AtomicPurple

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

If you have an LG smart TV running WebOS, there's an exploit in the web browser you can use to gain root access and install the homebrew channel. It's literally just going to a website and clicking a couple buttons. From there, you can install a number of different homebrew apps including the aforementioned Jellyfin, as well as ad-free YouTube, RetroArch and of course Doom.

The homebrew channel also lets you run an ssh/telnet server that gives you remote access to the TV's back-end command line and filesystem. I found this functionally extremely useful for allowing the TV to still get online while having it behind a DNS server that blocks access to all of LG's telemetry domains.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Like 90% of these apply to me, though I've somehow failed every ADHD assessment I've ever taken.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I have ARFID, and at least in my case, my diet isn't as restrictive as most stereotypes portray, even though my list of safe foods hasn't really expanded since I was in middle school. I was raised vegetarian, and have never eaten meat in my life AFAIK, and I that think helped me to have broader, or at least healthier tastes than many with my disorder.

I of course have some stereotypical safe foods, like fries, pizza (on which the only topping I will tolerate is pineapple) and mac & cheese, but that list also includes things like sweet potatoes, corn on the cob, and tofu stir fry.
The list of foods that I will not eat also has some things you may not expect, like most juices, sodas, and energy drinks, anything cherry flavored, and chocolate, which I will only eat if it's mixed with something like caramel or peanut butter.

There are some genuine benefits to ARFID as well in my case. The smell of red meat makes me nauseous, which has ensured I've stayed vegetarian into my adult life. it's also prevented me from getting hooked on caffeine or alcohol, as I can't stand the taste of coffee, tea or any alcoholic beverage.

My biggest barrier to eating healthy is actually executive dysfunction, rather than ARFID. The healthy foods I like all take some active prep work, whereas I can grab a box of cheese-its or throw tater tots in the oven with almost no effort.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

If it's webOS based, you can jailbreak it and install Jellyfin.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Jellyfin running on my jailbroken smart TV.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

And if you don’t get dysphoria you’re not actually trans.

Even if this statement was correct (it's not BTW), there would still be women with dicks who have no desire to get them removed, due to how much dysphoria varies. Physical dysphoria is only one type of dysphoria among several, and even with physical dysphoria, there's no guarantee that it will apply to one's genitals specifically.

I'm nonbinary, and the majority of dysphoria I experience is social. I find many of the gender roles and social norms applied to my AGAB confusing and distressing to participate in. I do have some physical dysphoria as well, but it mostly pertains to body hair. Frankly, I like my penis and have no desire to get rid of it.

Either educate yourself on the various ways gender dysphoria can manifest, or kindly fuck off.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think I had things removed once or twice in the eight years I was on Reddit. I'm not sure why this sentiment keeps cropping up because I've never had this experience. Do people just not read the sidebar before posting things in random subreddits? That's the only way I could see this happening with such frequency.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

The only torrent I ever removed my seed cap for was a set of DVD-audio ISOs. I had it downloading for months, but it never got above 5%. Eventually I found the same disc images on another site, so I dropped them in the download folder and rechecked the torrent, which came back 97% complete. The only files missing were box art scans and NFOs. I let that thing seed for about five months.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I haven't bothered with any sort of NUS downloader in years because converting the content has always been a pain in the ass. In the past couple years there's been multiple WiiU rom collections uploaded to archive.org . Just recently, I set up my WiiU with a 4TB hard drive and used JDownloader to pull the entire North American WiiU library in USB installer format over the course of a couple days. Installing everything was a bit of a chore, but at least I didn't need to deal with any conversion on the PC side.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It's a fundamental limitation of the technology. Anything wireless, when it comes to audio, requires a certain amount of fidelity loss in order maintain real-time transmission without using an astronomical amount of bandwidth. With landline telephones, you have an exclusive, end-to-end physical connection, so you're free to fully saturate the line with as much information as it can carry. It's possible to fit multiple analog audio transmissions onto a single copper line, but the signals need a hard frequency cutoff for it to work. This is why long distance and international calls used to sound worse than local ones. In a similar vein, terrestrial radio has to split airspace between multiple stations, which is why it sounds worse than records or reel-to-reel tape, despite each station using a massive amount of bandwidth by modern standards.

Moving into the digital realm, the same principles still apply, but you can push bandwidth requirements way down thanks to the inherent efficiency of digital encoding, plus the magic of digital compression algorithms and error correction. As a result, wireless digital audio transmissions can maintain a much higher level of fidelity than analog ones, compare Bluetooth audio to FM, for example. Quality still needs to be sacrificed somewhere when transmitting wirelessly though, which is why audiophiles bitch about Bluetooth headphones and wireless mics. Even the best digital audio compression can't compare to a copper cable carrying an unfiltered analog signal.

Digital audio compression is what makes it even remotely possible to have hundreds of real-time audio streams transmitting wirelessly to a cell tower, unfortunately you have to reduce the audio quality down to the absolute limits of usability in order to pull it off. Even if you still have a copper land line, the audio is always going to sound like crap if you talk to someone on a cellphone, it's just not possible to operate a large cell network with the same level of fidelity.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago (4 children)

On one hand, this feels like it's in very poor taste. On the other hand, holocaust education is abysmal, at least in the US, so this might be a good thing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Second this. Just today, I was moving a couple terabytes from my work PC to my media server at gigabit speeds, and the transfer was absolutely hammering the poor quad core i5 I've got in it. Surfing the web was less than pleasant for an a hour to two there.

Edit: I didn't see OP's reply to this comment when I first wrote it. I agree decompression is the most likely culprit, as it can be CPU intensive and compression ratios vary quite a lot from game to game.

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