@paco @BenAveling it is just a stupid electronic device

@saper @BenAveling That’s easy to say if you can afford to replace it. They’re not cheap. And the people most likely to have cheap, crappy phones are generally those who can least afford to replace them. Not to mention the way phones are woven into our lives with banking, passwords, photos etc.

Yes, of course, if it is a matter of life or death, the phone is obviously the thing to sacrifice. But if the phone is hot, but not burning, it is not yet a matter of life or death. If we decide to destroy it to be safe, someone is making a judgement call.

-I- can be that cavalier. I can afford a new phone and I can totally do what it takes to recover. I think most people are not much like me in this regard.

@paco sounds like “dabbling” which is itself a noble pursuit

@paco Honestly the suffix maxxing comes from the worst most inhealthy corners of the internet, anythaing that has that term is just unhealthy for the mind and soul and those ppaces should be avoided

@bonzoesc It was my first attempt at a quote post. It seems like the link to the article didn’t come through. I’m going to edit it to put the article in my reply. But the subject of the article is quotes saying:

“I’ve always liked to optimise my time as much as possible, so I’m hobbymaxxing right now. I started learning the Indian flute and ukulele. And then the other day, I had a dream that one of my loved ones was hurt, and all I had was a suturing kit. So I went on Amazon, bought one, and now I’m learning to suture. I also bought a stick-and-poke tattoo kit, a crocheting kit, and I love to knit. I started to learn to sew, and even made a dress.”

@paco This is what we had yesterday in NC when I woke up. Freezing indeed. BTW nice display.

@tmiller You too. That is cool. That display is a bunch of work but it is fairly reliable and mostly trouble free. Takes 3 containers working in harmony to make it work.

@paco Do you have access to the raw data? I'd imagine downloading it and plotting it with your own tooling opens up a lot of options, compared to having to use the routers built-in graphs.

@paco if the built-in graphs from the router suck, can you export the data via snmp to a network monitoring server? I've previously used LibreNMS and gotten good results. I even was able to observe Patch Tuesday's impacts on my lab network through it (initially via a slight panic as I saw a large amount of data entered the network in the middle of the night when no clients were online)

@paco I guess you want to customise the main page to either use tags or categories. (my first impression from what you are saying category is the more likely option).

I usually have my library sorted by "Date Added" which works fantastic for all stuff you will add after the initial import.

To make things work as you expect, you might need to write a little script to tag or categorise all your stuff based on the folders they are in.

@paco I find Jellyfin tricky. I even reorganized my TV library to suit its convention, and it still wonʼt pick everything up.

@sheogorath I’m going to have to figure out how to tag from the CLI. Didn’t realise that was a thing.

@paco @infuse is the way on Apple TV. Swiftfin is undergoing heavy rework (which as you experienced is required) - https://github.com/jellyfin/Swiftfin/discussions/1294

@paco if you’ve not changed the default it’ll be pulling Collections from TMDB, e.g. Blacula - https://www.themoviedb.org/collection/201930-blacula-collection

@jackyan @paco any examples? File names used would be best. Happy to try and help spot the problem. I’ve never had issues with JF scanning shows or movies.

@NitP I know how it got it. I just find it funny, but unhelpful, to put them all together.

@paco I think it’s the TMDB box set plugin. If you’re not a fan I think disabling that plugin should give you a flat movie structure.

@NitP it’s fine. I don’t understand why you keep making suggestions. There’s no problem. I mentioned that it was funny several times. I’m not trying to fix this, I’m just openly musing on it. There are things I want to fix, but collections aren’t it. I understand them.

@paco ah sorry. Just misunderstood your wording that it was unhelpful putting them together - thought it was an issue. I’ll bow out.

@NitP Well the unhelpful part is mixing all these things in one screen full of stuff. The problem isn’t that the 2 Blacula films were automatically pulled into a collection. That’s fine and I like it.

The problem is that Blacula is next to Blade Runner, Big Trouble in Little China, and Captain America. I have put effort into organising them all. But the apps (Jellyfin, Swiftfin, Infuse) insist that THEY do the organising. They ignore all the directory structure and just pull all the films out.

They offer alphabetical, (THEIR notion of) genre, by date, by rating, by recently added, etc. But the one way they won’t show me is the way I organised them myself. That is infuriating. So if you have tips on how to get my folder hierarchy in one of these apps, I’m all ears. Plex does it with a bit of effort. I can’t get this view at all on Jellyfin.