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In my precedent article, I’ve proposed a way to subscribe to your favorite Youtube videos with the RSS feed and download them to a Plex media server. But, a possible use-case that came later in my case was : OK, but if I want to fetch a unitary video ? Or if when I receive some friend at home they want to play from their smartphone similar to a Chromecast or equivalent ?
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Before the summer, I’ve bought a new NAS, a Synology model to replace the old HP Microserver who served well for years.
If you want to go directly to the setup, you may skip cutscene.
With this new toy, I wanted to experiment the Plex Media Server, a popular solution for home media server. It took me almost two months, mistreated two AMD Ryzen 7 CPUs, but I’ve ripped my entire DVD and Blu-ray library to fill this media server.
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Way Station, or Au carrefour des étoiles in French, is an American science fiction novel written in 1963 by Clifford D. Simak.
Enoch Wallace, veteran who fought during the American Civil War, was born in 1840. His life changed when he got suddenly recruited by an alien he named Ulysses (after the Ulysses S. Grant) - since the extraterrestrial life form himself has no actual name - to maintain and manage the Earth Station for the interstellar travellers of the Galactic Central.
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Si je n’ai peut-être pas du en donner l’impression sur ce blog, il s’avère que j’ai été plutôt actif ces dernières semaines dans mes activités d’écriture.
Dans mes récentes actualités, le fait le plus marquant reste la sortie de mon dernier livre, Les murmures de la montagne de métal. La deuxième partie est encore dans un état très préliminaire et avance à son petit rythme.
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Alfie is a science fiction thriller novel written by French author Christopher Bouix, published in 2022. The story is told by Alfie, the artificial intelligence of a powerful home automation system.
Alfie is an high-end AI-based home automation system made by AlphaCorp. Implemented and connected to every life aspect of a common family house, Alfie is an helpful assistant providing various useful services. While trying itself to better understand this strange species that humans are. However, one day, something happens. Lies, fighting marks, people disappearance, what’s going on with this normal family with no story ? Alfie is puzzled, unable to understand what’s happening there. Is it hallucinating or did something bad happened ?
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Moving to a new home is always the time when you found out some old crap you’ve stored a long time ago.
Let me introduce you one of them : the Motorola M3588. My first mobile phone I’ve had in high school.
