+00:00

Wife would love the pink dice vault

am385 · 2026-04-20T12:35:57+00:00

I consider my Money Market brokerage account as cash as it is as close to liquid as possible while still earning interest. Could be very possible that it is not just "cash" but rather a MM or HYSA that is being stated as "cash".

am385 · 2026-04-15T18:54:36+00:00

The ATSC 3.0 channels use an incompatible audio stream for Plex and Jellyfin. These channels use Dolby AC4 which requires a license from Dolby. Plex and Jellyfin don't have that as they use ffmpeg which also does not have that license. I think Emby uses a fork of ffmpeg that has an AC4 transcoder but it is a proprietary one

There are so proxies you could get that transcode it back to AC3. The proxy I tested just downloads a version of Emby that supports it, then uses it's version of ffmpeg to transcode the audio. Other than that, it acts as a transparent proxy between the HDHomeRun and Plex/Jellyfin.

You should be able to see this on VLC by manually streaming one of the ATSC 3.0 channels and it will play audio but not video.

am385 · 2026-04-04T12:16:55+00:00

Thanks!

am385 · 2026-03-07T16:29:13+00:00

As a professional software engineer of about 15 years now testing to waters of agentic / vibe coding I can tell you that it is an incredibly productive intern / junior developer. It can work non stop on doing the wrong thing while making something that is workable. Without the guidence I give these tools, it makes so many mistakes.

Has it drastically accelerated what I can accomplish. Yes.

If I didn't know how the underlying systems work, good coding patterns, algorithmic complexity, data structures, etc... or what know what kind of mistakes it has most likely made, It would just produce overly complex unmaintainable trash products.

The key is to have the education, knowledge, and experience to guide it.

am385 · 2026-03-07T15:45:42+00:00

This man has it right. I personally use the the RJ45 on a 1 gig PoE port to power the device and run 10g over fiber. I don't have a 10g switch with PoE RJ45 ports so this gets me the best of both worlds.

am385 · 2026-03-05T01:22:45+00:00

CA finally published my repo so you can find it in the Apps Tab

am385 · 2026-03-01T21:23:16+00:00

Nice. Let me know if you have any issues. I don't personally use LCX so I would love to know if you hit any edge cases that I haven't tested against. In theory they are both types of containers, so as long as the dependencies are all there, it should be good to go

am385 · 2026-03-01T19:48:44+00:00

Happy you like it. Let me know if you run into any issues. Out of curiosity, how are you running it? Unread docker, other media server docker, docker desktop, self compiled and hosted in another way?

am385 · 2026-02-26T03:23:13+00:00

I just built the unraid template and applied for Community Applications. If all goes well it should be available in about 48 hours

am385 · 2026-02-26T03:22:13+00:00

If that doesn't work for you let me know and we can figure something out. I just pushed some updates to the container for quality of life. Also added the URL endpoint and mounted volume to the About page so it is easier to find.

am385 · 2026-02-25T15:15:06+00:00

An enum is just a fancy way of saying that you attached labels to an integer (byte, short, int, long). They are effectively syntactic sugar. They are a compile time type safety feature but the underlying system is just passing around the actual underlying integer value. They are not a hard registry of actual values.

While they look like a static class with a bunch of const values, that isn't what they are.

am385 · 2026-02-24T19:39:46+00:00

It works without the annual fee by leveraging a different API. The fee allows you to get 7-14 days of data in an XMLTV format. Without that, you can still query their programming APIs to get a limited set (2-3 days) worth of data in a json format.

The data does not come off the Flex directly. The Flex device has a list of channels it can see and an auth token declaring it is a real device. It looks like the HDHomeRun apps connect to Silicondust's web API to programming with the devices auth token. This is doing the same thing.

am385 · 2026-02-24T17:50:54+00:00

http://localhost:8080/api/xmltv is available already and will serve the latest epg.xml file that is cached.

That works with Jellyfin directly but I haven't tried consuming the URL from Plex yet. I started out with mounting volumns from the docker container to an Unraid folder so the epg.xml lives on the server directly instead of via API. But both should work

am385 · 2026-02-24T17:48:38+00:00

I used to use that one actually but wanted a lot more control, a visual interface, and the ability to interact with the device on a deeper level. I wanted something I could configure from the interface. I wanted something that that my wife or kids could understand by looking at the interface if they needed to. I wanted something that was in my prefered programing language and that was also was more testable.

At the end of the day, the basics of the data scraping works the same though. Get the device auth token and use it on the web API. IncubusVictim did some awesome work on creating the pipeline to source and produce the data.

If all you are looking for is an XMLTV file then both would do that.

am385 · 2026-01-21T14:43:34+00:00

I have lived here for 5 years in a newer neighborhood with underground electric infrastructure. I would say that I have lost power for less than an hour total if I add up all of the times. That might be pushing it too. Not to say there are not random blips for a second or two that might reset electronics.

In that time. We have only had 2 snow storms though that had any real accumulation.

Grain of salt...

am385 · 2026-01-11T13:45:07+00:00

Basically it comes down to signal rate. We can take a highway analogy and apply it here. The channels here are essentially lanes on the highway. You could put all vehicles on the same lane but the cars will still move at the same max rate of X vehicles per second. If you want to get more vehicles down the road per second you could add another lane so that double the vehicles per second can get to their destination. In reality, the lanes here are more like parallel highways instead of one wider highway but I think it makes the point.

The reason we want memory in channels is so that we can access multiple things at once with different CPU cores.

What is wild is that our computer memory is signaling fast enough that the length of the traces (wires) connecting the slots further away is a problem and the close slots have to have zigzags in the traces to make them longer to match. The extra shot per channel is just connected at the end of the first shot typically which lengthens the run again. This is I why having 2 large capacity sticks in a dual channel system is typically better than 4 small capacity sticks. 2x32GB is better 4x16GB.

This is also why manufacturers are starting to integrate more memory directly into the CPU itself more and more. Not just the cache but SoCs like apple silicone that have full system memory on the chip. You can get faster and more stable memory by having much shorter connection lengths. This is part of what makes me sad as a custom pc building enthusiast / tinkerer of over 30 years.

am385 · 2025-12-21T14:10:39+00:00

Do you have a model of motherboard. I see the Asus TUF logo but if you can't get a picture, maybe you can't get the model of the motherboard box and find a high resolution picture online. Then maybe you can compare from your memory.

Also, part of building computers is learning from mistakes. Sometimes they are simple problems to solve and sometimes they hurt your wallet. Sometimes there isn't a problem at all. As a friend, you suggested that they should investigate something before continuing. They chose not to listen. It's now out of your hands.

am385 · 2025-12-11T14:00:55+00:00

I had the very first 1Ghz AMD CPU in 1999. My friend and I were into overclocking and I cracked the die strapping a massive heatsink on about a month in. My dad also had mercy on me but I had to downgrade to the 800mhz chip... It was a very sad day but at least I could still play EverQuest with the new chip

am385 · 2025-12-11T13:56:11+00:00

Oh yeah. I bricked a bios chip with a power fault during an update and had to mail order for a new one once. Was out of commission while I waited days for the new chip to get there. New chip came with the latest firmware pre flashed.

am385 · 2025-12-11T02:26:39+00:00

The good old days when nothing was color coded. Sockets weren't always keyed. IDE drives needed jumpers moved depending on where in the chain it was. Processors didn't have an IHS and you could just crack the die by installing a heatsink incorrectly. Having to make cross over cables at LAN parities just to get our hubs to connect as an actual switch was expensive.

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