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4·9 days agoTooth filings pick up AM, not FM. Assuming that’s even a real thing. All you need get AM is a diode which can be made to varying levels of performance with a number of common materials.
FM radios generally use superheterodyne receivers which generate a radio frequency to be mixed with the incoming signal to pull out audio.
This receiver does emit a small amount of RF as a result and it’s how the TV police in the UK would catch you for skirting a TV license.
I’m sure there was a better way to do it. This was 7-8 years ago, so I don’t remember the details.
I think I was in a hurry to do it after I found out someone made purchases with a Google pay account I forgot I had.
That’s what I eventually did. Except without the refreeze because it was going to cost me $12 which while a small amount, is definitely a ripoff.
Yeah the temporary unfreeze was what wasn’t working and it was holding up my credit union.
It wasn’t money to unfreeze. It was money to re-freeze after.
5·12 days agoI’ve been running plex for a few years no. No real issues to complain of.
Until today. I just upgraded my server with an Intel ARC. Was looking forward to enabling qsv for streaming. Turns out you need plex pass to do that.
Can jellyfin do it?
I froze three and was given a code to unlock them temporarily (or something this was like 8 years ago).
Gave the code to my bank when applying for a home loan. It didn’t work. Ended up just unfreezing so they could do their job.
Costs like $12 every time you want to freeze. It’s a racket.
I’ve been to a protest where the organizers announced what the chants were going to be. The alternatives were…terrible.
Brought to you by the 1600x1200 clan.
Changing the CRT resolution from 1024x768 to something actually useful. They made us walk back to the computer lab to switch it back.
12·26 days agoIf you want an experience that’s along the same lines, I suggest Mr. President!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/507010/MrPresident/
You’re saving the President, but you’re really bad at it.
Thanks for the tips. I’ll definitely at least start with mdadm since that’s what I’ve already got running, and I’ve got enough other stuff to worry about.
Are you worried at all about bit rot? I hear that’s one drawback of mdadm or raid vs. zfs.
Also, any word on when photoprism will support the Coral TPU? I’ve got one of those and haven’t found much use for it.
Very good to know! Thanks.
Where I’ve landed now is
A) just migrate everything over so I can continue working. B) Migrate my mdadm to ZFS C) Buy another NVME down the road and configure it with the onboard RAID controller to prevent any sudden system downtime. D) Configure nightly backups of anything of import on the NVME RAID to the ZFS pool. E) Configure nightly snapshots of the ZFS pool to another webserver on-site. F) rsync the ZFS pool to cold storage every six months and store off-site.
Yeah, I wouldn’t dare.
The fact that I migrated from a 3 drive to 6 drive mdadm raid without losing anything is a damn miracle.
I wanted to get something with a lot of upgrade potential, and this was the cheapest option to get my foot in the door with an EPYC processor.
Also needed two PCIe slots that could do at least 8x for the hba card and Intel ARC for video streaming.
Current hardware is an ancient fanless motherboard from 2016. RAID6 is through mdadm. Four of the drives are through a super slow PCIe 2.0 1x card.
New motherboard (just ordered) is a supermicro H13SAE-MF which has dual nvme slots and a built in raid controller for them.
The theater I used to work at had a light up marquee sign in the back that displayed captions in reverse. Then they’d hand out these little semi-transparent plastic sheets on flexible arms that you could clip to your arm rest. So just adjust the plastic until it’s in your field of view and reflecting the marquee in the back, and you had subtitles cheaply and without bothering anybody else.