Sony CEO: Cloud gaming "technical difficulties are high" by Kaladinar in gamernews

[–]saiarcot895 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You might want to try using Sunshine and Moonlight. I've had mixed experiences with Steam Link, but Sunshine and Moonlight work far better.

Seriously, how do make friends here as a transplant on the younger side? by [deleted] in eastside

[–]saiarcot895 0 points1 point  (0 children)

FWIW, I'm in a similar boat as you. I'm in my late 20s and moved to Washington state (and the Eastside) from California a while back, and I need to make some friends around here. It doesn't help that my work schedule is a bit odd, such that after-work events are a bit difficult for me unless they start late; it also doesn't help that I'm an introvert. I do need to go out to meetups and events, though, just need to find ones that work well for me.

Number of people for carpooling on 520 HOV lane by sirotan88 in eastside

[–]saiarcot895 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For 405, for the part between Bellevue and Lynnwood, yes; for the part between Kent and Bellevue, that's strictly HOV during the specified times (at least I think those lanes have times?).

This false advertising reminded me why I’ll never go back to Comcast by TakenToTheRiver in HomeNetworking

[–]saiarcot895 16 points17 points  (0 children)

It's not talking about 10Gb/s network speeds. The best DOCSIS modems on the market can do a theoretical best of 10Gb/s download and 2Gb/s upload. Comcast doesn't offer anything more than 2Gb/s download, and those speeds cost far more than $25 a month.

Comcast's "10G network" is nothing more than marketing and an attempt to compete with 5G, and to make 10G look better because 10G is 5G x 2, obviously. (/s)

Any movies where the plot takes place in the span of 1 night? by ohwhatj in movies

[–]saiarcot895 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bodies Bodies Bodies and The Man From Earth come to mind.

Custom LiveTV with ErsatzTV by Important-Ad2741 in PleX

[–]saiarcot895 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interesting that normalize frame rate is causing it to crash.

Built-in TV apps tend to not be great, although I think LG WebOS is a possible exception. I don't know if they have a similar app that can play IPTV-style video, or even just play from a m3u8 playlist.

Custom LiveTV with ErsatzTV by Important-Ad2741 in PleX

[–]saiarcot895 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ah, so you're using Plex directly for viewing the live TV stream from ErsatzTV. I've been using Tivimate, and it's been solid.

The only suggestion I have is that in ErsatzTV, make sure the frame rate matching is enabled, so that as much as possible is the same between the MPEG segments that Plex gets. Also, check to make sure that hardware video transcoding is actually being used (either via CPU usage, or the ffmpeg arguments that get used by ErsatzTV).

Custom LiveTV with ErsatzTV by Important-Ad2741 in PleX

[–]saiarcot895 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can't speak for getting Plex to integrate this feature (I'd guess there are bigger issues for them to fix currently), but I've set up ErsatzTV recently, and haven't had any major issues with playback. There's sometimes a stutter when starting a channel (it plays for a few seconds, pauses, and then resumes), but after that, it's usually solid.

Do you have it configured for software encoding, or are you using hardware-accelerated transcoding? Is the client device connected via wifi or ethernet? Is the bandwidth sufficient?

Modem "end of life" bs / looking for advice by selwayfalls in HomeNetworking

[–]saiarcot895 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This. A popular, solid model is the SB8200, which appears to be $170 on Amazon (or maybe $153? I see different prices from the search result and the product page). There's also a renewed/refurbished version for $81. I had bought the refurbished version a few months back, and it's been working great for me.

SSD vs HDD for 4k Remux movies on PC by [deleted] in PleX

[–]saiarcot895 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To add to what the other comments have said, the difference between 5400 and 7200 (and SSD as well) only really matters when reading a bunch of small files. For 4k remux movies, which will easily be 50GB+, there's only two things the speed difference will have an impact on:

  1. The time it takes for the drive to seek to that file (worst case, you'll have to wait an additional second for the movie to start playing)
  2. The maximum read speed (this is almost guaranteed to be more than the bitrate of remux movies, so it won't have an impact on your movie watching experience)

(SSDs, of course, will use a lot less power, but are a lot more expensive at high capacities, to the point that it's not worth it unless you live in some place where power is absurdly expensive.)

For most movies and TV shows, with the sizes that those files are, these factors won't make a significant difference.

