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[โ€“] ari_verse@lemm.ee 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I am using N100 and it works great in my case, custom build with with a mini ITX n100 board, with real NVMe, SSDs, using a regular Linux distro. Really happy with it

[โ€“] ari_verse@lemm.ee 5 points 2 weeks ago

What a drive by Franco! He almost got fastest lap as well. Amazing battle with Magnussen

[โ€“] ari_verse@lemm.ee 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Two candidates for my best-discovery-of-the-year prize,

Ptyxis terminal: https://gitlab.gnome.org/chergert/ptyxis A modern take at a terminal, gtk-4 native, gpu accelerated, container-aware etc that replaced tilix in my setup. And it comes neatly packaged as a flatpak

LogSeq notes: https://github.com/logseq/logseq A different approach to note taking & journal. Very nice looking, rich plugin ecosystem, could use some performance boost but I think they are working on it

Big shootout to flatpak/flathub that for me has finally taken off, I converted all of my regular desktop apps to flatpaks. Went from 3-4 apps last year to ~20 (including Firefox libreoffice, even my terminal app) this year and not looking back. This has made doing a major host SW upgrade almost painless for the first time in 25+ years using Linux desktops.

[โ€“] ari_verse@lemm.ee 26 points 1 month ago

That guy that gave the release, what was he thinking!

[โ€“] ari_verse@lemm.ee 16 points 1 month ago

What a weekend for Williams and most specially for Colapinto! Here's to hoping he will take this chance and make his 9-race-only chance the start of a brilliant F1 career. He seems to have what it takes

[โ€“] ari_verse@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Well these days we have flatpak to solve the "not in the repo" (or 'old version in the repo') problem.

[โ€“] ari_verse@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's a fair point but I would rather diversify and also use something that is open / less opaque

[โ€“] ari_verse@lemm.ee 52 points 3 months ago (6 children)

A few years ago when my org got the ask to deploy the CS agent in linux production servers and I also saw it getting deployed in thousands of windows and mac desktops all across, the first thought that came to mind was "massive single point of failure and security threat", as we were putting all the trust in a single relatively small company that will (has?) become the favorite target of all the bad actors across the planet. How long before it gets into trouble, either because if it's own doing or due to others?

I guess that we now know

[โ€“] ari_verse@lemm.ee 3 points 4 months ago

Thank you! that fixed it - I only had "undertermined" selected as language. It's curious that other communities did not show this problem before.

 

I thought this was a boost issue, but even using lemm.ee's web site, when browsing to my Nikon subscription (https://lemm.ee/c/nikon@lemmy.world) I don't see any post. If I go to the same community from lemmy.world's own site, I can see recent posts: https://lemmy.world/c/nikon I noticed the same problem in other communities (but I thought the issue was my lemmy client). Can this be fixed?

[โ€“] ari_verse@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago

For a low end, small, low consumption Intel box for HTPC/Kodi, Home assistant, Frigate, small Home Server or all of the above, I can recommend any N100-based box or mini itx mobo. It's very fast compared to prior Intel low consumption CPUs (apollo lake etc), does 4K, HDR, AV1.

[โ€“] ari_verse@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago

I.V. Drip blend from darkcity cofee in Toronto. Roasted a few days ago. Looking forward to my morning cortado!

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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by ari_verse@lemm.ee to c/askto@lemmy.ca
 

Looking for recommendations for a touchless car wash. Currently using the shell at Burnharmthorpe and Mavis but its kind of far. There is another one I used in the past in Dixon and Islington that is supposed to give both touchless and roller options, selectable in the screen, but the last time i was there it didnt ask, used rollers.

[โ€“] ari_verse@lemm.ee 4 points 8 months ago

I just checked that link and YES, actually it is, thanks for pointing it out. The docs must have been updated for v0.13, they added the ffmpeg prefix to the go2rtc stance, this wasn't there before. I found this originally in a github bug discussion with the frigate dev, where he suggested the person having issues to try this out and see what happens. There was no follow up after that suggestion though.

