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I can read manga without waiting for a scanlation team to post a poorly done chapter in random intervals. also can read and watch cool anime and manga that doesn’t get picked up for localization by viz or whoever

livin that weeb life

Plenty of people disregard monoxide monitoring, either through not having monitors, letting battery backup in monitors die (or the only power if they’re not hardwired), or not replacing them regularly (even if you change the batteries regularly they’re only rated for 7-10 years typically)

Another big one is just having insufficient monitoring for the space. When i purchased my home it only had one smoke/co sensor centrally located on the first floor despite the home having 2 stories and a basement, a wood burning stove, a fireplace, etc. the detector was at least 20 years old and the battery was dead (it still worked because it was hardwired but it didn’t give a low battery chirp). In this scenario even if a co leak occurred if it happened on the extreme ends of the home, on the second floor, etc (which is where the sleeping areas were) I could potentially be seriously impacted long before the detector was tripped, even if it was updated

Depending on where you live and your circumstances you may be able to get a co detector for free from the Red Cross or your fire department. Sometimes they’ll even install it for you. Depends on where you live though

Depends on how anal you are about file sorting. My nas is almost fully automated and for the most part I don’t really rename files except for music. That’s not renamed but it is fingerprinted and auto tagged because Jellyfin displays music based on tags and if the tags aren’t consistent and clean your library will be a goddamn mess. as a result seeding music can be a nightmare bc unlike changing filenames modifying tags changes the files hash so then you absolutely cannot seed it anymore and music trackers are generally the most anal about seeding.

Just make sure once you get a setup that works well for you that you back it up. If you’re grabbing all your media from torrents you generally can grab it again (though not always, torrents die and niche media can be impossible to find a few years later) but your Jellyfin db and config have to be set up from scratch if shit goes south

Also if you end up going with a Linux distro for Jellyfin (not a bad idea) and you run into problems just remember like 60% of the time it’s because you fucked up file permissions somehow. And if you’re using docker, which isn’t necessary but totally okay (I use it), you probably fucked up remote path mappings if things aren’t working right

https://trash-guides.info/

This doesn’t cover Jellyfin but the rest of the stack the gets files into it. And frankly I disagree with a number of the ways that they do things but if you want a guide that gives you a setup that works with a community that is helpful (they have a well populated discord) this is a good starting point

Jellyfin is basically install it, create a library within the app, point said library at a folder on a drive somewhere with media on it.

You generally want to follow reasonable naming conventions, eg showname.s01e01.mkv but these have gotten fairly flexible over the years. You don’t need to worry about the extra stuff like webdl.1080p.flux.proper etc, that is typically ignored, though there are always edge cases. The bigger headache is making sure your files match thetvdb or themoviedb as this is primarily what Jellyfin will use for scraping. If you use sonarr/radarr you can ensure the files are properly ordered and even rename them to scrape perfectly but this can be a headache for seeding if you torrent as renaming the files will break shit. This gets you into needing to hardlink if you want to keep things automated unless you want to manually go in and rename the files in your torrent client which is a chore, the trash guides describe how to set this up

Anime can be a chore, especially older releases, because lots of good shows were released by random people and not groups. As a result they decided to just release things with sequential numbered episodes (eg instead of s01e01,02, etc it’s just a folder with 1.mkv, 2.mkv, etc). Or they released them with episode numbering that differs from what tvdb has because they insist that some other source like anidb is gospel. Certain western shows can be a nightmare because of stuff like this too (American dad is the worst)

From there it depends on how you want to customize your Jellyfin install. I use a kodi as a front end so the only plugin I bother with is Jellyfin for kodi. But before that when I used native clients I used jelly scrub, introskipper, etc. but a lot of those plugins are redundant now because they’ve been built into native Jellyfin.

You also may need to set up transcoding. This depends on your setup. My setup direct plays everything (ugoos streaming box with Coreelec/kodi). This is really only necessary if you have a setup that benefits from the direct formats, eg a surround sound setup, oled screen that can play dolby vision or a led that can do hdr10+, etc. or if your server is really garbage and can’t handle transcoding. But really it has to truly be awful; intel quicksync going back years can handle most modern files pretty effortlessly (unless you start messing with stuff like av1 or vp9), nvidia transcoding also works fine even with relatively old cards (though using much more power by nature of needing a gpu installed). If you have an amd cpu video core next works too although quicksync is objectively superior, though not necessarily enough to justify buying a whole new setup and creating a bunch of waste when your amd rig will work well enough.

As you can see transcoding is in and of itself a diverse topic and how you set that up depends on your setup and needs: what’s your hardware, do you need tonemapping, how many concurrent streams do you anticipate having, etc.

