ozoned 12 hours ago • 100%
No no no you misunderstand. They're so American that we can't understand how American it is to overthrow a democracy... wait ... yeah no they're just assholes.
ozoned 2 days ago • 100%
15 years ago I got a job where I wasn't allowed to do anything. I hated it. I wanted to learn and be valuable and be valued. I left that job.
I worked for a bank and then Red Hat and I loved what I did and burned myself out trying to make them happy. Only to find out they still didn't value me.
I switched jobs two years ago and increased my pay 30% overnight and back to a job doing nothing. And I'm totally fine with it now. I have a family and I focus on them and during work, if they don't have anything for me to do I make my own happiness.
Fuck corporations. I'll take your money, I'll never again kill myself as I'll never be valued anyway. Jobs aren't worth it. People are.
ozoned 3 days ago • 100%
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!
ozoned 3 days ago • 100%
Maybe they should only allow people to vote by Republican approved IDs? /s
ozoned 5 days ago • 100%
LOVE my Jellyfin.
ozoned 6 days ago • 100%
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 [@gabek@social.gabekangas.com](https://social.gabekangas.com/users/gabek) had already done the work. Article linked, but here's one of the examples: ## Example Scenario[#](https://owncast.online/docs/resources-requirements/#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[](https://owncast.online/docs/resources-requirements/#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.
ozoned 2 weeks ago • 100%
WHEN IT'S TIME TO PARTY WE'LL ALL PARTY HARD!
ozoned 2 weeks ago • 100%
PC Gamer is giving it a 60/100:
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/action/warhammer-40-000-space-marine-2-review/
ozoned 2 weeks ago • 100%
I'm weirdly on board with this and I think my kids will love it.
ozoned 3 weeks ago • 100%
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.
ozoned 4 weeks ago • 100%
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.
ozoned 4 weeks ago • 100%
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.
ozoned 4 weeks ago • 100%
Anyone for Owncast here besides me? :-D
!owncast@lemmy.world
ozoned 1 month ago • 100%
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.
ozoned 1 month ago • 100%
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!
ozoned 1 month ago • 100%
I also created some very quick and dirty tutorials for Odd Realm if anyone just wants to take a quick look at it:
Odd Realm 1.0 BASIC Tutorial - Just to help folks get started - 2024-08-16 - https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/6crH1bx8t7USve3p4XfXU7
Odd Realm 1.0 BASIC Production Tutorial - Basics of Production - 2024-08-16 - https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/5FGjgEN1wb6G9zWLdVbUMu
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18729442 > Dive into Odd Realm, a mystical colony sim set in a land of fantasy! Lead your settlers to construct a thriving haven, navigating unpredictable seasons, elusive bandits, unseen horrors, and fabled gods. Every choice etches your colony's destiny, igniting a saga of adventure, peril, and triumph.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18729442 > Dive into Odd Realm, a mystical colony sim set in a land of fantasy! Lead your settlers to construct a thriving haven, navigating unpredictable seasons, elusive bandits, unseen horrors, and fabled gods. Every choice etches your colony's destiny, igniting a saga of adventure, peril, and triumph.
Dive into Odd Realm, a mystical colony sim set in a land of fantasy! Lead your settlers to construct a thriving haven, navigating unpredictable seasons, elusive bandits, unseen horrors, and fabled gods. Every choice etches your colony's destiny, igniting a saga of adventure, peril, and triumph.
ozoned 1 month ago • 100%
Gabe, dev of Owncast, has received Cease and Desist before, but there's nothing he can do about them. Since they're not managed from one platform, best he could do is remove it from the directory, but that wouldn't stop anyone from streaming. The streamer is taking the responsibility for that.
So they could get shut down, but I don't think Owncast could.
ozoned 1 month ago • 100%
Honestly it's probably the easiest install I've ever done. :-D Don't hesitate to ping me on Lemmy or on Matrix or where ever if you have any issues, questions, etc. :-)
ozoned 1 month ago • 100%
Yes, my understanding of anything on the web is that it's STILL just files that are broken up and sent to you.
https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/video/what-is-streaming/
Streaming is the continuous transmission of audio or video files from a server to a client. In simpler terms, streaming is what happens when consumers watch TV or listen to podcasts on Internet-connected devices. With streaming, the media file being played on the client device is stored remotely, and is transmitted a few seconds at a time over the Internet.