 

If you use Reolink wifi cams via the Frigate integration in homeassistant, you may be used to seeing tons of "ffmpeg has crashed unexpectedly" in your frigate logs. I have 3 older reolink wifi cams in frigate (510WA, 511WA) which most in the community seems to advise against and indeed since I've been running frigate, while they worked, they have been problematic since Frigate 0.12 and the arrival of go2rtc

Cutting down to the chase, when I was using the standard common configuration with these cameras:

go2rtc:
  streams:
    driveway:
      - "http://192.168.x.y/flv?port=1935&app=bcs&stream=channel0_main.bcs&user=USER&password=PASSWORD#video=copy"
    driveway_sub:
      - "http://192.168.x.y/flv?port=1935&app=bcs&stream=channel0_sub.bcs&user=USER&password=PASSWORD"

... frigate would generally work with them however in the logs I could see that the ffmpeg process that frigate creates for each re-stream would crash every few minutes, accumulating thousands of crashes over time. I assume that the crashes would also cause event detection to be unavailable for a brief period each time they happened.

With Frigate 0.13, it got even worse, as with each crash, the HA dashboard would show a black image with a "No frames received" message that would only go away after a manual dashboard refresh.

I believe the issue is that go2rtc was unable to properly handle the streams from these old cams, while in the past, ffmpeg directly in frigate could do it, adding some ffmpeg parameter.

The solution I found a few days ago that ALMOST COMPLETELY eliminated all the "ffmpeg crashed unexpectedly" situations (I went from THOUSANDS of errors to just one or two errors after a few days) is to change the go2rtc configuration so that it uses ffmpeg instead of it's own code to connect to the cams:

go2rtc:
  streams:
    driveway:
      - "ffmpeg:http://192.168.x.y/flv?port=1935&app=bcs&stream=channel0_main.bcs&user=USER&password=PASSWORD#video=copy"
    driveway_sub:
      - "ffmpeg:http://192.168.x.y/flv?port=1935&app=bcs&stream=channel0_sub.bcs&user=USER&password=PASSWORD"

I also have the following global ffmpeg configuration in frigate's config file, not sure if it helps or not:

ffmpeg:
  global_args: -hide_banner -loglevel error
  hwaccel_args: preset-vaapi
  input_args: -avoid_negative_ts make_zero -fflags +genpts+discardcorrupt -flags low_delay -strict experimental -analyzeduration 1000M -probesize 1000M -rw_timeout 5000000

This go2rtc configuration decreased CPU utilization significantly (frigate 0.13 itself also helped apparently). Hoping this will help others in the same situation, as the cams themselves are not bad, it's just their software that sucks, but that can be worked around quite nicely with ffmpeg.

 

There is a reco to wait for 4.6.1 due (for flatpak) in a few days that should fix a photo import issue

 

With the release of 2023.8 I noticed there is built-in shopping list functionality in HA. Up to now at home we have been using Alexa's shopping list (we have an old echo in the kitchen so it's been practical). My question: is there a way to somehow have the Echo's/alexa's shopping list feature to manage HA's shopping list by default? I recall from ages ago that there were Alexa skills like todoist that could take over the shopping list in the echo, is there anything equivalent from the HA community?

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by ari_verse@lemm.ee to c/pixelfed@lemmy.ml
 

New to pixelfed, is am using the android client. Overall it works very well but there is one basic thing I couldn't figure out, is there a way to have the feeds (network/public/home) sorted with some criteria, e.g. Show recent posts with more Likes at the top etc?

 

DT 4.4.2 is out... And the website and forums are back up and running. Also the flatpak release in flathub has been updated and runs neatly

 

I wanted to create the first thread on this community about DT 4.4.1, only to find that the darktable.org site is down.

Also the DT forum at pixls.us has been down for a few days.

Regardless, what an amazing re DT release 4.4.1 is. Having used DT since the early 2.x days, it's incredible how far the software has evolved. It's very technical, but totally worth the learning curve.

I am using the flatpak version these days, on ubuntu 22.04.

 

Years on the waiting and finally a replacement for my fanless Apollo lake home server seems to be on the way! After the disappointments of Jasper lane and prior announcements this one seems for real. 3-4 times better compute metrics and half the power.

Wondering what are others in the community using these days for always-on home server/media streaming needs?

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