I had to dig through my phone to find these photos when i got home from work, but they were taken literally seconds apart with my phone on full optical + digital zoom. The detail on the second is absolutely absurd, while the first is what I typically see on my screen when I’ve tried to replicate since.

Im familiar with post processing.

To be clear, the assumption is that the algorithms the phone is using to determine you were trying to take a photo of the moon are “smart” enough to identify it as a photo of a night sky focused on the moon, rather than a light bulb. I’m not sure how you’d set up a light of the correct brightness at infinite focal length to test this though.

ETA: I’ve never seen this post processing happen so starkly with anything other than a photo of the moon, so it sticks out pretty hard. And I take a lot of photos at work of things that are tough to capture clearly.

The H-Mart near me has a Japanese bakery next to it. It’s a lot of sweet/fluffy breads and pastries mixed with various sweet/savory fillings. For example, they have one that’s kind of like a nice flaky croissant wrapped around a sausage that has lots of herb flavor. Or breads filled with custard, red bean paste, taro paste, and similar.

It’s generally pretty rich for my tastebuds, but a lot of it is very tasty!

Samsung GS22+ owner here. I’ve watched in realtime as a blurry blob moon photo I just took was replaced with a clean recognizable “moon” in my gallery, a few seconds after taking it.

It wouldn’t surprise me at all if this has gotten more advanced in recent years. Identify a few key stars as reference, and then paint in a pretty Milky Way from pre-defined images, while pretending to collect a timelapse.

I think you need to look at the points above, where it lists the cases where VPN is recommended:

When VPNs are Needed Highly Restrictive Countries: China or Australia where internet access is heavily restricted ISP Throttling: If your ISP specifically throttles or blocks BitTorrent traffic Legal Requirements: If local laws require VPN use for P2P/BitTorrent activities

Not sure where you’re located, but in most of the USA, not using a VPN runs you the risk of at least getting a nastygram from your ISP. How much that means to you depends on how worried you are about getting your service disconnected or sued by the owner of whatever you’re seeding. For me personally, a VPN is a no-brainer.

ETA: I may have missed the subtler point of your post. I personally do not have my *arr apps behind a VPN, only my torrenting app. I think that is what the wiki is specifically addressing.

I didn’t know KenM was on the Fediverse!

This is one of the great things about the *arrs. They will create a hardlink to the file in your media folder structure so that you can keep seeding and have a well organized/named media library without wasting storage.

Prior to that, I also just saved my torrents directly to my media library, and used the torrent manager to rename the local file properly. Same thing effectively, just a lil more work.

No, I wasn’t doing any pre-processing other than “properly” formatting the track name and folder structure. So I can’t really blame Jellyfin, because I know that tagging is part of the best process workflow. But I’ve just found Navidrome seems to be a little more hands off.

I’m not the person you were replying to, but the only issue I ever had using Jellyfin for music was that it seemed.a little finicky about matching artist/album when pulling down metadata, and I had to do more manual intervention.

The actual streaming functionality seemed perfectly fine, but I personally settled on Navidrome for music.

A good brownie with sea salt sprinkled on top is most definitely essential!

Have you had the banana cream Twinkies? Probably not as good as the OG ones, but definitely a nice treat when you come across them!

These days I pirate the music, and if I like it I go back and buy the album directly from the band (when possible). If i really like it, I buy concert tix/merch. If it doesn’t tickle my fancy, then I don’t.

In either case, I don’t think the artist is too worried about the pennies lost from my Spotify plays.

Would it blow your mind if I told you all the 2K sports games were released by 2K? 😁

Think of it like two groups of people in separate rooms with a large open window between them. Not everyone is trying to talk one on one to the other group all the time. And sometimes just feeling like you’re in the same physical space can be nice.

It’s not perfect, but in many circumstances it’s worlds better than having tiny portable windows that mostly facilitate one on one conversation.

I’ve thought the same thing, Trying to hold a video call between families using a phone or even a laptop is such an awkward experience, especially if you want to just hang out virtually for an extended time like you said.

But it wouldn’t even have to involve a separate box or docked phone. Everyone’s got a smart TV that can run apps, so all it should take is a USB webcam with a decent far-field mic.

But yeah, in general I’m surprised this isn’t more of a common use case.

Yep, you’re right. I have never been inside a mosque before, so the stairs looked very odd out of context.

Thank you! The uncropped version of that photo makes a whole lot more sense!

Yeah, Lidarr is easily the weakest of the *arrs in my experience. As a newbie to setting up that stack, it was definitely nice to have a similar interface and functionality between the apps, but the last few months have me ready to look for something different for music.

As far as I can tell, no. I haven’t been able to search or import releases since about April.

I think the issue they are referring to is that Lidarr’s API or interface with the MusicBrainz database has been broken for a few months now, which means it’s impossible to search or add new artists/releases to your Lidarr library.

And as far as I can tell, it’s still down. I have been unable to use Lidarr for anything since about April, except for finding releases that I had already added to my local database.