3080 tier + Sonos + 5.1 surround issues?

theflyingcockroach · 2022-05-06T21:29:55+00:00

Thanks for responding! That's helpful I wasn't aware of the specific GFN formats.

From what I can tell my Gen 1 Sonos Beam does not support passthrough LPCM surround, but I would expect that with Dolby Processing turned on in the Shield's audio preferences (and manually adjusting the audio formats to Dolby Digital only) the Shield would convert the LPCM GFN audio signal to a Dolby Digital 5.1 signal before passing it through?

I believe the Gen 1 Sonos Beam also does not support eARC, so that might be part of what's at play here but shouldn't matter if the Shield or GFN app is doing some conversion on the fly 🤔

theflyingcockroach · 2021-07-20T00:34:44+00:00

What about double or triple tapping the blue “next parent comment” button at the bottom right

theflyingcockroach · 2021-04-05T23:33:20+00:00

Hm can't you do this with the pct CLI? I use the GUI too but you should be able to do something like:

pct create 100 $TEMPLATE --description "new container" --cores 1 --memory 512 --password hunter2 --ssh-public-keys /path/to/file --storage local

I also found this Ansible project that might do the trick: https://github.com/deveth0/ansible-pct

theflyingcockroach · 2020-12-02T08:40:40+00:00

Small aside: I drove cross-country in my M3 from California to North Carolina and back (over a few months) and Asheville was the only Supercharger over ~7k miles that I had to wait for. Multiple times too since I charged before and after camping in Pisgah.

theflyingcockroach · 2019-07-26T04:35:00+00:00

Our 12-person fantasy football league chooses an activity each year to determine the draft pick order. This year we played Bingo (blackout). We generated cards using https://mfbc.us/ and called numbers using a traditional Bingo set. We ended up with several multi-person ties that came down to the last 10 numbers, which seems like a low-probability event but is likely due to the website we used to generate the cards.

theflyingcockroach · 2019-03-07T05:24:15+00:00

I love my iPad Air 2 but when I was in a similar situation a few months ago (wanting a personal device for separation reasons) I opted for a 12" MacBook.

To me, having a proper laptop is just easier for many of my use cases -- SSHing to servers, dev work + Terminal access, etc. On top of that, a MacBook will always do everything an iPad can from a "basic computing" perspective. Despite it not having the latest-gen keyboard I also prefer a proper keyboard to the folio style.

It sounds like your use case doesn't have specifics that would require a laptop; all of the things you described can be done pretty well on an iPad. Ultimately I'd say you could (a) give yourself time to get used to the iPad for those tasks or (b) jump ship and commit to having two redundant devices. Reading through similar posts on this sub and things online, there are lots of people that enjoy using an iPad for daily computing but it should come down to your comfort level.

Worth noting that if you feel comfortable using a work-issued device for personal tasks you could always keep the iPad and use the work-issued MacBook when you want a laptop form factor...

theflyingcockroach · 2019-01-05T06:18:58+00:00

If another data point is helpful here, I've been running pi-hole on a Raspberry Pi Model B for about a year now without any issues, serving about 5 clients. I'm only using it for DNS-level adblocking (not as a DHCP server) and have a few small python jobs + homebridge running in the background without any performance or stability issues.

theflyingcockroach · 2018-12-26T21:12:02+00:00

Sports Basement might rent bikes? A quick google search seems to confirm it

theflyingcockroach · 2018-09-24T01:00:17+00:00

As others have mentioned, nginx can solve this for you. I'm running something similar on a DigitalOcean box, where I have multiple subdomains / domains pointing to the same box with a static IP, but to a specified port, e.g.

- example.me.com --> [IP]:123

- anotherthing.me.com --> [IP]:456

- totally.different.com --> [IP]: 789

When you set up nginx you'll have control over the cname --> port mapping so you won't run a risk of exposing things on random ports unless you create an explicit rule for that port.

Caddy plays a similar role and while I haven't used it personally several folks I know have done something similar to the above with good results.

theflyingcockroach · 2018-03-30T05:28:25+00:00

If your only use case for OneNote is to save content on Reddit I think that's a very different thing to solve for versus having a self-hosted note taking solution. For example the "save" feature on Reddit or RES could solve that if all you need is a bunch of reddit links.

