[–] 1 point 1 week ago (4 children)

depends on the apps vacuum tube (youtube 4k) plex 4k, also discovered a new use for it too. Wanted to play some ps1 games but can't find the power lead for it, so after searching fruitlessly installed duckstation plugged in a usb controller and it works great. Best £60 i have ever spent such a versatile and reliable thing.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago (8 children)

    I was using Nvidia Shields but wanted to get away from Android. Over the summer i bought some Dell mini pcs, put the Plasma Bigscreen OS on them and got some USB remote controls.

    These have been working really well and is nice to have them running linux. The tv interface is really good and for the few apps that didn't have linux versions i just made my own.

    I use mine mainly for plex (which has an app) Youtube (vacummtube) and made my own apps to access tube archivist, odysee archivist and stash. So i guess it depends what you watch on it.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    I am in total agreement. The trouble is there seems to be no alternative that is likely to take power in the UK just the same never changing uniparty. Different faces same outcomes, higher taxes, worse services, more surveillance and greater limitations on protest and expression

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  • [–] 6 points 3 weeks ago* (5 children)

    Great just what the UK needs another 5-10 years of divisive debates, lengthy negotiations and as per brexit politicians focussed on little else leading to no work on key areas that need it like energy.

    So I guess back to governmental paralysis it is.

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    I have nearly every service imaginable running and have now started a new project.

    I am creating a searchable stock photo archive for my lan. It has been a very interesting project but think i may have crossed the line into overkill lol.

    I had hundreds of stock photo cds from the 90s I have turned them all into ISO's.

    I then spent ages dealing with some strange cdrom layouts but got all the images off.

    I then converted them all to JPG.

    I have now setup a batch script that dedupes then takes the images in 2k batches, runs them through a ai vision model to add keywords and descriptions; as they have none.

    They are then copied to a folder where I have photoprism running as the front end and I only have 4k done so far but they look amazing and the search and descriptions are really accurate and useful.

    400k more images to go but at least it should all be automated now.

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