meldrik

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[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 2 points 16 hours ago (2 children)
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[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 22 points 4 days ago (4 children)

So you don’t want to contribute to the Lemmy project, because other instances might benefit from it?

[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 1 points 5 days ago

It’s true I want hours of playback, but in the car, it’s possible to draw up to 100 watt from the outlet and in trains you have 230 volt outlets. At least in Denmark.

On a plane, you usually only have USB, but I’m not sure I like the idea of setting up WiFi on a plane 😅

[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 1 points 5 days ago

That’s great to hear. It has been around a year since I tried it out.

[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 1 points 5 days ago

Your suggestion is “good enough” and what I do now, but as you say, it could be fun to make a little project out of it. Figuring out what works and what doesn’t.

[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 1 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Maybe I’m just bad at setting up Plex, but I have never had its download feature work properly.

But also, the storage is limited on the device, so we always end up with a very small library of media, that’s quickly consumed.

[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I will definitely try this out! 😁

[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 1 points 5 days ago

It’s not a bad solution and I have used eSIMs before when I was traveling in Asia. However, all of these “unlimited” eSIM plans has a lot of buts. Either the speed is limited to close to unusable for streaming and/or you are limited to only use x amount of GB when using hotspot.

Also depending on the country, the coverage can be awful.

[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 14 points 6 days ago

I’m pretty sure revolt.chat is still going? I am using it.

[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 2 points 6 days ago

True, but if your devices, in this case; iPads with only 64GB, it quickly gets filled up.

[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 1 points 6 days ago

Project is dead, but could be worth looking into. Thank you.

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submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) by meldrik@lemmy.wtf to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
 

Hi there,

I’m thinking about what kind of opportunities there is for a portable media center you can have with you in the car, train or whatever.

I imagine that the media center would create its own WiFi, so that devices would be able to connect to it and access the media.

I know you could do something with a Raspberry Pi, but how could this work in practice? What would be an easy way to access the media from an iPad fx? What software could be used?

As a bonus, it would be pretty cool if the media center could connect to a hotel WiFi and then create a hotspot from that.

Edit: This would be used when on the move. So you would have the media with you on the media center.

 
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