Nothing wrong with just shuffling files to/from a drive. I was just trying to make things easier to stream from a tv. I may end up grabbing a fire stick or rpi. An rpi would be a lot more capable of course, after a lot more fiddling.
I don’t really trust the built in things for file format compat compared to VLC or whatever. There’s nothing you can do about it if it turns out it can’t do X or Y except convert everything.
Tell a lie actually, the NAS software does media streaming but not all file formats or the devices didn’t support them. So software that accessed just the files was the conclusion I came to.
I’ve got a Pi 3 stashed away that runs some stuff but I don’t think it’s good enough for streaming anything, I don’t think I’ve ever plugged it in to a display.
Seems like I remember lots of people running rpi 3’s as media servers, but that was probably limited to 1080p. I’m sure an rpi 4 would be fine for that task. But a fire stick would be quite a bit less $ (after buying everything needed for an rpi 4) and can sideload VLC, Kodi, Jellyfin, or whatever, or it run a client to stream from a desktop, laptop, phone, whatever.
I just stumbled onto Fxsound. Most windows laptops have pretty crap speakers, and I’m surprised at how much this helps. I had been using Equalizer APO, but this one seems better overall.
Any strong preference for a particular password manager? I briefly tried a couple of them quite a few years ago, but I didn’t trust them and never went back. I’m getting older and lazier though.
Cheers for this one, I missed it. Huge difference in volume, bass and clarity on my partners laptop
Also doubles as a speaker selector between the laptop speakers and my Wonderboom,
the Wonderboom has better bass, mids and clarity with it on as well as a decent volume boost
Can’t help on the password manager but I’m also interested
I use the browsers inbuilt ones but I suppose that’s not ideal
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I use KeePass on Linux and Windows and KeePassDroid on Android via F-Droid. I haven’t used any others though so can’t say I strongly prefer it, but it works. You (can) auth with a fingerprint on Android.
Your music files, even ones labeled as “high quality”, have some compromises. Some of the original data is removed to make the file a more manageable size. When you stream your music, even more 1’s and 0’s are cut out to make it fast to deliver. As such, your favorite songs become flat, dull, and lifeless.
This is where FxSound comes in. FxSound helps by giving you the highest possible audio passthrough and output. Then, with targeted EQ, you can bring up those compressed areas and return your music to its proper form.
Orly?
I have nothing against audio processing to get the most pleasing result out of limited speakers, but do they really have to carry on like that?
I’m guessing this is nothing new here but incredible if it actually works
https://presearch.com/search?q=China+invents+125+tetrabyte+disk
I have been storing some passwords in browsers this year, and I want to quit doing that. Also, having passwords in an encrypted file that can be passed to other devices would be nice.
I’ll give that one a go. Thanks.
Yea, that is some marketing style rhetoric there. It does work really well though for getting increased volume and improved overall sound from tinny laptop speakers.
It will have to exist before we can see if it works.
Apparently prototypes exist, but as I suspected, data retrieval/read/write efficiency would logically be a hurdle
"Popular Science points out that for encoding data, “optical disks almost always offer just a single, 2D layer — that reflective, silver underside.”
"If you could boost a disk’s number of available, encodable layers, however, you could hypothetically gain a massive amount of extra space…“Researchers at the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology recently set out to do just that*, and published the results earlier this week* in the journal, Nature*. Using a 54-nanometer laser, the team managed to record a 100 layers of data onto an optical disk, with each tier separated by just 1 micrometer. The final result is an optical disk with a three-dimensional stack of data layers capable of holding a whopping 1 petabit (Pb) of information — that’s equivalent to 125,000 gigabytes of data…”*
I’ll hold out for confirmation that they actually stored 125TB on a disc.
I’m just imagining that burn time would be very long, and higher data density on the same type of disc seems like it would have less integrity. If it works out it, it could be nice though for storing backups of very large files.
On using a password manager, I’m thinking that I might want to skip using one, instead storing all password info in an encrypted text file, staying logged in to low-risk sites (forums, etc.) and staying logged off of high-risk sites (bank, email, etc.). Overall, dealing with a text file is just simpler, more flexible, and universal than a specialized database file. The tradeoff for me being that grabbing passwords from an encrypted text file will be just a little less convenient for high-risk sites, which is fine for me.
I would still like to find a good universal synch solution, in this case for updating the encrypted text file across devices when updating a password. But I would like to find a good synch solution for general use too.
I’m not seeing any current mentions of Python dependency for syncthing, so I guess they moved to Go. I think I’ll give it another shot.
I don’t know about that, at least with KeePass you can export your data to XML, requiring a separate password to do so if you choose. So your info doesn’t have to only ever exist in a DB. You can print it out from the app too (doesn’t work in here in Linux (it’s a mono app)).
For info, each entry can have a Title, Username, Password, URL and Notes. It automatically clears copied fields from the clipboard after a user definable number of seconds, as well as when the app is closed which is kind of essential. It also tracks the time each individual entry was updated and if/when each password will expire.
I can think of some other less kind interpretations of that use of language.
Yea, I saw that you can’t export to plain text, which seems wrong. Situations come up, where that might be essential. Or I might wants to just keeping an unencrypted emergency copy on a thumb drive. And what I read on the print feature is that it only prints your master password.
On clearing the clipboard, I can handle that myself. It’s a habit that I was into for quite a few years and I need to get back into.