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Cake day: August 23rd, 2023

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  • Yeah, 3k hours is nothing. I’m an edge case, but I am on my computer most waking hours, and gaming most of the time. I have something like 5.5k hours of game time in Forza Horizon 5, which just turned 4 years old; I have several other games I play heavily too, like 900 hours of American Truck Sim in the last 2 years.

    I’m in the ‘wait for prices to keep dropping’ boat, and my current monitor is fine other than ‘just’ being a ips lcd instead of oled or whatever else. But at that time frame, I’d be buying new units like every 2 years. That’s fucking insane. I expect like a decade of issue-free use from a monitor.






  • I set this container up yesterday. Technically it’s running. But all the settings are in the fucking sql db, and I know fuck all about sql other than drop tables is funny meme from xkcd. But also, ignoring the settings, I would like to point out that there is effectively no client. I mean, there are two official ones - the depreciated one, and the alpha one, and the alpha one has a total of 4 releases with the newest being two years ago. How do you deprecate a client when the server is still in alpha? What the fuck? And on all pages it screams ‘this is alpha testing software, do not use as a daily’. Also the docs are, uhh… rough. If rough was falling 4 stories into a bed of poisonous cacti. It took me 3 hours to get the container running properly and finally poking at the db. It’s as organized as my bedroom (‘it’s somewhere in this dresser, I think…’).

    The idea, the potential, is brilliant. Literally everything about getting it working though…



  • I have a owncast container setup, I’ve used it a few times. It combines a customizable webpage with the stream, kinda-sorta like a twitch page. Hook obs to it and you’re off. Took me a couple hours to get everything set.

    My only complaint is that the stream will fall behind - not sure if obs or oc is to blame. Perhaps my nas being underpowered, though I was testing/watching with ‘source’ so it shouldn’t be transcoding. After an hour or two I can, watching my own stream, see it’s fallen back by like a minute. If I remember right it continues linearly, so more time = more discrepancy.

    It’s nice though, so I haven’t bothered to try other solutions. I should re-test and see if it’s been fixed…