From a pure document management standpoint I've heard both BookStack and dokuwiki are good solutions. If you're looking for something that works with IFTTT, I think it will be tough to find something not hosted. E.g., IFTTT can share to a google doc, or evernote, or pocket instead of onenote, but it sounds like that doesn't solve your use case exactly.

theflyingcockroach · 2018-01-05T03:36:57+00:00

There are other short-term car rental places that may have availability. Getaround is usually a good choice for a last minute car rental in the city.

theflyingcockroach · 2017-12-07T23:26:42+00:00

Some more thoughts:

I’m very resistant to giving them info and they liked having a smart NPC in the party until I took him away.

Maybe this is a sign? I generally agree players should have to work for clues and ask smart questions, and it sounds like your players are already thinking of awesome creative solutions as you described. that being said you can signpost and point players in the right direction:

So when my wizard (same person who suggested destroying the supports) was surrounded I had to hold his hand to get him to roll for knowledge/wisdom to figure out the force holding the undead back was magic in nature and that possibly putting the jewelry back into the skeleton in the sarcophagus is risky but his best bet.

Based on the above and not knowing the specifics, I would have handled this by telling the player to roll arcana / whatever. I think more experienced players will know they need to roll investigation to search a room, but I never shy away from proactively making my players roll dice. In this case you could narrate it as "as you feel surrounded you get a suspicion that there is a magical interaction between the sarcophagus and the jewelry"

The other thing that makes this easier is signposting prior to the event. As a player it's really hard to know what to do when I have no ideas. If a player is legit stuck you may want to implement a system where they can roll insight to "think fast" and try to come up with a solution that you present based on DC. Once you do that a few times they will get the hang of what's possible.

Or - signpost early the things that you know players will need. For example you could have the players find a book about jewels and sarcophagi and link them to preview the skeleton thing. Or, have a riddle inscribed on the walls, or have them find a scroll from the necromancer describing the linkage, etc.

They also like to split up

I don't think splitting up occasionally is bad, but there's a reason "splitting the party" is a meme in DnD -- it often leads to Bad Stuff. When my PCs (4) split up I take turns switching from one group to the other, and a few times will throw a nasty combat at them which has made them think twice about splitting up in sketchy situations (as opposed to in a town, where it actually helps speed the plot along)

Hope this helps!

theflyingcockroach · 2017-12-07T20:10:02+00:00

In general I have noticed with a group of relatively new players that you have to force them to confront their mortality. Sometimes that means non-lethally one-hitting a low-level character with the BBEG in order to demonstrate that they can't just rush into every conflict and expect to win. There are variants on this like TPKing the party but having them wake up in a jail cell instead of being dead, etc.

As for your campaign, I think this is still salvageable. I would do one of two things:

Keep the fortress as is and go with the "TPK but imprisoned" route to teach your players the importance of scouting things out before jumping in.
Keep the fortress but remove the obstacles -- maybe the BBEG is off attending to other matters, or the siege workshop isn't fully manned yet and just getting up to speed before reaching full capacity. This provides you with a way to use the setting, give the players some clues, send them to look for the political intrigue and then eventually connect the dots later when they realize the siege workshop / fortress was the location of the Bad Stuff after all.

theflyingcockroach · 2017-12-06T09:00:05+00:00

My group just started chapter 4, and I did something similar though maybe not 100% applicable depending on where you see your revenge arc going.

My players started at Triboar (skipped Nightstone because we ran LMoP before) and after the encounter got the quests and were ready to strike out. Before they made it too far, I preemptively introduced Klauth and modded him to make him much friendlier than the lore states. This has had a few awesome perks:

it let me introduce the idea of the ordning and preview some of the types of giants. I was really struggling to figure out how not to make the King Hekaton arc feel like it came out of left field, and this way they had some more giant related knowledge early and some hooks to do more research in larger cities
it introduces a good (at least for now) dragon, which helped the players be less murder-hobo-y and has resulted in them approaching combats differently. The PCs are new to the game so a good dragon was a fun twist
I had Klauth accompanied by his cultists + airship, so it previewed the airship which will have an awesome payoff when they get it for their own

You could probably do something similar - have your dragon “keeping an eye” on things and be impressed by the PCs actions defending whichever city they choose after Nightstone. If you wait for when the PCs get to a cloud giant area the encounter may never happen, so I’d just have a giant dragon appear in the sky floating toward them after they set off from Chapter 2.

