Faceman2K23

joined 2 years ago

"Satan, Play Emperor on the living room stereo"

[–] Faceman2K23@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

I don't know what type of disabilities your little one has but I was looking into this for my grandma when she was struggling to use things due to physical and mental decline and ended up with the "Relish Simple Music Player" which is a dead simple desktop radio with limited controls and preconfigurable presets for FM/dab stations or playlists from a memory card, **but it had no smart features or streaming. ** not really kid optimised but it's good to know there are devices out there that are specifically designed for various disabilities.

As for DIY smart HA based solutions, a compatible device like a google home mini or similar (or any active speaker with a compatable receiver plugged in, or a Sonos One SL or something if you are OK with that) and some simple control device like one of those zigbee scene controllers (like these), the standard spotify integration, plus a bit of automation/scripting or a tiny bit of nodered could become a simple and effective little jukebox.

[–] Faceman2K23@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'm starting to replace some wifi devices with zigbee too, Yes many zigbee devices will act as a repeater or router for other devices to connect through, the only devices that tend not to have this functionality are battery powered devices like pushbuttons or remotes.

Just a word of warning, those S26 Zigbee outlets have quite poor range so you might still run into issues if you only have a couple of them.

As far as I know there is no alternative firmware for the Zigbee and Z-wave devices. nor is there any real need for one as they do tend to "just work" but that also means you are stuck with the features and functions they give you. There are some Zigbee bridges that can run ESPhome to add some customisability, but that is just for the wifi side of the device.

Sounds like a bug in the encoder perhaps. I dont have that issue with my setup, but I'm not using AMD GPUs

[–] Faceman2K23@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Fold3 5G, I charge to <85% nightly and it almost always lasts me all day from 6am to 11pm.

I'm not a super light user, but my screen on time is nowhere near yours, 7 and a half hours screen on seems crazy high to me. I usually come out at 3 to 4 hours.

I keep the screen brightness down, wifi and bluetooth are automatically on and off only when needed, very rarely receive phone calls or video chats so that's saving quite a bit.

[–] Faceman2K23@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

While I tend to avoid encoding wherever possible, I use H265 10Bit at low RF to archive non-critical libraries (old TV shows in some users personal libraries, 1080p movies more than 1 year old and over 20gb etc..).

my average size reduction going from a 1080p Bluray remux of 35-40gb is about 50% with no significant effect to image quality. High action or high grain movies end up a bit larger, slower movies with no action and most animations compress a bit smaller. works well overall.

basically any modern device can decode them and the image quality tends to be a bit better than 8bit.

I'd like to go with AV1, but very few of my client devices can decode it, so its not worth the trouble to save a few percent,

Theres plenty of smaller, lower volume silicon fabs doing larger scale work, like Cmos 1micron and some doing sub micron down to what was cutting edge ~15 years ago.

Honetly kinda crazy that only one manufacturer can do the current modern stuff, but barely anything other than high end CPU need to be that small.

Yes I've seen some like that. just bonkers stuff.

[–] Faceman2K23@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Automatically ripping movies is pretty easy, but TV shows often need manual work to get them right.

Sometimes you'll get individual videos with the correct chapters, runtimes and they are listed in order, but other times they will be jumbled in random order, or will be one large video that needs to be split manually into episodes.

{Nested [Parentheticals] - (An Autobiography), By Admiral Patrick}

[–] Faceman2K23@discuss.tchncs.de 37 points 2 years ago (4 children)

oh god I do this all the time, excessively, and have to rewrite emails and posts multiple times to get rid of them as much as possible. sometimes I'll be writing a parenthetical and need to nest others within it..

It's hard.

Was never even available as a service in my country so no loss to me.

Japanese company doing Japanese company things..

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