Bc someone managed to find a bootrom exploit very early in the consoles life, which is fairly (and increasingly) uncommon (to find at all, let alone early). Still worth searching of course and still theoretically possible always but not something to count on

Can’t get it on if the bootloaders locked

I feel like this would be counterproductive in that it would ultimately be turned against the hacker group and used as fuel to increase control of devices when said group bricks 500,000+ phones or whatever. At least in the us the media and government will always side with corporations and that takes a huge amount of the population along with them

The 3ds free shop debacle with titlekeys being easily reused was pretty bad too. Like I suppose it could happen to anyone but if that happened to MS or Sony you know it would be patched in a matter of days (or hours, even) whereas the free shop worked for almost 2 full years. It is absolutely unimaginable in the modern context to think that a modern gaming company would allow an exploit that allowed you to simply download any game or update you wanted from their cdn and have your console immediately see it as legit. To think that such a thing would go on for years is mind blowing nowadays (and partially explains why the switch 2 is draconian, though it doesn’t excuse it. Just do better at security)

What kind of phone, laptop, game console, car, iot devices, etc do you have? I guarantee you support this stuff somewhere in your life. It’s inescapable.

But to answer you more directly apathy and consumerism. Why do people buy the switch 2 despite extremely anti consumer practices? Because they want to play slightly better Mario kart. Why do people buy a macbook? Because they want a computer that largely “just works”.

With phones it’s a bit different though. The choices are slowly being taken from you. It’s still possible right this second to buy something with an open bootloader but in 2030? Maybe not so much unless you’re cool with going back to a flip phone

Different ways:

Sometimes it’s a cryptographic key thing, if the bootloader doesn’t see an image signed with a trusted key it won’t boot.

Sometimes it’s a flag set in storage that is secure and not writable. Bootloader checks the flag, if it’s set then it enforces signature verification.

Sometimes it’s a hardware thing. Newer chips can come with programmable fuses that can be set to pop. This literally severs an electrical connection within the soc or cpu or whatever and then that is the flag. The nintendo switch’s tegra used this to prevent downgrading; if you upgraded legitimately you’d “burn fuses” and then would be locked on that firmware permanently. downgrading could potentially brick the system. (Maybe someone’s figured out a way around this now, I haven’t fucked with switch stuff since tears of the kingdom came out).

There’s other ways too.

Defeating these methods is generally quite difficult. Sometimes you get lucky and a glaring bootloader exploit is found early on (fusee gelee for the switch) or one that applies to many generations of hardware (checkm8, unpatchable bootrom exploit for iphone 4s-iphone x) but at the same time companies have learned to harden their shit as much as possible and throw money at people who do find these exploits. Even nintendo, who has been notoriously laughably bad at this kind of thing seems to have come much harder at the switch 2. The only thing released to date is a minor userland exploit and even if something more substantial is released they’ll just brick your console for finding/running it

That’s frankly been the case for a while now unless you’re a AAA gamer or 3d rendering or doing LLMs or something. I used a laptop from 2012 until 2022 then replaced it with a 2019 laptop (i9, Radeon 5600) which I’m using now and plan to use until at least 2030. For the vast majority of us that just browse, watch videos, use office software, teleconference, compile small projects, and the occasional indie game/emulator old hardware is fine. Consumerism makes you think it’s not.

Morality and ethical behavior are not defined by popularity

I had to look this up because I was also very confused. I searched for 5 minutes so I could be wrong but loomer has made this exact comment in the past except far more explicitly and linked to her sex life. They clearly don’t get along and loomer has accused her of having multiple affairs. The roast beef comment is a (not very) thinly veiled slut shaming thing, basically, mocking her because her vagina must look unappealing because she had the audacity to have sex with 3 men (allegedly). The idea that your vagina changes appearance if you have more sexual partners is a myth of course

Basically infighting mixed with internalized misogyny

Headphones I think it’s called? But lidarr has the best integration given it’s a fork.

If this is about the lidarr metadata being fucked you can try something like https://github.com/blampe/hearring-aid, which has its own issues but is working.

All of the arr stack developers flip their shit if you so much as suggest adding support for a custom metadata server. It is by far the biggest weakness of the stack and it is mind boggling that all the major forks have inherited this behavior from sonarr.

Lidarr shows how foolish this approach is, musicbrainz makes one change and the app is fucked for over three months now with no end in sight. Thetvdb could do this to sonarr, themoviedb could do this to radarr. Adding a method to add other database sites with api access (or even just local data) should be a priority, but they not only dislike the idea, they get mad about it. Oh well, free project, fork it if youre so great, etc etc

Nice shell and clean work.

