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  • As someone that just started modding and playing FNV for the first time about 2 weeks ago in linux, I must say this is one of the best mods for FNV and if you are planning to play the game I would highly recommend all the Viva New Vegas mods including the extended mods. With New Vegas Reloaded installed afterwards. Also I suggest you use a user generated preset for Reloaded. The Reloaded mod fixes a lot of issues I had with Viva New Vegas only and it adds many more features than I thought it would. It also seemed to have made the game run with less crashes too but I would still recommend CASM with MCM to improve the autosave functionality of the base game.

    While I agree that the use of discord is mildy infuriating. I’d like to play some Devil’s avavodo for a moment as someone that uses git almost everyday and teaches trunk based development.

    1. Not everyone knows how to use git. As a modding community they want outside contributions from anyone that is willing to put the time in and make as low as a barrier to entry as possible.

    2. Most of these modders are using windows and even just installing git on windows isnt that easy for the average windows user. Infact i only just recently fugured out how to get mod organizer 2 working properly on linux so I could mod FNV using modorganizer2-linux-installer. For the average windows user, needing to make a git commit to contribute to a modding comunity would be more than mildly infuriating. So I especially see the user generated presets for this never leaving discord unless some kind of pipeline / serverless function was inplace that took the discord file uploads and did a git commit for the user.

    3. Most of these builds are not plaintext and would not benifit from using git versioning. They should also probably make use of use git lfs considering their size which even less people understand how to use lfs compared to normal git.

    I think the easiest solution is to try to copy both the stable and the nightly builds to their github on their own respective branches. And make set them as releases. Idealy this would be automated using guthub actions. This is not a trunk based development approach, but neither is having nightly builds and it would take time to change development philosophy.

    The user generated presets however will take a bit more consideration before moving to github as anyone can upload them and they are made often. But this ultimately should also use github actions and be commited to a different repository possibly in the same organization (or what ever github calls it) as to keep a bit of distance from the official releases.



  • You probably won’t be able to run an LTS kernel on a brand new PC that just hit the market. But using the most recent kernel for arch or a derivative like endevorOS should work after like a week maximum.

    I did have an issue like this on Ubuntu and its what made me actually start distro hopping since it worked fine on fedora and Arch using the latest kernels.


  • Digging in a bit. It looks a bit different than I thought it did on my end.

    I periodically use Kodi to backup my metadata to an NFO file. But I guess I forgot to script that and haven’t actually done that in a while. When Kodi scrapes the metadata it preprends the mpaa value with the string MPAA Rated . I did this to make it more obvious if the rating was scraped correctly since I’ve seen kodi attempt to scrape before but then just record the value as null.

    1. Inside Out didn’t have an NFO that Jellyfin was reading from. But Jellyfin is set to scrape its own metadata from all avaliable sources. I just didn’t enable it to write its own NFO file since I want the files that Kodi makes to take precidence and not be overwritten be Jellyfin. So for the case of insde out, it’s pulling the correct rating without any changes. As seen in this desktop screenshot.

    2. A Boy and His Dog, on the other hand does have a nfo from Kodi and it does have that MPAA rating on jellyfin with the prepended string as seen in this screenshot and in this bit from the nfo file.

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?>
    <movie>
        <title>A Boy and His Dog</title>
        <originaltitle>A Boy and His Dog</originaltitle>
        <ratings>
            <rating name="themoviedb" max="10" default="true">
                <value>6.300000</value>
                <votes>309</votes>
            </rating>
        </ratings>
        <userrating>0</userrating>
        <top250>0</top250>
        <outline>A young man and his telepathic dog wander a post-apocalyptic wasteland.</outline>
        <plot>Set in the year 2024 in post-apocalyptic America, 18-year old Vic and his telepathic dog, Blood, are scavengers in the desolate wilderness ravaged by World War IV, where survivors must battle for food and shelter in the desert-like wasteland. Vic and Blood eke out a meager existence, foraging for food and fighting gangs of cutthroats.</plot>
        <tagline>A rather kinky tale of survival.</tagline>
        <runtime>90</runtime>
        <thumb aspect="poster" preview="https://assets.fanart.tv/preview/movies/4917/movieposter/a-boy-and-his-dog-5e3fe50ad3787.jpg">https://assets.fanart.tv/fanart/movies/4917/movieposter/a-boy-and-his-dog-5e3fe50ad3787.jpg</thumb>
        <mpaa>MPAA Rated R</mpaa>
    

