u/mlcarson

I was going to try out GhostBSD again and need a shared disk space between my Linux installs and GhostBSD. I was originally thinking OpenZFS but that would mean installing it on Linux and potentially breaking stuff on kernel updates. So how about EXT4? Is the native kernel driver good enough without journaling? There's also exFAT which has no journaling on either side nor permissions. Maybe ntfs-3g -- it seems to have journaling available on both sides. Or the variant with ntfs3 on Linux side and ntfs-3g on the GhostBSD side?

Or maybe just say screw it and add a small Alpine Linux image in a Bhyve VM, mount an existing BTRFS volume and export it via NFS and handle any file sharing this way?

I'm looking at installing GhostBSD along side Linux. Linux is using BTRFS for its root partition and I have a subvolume for data that I'd like GhostBSD to have access to. BTRFS isn't going to work for BSD so I'm thinking of moving just the data volume to ZFS. How sensitive is Linux these days to updates with kernel changes and compatibility with OpenZFS? Should I just create an EXT4 volume for the share between them rather than ZFS?

Kernel — Your Media, Your Way

Anybody know anything about this server? I'm curious as to how it compares against Plex, Emby, Jellyfin, Channels, etc.

Does any other client besides SwiftFin play WebVTT subtitles on LiveTV? It's the only one that I've found so far but it doesn't provide a proper Guide format for LiveTV.

How about AndroidTV clients? From what I've seen -- these devices don't have WebVTT due to most of them using Exoplayer.

I was going to do a subscription renewal last night and realized what a pain in the ass that buying crypto is in the USA. I have a coinbase account that I can use but didn't have enough funds remaining. I have funds in two different credit unions with debit cards -- debit cards transactions are denied at the bank for crypto. I have a Venmo account but it's funded through debit cards so it runs into the same issue with buying crypto. The only way that I was able to do this in the past was to ACH money into a brokerage account and use a cash management account from there which I have a debit card for which is not blocked from buying crypto. And of course ACH transfers normally take a few days.

Is this something that's also going to affect AndroidTV? Should I be looking at putting the Projectivy launcher on my Nvidia Shield (2015)?

I'm getting extremely frustrated. I did a full-service move through a moving broker (never again). It's been 32 calendar days (24 business days) and the moving company tells me the carrier hasn't moved my stuff out of the state of origin yet. They say if there isn't a delivery by next Friday (40 calendar days/30 business days) that they'll talk compensation for daily delays. This is what the Bill of Lading states so no real surprise I guess.

Am I crazy for thinking that we are already beyond a normal moving duration? I did the reverse move 4 years ago and it was complete in a week so this seems disturbing. How common is this?

I was trying to configure port forwarding on an XB7 gateway via the local web interface and it says that I have to use the Xfinity app for that because an app makes everything easier, right? Anyway, when I go to the Xfinity app and login, it can't see any devices to manage. If I go to setup a gateway, it says that "Internet equipment has already been activated on your account" which is true. It just won't show the Internet equipment" in the app so that I can manage it. I tried both the Android and Apple versions of the app with the same result.

Is there an easy "fix" for this?

I've got a 2 inch x 1.5 inch rectangular horizontal railing and another one of the same dimension 4 inches below it on a 3rd floor balcony. There's also 2 vertical rectangular connections of the same dimension connecting the railings I'd like to put a small TV antenna there but am questioning what the best way of doing a non-penetrating mount on this rail might be.

My current thoughts are a J-mount mast bolted to two pieces of 2x4 or 2x6 which were in turn bolted together creating a compression fitting with the rail. My gut is telling me there's a better way though. Maybe something like this one which would then fit on the vertical connections between the railings and just remove the back bracket.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08L4757VN

Or maybe some type of square U-bolt but it would have to match up with the hole pattern on the J-mount.

• HDHR5-4US - HDHomerun Connect Quatro - broken/loose power connector
• HDHR4-2US - HDHomerun Connect - seems to only work on one frequency now.
• HDHR-US - original HDHomerun Connect - still running and in production.
• HDHomerun Prime x2 - they work but the cable company abandoned them so worthless.

I just purchased a refurbished HDFX-4K direct from SiliconDust for $169. I don't have a lot of faith that the ATSC 3 tuners will be of a lot of use with the DRM state. Lucky the area that I'm moving to doesn't seem to have any ATSC 3.0 deployments yet.

I should have the HDFX-4K on Tuesday and think I'll chuck the rest of the HDHomerun's as part of the move purge. I doubt that there's very many functional HDHR-US units still running though.