It sounds like a lot but if you play with it for like a weekend you’ll be fine and then you’ll be free of streaming bullshit and the associated data collection

fwiw they restored the post and blamed it on a moderator being too strict in applying a policy regarding non consensual ai porn. It’s objectively good they have policies banning such things but it was completely obvious from context that this was not meant to be pornographic at all

As such, one could easily read it with cynicism as responding to backlash as they only reviewed said moderators actions after this article came out and the associated clamor

Finamp is also on ios, making it a great solution for when you have several users across ecosystems. There are other Jellyfin music clients as well but I don’t know them

You can also point Navidrome at your music folder for web access which I prefer when using my laptop

The discovery problem is definitely the biggest challenge though. Lidarr is something but if you enable it with newsgroups you’ll generally only find more “notable” music. Anything on the more esoteric side is generally gonna be tougher.

You can integrate torrents and private trackers but if you’re anything like me you want to run all downloaded music through a mass tagging program like beets.io or picard to get stuff tagged according to musicbrainz so your library is consistent, which wrecks seeding, and private music trackers are generally pretty draconian about seeding. So then it’s either keep two copies of music, one to seed and one tagged, or hit and run everything and get banned, or just have a library with messy tags (which if you’re like me is just simply not an option). I currently do the two copies thing because it’s generally not that much space and once I hit a 2:1 ratio I get rid of it. In the instance the tags match 100% I point it at my library and permaseed. This is labor intensive though and everything else on my server is mostly automated

I have never figured out a way to integrate soulseek. This would probably be the optimal way as the library is almost as extensive as private trackers (sometimes more so), I can filter by quality (though sometimes flacs are transcodes with this way), there’s etiquette to not clog peoples queue but no real seeding rules, etc. but on my server soulseek runs in a vnc based docker and scripting that goes beyond my talent level

This is pretense to intrude on other things and more importantly remove the ability to browse pornography anonymously, which is dangerous. I would never use an account to browse a porn site because why would I ever want that data linked back to me? Look at the government right now. You watch a gay or trans porn video and in a few years that could be grounds for never being able to have certain types of jobs or worse, being deemed a “miscreant”

If this was truly about protecting children they would encourage open dialogue on sex in homes and increase inclusive sex education. This is evidence based. It would still be necessary even with this nonsense because obviously vpns exist, as well as amateur run sites, sites run from outside of the USA, torrents, etc that don’t give a shit about us laws requiring age verification and will show all kinds of obscenely hardcore videos

Yes, they see some color

Correct, calling them colorblind is a misnomer. Most insects also can’t see red though. They can see ultraviolet spectrum which is pretty cool

Trichromatic vision is primates (humans, apes, monkeys, lemurs) giving red and green

Birds, reptiles, fish, crustaceans often have tetrachromatic vision which gives more vibrancy to color. Some of these can also see the uv spectrum too

Fun fact: there are some people who have tetrachromatic vision. It’s a genetic mutation on the X chromosome so those born with 2 X chromosomes are far more likely to have it (~15% vs ~8% for xy). just having the mutation doesn’t mean you’ll have functioning 4th cone cells though. And it’s one of those “you were born this way so functionally you will always have seen the world this way” kind of things

All dogs are colorblind. they only have 2 types of cones so they can differentiate blue and yellow but still would potentially struggle with stuff like light blue vs dark blue. red, orange, green aren’t visible to them at all. It’s similar to red green colorblindness in humans but not exactly. They have much stronger low light and peripheral vision though

My bad!! I’m dumb

No, you need the cables that only have the sata connector. You supply power directly from your psu to the drives. Make sure your psu is big enough for all your drives

Edit sff 8087 to sata like this https://www.microsatacables.com/sff-8087-90-degree-mini-sas-36-pin-to-sata-7-pin-cable-75-meter-sff-797-75m

Fuck amazon

imo the best source is a locally hosted komga server. Download/purchase manga for hi res copies from places like AB/nyaa/baka/etc, rip scanlations with something like hakuneko or fmd2. Place in a folder, install komga+komf, point it at said folder. Komga scans in manga, komf scrapes metadata from manga updates or MAL. Use the Komga plugin in mihon and your progress is tracked both ways.

Much higher res most of the time, better translations, faster, more reliable, no ads, no tracking, no downtime unless your shit breaks, consistent across devices, no worrying about sites going down, manga getting taken down because it got licensed or group drama or whatever, and if you get tired of your library you can still just jump to the mangadex plugin or whatever I guess

I am somewhat conflicted on manga piracy. On one hand you should buy manga because the sales numbers for titles that aren’t stuff like one piece are often reallllly slim. On the other hand companies like viz are really shitty and my understanding is that the actual mangaka gets very little money from English releases. My suggestion is to learn Japanese. そうすれば、漫画をすべて読めます