[–] 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 child)

I've been using this for years and it just keeps getting better! There have been certain apps in my past, including this one on iPhone, where I've been anxious about it silently stopping in the background. Now, on Android, it just works all the time, no more anxiety!

Not only is the data really interesting and fun to have, it's been genuinely useful when I've forgotten where I've locked my bike in the city...

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    OP! I had the exact same issue as you, it plagued me for 2 years but I just couldn't nail it down. I had a good quality Corsair PSU, but the kicker was that I had a spare Corsair PSU and I had the same issue. I tried so many things and diagnoses and sometimes it would seem to work, but return sporadically.

    I eventually found out it was the VRMs on my motherboard! I can't explain WHY they became temperamental, my board was a B550i which isn't low-end, but was micro ATX so perhaps it was prolonged temperature..?

    Anyway - I got a new motherboard and it 100% solved the issue. Same PSU. The old motherboard is now my NAS, it's stable enough without a GPU or display. If you have the opportunity to try another PSU, do it!

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    First I'll use them for music assistant. If I end up making some voice satellites, I'll have to see what the audio quality is like before ditching the Alexa speakers.

    I don't believe anybody has found a way to use non-stock firmware. I'd love to jailbreak them if I could

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    I have an IKEA BILRESA which is basically an iPod click wheel in a little portable Zigbee/thread device. I really wanted to have this control my music, and it will be through Music Assistant and Home Assistant that I achieve this.

    I'm still waiting on the Alexa devices integration improving, or picking up some real speakers, both of which are in the works. Then I will hook that up with a local LLM voice assistant in every room (including the bathroom; shower music!)

    Achieving this without Music Assistant would be a pain. If things all go right I won't really use the clunky interface much anyway

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

    I would have thought they would render it at something high like 4K in the first place, since it's easy to downsample to 1080p? Unless, I suppose rendering is expensive and if you know you only need 1080p then maybe you wouldn't?

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