I’ve always used Transmission, since there’s a Docker container I use that bakes in your VPN-of-choice & a killswitch.

https://haugene.github.io/docker-transmission-openvpn/

That said, it looks like it hasn’t been updated in over a year… I wonder if there’s anything else out there that does the same thing as this. (EDIT: Yes. Google brings up plenty of choices.)

Also the Android TV app is AWESOME!

I dunno…

There’s a transcoding bug in the Android TV version of the Jellyfin client where transcoding a video with 7.1 audio breaks playback. Even with a Pull Request out there that fixes it (by matching the behavior of other Jellyfin clients), the issue got closed as “not planned”. The continued suggestion continues to be “just force everything to play in stereo”.

I don’t have unlimited bandwidth, so plenty of my stuff gets transcoded in Plex. I can’t, in good, conscience, switch my friends & family (most of who use Android TV) over to Jellyfin.

Mostly Docker.

Portainer and plugging Docker Compose XML into Portainer stacks makes Docker stupid-simple. (personally speaking as a stupid person that does this)

Cloudflare tunnels for stuff people other than you might want to access.

Tailscale if it’s only you.

Reverse proxy & port forwarding for sharing media over Jellyfin without violating the Cloudflare Tunnel ToS.

Me with a i5 7500…

“HDR is a chore?”

UseNet over SSL?

Luckily I realized that I could Cloudflare-tunnel my Portainer UI out to a long random-nonsense subdomain name.

That allowed me to fix it (and then immediately kill the tunnel – not a fan of exposing Portainer to the internet).

Adding this device this also appeared to fix my https://github.com/haugene/docker-transmission-openvpn container that recently died. (And not simply giving it elevated privileges, as was previously recommended)

https://github.com/haugene/docker-transmission-openvpn/issues/2883

It appears that these issues all originate from an update to runc (which is used by containerd): https://github.com/containerd/containerd/issues/11078

EDIT: My suggestion probably doesn’t work for your use-case, but I’ll leave it for anyone else…

I use this to only tunnel the ports I actually need: https://github.com/DigitallyRefined/docker-wireguard-tunnel

My CGNAT’ed home PC is the client, and my public-facing Oracle Cloud instance is the server.

I’ve tried and failed miserably to use the “official” Wireguard container. Once I start reading suggestions to modify iptables outside of Docker, I know I’m in trouble.

I’m just thinking something as simple as the app triggering an event that unlatches a compartment that corresponds to that specific time. “It’s 12:00. Open the compartment with all the 12:00 meds.” You’d probably have to include multi-day support, too (I fill dad’s meds a month at a time in this - https://a.co/d/cRw0e93 )

That same event could do things like trigger a visual or audio alarm, too.

My goal would be to make it as hands-off as possible for him. He already finds ways to “cheat” the daily dispensers he has now.

EDIT: Look up Pyxis or Omnicell Dispensers for examples of unlatching compartments. We use these pretty extensively in hospitals.

EDIT 2: Here’s a good example (starting around 2:00) showing how the individual compartments unlatch: https://youtu.be/bPJSbexZNC4?t=120

Pharmacist here, struggling to find a way to keep my dad on schedule with his Parkinson’s meds.

Adding an option for webhooks at scheduled dispense times would open up some cool opportunities for nerds like us to create automated dispensing units.

My daily trickplay task finished in 1 minute after the update. So apparently not.

The Holy Trinity: VIM, Arch, and Rust

Hey, at least all of us peeps in the US can upgrade our >$100 capped plans to unlimited for the low-low price of $30-50/month (i.e. what some of our friends overseas pay for their whole-ass unlimited crazyfast internet plan).

Your -arrs see the torrent download folder as /mnt/arr-stack/torrents/completed, and qBittorrent sees it as /downloads.

Maybe this is only a problem with Transmission, but I’ve had trouble making my Arr stack play nice with torrents when the different apps think downloads live in different folders.

Your ISP with a 1.2TB data cap: “lol.”

Strongly recommend a KDE-based distro if coming from Windows.

Gnome is too janky when you’re used to the workflow in Windows. It’s almost like Windows 8, which nobody uses if they can help it.

KDE is just way more familiar.

In a sense. They’re also fancy-pants enterprise drives rated to be able to last over a million hours.

Drive failures follow the old “bathtub curve”. You get the lemons that fail when they’re brand new – that’s one side of the curve. Then for several years, they fail at a consistently low rate. Then once they start getting really old, the failure rate goes up – giving you the other side of the curve.

True, these are probably closer to the “old age” side of the bathtub curve. But GHD is pretty good about honoring their warranty. Back stuff up and you should be fine.

Just bought a bunch of $75 12TB disks from GoHardDrive’s eBay storefront.

Still running through the diagnostics, but nothing has jumped out yet, 48hrs in. Sure, they’re 4 years old and have over a petabyte of lifetime writes. They also have 5 year warranties.