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snov said:
VLC on iOS has SMB support, just connect to your NAS over wifi/wireguard and watch your media library directly. You can also use AirPlay to easily cast the video to a TV. No need to sync your media library or anything like that, just use a NAS the way a NAS is meant to be used...
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Why on earth would I watch stuff on my iPad(or a phone) when I'm at home?
The point of a portable device is to be...well... portable.

I mean, sure I could carry around a Raspberry Pi with a few TB of storage(and I do) but that 's rather hard to setup in an airline seat in coach.
 
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davids877 said:
Why on earth would I watch stuff on my iPad(or a phone) when I'm at home?
The point of a portable device is to be...well... portable.

I mean, sure I could carry around a Raspberry Pi with a few TB of storage(and I do) but that 's rather hard to setup in an airline seat in coach.
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Jellyfin lets you download your shows, and you can stream from your home server of you set up DNS
 
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davids877 said:
Why on earth would I watch stuff on my iPad(or a phone) when I'm at home?
The point of a portable device is to be...well... portable.
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Which is why I mentioned Wireguard, the best solution for connection to your home computer from a portable device.
Set up a tunnel from your NAS. Set your phone to use it. Watch videos stored on your home NAS over Wireguard on VLC.
I do think Jellyfin is a better solution, but VLC very much can do what you want it to do, you're just using it wrong and then blaming iOS.
 
snov said:
Ironically I think one of my favourite "laptop replacement" ideas has only ever actually been implemented by a low-end Android manufacturer. Basically the idea is that for most people, a work laptop is more than is usually needed, while a work phone often isn't enough. So have a work phone you can plug into a dock at a desk, which has a displayport to connect a monitor, and a USB port to plug in a mouse and keyboard. So basically your phone charger turns the phone into your office computer. Phones do have enough compute power to do 99% of office work, so it would be a good way to cut down on costs, and could let you easily bring work with you for presentations or to work from home. But obviously the idea never caught on.
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You've literally just described Samsung DeX. It's... OK, I guess. It would be a lot more useful if it properly supported multiple monitors.
 
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snov said:
Which is why I mentioned Wireguard, the best solution for connection to your home computer from a portable device.
Set up a tunnel from your NAS. Set your phone to use it. Watch videos stored on your home NAS over Wireguard on VLC.
I do think Jellyfin is a better solution, but VLC very much can do what you want it to do, you're just using it wrong and then blaming iOS.
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Right, yes, I'm going to VPN into my home network from seat 39q on a plane with no Wifi, or stream much of anything on most overloaded hotel or airport Wifi.

Betonhaus said:
Jellyfin lets you download your shows,
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Thanks for an actual useful solution. Would need to see if there's any way to integrate it into my current workflow. I'd still rather have "Sync all". Looks like my "stuff I haven't watched" is only about 100GB.

Obviously the actual solution is Android tablets, but they still all suck(and the reason for the iPad is some critical software where the Android version is missing half the features)
 
davids877 said:
Right, yes, I'm going to VPN into my home network from seat 39q on a plane with no Wifi, or stream much of anything on most overloaded hotel or airport Wifi.


Thanks for an actual useful solution. Would need to see if there's any way to integrate it into my current workflow. I'd still rather have "Sync all". Looks like my "stuff I haven't watched" is only about 100GB.

Obviously the actual solution is Android tablets, but they still all suck(and the reason for the iPad is some critical software where the Android version is missing half the features)
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Turns out there is a less horrible VLC solution than the webpage, still an upload from the server instead of iPad pull, but whatever.

curl --progress-bar --form files[]=@"foo.mov" http://MY-iPad.local/upload.json >/dev/null
Which I can at least script.

Thanks KiwiFarms for annoying me into finding a solution before my next trip.
 
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Gog & Magog said:
Are there any Android tablets that don't suck balls?
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If you're looking for a decent, reasonably priced tablet for reading, watching videos, and not playing games, I can recommend the Samsung Galaxy Tab A8. It's zippy enough and doesn't choke (much) on modern, badly optimized websites (IMDb).
 
snov said:
I did a quick search too, and couldn't find anyone actually selling anything above 5600MT/s. It'll probably exist one day, but for now I'm fairly sure the only way to get DDR5 over 6000MT/s is if it's soldered.
Yeah, doubling the framerate will make it feel smoother even though the result is super blurry. I'm not a "content creator" either, but LCD panels suffer from smearing issues even when you're just watching TV-series (which are 30fps), and IPS is only marginally better than VA there. By contrast my OLED TVs display things much more crisply.
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How's burn-in problem in 2023? My workplace had some retard order OLEDs for static content and after just a few months they look horrible.

Here are dimms I found, 6400MT/s goes to only 16GB per kit: https://www.kingston.com/datasheets/KF564S38IB-16.pdf
32GB gets 6000MT/s https://www.kingston.com/datasheets/KF560S38IBK2-32.pdf
64GB goes to only 5600MT/s https://www.kingston.com/datasheets/KF556S40IBK2-64.pdf
Edit. Found 32GB kit @6400MT/s https://www.kingston.com/datasheets/KF564S38IBK2-32.pdf
 
jeff7989 said:
I watched enough Rossman's videos to think that Apple products are gay antiuser toys. Sure they may look pretty, but I'm not woman. Keep your ARM toys, I'll stick with my x86 Ryzen laptop, it runs cool, has 64GB of RAM, pretty vibrant 144Hz IPS screen, user replaceable RAM and two standard 2280 NVME bays, guess what, storage can be expanded by user as well without reballing, losing warranty and fucking with NAND programmers.
I am pretty excited to see AMD's Big-Little with cores that don't compromise on instruction set. Hopefully intel unfucks itself and releases something that isn't a housefire to compete.
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Does USB-C alt-dp mode work or is it a trash fire like every other Ryzen laptop I've used?
 
