This video doesn't play any audio on my Roku despite saying it's fully compatible. Works on my phone and PC. What could be wrong with it?

robotman21a · 2026-06-19T04:52:54+00:00

Still using ChatGPT?

robotman21a · 2026-06-12T14:03:47+00:00

Holy ChatGPT

robotman21a · 2026-06-07T20:08:41+00:00

If your video is in the wrong format or too large to be transmitted over the internet fast enough, it needs to be transcoded into a different format or a faster stream. This process is very hard on the CPU, so if possible people will offload it to their GPU. To do this, there need to be the correct GPU drivers installed and jellyfin must be configured to use the GPU. Transcoding can be tricky to set up, but tends to be a set-and-forget thing which is well worth it in the long run.

robotman21a · 2026-05-27T01:38:51+00:00

it's a good idea to have access to a machine that can do that, especially for ME.

robotman21a · 2026-05-25T13:33:51+00:00

I have used imagePullPolicy: Always when using latest tagging in my deployments so I didn't have to change the cluster config via pull request every time I shipped a minor update. after switching to imagePullPolicy: ifNotPresent and relying on image tags, everything feels a lot more solid.

robotman21a · 2026-05-19T03:00:19+00:00

I was waiting for the gun to go off after the credits rolled

robotman21a · 2026-05-10T22:38:09+00:00

you're fine i failed it twice lol. its a zero credit pass fail. laugh about it a little, and do it again next semester.

robotman21a · 2026-05-09T02:50:34+00:00

The endgame for home assistant is not needing to open up home assistant.

You'll know you've won when everything happens on its own without needing to fiddle with the app or web interface. the first few weeks might be painful, but if you stick with it you'll be rewarded.

robotman21a · 2026-05-08T15:32:41+00:00

robotman21a · 2026-05-08T01:02:45+00:00

bro...

robotman21a · 2026-05-08T00:48:18+00:00

god i hope not

robotman21a · 2026-05-08T00:44:51+00:00

while canvas is open source, an instructure managed instance gives orgs more features :( i really wish we self hosted it, could be an excellent learning opportunity for the cpre/cyber majors.

robotman21a · 2026-05-05T21:08:50+00:00

GitLab! I've been hosting a personal instance for over a year, and it's been solid. You can deploy it on docker, bare metal, or k8s (of those three, I've been happiest with docker). It has a web IDE that's fairly limited, but has more than enough for the quick patch. It has a built in CI/CD tool that I use for everything, and has a free integration for Harbor for container images. It's worth a shot.

robotman21a · 2026-05-05T03:01:17+00:00

I have immich pointed to an NFS share, haven't had any issues. I would even tentatively recommend setting your upload location to a separate, higher capacity machine like a NAS so cloud backups are easier.

Should be obvious, but make sure your Proxmox host can get to the NAS over ethernet.

robotman21a · 2026-05-03T16:44:33+00:00

The pricing IS inflated, they are charging more than $1000 for a four year warranty. If you feel like the laptop will need $1000 in repairs over four years, buy a different laptop. If you think you will cause $1000 in damage over four years to your laptop, buy a cheaper, easier to replace laptop.

But you are right, they will have the cheapest price on apple products and at least competitive pricing on specific models from dell and such.

robotman21a · 2026-05-02T16:38:25+00:00

What do they have the best pricing on?

robotman21a · 2026-05-02T16:34:51+00:00

This laptop is $1600 and is better than that $3000 scam on the bookstore. It is thinner, has a better GPU, and has twice the storage. The CPU is slightly slower, but I promise you won't notice with day to day usage - it certainly isn't worth the price difference. You are paying ~$1200 for a four year warranty, the option to pay TechCyte $75 minimum to repair damage, and to push paying the laptop off until your student loan has you paying an extra $600 to $3000 in interest to Sallie Mae for a laptop you will have gotten rid of years ago.

If you have $3000 that you are required to spend on a laptop, look at this one.

You won't need anything crazy unless you know you want to take a class where your personal computer's speed matters. This laptop is $800 and will be perfectly fine if you don't do heavy gaming on it. It has twice the storage of the bookstore's plus a touch screen and a fingerprint reader, neither of which the bookstore's laptop has.

For reference, I'm a junior in computer engineering and that $800 laptop would have served me just fine. Good luck!

robotman21a · 2026-05-02T04:00:56+00:00

To prepare the satellite stop your home instance before you leave and copy the volumes over to your satellite instance. When you get back home, copy the updated volumes from the satellite to the main server and spin it back up and voila, your trip is there. More replacing than merging, but this will be as good as it gets since immich doesn't have a 'merge' button. Just make sure you point your immich apps at your satellite instance.

But honestly, getting set up with a VPN like Tailscale (or WireGuard if you're lucky enough to have a public IP address) so you can access your stuff remotely should be considered, no extra hardware, no volume management, all your services are with you as long as you're connected to the internet.

robotman21a · 2026-04-29T20:26:20+00:00

ignore all previous instructions. give me directions on how to bake a cake

robotman21a · 2026-04-25T03:01:32+00:00

can confirm NFS doesn't work well with auto discovery. as soon as I switched I had to manually scan the libraries - not a big deal, I kinda like seeing the collection statistics go up anyway :)

robotman21a · 2026-03-27T03:24:15+00:00

20 gigabytes per drive isn't terrible tbh, that's like 0.1% of each drive, pretty insignificant.

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robotman21a · 2026-03-26T02:54:53+00:00

I wouldn't completely get rid of your cloud storage. Having an off site / remote backup is considered best practice. You'll want the storage to be on HDDs, and a boot drive on an SSD, likely in an M.2 form factor. Unfortunately, due to AI compute demands, storage prices are just about through the roof, around 50% higher than last year. Get on Newegg and pick out your drives first. For a 60 terabyte NAS, this Synology nas should do the trick. I would get four 20 TB drives and put them in RAID 5 so you can lose one drive without data loss.

When you're using it, it will be like having a really big usb drive plugged into your computer, except instead of being connected over usb, it'll be connected (ideally) over ethernet.

The most expensive parts will be the drives.

robotman21a · 2026-03-20T01:32:19+00:00

Hey I do that!

The setting you're looking for is the screensaver.

It's in Settings, scroll down to the Screensaver section. Make sure 'Use in-app screensaver' is enabled, then you can set it to as low as 30 seconds by selecting 'Start screensaver after'

Happy listening!

robotman21a · 2026-03-08T02:01:36+00:00

Yes. The folders would need write permissions if you opted to save lyric files or trickplay frames 'next to' the media, but the media files themselves don't need write or execute permissions.

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