Tippon
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- Comment on Bombs Awat 4 weeks ago:
So, if I understand you correctly, what you’re saying is - given the quite large body of water about half a mile away from me, all downhill, I should get a giant catapult and fling some piranha.
I’ll go down in history, either for the best April Fools joke ever, or if my aim is off, the best Halloween prank ever 🐟🐠🐟😁
- Comment on How many Nintendo Switches do I need for a family of gamers? 5 weeks ago:
No problem, hope you all enjoy your gaming 🙂
- Comment on How many Nintendo Switches do I need for a family of gamers? 5 weeks ago:
I’ve just checked the boxes, and Minecraft, Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe, and Mario Kart Deluxe 8 all support one player on the Switch Lite, up to four through the TV, and up to four on the non lite Switch 👍
- Comment on How many Nintendo Switches do I need for a family of gamers? 5 weeks ago:
This is excellent advice 🙂
The only part I might disagree with is this:
Get Switch Lites for anyone who REALLY needs to be playing something else independently when the TV/“main” Switch is in use
Obviously only if the budget allows, but if your kids are at the age where they’ll take their Switch when they visit friends or family, then the version with detachable controllers is probably better.
The Switch has a built in kick stand, and some games, like Mario Kart, let you disconnect the controllers and have one each for a two player game. It’s handy for keeping the kids quiet for a bit, and you don’t need to carry loads of stuff.
If the kids regularly go somewhere, like your parents perhaps, you can buy an extra dock to plug into the TV there, and the non lite Switch can use it in exactly the same way as the one at home. There’s nothing special about the dock, it essentially just connects the Switch to the TV.
It’s a great little console with some fun, if sometimes expensive games. I play mine probably as much as my kid plays theirs 🙂
- Comment on It's just taken me 55 minutes to watch a 35 minute episode on Plex because of crashes 1 month ago:
Nope. It does it with random videos every now and then, and with no obvious pattern. It’s not lasting for a set amount of time either, so it’s not like something’s running in the background and slowing it down for a while.
In the past I’ve shut down everything I can think of on the server to stop something from taking priority, but it still happens. On those occasions it’s happened for half an hour or more, but other times it might last for a few minutes, or just affect one episode.
- Comment on It's just taken me 55 minutes to watch a 35 minute episode on Plex because of crashes 1 month ago:
I just checked the episode through Plex, and it’s direct playing. I didn’t get any stuttering while I was skipping around though. I think it’s Plex itself, either the server or the player.
My physical server is a bit old now, it’s a Haswell i5, so if this was an ultra HD bluray rip I could understand it, but it’s been playing HD and 4k videos without issues for years now.
- Comment on It's just taken me 55 minutes to watch a 35 minute episode on Plex because of crashes 1 month ago:
I’ve checked the file. It’s a bog standard h264 mkv and the video bitrate is only 10Mbps. There’s nothing that the fire stick shouldn’t be able to handle on its own. I’ll try playing it on the fire stick again and see if it’s trying to do something weird, but I can’t see it being that.
- Comment on It's just taken me 55 minutes to watch a 35 minute episode on Plex because of crashes 1 month ago:
Nothing unusual about it, and it plays perfectly on my PC. I’ve tried randomly skipping backwards and forwards, but still no issues. It’s a bog standard h264 mkv file too, so nothing that would need to be transcoded
- Comment on It's just taken me 55 minutes to watch a 35 minute episode on Plex because of crashes 1 month ago:
Oh, definitely! I had major issues with the networking in my old house, and just couldn’t narrow it down. I eventually figured out that it was a network switch, but when I tested them, all three had intermittent faults. I could plug my laptop into a port on one and have it lose connection, but plugging something else in would work. Plugging my laptop into a different switch with the same cable would work, but a few hours later would fail. That was a nightmare to track down.