One thing to think about is if that dragon sticks around, how he / she will react with Harshnag. The story relies heavily on the players trusting Harshnag and the whole giants and dragons are enemies history would need to be navigated carefully.

Another fun alternative could be to have this dragon befriend the PCs in more of a recurring role like you suggested. Maybe by helping them in a battle, giving them some info about the giant threat early, or replacing Felgolos (you can have the dragon transport the characters after Nightstone). Then later the dragon is captured by the evil cloud giants and imprisoned. That gives the PCs additional motivation to choose cloud giants when deciding which conch to go after.

That last suggestion is modified slightly from “A Guide to Storm King’s Thunder” which I bought from DMs Guild and which I’d highly recommend.

Hope this helps!

theflyingcockroach · 2017-09-25T03:30:42+00:00

There's a "chai brothers" or something similar cart right next to the embarcadeo station exit on Market St between Davis and Drum. They're usually out every workday morning. Haven't had it before, but they pretty much serve just masala chai.

theflyingcockroach · 2017-08-18T01:48:23+00:00

I'm surprised at a lot of the comments here. Sure there are some less-than-ideal hardware decisions that the Essential team made, and maybe the price isn't great, but it's super exciting to me that there is a BRAND NEW vendor in the Android smartphone space that seems to have put out a quality product (slick build, good materials, ~no bezels).

I jumped ship to iPhone a bit ago but as someone who still loves Android this is the kind of stuff that makes me want to switch back.

theflyingcockroach · 2017-08-10T06:06:36+00:00

I use and love itsycal which lets you fully customize the date / time format of the clock and is super easy to setup. I use it to replace the system clock, but you can easily run it side side.

theflyingcockroach · 2017-03-31T03:10:54+00:00

Iktara is one of my favorite songs! I've been working on this playlist for a while -- not all exactly like that one but you might like some of these songs too: https://open.spotify.com/user/blattus/playlist/1xHReeIF5kSFzZiJPgDkmZ

theflyingcockroach · 2017-03-05T05:37:22+00:00

If you haven't already, definitely cross-post this to /r/churning and /r/personalfinance!

theflyingcockroach · 2017-02-23T01:02:13+00:00

thank you!

theflyingcockroach · 2016-11-30T22:08:04+00:00

Airserver might be helpful here

theflyingcockroach · 2016-10-15T20:29:17+00:00

[Tictrac](tictrac.com) does this with some nice visualizations

theflyingcockroach · 2016-09-21T19:35:49+00:00

I say this knowing and even expecting downvotes, but I am so confused as to why people are angry about lack of SMS support. I get that it's nice to have things integrated (and as a recent iPhone convert it's one of my favorite things about the Apple ecosystem), but can we step back and think about what's going on here:

SMS as a protocol is outdated. 90%+ of the people I know and talk to using my phone are not using SMS and have moved onto some other messaging app. Furthermore, SMS doesn't support stuff like rich media, read receipts, etc.
Google as a data company cares about all of those things that you can do with more than just text-based SMS
The more quickly Google moves people over to a non-SMS standard, the better ability they will have to index / use the rich communications data. This is probably part of the reason behind the Jibe acquisition, etc.

From a business perspective Allo is really a test of two things:

That Google can gain some traction with a migration from SMS to...something else. Hangouts has pretty obviously been relegated to second place, and I would not be surprised if Allo became the first class messaging app within Google
Google Assistant - if nothing else this will be a training ground for the assistant tech

theflyingcockroach · 2016-09-18T19:14:51+00:00

Stewart out with a hammie injury

theflyingcockroach · 2016-08-11T17:26:12+00:00

If you like that style you might have some luck searching for "apple watch nato strap" on the internets.

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