I’ve always loved flashlights. Yes FLASHLIGHTS with an A!!! Anyway, apparently not many people share my rather niche interest.

So I ask you, fellow Lemmites, what are your hobbies and weird obsessions that you can ramble on about for hours?

Please feel free to ramble on about your passions here. Maybe you’ll find some likeminded individuals!

  • @yamaniiEnglish
    17•5 months ago

    Probably “menial task automation”, I use Sonarr(series), Prowlarr(movies) and Taiga(animes) + Jellyfin(media server) all conected to my qbittorrent so I don’t have to individually download an episode or movie, I can just set that I want to watch it and the programs download it automatically, just set it and forget it and use the jellyfin phone app to cast it to my tv.

    Also retrogaming emulation in general, I love watching videos about the newest cheap portable that runs up to PS1 and searching for the perfect shaders to use on retroarch, which I find it to be the mega bezels pack with slight reflections to the side.

    It’s very taxing on the hardware though, you do need a gaming rig just to emulate old games if you use these.

    • CashewNut 🏴󠁢󠁥󠁧󠁿English
      4•5 months ago

      Jellyfin! Taiga! Ok that’s what I’m doing for new year. I’m setting them up so I don’t have to use my buggy fire TV too watch stuff.

    • Captain HowdyEnglish
      2•5 months ago

      We are the same. Piracy has been my longest running hobby, and now I self host all the stuff that pirates for me. I use docker containers running on my Ubuntu server.

      Also games, especially retro handhelds.

      Nice to see someone out there with such similar interests! 🤜🤛

    • @MIDItheKIDEnglish
      2•5 months ago

      Could you point me in the direction of some tutorials/videos/whatever of the media setup you have? I have a NAS that I use to stream movies through Plex, but it’s still very manual (use my PC, connect to VPN, download movie, upload to NAS, watch on TV). I would love to have something that automates it more but I have no idea where to start. I keep reading on Lemmy about people having setups like this and I’m jealous.

      It should be noted that my NAS is a Terra Master F4-210 and I’m not sure how capable it will be of doing this kind of thing. It runs some weird proprietary Linux distro call TOS. Not sure if i can even flash it with a different distro.

      • @turmacarEnglish
        1•5 months ago

        SpaceInvaderOne has a good tutorial series on youtube centered around Unraid. It does look like it’s possible to run unraid on your Terra Master. The trash guides are also very useful/informative.)

        I setup Unraid about a year ago and have been slowly expanding it. It took a little to wrap my head around how docker containers and the Servarr group of programs in general talk to each other, but after the initial setup a lot of it “just works”. If the system runs Plex fine it should be able to do the rest.

        • @MIDItheKIDEnglish
          1•5 months ago

          Ahhh… Looks like that guide is for the Intel versions of the Terra masters only, and minimum required 2gb ram. I have one with an Arm chip and only 1gb. 😔

          I’m getting a bonus in February, so I think I might build a micro ITX system with more modern parts. This will help with transcoding as well.

      • @AlborlinEnglish
        1•5 months ago

        I have done like 10% manual +90% automation this way. Installed zorin os on old laptop, connected 2tb external HDD, paid and started using emby, and then installed qbittorrent remote on mobile, installwd samba on zorin. Set zorin to not shut off and hen I close lid off. Once this is all done, started adding torrent via qbittorrent remote, then using solid explorer move files to external HDD and th n stream it in tv via emby app