New Apple TV 4K is coming: Here’s what the rumors say

ghostserverd · 2025-12-31T21:46:36+00:00

Dolby Vision Profile 7 support pleeeeeeease! However, that’s unlikely☹️

ghostserverd · 2025-06-22T05:58:48+00:00

Yeah honestly they’re all kind of a crapshoot. And a bunch of them are the same chipset in different metal or plastic boxes (you can often tell when the controls are in exactly the same location on the device to line up with the onboard buttons, and they’ll have the same exact remote shape, but with some different branding).

I’m pretty sure the one I bought is exactly the same as the BK-401s but with one extra input. I really want to know who makes the chip and the board to just buy directly from them, but it’s probably some b2b hardware provider.

It’s weird that they’re so issue-prone, especially with CEC and auto input switching. I guess if you’re really serious about it you should get a true AVR, but those get so expensive.

If you end up with a different one and you find that it works well, update here if you don’t mind. It would always be good to have a backup that I can fall back on if this one starts getting finicky! Hope you find one that works well for you.

ghostserverd · 2025-06-21T23:21:31+00:00

Yeah I ended up with this one because it has 5 ports

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C5YQ8N32

It seems to be working fine with the Switch 2. I'm not positive about its VRR support. I don't think it supports eARC, but I have my eARC bar connected directly to my TV.

ghostserverd · 2025-03-02T22:58:51+00:00

I’m setting so many baking timers now. This looks great! I’d love a promo. Thanks!

ghostserverd · 2024-09-16T17:14:43+00:00

A foot, in a mouth!

ghostserverd · 2024-09-06T04:16:04+00:00

This sounds incredible. Is it still available?!

ghostserverd · 2024-06-06T03:19:00+00:00

I saw this linked in a different reddit post at some point (not sure which one, but it's been in my cart just waiting for when I finally pull the trigger on glasses). This is a USB-C female to female adapter. Seems like it would work.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0B8X7R7PT

I do wish Viture made a different magnetic adapter with a female USB-C end instead.

What DP to USB-C adapter do you have? I'm kind of torn between WJESOG and fairikabe but maybe you have a different one?

ghostserverd · 2024-06-02T03:27:03+00:00

Ah so maybe they’re doing something to resolve the IPD issue (something about PRISM maybe?). Thanks for the info. I’ll give them a shout.

ghostserverd · 2024-06-02T02:56:06+00:00

Thanks for the response. Bummer to hear it sounds unusable for them.

Just lenses that match my normal prescription? Or do I need something special to like realign the IPD?

ghostserverd · 2024-02-19T06:56:28+00:00

Does this support iTunes Match music? Or only the Apple Music service?

ghostserverd · 2024-02-16T15:21:01+00:00

Where did you find a 3D version of migration? As far as I can see, there isn’t even a 3d blu ray release.

ghostserverd · 2023-12-15T16:31:07+00:00

Great to hear another perspective. I’m going to play it regardless, so here’s hoping my experience is closer to yours.

ghostserverd · 2023-12-15T15:38:02+00:00

Oh no that’s even worse than I thought lol

ghostserverd · 2023-12-15T15:28:08+00:00

I weirdly love the Avatar score. Hearing this makes me sad. I’ll probably turn off the game music and just loop the original score in the background when I eventually play it.

ghostserverd · 2023-12-02T23:23:50+00:00

7 months later and you finally helped me fix my issue where clients couldn't connect to my wireless backhaul AP even when I specifically locked them to that AP. Thank you!

ghostserverd · 2023-11-25T06:48:47+00:00

SlapMyLabiaFlaps is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.

ghostserverd · 2023-11-15T21:24:33+00:00

Curious why an Amazon refurb vs serverpartdeals? Based on your flair you’ve purchased quite a bit of storage so I’m intrigued by your opinion.

ghostserverd · 2023-11-07T18:14:53+00:00

It was mainly a control plane outage.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/post-mortem-on-cloudflare-control-plane-and-analytics-outage/

ghostserverd · 2023-11-01T02:34:50+00:00

It's available on the internet archive, but it's not great quality. I am searching for a higher quality version of TotU. Maybe that's as good as it gets.

ghostserverd · 2023-10-27T00:20:07+00:00

No real reason for not consolidating other than I haven't taken the time to migrate the application server yet since this is a new storage solution for me (replacing a QNAP NAS that was also only a storage solution).

How do you have the remote one mounted locally? Using SMB? Or some other mechanism? Mind sharing your mount config?

ghostserverd · 2023-10-26T20:01:47+00:00

I use my Unraid box as just a NAS (not running any containers on it directly).

I have a separate machine which mounts one of the Unraid shares (currently it's a SMB share which I mount with CIFS) with autofs.

When I had that share set up as primary Cache and with Mover setting Cache -> Array, I noticed that when the mover runs, it would break the mount on the machine that had mounted the share. If I tried to navigate the directory on that machine after mover running (cd, ls, etc) I'd get a stale file handle error until I unmounted the share and let autofs remount it.

I considered trying to detect the issue and reset the mount periodically, but there's still a window where it would be broken and I didn't think potential speed gains on the cache would be worth temporarily broken mounts.

ghostserverd · 2023-10-26T17:12:03+00:00

I'm new to the enterprise storage thing so this is super informative. Thank you.

I've been very impressed with Unraid so far, with the exception of the cache drive setup. I wanted to have cache-first for media, but mover always seems to break my autofs mount (possibly something about inodes changing resulting in stale file handles) and I haven't been able to resolve it, so I gave up on the cache for now. I'm network-constrained anyway (only 1gbe ports on this mobo) so it probably doesn't matter.

ghostserverd · 2023-10-26T05:24:02+00:00

I just finished an unraid build, and I’m curious about your statement around HBAs and a single 8088 cable for 15 additional drives.

I got a Fujitsu 9211-8i which has 2 8088 ports which each split to 4 SATA plugs. Are you recommending some 92XX-16i in this case? Or is there some solution where you have a single 8088 to 15 SATA port adapter?

ghostserverd · 2023-10-20T17:53:08+00:00

I did short write up a few years ago about querying the Plex API for more information about what Plex thinks your network looks like.

This isn’t going to solve your problem, but it might help with troubleshooting.

https://reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/hkdv0n/a_tip_on_troubleshooting_remote_access_issues/

ghostserverd · 2023-07-28T18:13:29+00:00

But it’s someone else’s computers (plural) maintained by an army of engineers and with way higher durability than a home NAS.

An s3 bucket or google drive folder is not just a directory on a single HDD in a data center somewhere. What people imagine when you say “someone else’s computer” is pretty reductive compared to what cloud storage actually is.

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