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[–] [email protected] 13 points 19 hours ago

Anything to prevent people from voting! Wouldn't want that! We might lose our super majority and some day lose our right to gerrymander the state!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 19 hours ago

Maybe they should only allow people to vote by Republican approved IDs? /s

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

LOVE my Jellyfin.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Buy a good inexpensive TV. The manufacturer can make them cheap because they're losing money and hoping to gain it back with ads and analytics. Don't connect it to the internet. Get a Steam deck or small form factor PC (Intel NUC or variant) install Linux, profit.

I've bought a few small form factor PCs, and again Steam Deck works great, for $300 and then a great TV. And I don't have to put up with any ads, any crap applications that barely work, it's just browsing ANY website I want, playing ANY PC game I want. It's honestly the best outcome and I'll never go back at this point.

Don't let yourself accept the subpar TV applications that are just a website with awful frontends, that run like shit and that the companies creating these apps have 0 incentive to make properly because their app isn't there for a good experience. It's there to track you, just like the TV.

 

So I was wondering the bandwidth usage of Owncast and started crunching some numbers. Then I happened to find that @[email protected] had already done the work. Article linked, but here's one of the examples:

Example Scenario#

You’ve configured your broadcasting source (such as OBS) to stream to your Owncast instance at 5000kbps. You have 25 viewers. 5 of them are on slow or mobile networks, 17 of them have fast, stable internet, and 3 of them have fast internet most of the time but the speed fluctuates. All 25 viewers watched an entire stream that lasts two hours. You have a hosting provider that gives you 4TB of bandwidth per month.

Offer a high and low quality option

You decide to offer both a high and low quality option, and you set the high quality option to 5000kbps and the low quality option to 1500kbps.

How much bandwidth is used on your server for this stream?

Bitrate Duration Viewers Total
0.000625 Gigabytes per second (5000kbps) 7200 seconds 19 85 Gigabytes
0.0001875 Gigabytes per second (1500kbps) 7200 seconds 6 8.1 Gigabytes
Total: 93.1 Gigabytes

How much CPU?

Quality CPU Usage
5000kbps Some (It matches the input)
1500kbps More (CPU needs to be used to compress the video)

How is the viewer experience?

Quality Viewers Experience
5000kbps 20 Good
1500kbps 5 Good

Result: You’ve provided both a high and low quality option for your viewers so those with a slow network have an option, and those with a fast network that might periodically slow down can dip down into the low quality when needed. Additionally, in this case you saved almost 20G of bandwidth traffic due to offering a lower quality. You’re using more CPU for a much better experience. You would be able to stream 43 times in a month before you hit your bandwidth limit.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

WHEN IT'S TIME TO PARTY WE'LL ALL PARTY HARD!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

I'm weirdly on board with this and I think my kids will love it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Others already suggested great answers, so I won't repeat them, but I let my kids play on pbskids.org . tons of fun and educational videos and games for kids if they're younger.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I am technical, but here's the installation for Owncast

curl -s https://owncast.online/install.sh | bash

https://owncast.online/quickstart/installation/

That's it. The rest is handled from a website front end like Twitch's. But yes, it's more than Twitch.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I switched. :-). People on Reddiy used to tell me no one would switch to Lemmy. Also look at Mastodon.

I also know some streamers that stream to both Twitch and their Owncast. To each their own. It's here if folks become interested. Most don't even know a self hosted option exists.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Anyone for Owncast here besides me? :-D

[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm not the developer, but I can pass it on if you'd like. :-D The dev reads the Steam Forums and has a Discord as well. I think it should work with Steamdeck and the touch pads, but I'm guessing the menus are going to be SUPER small and probably quite difficult to see, though I haven't tested on my Steamdeck.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Absolutely! I bounced off Songs of Syx personally, but I've played DF, Rimworld, Oni, etc. I love the look of Odd Realm personally and I had quite a few hours in it, but then the entire UI was reworked, and it seems a bit daunting to get into. There isn't a tutorial atm, but the dev and myself have put up some video tutorials to get started. I think it's unique in the colony sim genre due to the graphics, music, but also the flexibility of the UI. It's not DF deep, but the UI allows you to REALLY dig in deep to automating things if you want, or just manually queue up stuff. I think it still has some rough edges, but for $15 at the moment it's got a lot to offer.

I'm planning on streaming some more Odd Realm 1.0 to my Owncast as well if you're interested. :-)

Have fun and best of luck!

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