I reserve the right to be wrong about EVERYTHING! :-D
ozoned 1 month ago • 100%
If you're interested, just go check out the directory. Go watch someone. See if anything strikes your fancy. :-) https://directory.owncast.online/
I'm not trying to sway your opinion in the least. It's not for everyone in the least. I'm just trying to help folks realize there is a REAL alternative to the big platforms. We ARE talking on an open platform Reddit. ;-)
ozoned 1 month ago • 100%
On that $8/month VPS I think at the time I had 2 qualities. 1080 5kbps was the 70+ open streams. I don't expect "big streamers" to join Owncast soon if ever. But if they do, I imagine they have MORE than enough money to be able to afford a CDN or S3. We're not talking MILLIONS per months. I don't think even think we're even talking thousands, hundreds probably. But yes. You make a good point. And sadly it's the point that everyone instantly comes up with WHY folks shouldn't use Owncast. I personally just try to create a welcoming community for anyone interested in trying Owncast. As time goes on those costs of tech continue to go down. If you're running a server from your house, unless you have a datacap, then you don't even need to worry about cost of bandwidth, obviously infrastructure does matter though.
As far as CDNs go, streams are just bunches of files. Your player goes out, grabs some files, and you watch it. So a CDN works for vidoe streams like anything else and I almost guarantee that Twitch leverages CDNs as well.
You could do the same with a S3 bucket as well. So if the CDN is too expensive (I honestly don't know the prices), you could do a S3 bucket.
I have about 12 folks watching me on average at this point. Still better than I had on Twitch. :-) But also, this is MY page. I've tweaked the CSS to make it look more like mine. I can show what I want, I don't have to jump through hoops to keep up with Twitch's algorithm, I don't have to show ads, my page doesn't take 20 seconds to load because it's loading all kinds of junk in the background. I love it personally. It's mine. :-)
ozoned 1 month ago • 100%
There are numerous folks that dual stream, I don't know how folks do that. But I have some friends in Owncast that are in Matrix as well that could tell you. Ety (Owncast: https://ety.cybre.stream/) does exactly that.
ozoned 1 month ago • 100%
I don't personally agree. Again, I've had 70+ connections open at one time and when I estimated the cost of bandwidth, I wouldn't even hit my monthly budget that Hetzner gives me for "free". But Owncast has S3 and CDN support built in if you really need to handle something like that.
ozoned 1 month ago • 100%
While I game, others play music, others show movies, there are even churches that use it to broadcast their mass, public broadcasting, etc. It's fun imo. :-)
ozoned 1 month ago • 100%
Oh yes! Integrates with the Fediverse and announces to the Fediverse. I'm all about open and interoperable platforms.
ozoned 2 months ago • 100%
Good for beginners? I absolutely wouldn't recommend it unless someone was managing it for that beginner. It's very different than any classic distro I've used and even different than the immutable disyors I've used. But it does have a lot of nice features and for a company to learn it and roll it out tovavfleet of machines or something I could absolutely seeing it have a usecase.
ozoned 2 months ago • 100%
lol NICE! I enjoy the reference! GG!
ozoned 2 months ago • 100%
I LOVE this bit:
"will stop measuring its success in new subscribers, but in growth byr egional revenue."
We're hitting our self defined goals JUST fine guys!
ozoned 3 months ago • 100%
A lot of GOP voters don't really care about facts sadly. I've talked to some that insist Jan 6th wasn't an issue.
ozoned 3 months ago • 96%
Pays $40 billion to allow people to be shadow toxic. What an amazing innovator in our midsts. We're all just so jealous we wish we could be so genius ...
Fucking moron.
ozoned 4 months ago • 87%
And now I have a new kink ... Thanks Fediverse for this open platform kink at least? Lol
ozoned 4 months ago • 100%
Congrats @gabek@lemmy.world and thank you so much for Owncast!
I can never tell you how much I appreciate all of the hard work you've done putting it together. I'm sure there's been countless hours of work and all I have is thanks, but thank you so much for helping make a more free internet where we can all be our own people.
ozoned 4 months ago • 90%
In other words
Neuralink to implant 2nd human with brain chip as 85% of first one failed.
ozoned 4 months ago • 100%
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Happy t help! If you have any questions feel free to post here or check my profile to email, microblog, matrix, or DM me here. :-D
ozoned 4 months ago • 100%
OBS can record streams. The Owncast can't do clips or vods or anything ... YET. Gabe Kangas, primary and solo Dev, is working on it.
ozoned 4 months ago • 100%
Owncast Stream whatever you want on your own platform and announce natively to the Fediverse!
IDK why but tons of folks think it's not feasible as they need million dollar computers. I've streamed to 70+ open streams, albeit as a test, on a like $5/month VPS. The key is that the resources needed are how many qualities you're transcoding, not how many folks are viewing. Yes bandwidth is needed for each viewer, but that's significantly less than people imagine.
Full transparency I run the !owncast@lemmy.world community, but I'm in no way affiliated with the project. I just love open platforms and open source.
ozoned 6 months ago • 100%
ozoned 6 months ago • 100%
No, I disagree. Threads is blocked. POTUS decided to set up an account on a blocked instance.