Spooky Mulder

I’ve seen it called smallweb.

I turned to improv for exactly this sort of thing. Signed up for improv classes and did that 2-3 nights a week for a couple of years. It’s a lot more than just “yes and”.

That helped to re-train my brain to see everything as an offer. I developed the skill to just be in the moment and own whatever I say or do. I learned to just let that awkwardness go when the “scene” is finished.

I still have social anxiety and I still ruminate some on awkward encounters, but I’m way better now than I used to be.

Highly recommend an improv class if there’s anything like that in your area.

I’m not sure if there is a good one out there. The current market for skilled labor just seems to be really dry. That, combined with the massive influx of botspam and fraudulent candidates, and the hyper-arbitrary, hyper-selective AI gatekeeping resume scanners HR departments insist on using… makes it really difficult and random to even get a callback for jobs you’d be perfect for.

I know that’s not of any direct practical use, but I hope it helps to better understand that if you’re not having much success getting interviews, it’s likely not your fault. We really are at a systemic tipping point for job-seeking and what’s been working a long time (companies post jobs, candidates apply for them) is no longer viable.

That said, here are a few job sites I’ve been using and/or that I’ve had success with in the past. Some may or may not still be around:

• Hired.com
• TripleByte (acquired, now defunct)
• Welcome to the Jungle
• Built In
• LinkedIn
• Workintech.io
• Techjobsforgood.com

fwiw: I always remember it as “example given” and “in essence”

How is the neighbor advocating for them? Like, are they making a rational case, or is it just vibes? I’m curious what problems they think they’re solving and how these cameras would solve them.

Is this satire? If so, it’s very subtle.

Yep, transcoding is the main reason I had to buy any new hardware when getting my library going with Jellyfin.

For me, the main draw of Jellyfin wasn’t the transcoding. It was being able to browse and stream my library from anywhere. My partner and I would alternate weekends hanging out at each other’s places, and we just wanted access to the library from wherever we were and whatever device we were using.

I was willing to put up with weeks of encoding to get everything into a web-compatible format. But that’s just me and I know it’s not for everyone. I’m curious where the palatibility for that is on the spectrum more broadly.

The short answer is because it’s a fun project, and I wanted to see if I had it in me to make exactly the media server I want.

The longer answer is that I wanted something dramatically and fundamentally different from what either Jellyfin or Plex have to offer.

• Can run without breaking a sweat on junk/old/cheap hardware like a Raspberry Pi or old laptop.
• Can be safely Internet-facing – no anonymous access, and no web-based admin features or API.
• Hyper-lean and minimal. All-in, I wanted something on the order of 1MB for client app, server, all dependencies, everything.

I don’t see either of those goals happening with a contribution or fork, because achieving them would require some dramatic feature deprecation.

I second this. Never heard of it but looks great.

Playing files directly in the browser and avoiding the need for transcoding is exactly what the system I’ve built is designed around, so I get the appeal!

True.

When I migrated off of Jellyfin, I re-encoded everything up to that point directly from the Blu-ray rips wherever possible. Because I’d already started culling those for space, I did end up just doing another pass on the first round of encoding for a portion of the library. There’s some noticable degradation on those, and I’ll want to re-rip those at some point.

Fortunately, I’ve got my process pretty dialed in for ripping and I actually enjoy it, so if I ever have a quality issue, it’s not a huge ordeal to re-rip and encode.

I went with a GeForce RTX 4060. Cost was about $300.

Ahh, I like how you split Concert Films and Music Videos. I’ve been pigeon-holing my Short Films, Mini-Series, and TV Movies into just the two categories: Shows and Movies. Makes way more sense having separate categories.

There’s some relatively inexpensive NVIDIA cards now with AV1 hardware encoding. I’m on my third round of re-encoding my whole library (HEVC, then VP9, now AV1). For 1080p NTSC, I get about 13x speeds on NVENC AV1, whereas with VP9 I was CPU-bound at around 4x. Definitely worth the upgrade, in case you’re on the fence.