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Cake day: October 1st, 2023

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  • Might be some AP incompatibility maybe, I’ve never seen those.

    XBMC didn’t have drivers for video acceleration, but the raspberry pi 1 was able to play 1080p flawlessly if you used omxplayer.

    Now kodi has the drivers included and the 4 can even play 4k up to certain bit rate.

    The new ones are too expensive tho, a used NUC is a much better deal.




  • Raspberry, seriously? What problems are you seeing?

    I have a raspberry pi 3 acting as a 5GHz access point for as long as it’s been on the market, I can remember one time I had to restart it because of some wonkiness. About a dozen others as clients, never had an issue there either, fast and stable enough.

    All using the default os (raspbian first, raspberry os later).















  • I moved to YouTube premium a few years ago, family subscription, to share with up to 5 people. YouTube is my main source of entertainment and the 15 bucks total (or whatever the conversion rate is) is less than 90 minutes of a movie in a cinema, nit even including transportation and snacks. I get my news, tech news/reviews, tutorials, documentaries, inspiration and laughs on there. I watch it while getting ready in the morning, on my lunch break and for a longer while in the evening. I share it with 2 other people so it works out to around 5 bucks a month. And the creators I like get a big portion of that.

    Sure, around 60 bucks a year might sound a lot, but it’s the only service I pay for (except the 2 bucks a month Disney plus trial until December). As a small bonus YouTube music transformed my Google home devices into a multi-room audio Sonos alternative for under 1/3 of the price.

    I still use NewPipe on my phone for downloads for offline use and yt-dlp for content I want to hoard.