Hacker News: b3lvedere

New comment by b3lvedere in "Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team"

b3lvedere — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 12:10:56 +0000

Usually subtitles are not that hard to find.

New comment by b3lvedere in "Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team"

b3lvedere — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 07:50:33 +0000

Unfortunately i don't have the luxury to watch a lot of shows during the week. Usually the max is around 5 or so. Call me strange, but sometimes i actually like it that i forget what i was watching. Makes me kinda of realise it's still a little luxury leisure. Usually i get happy when i realise there's more show to watch (happened with Foundation). Or i keep ignoring it, because interest was lost over time (happened with Rick and Morty). The kids tend to watch a series back to front and then ignore it completely once they lose interest.

New comment by b3lvedere in "Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team"

b3lvedere — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 07:25:09 +0000

This is not a rant or an attack on you. I get the point of easyness that Plex and/or Jellyfin offer. I merely would like to explain why i do not need it. I tried both Jellyfin and Plex, but i could not find a huge benefit in using them in our household. Again, not a rant.

I think it's an extra layer on top of things i do not need. I do not need cover art, descriptions or trailers. The smb shares have a folder hierarchy that's very logical and easy to our household so sorting and reindexing is not needed. Kodi (Windows,Linux, Android) keeps track of where i was, but i don't really care that much. Usually i remember what i was watching. File Explorer Pro (paid version) on IOS plays anything. I do not need transcoding, because all the players can play anything i throw at it. My wife and kids know how to use Kodi both on the pcs and the chromecasts.

Mp3's go to a Sonos at the moment. If more mp3 devices would be needed in the future, i'm kinda curious about the CrowdSupply Esparagus systems [1][2]

1: https://www.crowdsupply.com/sonocotta/esparagus-media-center 2: https://www.crowdsupply.com/sonocotta/esparagus-audio-brick

New comment by b3lvedere in "Hacker wipes Romania's land registry database"

b3lvedere — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 14:47:41 +0000

Rotting, sweaty human hands and fire to name a few.

New comment by b3lvedere in "[dead]"

b3lvedere — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 11:47:35 +0000

A Dutch website using AI to sell you magic mushrooms catered just for you. And serving you AI harvested blogs, journals and other weblinks just to explain to you how awesome psilocybin is. Even ordering goes via Claude! :)

"Hey Claude. How can i sell drugs on the interwebs!?"

New comment by b3lvedere in "The internet does not want readers. It wants livestock"

b3lvedere — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 11:40:47 +0000

Thanks Gareth.

Machines and processes like the internet barely want things. People and companies who abuse it want things, which has eventually the same effect on other people and companies.

New comment by b3lvedere in "Egg consumption inversely correlated with Alzheimer's"

b3lvedere — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 08:41:17 +0000

Works surprisingly good indeed. Just get a bowl, stir some eggs, add seasonings of choice and pop it in. Be sure to stop the microwave on time, because the mixture expands a lot.

New comment by b3lvedere in "Egg consumption inversely correlated with Alzheimer's"

b3lvedere — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 08:33:14 +0000

Sugar ( in all its names and molecular forms ) is evil, because of the vast amount it is in processed food products. Eggs and fat not so much. But they would be if that is the next ‘cheap molecule to make processed food cheap’.

New comment by b3lvedere in "Have you restarted your computer this week?"

b3lvedere — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 09:31:58 +0000

All my windows computers are shutdown when not needed.

My Debian 13 mini 'server' is on 24/7, conserves energy as much as possible (like CPU C8 state), but reboots nightly when required by patches and updates.

My NAS only really on when absolutely necessary, but can be activated using wake-on-lan.

So yes, i restart things quite frequently :)

New comment by b3lvedere in "The first early human eggs from stem cells"

b3lvedere — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 08:30:52 +0000

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0804484/

New comment by b3lvedere in "Commodore Releases Flip Phone"

b3lvedere — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 09:34:51 +0000

That’s quite the segway going from flip phone to vapes.

New comment by b3lvedere in "The Doorman's Fallacy in action"

b3lvedere — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 06:19:12 +0000

The moment i read the word Dubai, my empathy levels dropped to zero.

New comment by b3lvedere in "Hey Nico, you didn't vibe code your data room but stole it from Papermark"

b3lvedere — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 06:16:09 +0000

What a wonderful world we live in where we can blame machines and extremely dilluted processes for all things we might do wrong.

New comment by b3lvedere in "Becoming a dad changes men's brains"

b3lvedere — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 14:03:28 +0000

The first born defenitely changed me somehow. As if some evolution gene was suddenly ordering me "You will protect this with everything in your power!" The second born, not so much. Perhaps the brain was already settled in the right configuration :)

New comment by b3lvedere in "Commodore Releases Flip Phone"

b3lvedere — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 13:42:22 +0000

As a kid you want what all other kids in your group have and do. That will not be apping via a $500 Commodore flip phone.

New comment by b3lvedere in "Feds freaked over Fable 5 after simple 'fix this code' prompt, not jailbreak"

b3lvedere — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 12:48:22 +0000

https://www.savagechickens.com/2026/05/problem-solver.html

New comment by b3lvedere in "Banned book library in a wi-fi smart light bulb"

b3lvedere — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 08:44:45 +0000

I built a PirateBox with an old Asus access point once. It was a bit of a dissapointing experience. Mostly because people were scared to access an open wifi point. Plus it did not 'give one free internet' so people usually immediately disconnected. Unfortunately the Library Box mod is also no longer an active project.

New comment by b3lvedere in "Windows 11 users are tired of MS account requirements creeping into everything"

b3lvedere — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 13:11:36 +0000

I hear you. I've had laptops where one could not even install the Windows 11 OS on using the official Windows 11 ISO on a bootable usb key, because there was this weird nvme driver required. Which required you to make an additional usb key (of modify your bootable usb key) with the weird nvme driver to load during Windows 11 setup. Luckily the top brands (HP, Dell, Lenovo) have pretty good support asssistant software for once you got Windows 11 running with internet those tools will install the rest for you.

New comment by b3lvedere in "Windows 11 users are tired of MS account requirements creeping into everything"

b3lvedere — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 11:20:56 +0000

You do not need to disable network interface cards. Just do not connect a network cable and do not connect to a wifi ssid.

You also do not need to supply a password for the new local user account. It will now automatically login and have local admin rights.

New comment by b3lvedere in "Albania Is Not for Sale: Kushner's $4B Resort Triggers'Flamingo Revolution'"

b3lvedere — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 14:46:24 +0000

The resort would destroy lots and lots of species and nature:

"Conservationists describe the wider zone, the Pishe Poro-Narta protected landscape, as one of the Mediterranean's last largely intact coastal wetlands, home to flamingos, more than 200 migratory bird species, Mediterranean monk seals and nesting loggerhead sea turtles."