What did you do for the joycons? The last time I went in my switch I finally bit the bullet and dropped the extra cash for Hall effect joysticks. It was pricier but not that costly (like $27 instead of the normal like $3 joycon swap) but they are far more sensitive and will last basically forever whereas I was swapping joycon sticks like once a year before bc of drift and dead zones. Absolutely crazy they didn’t go with a better design for switch 2. The ifixit guide showed the joycon stick is basically the same despite Nintendo claiming it’s sturdier.

I don’t understand what you mean by “discoverability”.

If you mean things aren’t scraping correctly you can override the incorrect scrape by clicking the three dots on the right and selecting “identify” in the webui.

Placement varies a bit depending on platform and obviously if you’re using custom css (I’m not) it changes things a lot. This brings up a custom search ui, enter the show name, click search, will return results, select the show that actually matches, click next, refresh metadata (and make sure to refresh images if the show was incorrect).

Of course if this is happening consistently read the Jellyfin docs regarding naming and folder conventions. This is one of the appeals of sonarr and radarr - they act as a precheck to ensure everything is compliant with thetvdb/moviedb, can create the proper folder structure, can rename files according to scraper guidelines, etc. if you have them set up in sonarr/radarr correctly and let them rename/manage directories Jellyfin will scrape correctly 99% of the time (sometimes it has a weird error with niche content even if it’s correct but the above trick fixes it 100% of the time in my experience).

If you mean just sorting things I have anime coupled in tv, I don’t see the point of splitting it away. It is fairly uncommon to find anime that is not in thetvdb at this point unless you have a sizable library of non English translated anime, and if that’s the case it’s still best to keep it in tv shows with anidb or whatever as a backup manual scraper (keeping it on for auto scraping will result in western shows getting a ton of garbage data in my experience, just manually scrape series that don’t work). But it’s rare even then, I (poorly) speak Japanese and have a decent library of anime that’s untranslated and far less known in the west and 85% of it just scrapes, maybe more.

Outside of that custom libraries for things that don’t “fit”: music videos, youtube videos, workout videos, etc. most of this stuff needs handwritten nfo and custom metadata tho.

Music videos have imvdb but it’s not very well managed. There’s just massive stuff missing and the model for how it works is deeply flawed. I submitted a few videos to be added a year and a half ago and logging in now they’re still sitting in the mod queue. Imagine if musicbrainz or discogs needed a 1.5yr+ moderation queue instead of just letting the community at large police things, ridiculous. We’d still be stuck on Beethoven

I also override movie titles so that they organize properly. Horror franchises where they are sometimes numbered and sometimes not is the main example I can think of. You can do this via the metadata manager in the admin panel. You change the sort title and leave the display title alone. Then Friday the 13th: the final chapter can be parsed as “Friday the 13th 4” and will be displayed in the correct order, though you have to do the entire series (especially bc they canonically did “part 2” and then “part III” which makes sorting awful. Then ones called “Jason goes to hell: the final Friday” but that isn’t the last one. Terrible)

Archive everything. A torrent isn’t perfect but it is far more resilient than a shitty site like rapidgator or mega. If all the seeds drop off they may hop back on someday, if the link is dmcad or otherwise deleted it’s gone forever.

Fuck their e-cred. It’s all stolen. The only time you don’t spread something around is when someone posts something special to a private community to only be shared within that community because leaking it outside of that community could cause them grief or even serious consequences (eg someone leaking content to a private tracker community that they fear could be traced back to them so they specifically ask to keep it within x community). Though tbh I’ve seen this happen at least 4-5x over the years and it always leaks out to the wider internet, people will always share (as they should)

Even if they’re your tapes there are trackers that value this. Home movies not so much (maybe, there are probably some out there) but trackers that value vhs rips of 80s/90s/2000s shows with the original commercials/bumpers/etc?

Most definitely, that stuff is coveted some places. Even if you don’t have the original commercials and bumpers if you just taped old shows you might be able to help restore old shows to their original glory. Like the people who take 90s cartoons and restore the cut content and original soundtracks.

Beavis and butthead, Daria, the state, etc all have torrents out there where someone went through and restored content that had been cut over the years and restored licensed music that in basically all cases has still never been restored for streaming. Even if you get paramount plus or whatever platform you can watch those shows but they are not the same, they have edits and “soundalike” music because it’s not worth the money to secure the rights that weren’t secured back when streaming or even releasing entire seasons of shows onto physical media was a thing that anyone thought would happen.

