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netwerk23 posted:You know how planes have Linux-based systems that have a single 'server' and each seat-back unit is essentially a thin client? I'd like to do that for my car. One headless android box in the trunk with 4 remote screens. Each screen can pick a movie and play it. The trunk box has a drive with a ton of movies. No apps or internet, just movies. if i was trying to do this i would probably see if there is a cheap tablet that one can load movies onto and then lock it down enough so that it only runs a video player app
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Lutha Mahtin posted:if i was trying to do this i would probably see if there is a cheap tablet that one can load movies onto and then lock it down enough so that it only runs a video player app Yes, that was my original idea too and what I'll probably end up doing when I give up on this client-server idea. The only benefit of adding complexity is that I'll only have one place to store and update files, instead of 4 SD cards across 4 old tablets. I could even set up a mount point and push files to it while parked in the garage.
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Sep 11, 2021 01:36
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it would definitely be a cool spare time project, that's for sure
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you can get an NEC UT880 for about $25, which is basically a cheap pre-rooted Android 4 tablet in office phone form factor it uses power (and data) over Ethernet; you can probably bypass the PoE and feed it whatever it needs more directly, and hack it to come up however you want, fed over Ethernet from the server in the trunk
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pretty much all tablets can play MP4s off a NAS, and can have kids mode that limits apps so you could have a network explorer app only i don't know about a car NAS though and it's definitely not a thin client approach
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i like the idea of just doing a bunch of plex terminals tbqh. that'd be rad lol you could have a little terminal up front with the admin page showing what everybody's watching at the moment too, and cut em off if they start throwing peanuts at their sibling
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Sep 11, 2021 07:24
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what are you gonna do for sound?
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eh, just get some tablets, run Plex on a raspberry pi or something and run a WiFi in the car to connect the three. e: whoops new page
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just raise your kids to have actual attention spans and not need constant passive entertainment even when in the car, op. that's the real idiot spare time project. (for reals tho, just cheap lovely android tablets (but i repeat myself) very securely fastened to the headrests so they don't become missiles in a crash)
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Doc Block posted:just raise your kids to have actual attention spans and not need constant passive entertainment even when in the car, op. that's the real idiot spare time project. lol my attention span has been loving atomised as a result of having access to the internet for 16 years
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For sound I was thinking cheap BT headphones, paired with each tablet. I could get them color coded so we know which one goes to which tablet. Probably a cheap pair of wired backup headphones too. I was hoping to avoid using WiFi if I could. That could end up being a problem unless I can find a tablet with some kind of dock with ethernet. I would also like the tablets to be fairly large, like 12" or so at least. Products for this market exist commercially and I will probably go with one of them. I was just intrigued with the idea of a very small server in the trunk. Like this: https://www.amazon.com/Android-Headrest-Players-Monitors-Facebook/dp/B085NRMMSW I'm hoping to find some used, older tablets of a similar size to save money. I don't need the HDMI in/out business either, everyone is old enough to drive their own screen.
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Sep 11, 2021 13:35
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why not wifi?
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Doc Block posted:just raise your kids to have actual attention spans and not need constant passive entertainment even when in the car, op. that's the real idiot spare time project.
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netwerk23 posted:I could get them color coded so we know which one goes to which tablet. DAD I WANT THE BLUE HEADPHONES TIMMY CAN HAVE THE RED ONES fights by the dozen. but yeah
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Sep 11, 2021 16:51
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Doc Block posted:just raise your kids to have actual attention spans and not need constant passive entertainment even when in the car, op. that's the real idiot spare time project. any parents who took away the gameboy/tablets/whatever to make their kids appreciate the majesty of endless fields of corn on a road trip regretted it within 10 minutes
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Sep 11, 2021 17:16
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netwerk23 posted:You know how planes have Linux-based systems that have a single 'server' and each seat-back unit is essentially a thin client? i saw one of those kernel panic once, was on an A330 i think. the client was running some flavour of BSD lol edit: i lie, i'm not sure what it was running because it didn't give a full stack trace. also it didn't kernel panic just segfaulted. 
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Pile Of Garbage posted:i saw one of those kernel panic once, was on an A330 i think. the client was running some flavour of BSD lol the last release of svgalib was in 2001 lol whatever the underlying os is, it's ancient
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The_Franz posted:whatever the underlying os is, it's ancient
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The_Franz posted:any parents who took away the gameboy/tablets/whatever to make their kids appreciate the majesty of endless fields of corn on a road trip regretted it within 10 minutes we never had them in the first place when i was a kid, checkmate atheists  at most we brought books or magazines, and when we were teenagers we had our own discmans
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Watch out, I heard that NAS cars can only turn left
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pseudopresence posted:Watch out, I heard that NAS cars can only turn left 
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Sagacity posted:Not when they drive the other way around And three lefts is also a right. I've seen the airplane systems reboot and could clearly see a Tux. That was also a decade ago so who knows how things have changed since.
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netwerk23 posted:And three lefts is also a right. i can guarantee that plane is still running the exact same OS
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netwerk23 posted:And three lefts is also a right. same as of early 2020.
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i replaced the muffler (and the rest of the exhaust system up to the catalytic converter) on my car today. perhaps this explains the quality of my posting!! Sagebrush fucked around with this message at 03:25 on Sep 19, 2021 |
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Sep 19, 2021 03:23
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ok but did you get whistle tips installed too?
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Sagebrush posted:i replaced the muffler (and the rest of the exhaust system up to the catalytic converter) on my car today. that's good, working on cars is fun! I can tell you ride around like that for a good while lol. guess your state doesn't have mandatory inspections
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yeah it was clearly rusting for a long time but i think it only actually disintegrated about three weeks ago, when the car started making a farting noise. california doesn't give a poo poo about safety inspections nope but of course you have to get your emissions tested constantly. also the hole was on top of the muffler, invisible without using a mirror or dropping it. idk if your average lazy safety inspection would have caught it.
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I bet that car brakes really good too, just put your foot through the floor for extra stopping power
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yabba dabba doo! i got my car 'inspected' today. they plugged in an obdii reader, said i was good, and sent me on my way. guess that's why there's so many bro trucks around r u ready to WALK posted:I bet that car brakes really good too, just put your foot through the floor for extra stopping power off topic but you've had one of my fav user name/avatars forever
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this fall my ford is getting a full go-through with all new fluids, plug change*, new tires and perhaps new shocks and springs. it's riding a little bit low in its middle age, might even be a d-bag and get a 2" lift because the original owner was extremely smart and picked the eddie bauer trim package but 86'd the horrible airbags that came with in favor of the vanilla (better) suspension setup * asterisk because haha google "3 valve ford spark plug issues". that's by far the hairiest one on the list.
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spent this morning janitoring my NAS now its running DSM7 and i want to strangle the godless fucker who decided that "synology photos"'s folder structure should put everything in a folder for its month, and then a folder for its year who the gently caress does that i dont mean albums, either, i mean the actual folders on the hard drive either way im spending the rest of tonight watching poo poo on plex & eating garbage
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yeah that's a pretty bad folder structure heh i'm glad you are enjoying your nas, they're so nice to have.
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Jonny 290 posted:yeah that's a pretty bad folder structure heh its frustrating as hell but paradoxically thats also why i like loving with it because when it finally works its satisfying as gently caress and you feel like a genius
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hbag posted:DSM7
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Ellie Trashcakes posted:wow, they're really ramping up their release schedule yea looks shiny tho 
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