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Cake day: January 2nd, 2025

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  • It’s transcoding because Jellyfin decided it needs to transcode for some reason, frustratingly. I’ve converted to formats/codecs I know the TV supports, and yet Jellyfin still transcodes, with a message about the TV not supporting the codec (yet if I play the file on the TV from a thumb drive, it works fine with the crappy built-in media player). I’m using the Jellyfin client on the TV because it’s easy to install without a Samsung account, and I don’t think I can get Kodi on it (besides my experience with Kodi is not great, it’s sluggish on real hardware, I can only imagine how bad it would be on an underpowered garbage TV and I don’t know if a client exists).

    From a bigger picture perspective, I think Jellyfin as a client will be better for my family. It’s a simpler interface with less to get them in trouble.

    I’ll need transcoding for other/non-local devices anyway, so I still have to address the issue (annoying iPad for example).

    If you have any advice about troubleshooting why it’s transcoding, I’m all ears. This is the first I’ve gotten Jellyfin to work after multiple attempts over the years, across multiple servers and clients, so my experience with it is limited. I’m just glad it works at all - it’s the first I’ve gotten to work other than Plex.

    Thanks - at least now I know it shouldn’t be transcoding.






  • That these elements are a greater cause of societal problems today than people living longer.

    If anything, living longer will give people better perspective.

    Source: At 30 I had a much more nuanced perspective of just about anything than I did at 20. And I bet most people would say the same. Partly just from experience, but also because I was able to read a lot more about any subject, such as things like Studs Terkel’s “Hard Times”, or understand the complexities of WWII better, and how today is very much a result of it.

    And I’ve read even more since then. By now I’ve spent more time reading than I had the hours to read, let alone the background, at age 20.



  • I dunno, I’d say people do things like coke, cheat, etc, because of beliefs.

    They have a belief that “it doesn’t matter”.

    But yea, our beliefs, our paradigms, are what help us be better people to each other.

    Hell, science is founded on the belief that the universe is rational, that “God does not play dice with the universe”.

    Studying quantum mechanics makes me wonder otherwise. Nothing about it is rational. Not to say I don’t operate on a day-to-day basis that the underlying framework makes sense, what other choice do we have?