The source of the material to “fix” is a combo of rips from the streaming networks, which is much higher quality, with old vhs rips to fill in the gaps for content that was censored or cut for time over the years. when a new vhsrip of a coveted show comes out people can go a bit nuts, especially if it’s a key episode and in very good quality

So if you grew up watching them and rewatch them now you spend 14.99 to see it and a scene is missing here, a song is wrong, and it sucks. Or you can pirate it and you get what was originally released

Depends on what you value. VHS rips are trickier to find (though not impossible by any means, just need the right tracker like myspleen)

If you have the time archiving is always valued. If someone else has already archived don’t always assume theyve done a better job. With more niche stuff like vhs and vinyl rips it can be easy to assume that but you’d be surprised how often the rip is terrible, either done with awful equipment, the person had great equipment but their copy was in rough shape, or they just didn’t know what they were doing.

Especially if you have 500 tapes you’re bound to have some niche titles and gems someone is dying to see archived, guarantee it. And even the “classics” in your collection you may be surprised to see the current rips aren’t great or just don’t exist. Like 60-70% of my ratio at red is vinyl rips for this reason. I don’t have particularly fancy equipment (some people on there have $10,000+ setups, mine is a little fancy but like $300 fancy) but I do have like 1200 records

If you’re not in private trackers this could also be your way in

Even the most complicated video drm can be defeated fairly easily by recording analog output. No one does this, there are groups with fancy protected secrets to rip stuff from Netflix, Hulu, deezer, Spotify, Apple Music, etc, which is why it comes out basically immediately. And that’s probably why the rights holders don’t go to denuvo levels of drm, ultimately with video/audio as long as you can view the media you can pirate it

I never use a vpn with torrents. Private trackers in my experience have been enough to be fine. The only times in 20 years of torrenting tons of shit I’ve gotten isp letters were once I downloaded a Pokémon rom from a pubic tracker, which was stupid, and once I had a roommate that downloaded some shitty movie from a public tracker

Alternatively usenet

IRC depends on channel and time of day

Some channels are pretty active

When it comes to builds my mentality is “save shit from the landfill and spend as little as possible” haha

I feel like there is always a push for consumerism in (basically anything, but especially this) space. You’ll read forums and watch youtube videos that show dumb nerds with sponsorships doing a build with an $1800 budget and for what? Running a nas? Jellyfin? Caldav? This stuff doesn’t take a ton of overhead

If you’re running 5 concurrent users with 2-3 transcoding quicksync should handle that. Research this more but in my experience it works fine. For reference my library is all extremely high quality either 1080 remux or 4k remux with hdr/dv whenever possible (so tonemapping is required) and lossless audio (dts-hd, atmos, etc). If your library is like mine this bumps things up a bit and will use more cores - quicksync will handle the video fine but cores will be needed for the audio and the tonemapping of hdr/dv layer. Additionally if you’re like me and have a ton of anime (or just someone who likes subtitles) another core gets taken to burn those in. For my library with 2-3 users this is fine, could probably even handle 1-2 more (maybe, depends on what they watch).

This is where scalability comes in. Pick a case and psu where you have the option for a discrete gpu if it ever becomes necessary. You extend to 15 users or decide you want to run deepseek locally? Picking a motherboard with an extra PCIE x16 slot is helpful. since you’re offloading NAS to the synology you can just get a motherboard with a pcie slot, though getting one with multiple opens the option that down the line you could add an HBA and a second array should the synology run out of space. Again, depends on your long term plans

Look on marketplace, Craigslist, eBay, etc for older hardware. Full desktops use a lot of power, which sucks, but the advantage for you is that they are expensive to ship so they can get sold a bit cheaper sometimes. Sort by distance and filter by used

Read truenas, unraid, proxmox, serve the home forums for lots of info on example builds too. But don’t worry too much about getting it perfect. Remember it can always be a little better (or a lot better) but most of the time the extra power is just going to waste your money. Unless you specifically have a need for like multiple VMs at once, serious LLM stuff, etc something seriously demanding like that?

This makes sense

No sense in getting rid of hardware that is working. I’m not familiar with ersatztv but for all the other stuff I am able to handily run it on a 10th gen intel build that is also handling nas duties fwiw. And some stuff is not ideal (cctv is handled via blue iris, which runs in windows VM, everything else is docker)

for the gpu it really depends on your needs. How many users is the big one. If you have at most 2-4 concurrent users and that is an uncommon scenario the gpu is a waste of power, money, and thermal management. Igpu will sip power and transcode (depending on library content, again av1/vp9 on a 10th gen isn’t happening) with that user load assuming you have a decent amount of ram (I have 32gb so you don’t need absurd amounts).

However if you have a lot of users hitting you, 5-6+ or more concurrent streams that all transcode, then you need to start evaluating a discrete gpu (and maybe a significant internet connection bc damn). Alternatively you can suggest your users get something like a ugoos am6b+ flashed with coreelec or a similar setup that can just direct play basically anything but that’s a bit challenging to setup

So then it may be as simple as buying some e waste pc to use a server and using the nas as its intended purpose. Frankly this is probably better, it’s worse power wise but having the storage separate from services has advantages