- Comment on It's just taken me 55 minutes to watch a 35 minute episode on Plex because of crashes 1 month ago:
I’ll give that a try, thanks :)
- Comment on It's just taken me 55 minutes to watch a 35 minute episode on Plex because of crashes 1 month ago:
That’s a good point. I’ll check the file and see if there’s anything unusual compared to the others 🙂
- Comment on It's just taken me 55 minutes to watch a 35 minute episode on Plex because of crashes 1 month ago:
You might be slightly overestimating my coding abilities 😁
- Comment on It's just taken me 55 minutes to watch a 35 minute episode on Plex because of crashes 1 month ago:
All I need to do now is actually remember to set Jellyfin up 🙈
- Comment on It's just taken me 55 minutes to watch a 35 minute episode on Plex because of crashes 1 month ago:
If I was having problems with anything else, I would blame the fire stick. It’s cheaply made Amazon crap that’s designed to fail. I regularly stream to it from other sources though, and don’t get any issues. In this case, I skipped back once, so ten seconds, and that was too much for Plex to handle 🤷🏻♂️
- Comment on It's just taken me 55 minutes to watch a 35 minute episode on Plex because of crashes 1 month ago:
I just watched an episode of a different show, and while it didn’t completely crash, it still stuttered and paused randomly.
I know it’s not the server itself, as it’s handling more intense tasks regularly with no issues, and the network works on every other device too. I stream higher quality with higher bit rates to the fire stick regularly too, with no issues.
- Comment on It's just taken me 55 minutes to watch a 35 minute episode on Plex because of crashes 1 month ago:
I’m tempted to get a different box for the TV, but everything else runs perfectly. I’ve been looking into switching to Jellyfin too, but I’ve been trying out Stremio for a little while, and it works much better than Plex. It’s missing a few features like easy user switching, and it can’t organise and play my family videos as far as I know, but it would mean not having to store loads of media.
- Comment on It's just taken me 55 minutes to watch a 35 minute episode on Plex because of crashes 1 month ago:
I’ve been holding off switching to Jellyfin for a while because I paid for a Plex pass, but I’m getting to the point where that’s not going to stop me from swapping.
- Comment on It's just taken me 55 minutes to watch a 35 minute episode on Plex because of crashes 1 month ago:
It will be very soon 🙂
- Comment on It's just taken me 55 minutes to watch a 35 minute episode on Plex because of crashes 1 month ago:
True 🙂
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- Comment on The 1900s 2 months ago:
I just pulled my back and broke my hips reading this, it made me feel so old 👴🏻
- Comment on Which great actor is overdue for a career defining role? 2 months ago:
Michael Socha. He’s been in some great series, and I think he could carry off a big role really well
- Comment on Save 100% on Unplagued on Steam 2 months ago:
Not free for me in the UK either
- Comment on Horse-flippers? Have any horses from history, ever been fitted with horseshoes that improve their ability to swim? 2 months ago:
‘It’s got solid bones, but the inside’s a mess’
- Comment on Terry Gilliam says he doesn't have enough money to make ‘The Carnival at the End of Days' 2 months ago:
Ah, ok. I thought it was just for generating from scratch. I’ll give it a try, thanks :)
- Comment on Terry Gilliam says he doesn't have enough money to make ‘The Carnival at the End of Days' 2 months ago:
Right now, on consumer hardware, you can take a photograph of a toy spaceship and tell your video card to make it look real, *and it will.*
Out of curiosity, what can you use for that? I haven’t kept up with AI, but that sounds like the sort of thing that my kid would love to try :)
- Comment on Only 3% of UK 12-year-olds don’t have a smartphone. Here is how four of them feel about it 2 months ago:
I’ll keep an eye on them, thanks for the heads up 👍
- Comment on Only 3% of UK 12-year-olds don’t have a smartphone. Here is how four of them feel about it 2 months ago:
I’m a big fan of just carrying around one charger
Off topic, but I bought a handful of magnetic cables and a few different ends to match our devices, and now one cable works for charging everything.
It has the downside of not letting you connect the device to a computer, but because they’re magnetic, they’re breakaway cables. My kid has walked away with their tablet after forgetting to unplug it, and nothing bad happens 👍