@remindme@mstdn.social 10 days

Nah that was Argentina

You should watch less movies

What am I looking at

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It is the best alternative, no doubt.

Actually eBay is quiet shitty as auction house nowadays. It is a lot if effort setting all the filters and they reset every time you do a new search. Fixed price and global shipment is standard, you really need to watch closely to not buy a product from China. I find eBay very inconvenient for what I used it in 2010 for.

It’s not that I don’t want to buy a mini PC. But for this little project I might abandon like my many programming projects a massive investment is just not worth it. I payed 300€ on a TV some years ago, I just cannot pay the double amount for a device I use for streaming. I might upgrade if Jellyfin turns out to be my companion, but then everything needs to work, remote streaming from outside my network included.

Thanks for your advice though. I will look into a used fire stick, but if I understand correctly, this would act as a jellyfin client for watching on my TV.

Nah, it’s a cheap Chinese TV with a random OS, so I guess I need to find a workaround. I don’t buy at amazon so I thought of another Pi.

Noted, RAM is important.

Okay, so without the need of transcoding I gather a Pi 4 or 5 may actually be fine? What about the rare case I get hands on a Blu-Ray, H.264 would not work?

Noted, remote streaming will be an extra step I can tackle after I created my setup, it may easily work or may not.

How do I find out what codec a file has? I guess there is a ffmpeg command to check and also to convert?

Does that mean I can rip all my DVDs to the H.264 format to be sure all devices can play the file? Is there a disadvantage using H.264?

With remote streaming I mean of course streaming outside of my network.

MediaMarkt is ripoff. So yep, eBay. Bought several SD cards and cables there this year. I can really recommend taking a look. It’s a bit of extra effort and sometimes maybe a couple of bucks more, but that’s a price I am willing to pay for ditching amazon.

As an example, the last time I bought an SD card it was 6,95€ for a San disk 32 Gb ultra

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So first of all - I am in the EU and I live in a big city.

The most important step is to question your own consume. Often I don’t need a specific thing, or I do not need it within 3 days. But let’s assume I really want that thing.

It is hard to tell what I use instead, because there is no direct replacement for Amazon, but many smaller vendors instead, like how a market is supposed to work, if not controlled by US megacorps.

In general, for all the small tech stuff, in 95% of the cases the vendor on Amazon is also on eBay. Sometimes it costs some bucks more, but I am willing to pay that because subsidies due to people pissing in bottles needs to be compensated.

For computer stuff there is always some shop, I just use geizhals to find the cheapest option (which often is not Amazon). Mind factory comes to my mind.

For clothes I go to town, or order them in their online shops if I know exactly what size I need.

Books, I order them online in my local book store, and then I get get them the next day there.

Let me know what product interests you and I try to answer… But in general I am trying to limit my consumption and ask myself 3 times if I really need something.

I haven’t noticed… But also I have not used amazon in 5 years because Jeff Bezos sucks

I mean who else? Luxembourg?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaeI9YgE1o8

True, but it’s more about solving the captcha as in finding its solution. However, there is no solution, but only a never ending task of calculation (the mining, which the crawler but will need to do). Of course this is highly hypothetical as I do not know anything about cryptomining (and I also don’t want to know more about it).

Maybe design kind of a captcha task for them?