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Cake day: April 9th, 2024

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  • as an american, i have to assume its because its a bigger number. “graphs go up and right, and bigger numbers are better.” is a motto for a lot of terrible practices here.

    one of these that has been bothering me lately is when people state something like “ten times less!”. this statement means nothing to me, but it has a bigger number than a % of total.





  • kodi is really good for local media, but none of my media is local. instead of using the smartTV-style jellyfin UI, jellyfin indexes the media from the server and throws up a text-only list of media in a folder structure. if i rip another movie, it needs to be indexed.

    though it is pulling the index and functioning as expected, it makes the experience feel like browsing in dolphin for spreadsheets instead of getting ready for movie night.

    the experience was bad enough where i just plugged the old streaming stick back in and hid my failur. i didnt tell the wife about my experience (she hates the streaming stick and wanted an OSS option). i said i would deliver one, so she thinks i just haven’t done it yet. :(


  • the creation of a non-kodi htpc/media center alternative that works like a smart TV OS and works on a raspberry pi would get me to change my streaming device.

    i stream jellyfin from a home server, and jellyfin on kodi is painful to use :(

    an OS that can be controlled with tv-controller buttons and has an interface similar to any of the other players in this space would make me throw away my nvidia shield tv in a heartbeat