Many thanks, I'll look into it.

DTS-HD Master Audio or Dolby TrueHD and you want passthrough

Can you elaborate on this please - what's passthrough and dts?

I have a shield - can I use it as a server, or is it just a client?

Thanks, sounds like a good idea. I'll definately try that.

I'll bear it in mind, thanks. Is this something that you've done?

Some great food for thought - and some ideas that I hadn't considered before - esp. about the mood I'm trying to convey.

Your comments about taking lots of photos makes good sense - with a few batteries and a couple of sd cards, I could take hundreds of photos - and maybe if I see one that I like, I can return to explore more of the same.

Many thanks for the great tips.

Absolutely correct. I was referring to videos/films that I'm watching that are hosted by plex. Apologies if I didn't make that clear. The videos that it hosts for me do not have adverts.

Thanks for the very detailed advice. Definately some interesting things to follow up on. I got the plex pass when I bought the shield but never got it to connect remotely, but due to them putting ads in their films, I'm now thinking to switch to something else.

Great, I'll repost, thanks. What's a mesh network btw?

Emby sounds interesting, thanks.

Thanks. I couldn't get plex to run from 'off site', it was probably something that I wasn't doing properly.

I'm not sure if it was the vpn or not, but it never connected even though I set the tunnelling like it said.

Hi, apologies for the delay in replying and thanks for the advice - I've been following it this weekend after getting some more logs.

So far it's working well - I'm on top-down (Scandinavian) method - gets a really nice fire going quick and heats up the flue pretty quickly too. Your tip on getting a moisture tester: I'm gonna follow up soon when I get paid. I get that it's going to be pretty useful.

I got the two controls mixed up: left being main air vent (which I now keep open until the fire gets red hot) and the right (which I used to keep closed all the time) and now leave open. So, it's running pretty nice now, my next challenge is keeping it going! I got some complaints that the room was going cold so I'm not sure if leaving the logs to go to embers was leaving it too late before putting more logs on.

Again, thanks for the heads up, this is a learning curve for us, but I really appreciate the help.

Leather strop for sharpening

I'm genuinely curious here - really? As someone who always has to mess with the old fashioned 'steel' (mind your hands cus there's no guard on it!) sharpener, are they better? Honestly, heard of them, never used but interested.

Funny, but I see soo many kids walking to school with their worldly belongings in their back packs! Worse is they're hanging soo low - at least get a hip strap. Life lessons I guess. In my day we had lockers in the school.

I'll fuckin bet someone came out singing ! Why do we allow this to continue to happen to penny shareholders? And workers alike.

Now, a Sony Bravia - what size and price may I ask ? And how difficult is it to remove all the shit ad functionality from it ?

I've had my 32" for like 8 years but definately looking for the same quality piece of kit.

Excellent! Glad you found what you wanted - I'll bookmark this for when I have to replace my trusty Bravia! 👍

Try this in the 'do it yourself' group. It's got some great users and advice.

Good luck.

I'm dreading replacing my dumb tv, but can confirm that the nvidia shield was the best thing I ever bought for entertainment: just sideload your apps and off you go.

Take the cable out of the tv, plug it into your android box and hdmi to the tv.

Can recommend STN, cloudstream and plex.

Good luck.

Great advice and thanks for taking the time.

For what it's now worth, this has been my way so far (which by the sound of it may be why I'm unsuccessful): load kindling, one log and a couple of firelighters, light fire, keep control open and also door.

Close door after 3-4 mins, wait until log is burnt on one side then turn it over, wait until its burnt through then add another log then repeat turn and refill.

Not getting chance to watch tv properly as I'm constantly watching the fire!

Do you find any type of log better than others?

Thanks again for the advice.

Thaks for the oxyclear tip and yeah, loading the fire up initially is something I struggle with - it stays in our it goes out. I'll try that loading fashion - cheers.

Hi, on f-droid there's an app called Android Samba Client but I can't get it to connect to my shared folder because of permissions - it says, but I can't find a lot of documentation about it.

Have you seen this?

I'm hoping that it's not connecting because of something I'm doing wrong - and maybe I can figure it out later (poss. because of my lack of understanding on my part of the way plex should share permissions with other devices).

If you get anywhere further, please let me know. - it just doesn't seem to be a well covered topic unfortunately.

Yeah, sorry - I misunderstood you. The link is good, thanks for providing it. Some of it is a little above my head, but when I look at X-plore and my plex server I can see in the properties that it's using smb V2 to connect.

So, I guess the means of permanently having a remote drive connected for Android to access isn't a pipe dream. It's now just figuring out the best way to achieve it.

So, I'll try to explore some of that links info and see if I can get anywhere with it.

Thanks again for taking the time.

I'm thinking maybe mount as you say using Xplore and bring in Syncthing to move the file across onto the server. Thanks for the idea.

Who gives a fucking shit about x fucking twitter? - let's hope it crashes along with reddit !

PS cross post all the good stuff onto lemmy first - then just let it burn and sink!

That's a fucking ridiculous loss of human lives - irrespective of the side they're fighting - shame! Fucking wake up these people and just stop killing each other !

Who would have thought they'd lie to us - shocking! /s

I like it.

Joplin syncs with Nextcloud - Orgzly does too. Agreed, Jtxboard does - via davx5.

I'm currently using obsidian synced via syncthing. I know it's not Nextcloud, but it works well and has a nice interface and lots of plug-ins - even on Android. It might be able to sync - not bothered trying to yet - if anyone has, please comment.

Good luck with your search.

I'm confused - why are they now attacking Lebanon? I thought their beef was with Hamas.

I could look at that all day long. Critics eh?

I had a look at the website and it looks cool. A one-stop-shop for creating dvds and it's foss too - nice. I'm definately gonna have a play. Many thanks.

I've heard of handbrake and it's probably worth downloading and having a play. Appreciate the advice, thanks.

I never thought to check what the dvd player supports - duh! I'll do that next. Thanks for the info on the boxes.

I've never had much luck with casting. I'd also need the subtitles to sync properly too. I usually have to turn them off. Would you cast from phone then - to what - a chromecast?

Just tried it - it was fast, but it just copied the mkv file as is. Don't these need some conversion work on them first so they play as a movie ?

Thanks for the idea of a cheap android box - sounds plausible. Any good ones that spring to mind?

Thanks. That looks OK, but it's a 7 day trial with a yearly subscription of £35.99. I'll need to do a bit of research and maybe try it and see before I can commit to the sub.

I only ever lurked on Reddit and here on Lemmy I'm trying to be more of an active participant.

Same here, and now I'm soo glad that I jumped that shit ship.

Interested myself as a usenet user.

Interested myself as a usenet user.

Yeah it works well, it just reminds me too much of reddit is all.