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New comment by benoliver999 in "Netflix Prices Went Up Again – I Bought a DVD Player Instead"

benoliver999 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:41:47 +0000

We did this with Jeremy Brett Sherlock. Boxed set is of some sentimental value, but we tired of loading the disc, finding the episode etc. Even worse if you have to stop half way.

They ended up ripped and played on kodi

New comment by benoliver999 in "Netflix Prices Went Up Again – I Bought a DVD Player Instead"

benoliver999 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:40:10 +0000

I run jellyfin and on iOS infuse is the only player that seems to work with all codecs

New comment by benoliver999 in "Netflix Prices Went Up Again – I Bought a DVD Player Instead"

benoliver999 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:37:31 +0000

There's one in the UK too, Cinema Paradiso. The prices are also quite high.

Also, the turnaround times were really slow. Slow mail perhaps, but at the same time it's kind of in their interests to not turn things around so fast.

In the UK, letters get a lower priority than packages which doesn't help.

New comment by benoliver999 in "The death of social media is the renaissance of RSS (2025)"

benoliver999 — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 10:44:18 +0000

https://ooh.directory/ is a great list of blogs that is nice to navigate

New comment by benoliver999 in "New iPad Air, powered by M4"

benoliver999 — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 22:02:37 +0000

Yeah that just tripped me up trying to recomission a 2012 Macbook Pro.

Couldn't connect to wifi except through a password-less hotspot. Then I couldnt get online because nothing with SSL was working.

I didnt have a pen drive so I had to FTP off another machine, via my phone hotspot. We got there though!

New comment by benoliver999 in "I baked a pie every day for a year"

benoliver999 — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 09:53:52 +0000

Yes it's a common misconception that you can only make wide crumbed hipster crusty loaves. Those are great but if you want plain white bread, buns, croissants, etc etc it's all possible to do.

New comment by benoliver999 in "Hacker News.love – 22 projects Hacker News didn't love"

benoliver999 — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 14:19:21 +0000

In fact a lot of these helped shape our miserable dystopia. HN didn't see that coming

New comment by benoliver999 in "I love the work of the ArchWiki maintainers"

benoliver999 — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 07:45:24 +0000

The switch to systemd is the last time I FUBARed my system. 2012 it looks like?? I simply did not even remotely understand what I was doing.

New comment by benoliver999 in "Netbird – Open Source Zero Trust Networking"

benoliver999 — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 15:39:46 +0000

Also long time zerotier user here, I run a controller for our company. I'm starting to experience infrequent but annoying drops in connection, and DNS is a headache.

How is netbird on iOS?

New comment by benoliver999 in "The dank case for scrolling window managers"

benoliver999 — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 10:02:46 +0000

Wow, I just tried noctalia and it instantly replaced a load of brittle and stupid hacks I was relying on, what an amazing out of the box experience

New comment by benoliver999 in "The dank case for scrolling window managers"

benoliver999 — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 07:52:52 +0000

That's what struck me about niri when I tried it - it does what it promises without any show stopping bugs or complications.

New comment by benoliver999 in "What a year of solar and batteries saved us in 2025"

benoliver999 — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 17:17:36 +0000

Electric car battery degradation has been super interesting, in that they are going way further than people thought they might. Jonny Smith on youtube bought a 300k+ mile Tesla and the battery is at like 75% health.

As far as I can tell if your battery isn't air cooled, it can go a very long way

New comment by benoliver999 in "NoLongerEvil-Thermostat – Nest Generation 1 and 2 Firmware"

benoliver999 — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 21:14:46 +0000

There's also ems-esp which I use on an older Worcester Bosch boiler to set flow temperatures based on the outside temperature (managed by home assistant).

New comment by benoliver999 in "Power over Ethernet (PoE) basics and beyond"

benoliver999 — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 05:31:31 +0000

All our desk phones at work are poe and they have pass through ports to allow connecting a PC to the LAN. Really neat to just have one cable that gives you a powered phone, and Ethernet access.

New comment by benoliver999 in "Power over Ethernet (PoE) basics and beyond"

benoliver999 — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 05:29:14 +0000

What switch do you use? I have PoE wifi APs throughout the house, but I bought an Aruba switch and it's super noisy tbh. Fine for me because it's in the basement, but I couldn't recommend it

New comment by benoliver999 in "Magic Wormhole: Get things from one computer to another, safely"

benoliver999 — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 09:49:55 +0000

I use this very specifically for setting up new machines. It's one of those where I don't use it much, but when I do it has saved me a whole lot of time, and it's worked well every time.

New comment by benoliver999 in "Niri – A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor"

benoliver999 — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 12:45:21 +0000

I notice that with niri even people who have never seen tiling WMs instantly 'get' it. I think the animations are a large part of that.

New comment by benoliver999 in "Niri – A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor"

benoliver999 — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 12:43:26 +0000

Yes same here but with i3, I ran it for over 10 years but niri was just an instant 'aha' moment for me.

I will say, recent builds have a 'mini map' sort of zoom-out feature that I quite like - my one critique of niri was that I would sometimes get 'lost'.

New comment by benoliver999 in "How does lossless compression in Fuji RAF files work? (2020)"

benoliver999 — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 15:07:27 +0000

They read it lessloss I guess

New comment by benoliver999 in "Denmark's Justice Minister calls encrypted messaging a false civil liberty"

benoliver999 — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 15:01:48 +0000

If you don't back up to google drive, the process is much much more hairy. The transfer looks smooth but I have seen it fail in multiple instances.

These days I learn not to get attached to my message history