Works on my device, it is hit or miss. Some brands have decent firmware, others are dogshit. I'm using Lenovo Legion with R7 4800H.
Bonus points, it doesn't look edgy like most gayming laptops.
Edit. With laptops it's important to find some good reviewers unless you can test it yourself before committing.
Edit2. Recently my friend bought 12th gen Intel HP Omen and it was funny how Type C wouldn't work with DP, so I would say that it's not just AMD.
 
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Fcret said:
Does USB-C alt-dp mode work or is it a trash fire like every other Ryzen laptop I've used?
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Works fine for me.
jeff7989 said:
Here are dimms I found, 6400MT/s goes to only 16GB per kit: https://www.kingston.com/datasheets/KF564S38IB-16.pdf
32GB gets 6000MT/s https://www.kingston.com/datasheets/KF560S38IBK2-32.pdf
64GB goes to only 5600MT/s https://www.kingston.com/datasheets/KF556S40IBK2-64.pdf
Edit. Found 32GB kit @6400MT/s https://www.kingston.com/datasheets/KF564S38IBK2-32.pdf
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Datasheets are one thing, can you actually find these for sale anywhere? I can’t.
jeff7989 said:
How's burn-in problem in 2023? My workplace had some retard order OLEDs for static content and after just a few months they look horrible.
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I’ve been using OLED for two years, 60 percent brightness, pretty much all day use since I work on the same computer, and zero burn-in. You’ll want to set taskbar to auto-hide and screen blanking to ten minutes or something, but it works just fine. LGs “pixel cleaner” adjusts each pixel or something like that and the result is no perceptible burn-in.
 
jeff7989 said:
How's burn-in problem in 2023? My workplace had some retard order OLEDs for static content and after just a few months they look horrible.
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I've had a 48" OLED monitor for 2 years now. 4500 hours on it. No signs of burn-in. Worst complaint is that it's Gigabyte and thus the firmware/drivers are retarded.
 
snov said:
Works fine for me.

Datasheets are one thing, can you actually find these for sale anywhere? I can’t.

I’ve been using OLED for two years, 60 percent brightness, pretty much all day use since I work on the same computer, and zero burn-in. You’ll want to set taskbar to auto-hide and screen blanking to ten minutes or something, but it works just fine. LGs “pixel cleaner” adjusts each pixel or something like that and the result is no perceptible burn-in.
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I can get it from Amazon where I live.
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Funny, we are back to doing funky mitigations like in the days of CRT.

BPD Gunt Rider said:
I've had a 48" OLED monitor for 2 years now. 4500 hours on it. No signs of burn-in. Worst complaint is that it's Gigabyte and thus the firmware/drivers are retarded.
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I'm glad to hear it.
 
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Well I picked up my new ASUS TUF F15 laptop yesterday and I’m just setting it up now.
The build itself it nice, it’s sleeker than my old 2021 model and it‘s a bit lighter, the only issues I can see is that the top cover easily tracks fingerprints but that’s something that’s easily fixable with a microfiber cloth. I may also have to get it it’s own laptop sleeve since I’d be putting it in my backpack often.

The colors on screen are nice, the 100% sRGB display is much better than the 62.5 sRGB display that the old laptop had. I’m still not used to these anti-glare screens but I’m sure I’ll get over it with time, I guess I’m just a bit worried about it getting damaged.

The keyboard is sleeker than the old one and I like having dedicated volume up/down buttons on it (said functions on the older one were tied to the F-keys).

OneDrive was a piece of shit and didn’t operate like I thought it would but I think that was me just not understanding the program. I assumed it could act like a lifeboat and transfer programs to the new laptop but apparently it only transferred these weird files that couldn’t function. Thankfully Steam made it easy to reinstall some of the apps but I guess I’ll have to dive back into the old laptop if I want to import my Spore saves.

The number of ports on the new laptop is roughly the same as the old one but it has a USB-C slot and a Thunderbolt 4 slot at the cost of only having two USB-A slots (one on each side). The charging port is in middle of the computer’s left side and that’s going to take some getting used to due to the old laptop and my current MBP having it on the top-left side but I’m kind of used to it due to my iPad Pro having a similar charging situation when it’s in its Bluetooth keyboard/kickstand combo case.

I’m only running 16 GBs of RAM right now (I have two 16 GB RAM sticks I’ll have a professional install tomorrow, I don’t trust myself to do it properly) but it runs the Pokémon TCG Live app, a program my Mid-2015 MBP has issues running, like a charm.
Oh, and I chatted with a tech that was really into laptop gaming and he may have solved my dead ASUS TUF F15 (FX506HC) laptop. After giving him the details of what went down he said it was most likely a combination of a bad build (something that the 2021 TUFs had problems with), extreme temperature differences upon start-up and immediate gaming, and me being a retard and not using my cooling pad that led to the CPU becoming faulty and sadly not worth fixing. He said also said that the newer ASUS laptops have had a majority of these issues fixed so it shouldn’t be an issue. I err’d on the safe side and bought some accident (the general kind, not the one involving a lack of consent) insurance to cover the laptop.
 
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