    1. Burning has a nfo file from Kodi. But the MPAA key is null in the NFO file. So there is no prepended string. However jellyfin still scraped the MPAA rating for it’s self and correctly labeled it as seen in this screenshot and nfo.
    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?>
    <movie>
        <title>Burning</title>
        <originaltitle>버닝</originaltitle>
        <ratings>
            <rating name="themoviedb" max="10" default="true">
                <value>7.400000</value>
                <votes>1440</votes>
            </rating>
        </ratings>
        <userrating>0</userrating>
        <top250>0</top250>
        <outline>Jong-su bumps into a girl who used to live in the same neighborhood, who asks him to look after her cat while she&apos;s on a trip to Africa. When back, she introduces Ben, a mysterious guy she met there, who confesses his secret hobby.</outline>
        <plot>An aspiring writer goes to the airport to pick up a high school friend returning from a trip to Africa but is disheartened to see her with another man.</plot>
        <tagline>The truth is all in your head.</tagline>
        <runtime>148</runtime>
        <thumb aspect="poster" preview="https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/kXiF80o74fE9gf3Utf9moAI7ar0.jpg">https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/kXiF80o74fE9gf3Utf9moAI7ar0.jpg</thumb>
        <mpaa></mpaa>
    

    So I guess I have 2 questions.

    1. Does the string I put in the rating distort the recommendation system?
    2. Does the recommendation system prioritize a local nfo file even if the value for the MPAA key is null when jellyfin actually has the correct rating in its cache?

  • I’m not 100% sure what the detail page is but here is the page I see when selected.

    I think I have Jellyfin mostly at the default setings, with one exception. I did change the name of the key for the rating variable in the metadata to be ‘MPAA rating’ instead of the default which I think was ‘rating’ before since I found it confusing. So if the current recommendation calculation is using that variable then I guess it would be null for all my media.

    Also, here is the metadata jellyfin shows.

    Inside Out (2015)
    Container: mkv
    Path: /mnt/ext4/film/film/Movies/Inside Out (2015).mkv
    Size: 5022 MB
    
    Subtitle
    Title: Italiano Forced - Default - SUBRIP
    Language: ita
    Codec: SUBRIP
    Default: Yes
    Forced: Yes
    External: No
    
    Video
    Title: Video 2160p - 4K - HEVC - HDR
    Codec: HEVC
    Profile: Main 10
    Level: 150
    Resolution: 3840x2160
    Aspect ratio: 16:9
    Interlaced: No
    Framerate: 23.976025
    Bitrate: 7401 kbps
    Bit depth: 10 bit
    Video range: HDR
    Video range type: HDR10
    DV title: DV Profile 8.1 (HDR10)
    DV version major: 1
    DV version minor: 0
    DV profile: 8
    DV level: 6
    DV rpu preset flag: 1
    DV el preset flag: 0
    DV bl preset flag: 1
    DV bl signal compatibility id: 1
    Color space: bt2020nc
    Color transfer: smpte2084
    Color primaries: bt2020
    Pixel format: yuv420p10le
    Ref frames: 1
    
    Audio
    Title: Italiano AC-3 5.1 - Dolby Digital - Default
    Language: ita
    Codec: AC3
    Layout: 5.1
    Channels: 6 ch
    Bitrate: 448 kbps
    Sample rate: 48000 Hz
    Default: Yes
    Forced: No
    External: No
    
    Audio
    Title: English AC-3 5.1 - Dolby Digital
    Language: eng
    Codec: AC3
    Layout: 5.1
    Channels: 6 ch
    Bitrate: 640 kbps
    Sample rate: 48000 Hz
    Default: No
    Forced: No
    External: No
    
    Subtitle
    Title: English Forced - SUBRIP
    Language: eng
    Codec: SUBRIP
    Default: No
    Forced: No
    External: No
    
    Subtitle
    Title: Italiano - SUBRIP
    Language: ita
    Codec: SUBRIP
    Default: No
    Forced: No
    External: No
    
    Subtitle
    Title: English - SUBRIP
    Language: eng
    Codec: SUBRIP
    Default: No
    Forced: No
    External: No
    

    PS: I scrape my metadata from themoviedb.org in Kodi and then export that to an xml file of the same name, Jellyfin seems to find and use that.





  • In today’s market, the perception or even the profitability of a product means nothing. All that actually matters is growth.

    For a publicly traded company, or even one that just uses venture capital to start up; the product isn’t the thing that they might sell to consumers, it’s their brand. This is what gives them more capital to continue running the company and ultimately to profit.

    This means that a company no longer needs to make good products, they don’t need to keep customers happy, they don’t even need to be profitable. All they need is to show growth opportunities to potential investors.