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Star Wars Memes

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Hello there. Somehow, Star Wars memes have returned. It's not a trap, this is where the fun begins.

Technical note: if you're coming from another star system and are getting a "Subscription pending" message when trying to dock, that's just the console being slow to display the right message. The connection is already established. (Probably.)

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IMPORTANT

Do not post the "good friend" or similar copypasta

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Special days!

Friday and weekends: Caption contest. An image will be pinned, and we shall make captions for it and post them in the comments.

Wednesday: Theme day. We have Droids day, EU day, poem day, aliens day... Let the pinned post guide you. Memes with the theme are preferred.

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Separatist systems:

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Oh hey some real SW content for a change (perhaps):

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Our galactic citizens have requested more specific rules, so here are a few.

The general idea is, if you're looking here for rules, you're probably someone who doesn't need to have them spelled out. You're fine. But anyway:

  1. This is a community for Star Wars memes. This means typically screenshots of Star Wars media with some text or context that's meant to be funny and/or thoughtful. All SW media is welcome: movies, games, comic books, fanart... Other kinds of content, like video links or meta memes (about this community, or Lemmy), are fine as well, just keep it on topic.

  2. We are all friends here, and love (sometimes love to hate) Star Wars. Be nice to each other.

  3. As fans of fictional media, we can be passionate. If you very strongly disagree with something or someone, take a deep breath before reacting. Anger leads to the dark side!

  4. Everything in Star Wars has happened a long time ago, in a galaxy far away, and it's a rich universe of millions of words and millions of years of history. So current Earthly matters really shouldn't concern us here. In other words, leave politics, philosophies and convictions behind the door. This applies even if it's about something related to Star Wars.

  5. Original content is preferred. Reposts are fine, just please limit to a maximum of 3 per day, per citizen. It is recommended, but not required, to mark original memes as (OC) and reposts as (repost).

  6. Local mods are the Jedi council. They may take actions that are necessary to maintain peace and stability of the Republic, even beyond the rules outlined here. Follow their guidance.

  7. Regular rules of the Lemmy.world instance apply.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 months ago (3 children)

You can get going with Jellyfin if you want a alternative

First setup Jellyfin on a old computer. (Preferabllly Intel with hardware acceleration) https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/quick-start/

For content follow the following:

Buy the bluray -> rip with MakeMKV -> transcode with Handbreak -> copy into Jellyfin -> update metadata

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Or you can use the *arr stack. Blurays are expensive.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

me over here using my old bulldozer cpu with a 1060...

transcodes just fine though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Exactly what I'm running. Those FX-8350s are absolute tanks. Hot tanks, but solid

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Look at you with your bulldozer and your GTX 1060. What a bloody luxury. I am here with a pile driver and a GTX 970.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

I recommend you both downgrade to phenoms for a performance upgrade.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Rocking 970 aswell. Hell, my RPI could do it with some tweaking at 1080p.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

The 970 actually does 4K, just not 10 bit HDR.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (3 children)

About how long would you say

rip with MakeMKV -> transcode with Handbreak -> copy into Jellyfin -> update metadata

takes? I have a lot of movies.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

For my wife's 1300 DVDs, it took me 3 years (it's not an automated process, so obviously this wasn't 3 years of 100% uptime).

The hardest part for me has been dealing with DRM. Some movies will have their scenes scrambled 1000 ways, and then the DRM is just knowing which playlist is the right one. MakeMKV usually handles this, but sometimes it gets it wrong. so I have some scrambled movies that Ive never gone back to re-rip. It's VERY frustrating when it doesn't work, but very simple when it does.

Overall, still worth it for independence to me though. When The Office/Friends/etc got yanked from Netflix, but I still had physical copies and jellyfin, I felt REAL vindicated.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'm not sure if I've seen 1300 different movies...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

I haven't. I do the tech support, she watches the movies. It works out for us.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

The step that takes the longest is the "transcode with Handbrake" one. On my fairly slow mobile Ryzen 7, it takes about an an hour and a half.

The thing is, you can tweak settings in Handbrake to be faster at the expense of video quality and/or file size.

What I do is to set up a bunch of files and let Handbrake run overnight. In the morning, everything's done and I can work on the next batch. It helps that I work from home.

Ripping from disc takes about 20 minutes. Copying is as fast as your network. Updating metadata can be done whenever.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Its going to take a while but exact estimates are hard to make as it varies heavily

I would just take your time and do 1-2 movies a week