Inktvip

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[–] Inktvip@lemm.ee 4 points 2 weeks ago

Also you need to pay (18k/year iirc) in addition to that as well. Next to the fact that matter itself is quite convoluted from an implementation standpoint.

It’s really not made with things like startups or niche products in mind. It’s really a standard by and for the big companies

[–] Inktvip@lemm.ee 19 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Not necessarily if you’re the one walking in with the DC++ server. Getting that thing up and running was suddenly priority #1 for the entire floor.

[–] Inktvip@lemm.ee 4 points 7 months ago

If it's only you (or your household) that is accessing the services then something like hosting a tailscale VPN is a relatively user friendly and safe way to set-up remote access.

If not, then you'd probably want to either use the aforementioned Cloudflare tunnels, or set up a reverse proxy container (nginx proxy manager is quite nice for this as it also handles certs and stuff for you). Then port forward ports 80 and 443 to the server (or container if you give it a separate IP). This can be done in your router.

In terms of domain set-up. I've always found subdomains (homeassistant.domain.com) to be way less of a hassle compared to directories (domain.com/homeassistant) since the latter may need additional config on the application end.

Get a cheap domain at like Cloudflare and use CNAME records that point domain.com and *.domain.com to your dyndns host. Iirc there's also some routers/containers that can do ddns with Cloudflare directly, so that might be worth a quick check too.

[–] Inktvip@lemm.ee 17 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That hit my timeline the other day. The amount of work that has been put into that video must have been insane.

[–] Inktvip@lemm.ee 29 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Kinda the same thing as winrar. They rather have consumers get used to it so the companies they work at have a higher chance of buying licenses. That's where the real money is.

[–] Inktvip@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

There's a couple SD-WAN solutions out there that you can do this with. Essentially route all your traffic through one or more VPSes while still keeping things like port forwards and STUN working properly.

I've had to use it to enable proper video feeds to and from people that had Spectrum as their ISP.

[–] Inktvip@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

HEVC actually requires a $1 license you can get from the ms store. It's a royalty thing. OEMs often ship PCs with that license already enabled.

There are more applications than just windows Media Player that won't play hevc files/streams without that license installed.

VLC doesn't really seem to care about those things though and it's better than the default anyways.

[–] Inktvip@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

A lot of sensors/gauges in industrial applications are retrofitted with lorawan or similar remote readout capabilities right now. Battery life for these devices is already a big design consideration, especially since not all locations are easily accessible.

With a power source like this you would essentially charge a capacitor, use the stored charge to do a sensor read and short data burst, and then wait for the next charge.

[–] Inktvip@lemm.ee 11 points 10 months ago (3 children)

It does exist, its called 801.11ah or wifi HaLow

That standard is mainly designed for things like IOT and wireless security cameras, but nothing stops you from getting an HaLow access point and network adapter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qF0BHnmi9j8

[–] Inktvip@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

I have a 4gbit line, and while I usually use Usenet to download a lot of torrents still easily reach 2-3gbit up/down.

[–] Inktvip@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago

I'm working in live video and there's a lot of proprietary codecs out there that vlc doesn't play by default. Most of those are lossless/very high bitrate lossy formats designed to be encoded and decoded quickly for things like instant replays, so not something the average consumer would get their hands on.

[–] Inktvip@lemm.ee 15 points 11 months ago

One of the good things valve has been doing recently is cracking down hard on smurfs/alts. I started league last year and was often the only actual new player in the game. Imagine the amount of toxicity I got when people found out there was an actual noob in their new Smurf's matchmaking.

Bad play doesn't matter as much if everyone is actually on the same level. If everybody is bad, nobody is.

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