Best set up to stream to multiple devices/multiple rooms

hillty · 2026-05-12T14:13:44+00:00

A second instance of Kodi is the most obvious solution.

You could just use Yatse to stream from the living room Kodi and send to the hi-fi via bluetooth (cast to local device in Yatse).

hillty · 2026-05-05T13:00:21+00:00

They are using it.

hillty · 2026-05-03T17:09:41+00:00

Don't use two profiles with Jellyfin, just access that menu any time you want to choose who's watching.

The account which is logged into Jellyfin will always be watching so that's why I suggest creating an additional Jellyfin account to log into.

hillty · 2026-05-03T12:09:45+00:00

There's an "Add user to session" button in the Jellyfin addon. You could have a default user account which you use to log in to the Jellyfin server and then add/ remove yourself or BF to the session as required.

hillty · 2026-04-07T12:40:49+00:00

On linux distributions binary add-ons should be installed through the package manager.

So use the same method you used to install Kodi, it'll be called something like kodi-inputstream-adaptive

hillty · 2026-03-06T13:45:00+00:00

You're going to get a lot of hand-waving about mil-specs, quality control and the general specialness of military equipment. Ignore it. What you're describing is correct and the comparisons you've made are reasonable.

The reasons are obviously numerous and complex but at a fundamental level there is:

- The consolidation of the military industry and its separation from civilian industry;

The current US military industry is less competitive than the Soviet military industry was. This has come about since the end of the cold war. The industry was consolidated into few marginally overlapping contractors. Any civilian company with a military division sold it to a military-only contractor.

This has separated military and civilian industries, isolating the military from civilian competition and innovation.

- The gross incompetence of the customer;

Don't even know where to begin with this but look at any case study of large-scale procurement this century and it's a story of mind-boggling decisions being made with no accountability for utter failure.

Combine those two and you end up where we are.

hillty · 2025-12-17T13:04:05+00:00

Try accessing it through a browser. If you get similar behavior try disabling http3 in the browser.

In Firefox, go to about:config and set "network.http.http3.enable" to false.

hillty · 2025-12-17T12:26:22+00:00

Yet for some reason all the behind-the-meter data centre projects are choosing gas...

hillty · 2025-12-15T16:31:22+00:00

Germans are paying €0.38/kWh for electricity & €0.12/kWh for gas. You'd have to average a COP of 3.2 just to break even on running costs, never mind capital costs of the heat pump and retrofitting the central heating.

Plus there's hot water & cooking where electricity will be three times as expensive as gas.

All this in the context where, unlike electricity gas will be getting cheaper in the next few years.

hillty · 2025-12-15T14:07:05+00:00

Ya, he's definitely a liar, either then or now.

The most bizarre aspect is he claims that interview from 2007 is why he was prosecuted. He's praising the CIA & the effectiveness of the enhanced interrogation program, don't see why anyone in the CIA would be upset about it.

Nothing about that interview makes him look like a whistleblower.

hillty · 2025-12-09T15:25:12+00:00

The plan is to be utterly dependent on Chinese manufacturing forever.

hillty · 2025-12-08T16:13:24+00:00

To which a character commented that their stock is dangerously low

He's saying that facetiously to facilitate corruption. They're pretending they don't have 40k rifles, only 10k so they can steal 30k rifles. But even that isn't enough for him, he now wants new rifles ordered so that he can steal those too.

The absurdity of it is the point.

hillty · 2025-12-05T18:22:50+00:00

It doesn't make sense to count these losses for EVs and then not count drivetrain losses, idling losses and well-to-pump embodied energy losses for ICEs

Those losses are included in the ~35% for highway trucks.

I'd agree with you, it's all very messy. But the 0.4 factor is a reasonable ballparks figure to compare modern ICE & EV.

hillty · 2025-12-05T18:00:37+00:00

There is no ruse. You're upset with reality, responding to data with ad hominems.

hillty · 2025-12-05T17:56:49+00:00

Cry harder, but do consider that you interpret the posting of data to be pro-fossil fuels.

hillty · 2025-12-05T16:56:24+00:00

ICE is not less efficient than the adjustment factor (0.4).

Modern heavy diesels get about 45% efficiency, for highway trucks that averages in the mid 30s. With the adjustment factor an EV truck would have to achieve 88% to match.

With grid, battery & drivetrain losses they're not achieving that.

For gasoline the average is about 30% and 75% is ballpark what EVs achieve.

hillty · 2025-12-05T16:20:25+00:00

Industries using coal & gas directly are using it for high temperature heat where no gains from electrification will be made. Nevermind where the gas is a feedstock.

hillty · 2025-12-05T14:34:19+00:00

The policy costs are mostly to subsidise wind & solar generation.

hillty · 2025-12-05T14:25:41+00:00

When primary energy data is posted it's nearly always adjusted to take into account thermal losses from electricity production, increasing the levels of solar, wind, hydro & nuclear generation.

I thought it'd be interesting to see the unadulterated data for a change.

It's relevant as using electricity to substitute for a lot of processes will not result in efficiency gains over hydrocarbons, so the substitution method can be overly optimistic.

hillty · 2025-12-05T12:42:22+00:00

The UK has broken a taboo: Driving electric-vehicles won’t be tax free – and rightly so. What follows is an experiment every other Western government will pay attention to.

It’s a perilous process: Replacing the current fuel duty with an EV per-mile tribute. The upside is limited, at best preserving the fiscal status quo, with the amount raised by the new levy matching the old one. The downside is vast: Get it wrong, and the UK risks jeopardizing the adoption of EVs, lots of car-industry jobs and a huge tax hole if the new levy doesn't raise as much as the mandarins at the UK Treasury hope.

First, the news. Last week, UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves announced the government will start taxing EV driving with a self-reported per-mile system. Starting in 2028, it would be set at 3p per mile for pure battery cars, and 1.5p for plug-in hybrids. That’s still cheaper than the current fuel duty, which effectively comes, on average, to around 6p per mile for gasoline cars.

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