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  • I wonder if anyone ever wrote an update aggregator that would find all package managers, containers and git repos and whatnot and just do all of them.

    Some are a right pain to update, such as Nextcloud. Installing a monthly update should not feel like an enterprise prod deployment.

    It’s kinda ironic that package managers have caused the exact problem that they are supposed to solve.



  • Just start listening to dubstep and you’ll stop noticing 😆.

    Maybe run lm-sensors and make sure the CPU/GPU isn’t being thermothrottled? I’d usually look at dmesg and look for red stuff. Any hardware issues are usually pretty obvious.

    Try other apps. If you youtube or VLC behaves the same, the problem may be outside of jellyfin. If not, it narrows it down.

    If could even be the server not being able to transcode in realtime. Try watching a file known to already be in a suitable format. It should direct stream and be much less load on the server. I’ve seen server encode CPU saturation and it does kinda look the same as client decode stutter. If it’s the server, you’ll probably see the same stutter from another device such as a phone.







  • When you but an nvme bcache on your spinning rust (something Windows can’t do) and add fast LZO block compression (something Windows sucks at), games legitimately load much faster. You also get about 30% more games on the drive.

    Then the system boots and about 1GB RAM is used by the OS and desktop. The rest is free for your game.

    When Linux idles, it really idles. No background garbage. No periodic network activity. No antivirus scans. Pure computing silence.

    Fire up a game, and all the hardware becomes yours. The WINE implementation has been optomised to do Windows things faster than Windows can.

    At this point, the graphics drivers don’t even need to be as good to run faster.

    It’s not even limited to old or crappy games. Helldivers 2 and Arc Raiders run flawlessly.