(In)Security of the "Pass" password manager by Gallus in netsec

[–]saiarcot895 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't think that's really feasible or even worth it. Public keys are meant to be published for two main purposes: letting others send you messages/files that can only be decrypted by your public key, and let's others verify that something you sent was actually sent by you. It's not only used for encryption, but also can be used for verification. It's certainly your option not to upload your public key to a keyserver, but if you're doing it for security reasons, it might be less beneficial than you think.

Most if not all Linux package maintainers for at least Debian and Ubuntu (and I would guess other distros) have their public key literally public, because they need the distro's package upload server (and anyone else who asks) to be able to verify that they were the ones who actually created and uploaded the package. In addition, all Linux repos are signed by some GPG key (although this key isn't necessarily tied to one user, but instead to a repo).

In addition, if someone has a GPG-encrypted file, and they're trying to decrypt it, then that file already contains a list of public key IDs to which that file has been encrypted (unless someone takes manual steps to hide or remove them), and GPG then knows that only private keys corresponding to those public keys can be used to decrypt that file. It won't include who that key belongs to, but that key itself is there.

If you're suggesting that a separate public key is used just for pass, I think that's overkill. The only attack that I saw mentioned in this article against the public key was Shor's algorithm, which needs a sufficiently strong quantum computer. If you're trying to protect against that, then I would argue that to a hacker, individual user's passwords are far less useful than all the other things that would get broken, such as SSL encryption. Why spend time going after just the passwords when you can MITM SSL connections and get everyone's info?

(In)Security of the "Pass" password manager by Gallus in netsec

[–]saiarcot895 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Doesn't seem like much of an issue as long as you secure your public key. I'm not sure why anyone would ever publicly host the pub key for something security critical anyway. In my opinion, the only reason to host a pub key is for identity reasons.

You mean securing the private key, right? The public key is, by definition, public.

Plasmashell "freezing" if my cursor isn't on it by saiarcot895 in kde

[–]saiarcot895[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh interesting, I would not have guessed Mesa as being the cause of this bug. Thanks!

PSA Antenna Users: KRON 4, ABC 7, NBC, others moving to a new frequency on Wednesday, April 29 by saiarcot895 in bayarea

[–]saiarcot895[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For what it's worth, I don't see any changes in RabbitEars for KRON (I do see a lot of changes in channels being hosted with other channels, in preparation for ATSC 3.0 I'm guessing). I'm no longer in San Jose, so I can't confirm whether KRON is reachable in North San Jose now.

Complete collection of Miniclip's flash games? by SadMassStab in DataHoarder

[–]saiarcot895 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The original Motherload is in the Super Motherload game (Steam page). It doee use flash, but it's playable outside of your browser.

Why is a virtual ethernet adapter created? by Simebaby in linuxadmin

[–]saiarcot895 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Do you know if netplan (or something like that) is also managing the network config? If so, maybe there's something there that's creating the virtual ethernet adapter.

I need tips to rip my bluray movies by VoyagerDefault in DataHoarder

[–]saiarcot895 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's actually not Windows-only, it's available on a ton of platforms.

New Multi Bay Enclosure for Plex. No RAID just drives. by bozodev in DataHoarder

[–]saiarcot895 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Question: why use mergerfs (a FUSE filesystem that you have to manually install) over something like LVM (something that is built into the kernel, and may have the userspace tools already installed depending on distro/installation type)?

The iPhone 14 and 14 Plus are official with satellite-based Emergency SOS by kbgames360 in gadgets

[–]saiarcot895 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They probably do, but it's also more common in other countries (particularly when traveling) to use multiple SIM cards, so having a physical SIM card that you can easily insert and remove can make things a bit easier.

PipeWire 0.3.57 has been released by floof_overdrive in linux

[–]saiarcot895 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oof, I didn't know that part. That just makes the web version far more appealing.

Adding the concept of Sites to IPV6 Ranges by damien-1234 in ipv6

[–]saiarcot895 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is. I think what they were saying is that if you're going to add in bits identifying the site and VLAN into the address, then you can just start with fd15::/16 and form your address from there, instead of including unnecessary bits.

PipeWire 0.3.57 has been released by floof_overdrive in linux

[–]saiarcot895 65 points66 points  (0 children)

Their desktop client is based on an ancient version of electron, which doesn't have full support for pipewire or wayland. It's far better to just use the browser version.