SD and HD, no 4K release.
curbstickle
joined 6 months ago
Just to mention because I rewatched it again recently, Rollins was great in He Never Died. She Never Died was decent, but I think He Never Died was better.
I should just make a Rollins movie/show playlist and throw that on random.
My one amendment would be - forget Ubuntu and variants, just Debian is fine with older hardware. Less headaches and hassles, and some snaps.
I'd even say Mint Debian Edition over Ubuntu.
I'd lean towards the pi being the problem, but you can test the network throughput with iperf, and would want to test the videos outside of Kodi on the pi, so you could also check top and see what the processing looks like.
If I remember my pi 4 hardware decoding specs correctly, I believe h.264, MPEG 2, and VC1, and some support for HEVC. If I had to guess, you may have some codecs that aren't handled by hardware acceleration, and instead just CPU.
My best rec would be to use either a dedicated stream box (like a fire stick, Nvidia shield, etc) which has better codec support, or pick up like a little Intel n100 based system, which will handle a drastically wider set of codecs with full acceleration support.
Right now I've got a Roku and a Google TV Chromecast, and I've been trying with various environments on an old Lenovo m910q so I can find my favorite fit of UI/distro. The Roku and Chromecast never stutter, and I don't do transcoding for inside the home. Works with 4K HDR HEVC no problem.
Edit: Autocorrect annoyances.
Lawnchair hasn't had a new release in like 6 years.
Personally, I'm using Kvaesitso (available on fdroid). https://github.com/MM2-0/Kvaesitso
It's the best I've found for me post-nova
Tiny/mini/micro makes up my server environment (and two customs using old cases and replaced parts).
Storage is a 1520+ and the two customs, with the 1515+ for backups I don't want to lose (syncs to two other locations).
Tiny/mini/micro is the majority of compute tasks, mostly proxmox, LXC's, and a few VMs.
The little machines have plenty of processing power, usually nvme but I can add it on if needed. Combine it with network storage, and you don't need anything else imo.
Bonus is they are small and cheap as off lease machines being auctioned off.
Considering the campaigns response, I think they are smart enough to see it for what it is.
If you don't put the https:// in front of 12ft.io, clients won't format the link correctly and will see the https:// for the daily beast as the start of the link.
So please use https://12ft.io/https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-mixed-up-willie-brown-for-former-sen-nate-holden-in-helicopter-story-says-holden instead.
A path only open by Republicans losing this election, which is a critical point that can't be missed.
The old adage used to be that an empty rental was costing you money. Landlords would work for around 75+% occupancy, and to achieve that the price would also stay lower, to keep it occupied.
Then the price fixing of airlines happened, and the guy responsible (whose name I can't recall at the moment - maybe someone else does?) went into real estate with the same software approach. The theory? If you can charge enough off of a few to pay for all the others, then occupancy doesn't matter.
Let's use the numbers from the OP - $700 and $3600, with a 20 year gap. The post is from several years back, but let's use 2004 and 2024 for inflation calcs. $700 in 2004 is just a hair under $1200 today, so with a cost of $3600 - triple - that would mean one tenant has the same value to them as three. So if you have 6 units and have 3 tenants, you're now making a LOT more money overall, as those two tenants provided the same as six under the older model.
TL;DR: Shitty people and shitty companies trying to get the most money they can, with zero regard for the impact of these decisions.
A long while ago, I used to use kdissert (now semantik) to make all my white papers, from mind map to document, generating latex out, fine tune, and just gorgeous.
Then I was forced to put them in word and hand it off to our graphics design people to put it into InDesign.
I think I'm going to try semantik for more than mind maps again.
Well, this goes on the old birthday wishlist... Awesome stuff!