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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

It's not GP itself that's he problem, it's supposed to work on a few mainstream distris, but the Company admins responsible noped out. They had such a hard time making Windows and Mac work that they can't be bothered for "a couple of Linux users".

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Right now I'm stuck on a Mac laptop. I hate it, but after our Network team could not manage to get Global Protect working on Linux, and my boss decided keeping them happy was easier than keeping me productive, I didn't have much choice (Mac or Windows). I've worked in environments before where I was able to run Linux on my laptop/workstation, so long as I was able to support myself and do the required work. I used remote desktop (Or a Windows VM) for my Windows work; my browser and Java for most everything else. Now even Office is a shitty webapp for the most part, and Teams "works" on Linux (As much as Teams works at all).

Even here, I have to wait until Helpdesk manages to build out support for new Mac OS releases, so I'm still on 14.6.

I told them prior that I would be leaving the company if they forced me to migrate to Mac. I'm currently looking for a better position elsewhere and will tell them exactly why when I turn in my notice. Not that it will change anything, it'll help me feel better.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Have you never lost your password device (phone, laptop, etc) suddenly and unexpectedly? That's when you really want that file synced somewhere else. But then it's too late. Bonus on many password vault servers is shared folders, so one can share their garage door code with the family but keep the bank account details to oneself.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Welcome to corporate phishing emails, then, where the page that loads scolds you for being an idiot and submits your name to the boss for automated remedial phishing training, which must be completed lest it also tells HR...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Is there a way yet to in-place upgrade or is it still only "flash a new SD"?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I use Jellyfin as a backend for my Kodi boxes (I have 3, and JF keeps them in sync). I used to have a YouTube plugin, but YT broke that this year.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Personally, I use Kodi for that. It works very well with minimal keyboard and no mouse (though it can handle both), so much so that I've run it for years using only an IR remote.

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Smart-ening Window Blinds (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

I've got some decent window blinds at my house (tilt as well as roll-up and -down), but I didn't want to shell out another couple hundred per-window to make them "smart", let alone being tied to a cloud service that could spontaneous combust any day now...

I've done numerous searches, but have not found anything decent that I could use to retrofit to add any sort of automation to these blinds. The best I could find were purpose-built and/or roller shades.

Is anyone here aware of any projects or products that can be added to a set of blinds to locally automate any of their features? I'm running latest stable Home Assistant in a container, with HACS, if that helps.

TIA!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Really? Such as?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Slackware 1.2, because it came on a CD in the back of a fat paperback manual I got at Barnes and Noble. It was only later that I learned what a distro is.

Currently on Fedora with a Frankenstein desktop of my own concoction.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

This is how my partner and I do our notifications. We've got "him", "her", and "us", depending on who needs the notification. Whenever either of us gets a new device, I add it to either of our groups and then works.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Skipping forward/back between scenes mostly. It's either that or the time skip, which works, but is more work and less accurate.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

It's more because they provide an ONVIF interface or an RTSP stream that makes them self-hosting darlings. Them being Chinese white-labels and cheap is mainly a side-bonus.

What are your recommendations if not them?

 

I started using Jellyfin a few years ago as a shared backend for my Kodi boxes (CoreElec mostly but not exclusively). I use the Jellyfin plugin for Kodi, installed from the Jellyfin repo as per official instructions. I've stuck to defaults/recommendations in the plugin. I did this for the WAF (wife approval factor), because otherwise none of my family ever used it. Now I get a shared watchlist and can stop on one TV and resume on another.

I've been running into a problem, and after extensive troubleshooting, I'm at a loss and asking for help.

The Kodi boxes do not pick up new content when it hits my server, which happens fairly regularly as I am ripping my disc collection into a format that Kodi (and the little Arm boxes) support natively. Unless I restart Kodi or the Jellyfin plugin every day or so, they do not see any new files uploaded since their last restart and if it goes long enough, even watched status falls out of sync and I have to go through the lengthy process of resyncing that entire library.

If I restart my Jellyfin service, every Kodi box immediately reconnects within a minute but still nothing syncs unless I restart the client.

Is this a known issue (Google is pretty useless in this regard)? Is there an option I can change somewhere to force the check-in to sync on a schedule? Is there another plugin that would work and still show content "normally" in the libraries, as opposed to going into another screen? Or does everyone use the Jellyfin web frame client?

Thanks.

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