@travisdh1 said in YouTube offers new streaming service:

@RojoLoco said in YouTube offers new streaming service:

SlingTV people - how do you like it overall? And what are you running it on?

My neighbor got Sling and runs it on a Roku, and it is SSSSSLLLLLLOOOOOOOWWWWWWWW. Like almost unusably so, plus there are commercials. He has it primarily for Fox sports 1 so we can watch UFC preliminary fights on fight night, but he's considering ditching it because of the poor performance.

Knowing you, I think I already know the answer to my question. The upload side of that internet connection is good and quick, right? The idea of a Roku is great, but we just don't have the bandwidth around here to really use one.

What bandwidth levels are you limited to?

Of course, now with most if not all ISPs implementing caps, 4K streaming will probably be stifled.

We actually just talked about maybe getting one of these. Might be perfect for a SIM switching travel phone.

4 different Google accounts have asked me to sign in again on my android device over the past week-end. Still get occasional blips.

@scottalanmiller Thank you.

I will have to look into that. One source not listed (that I saw anyway) was Pandora. And while I have hundreds of titles ripped to the NAS and could listen to, I listen to Pandora quite a bit.

Thank you.

@scottalanmiller said in Google Renames Messenger to Android Messages:

Just a branding change, or does this signal a change in strategy for messaging on the Android platform by Google?

Nope, it's still a mess with all the different apps. They do like to rename one of the many, I can only assume it's meant as a marketing ploy because they rarely change the app functionality (unless they're removing features.)

@JaredBusch said in Cloudflare possible data leak, no leaked data yet found.:

There's already a thread about this can somebody please merge this

Well shoot, I even tried searching for it 😞

@JaredBusch said in Synology DSM 6.1 Released with Active Directory Server:

@scottalanmiller said in Synology DSM 6.1 Released with Active Directory Server:

@JaredBusch said in Synology DSM 6.1 Released with Active Directory Server:

@travisdh1 said in Synology DSM 6.1 Released with Active Directory Server:

@scottalanmiller said in Synology DSM 6.1 Released with Active Directory Server:

@travisdh1 said in Synology DSM 6.1 Released with Active Directory Server:

@scottalanmiller said in Synology DSM 6.1 Released with Active Directory Server:

@travisdh1 said in Synology DSM 6.1 Released with Active Directory Server:

Hrm, fast-clone. Probably time to try out a Btrfs based file server at home.

It's good stuff.

Yeah, I know brtfs is the way to go, I just haven't tried it out yet myself. Starting out on IRIX with XFS back in the day makes me a too nostalgic.

I still use XFS for everything.

When will be the right time to switch to btrfs then? We know it's been stable for long enough that it's becoming the default in a number of distributions now, but has it really been battle tested well enough yet?

Also, should we maybe make another thread for the btrfs discussion?

The answer here is you do not switch. You install a distro letting it do its native thing by default and less you have an over arcing huge reason to override defaults. So you will get this when you install a new system that now has it as a default.

openSuse, for example, has had it as default for two years.

Really though, I prefer XFS for anything that isn't a storage machine. VMs need something mature, stable and light. XFS does that well.

But does your preference mean that you will override a default installs choice just because that is your preference?

Using anything but default should have very clear reasons because the first time somebody besides you have to troubleshoot it there will be big problems.

I would often, yes actually. XFS is not like an odd, unsupported option. It's just not the default. It's still completely core to openSuse's design. They simply had to pick which one they were going to use when someone did not choose one or the other and they opted for extra features over lean design for those that don't know which they want, which I think makes sense. Just like CentOS opts for the simplicity of using root for administration instead of sudo, but makes it super easy to enable sudo. It's not default, but it's fully supported. They just had to choose something as default.

@NetworkNerd said in Cloudflare Reverse Proxy Bug Leaked Uninitalised Memory:

I am wondering...if you use CloudFlare for public DNS record hosting only and chose not to accelerate any of your records across their CDN, would you be at risk based on what was discovered in their "leak?"

No

@aaronstuder said in Vultr Adds a Free Firewall Service:

Is it just me, or is Vultr killing it recently?

Are they? With Linode's improved pricing, Vultr still is trailing for us in most use cases. It's a bit too costly and a bit too slow. We just get way more bang for the buck with Linode and Linode has load balancers which I think are a bit more important than firewalls. Vultr is doing well, but killing it seems a bit far as we are migrating off in several cases because it just isn't the best value compared to it's more mature competitor any longer. It's definitely doing better than Digital Ocean these days, though.

My guess is that this won't stand up. Implied contracts and all of that.

@NerdyDad said in Goodbye 3DTV:

Except for just...kids...why would you want to watch Trolls in 4k?

I don't but it was the first one in the feed.

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@Grey said in Driverless Formula E Car Crashes At Speed in Buenos Aires:

@nadnerB said in Driverless Formula E Car Crashes At Speed in Buenos Aires:

Cool! Not that fast though 😛
They'll get there eventually 🙂

The article said they were limited on speed since it's mostly for exhibition purposes. Apparently, the robot also missed a dog that got on to the track!

Yeah, the dog avoidance was awesome.

Congratulations to you both

And welcome to this mad crazy world little one

Handy, thanks.

I went with the 4 lines for $180. Going to get an additional 15% once I submit my DD214. I'm saving money on this deal, so I'm happy.

@Tim_G said in Another huge sale. Time Warner & AT&T:

Well, I can't view their site because I use an ad blocker. I despise that crap. Got another article?

LA Times? More like LAme Times! Am I right?