Embedded video in online articles is totally broken. - midwest.social

I use a link aggregator to stay in the know on current events from multiple news sources. I go to Lemmy, click on articles that I want to know more about that may or may not affect me. Without fail I end up being interested in an article that centers around video footage of some event. Almost always, I click the link to the article, it takes me to their site and I’m met with an embedded video/clip from Twitter or Bluesky that DOES NOT FUCKING PLAY IN A MOBILE BROWSER. It drives me fucking nuts! It’s embedded in the article for a reason. It’s to quickly show me what was posted. I don’t need or want to download the fucking social media app that the clip was posted on. I don’t need to read the reaction comments. Stop redirecting me to another website when I click play on an embedded video. Just show me the goddamn video so I can move on. If these news organizations cannot fix that embedded video behavior, then just download the clip, credit the poster, and cite the link at the bottom of the page. It’s public domain when it’s posted, so I don’t understand why that’s not the standard. Am I taking crazy pills? God it makes me angry.

[OPEN] Need help identifying an animal noise. - midwest.social

Took this audio recording while walking my dogs near a river valley in Central Illinois. The noise I’m not sure about is like a low whooshing sound. Kind of like someone spinning a jump rope really fast through the air. If I had to guess the noise was on the other side of a 500ft clearing in a tree line. The Merlin app wasn’t able to identify it as a bird of any sort and I have no idea what sort of mammal would make this noise in the midwest. It’s not like any bobcat, fox, or coyote call I’ve ever encountered and I cant imagine it was something smaller than that still.

A friend of mine looking to download episodes of a show available on Amazon Prime video to store on his Jellyfin server for preservation. Is there a guide for this anywhere that they can reference? - midwest.social

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Took a break from espresso to use a vacuum brewer I've had in storage for a few years. What sorts of brewers do you all use to switch things up on a weekend? - midwest.social

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Can I have recommendations on open source weather apps that use publicly available weather info for Android? - midwest.social

I’ve been using Weatherbug as my “gold standard” for years as an athletic trainer to track incoming storms and lightning strike data during outdoor sports events, so those features are pretty important to me. I’ve just gotten so fed up with their shitty practices. The ads are getting worse and worse(to the point that they’re almost exclusively clickbait malware) and they keep nudging me with push notifications to buy the ad free version. Which is of course a subscription instead of a one time payment. They even tested locking the future radar behind a paywall briefly. They must have gotten hammered by uninstalls because it didn’t last very long, but I’m not comfortable with staying engaged with a company that’s constantly trying to see what features they can get away with removing. Thanks!

The page for my local "currency exchange" is just a lorum ipsum a doesn't give any info on services at all. - midwest.social

I hear phrases like "half-past", "quarter til", and "quarter after" way less often since digital clocks have became more commonplace. - midwest.social

It must be annoying for New York City workers to constantly have to clean spider webs off buildings in the Marvel universe. - midwest.social

How does Pi-hole interact with DHCP and connection-specific DNS suffixes? - midwest.social

I’m trying to set up a Pi-hole on my in-laws’ home network. I’ve got everything configured on the pi but ad-blocking wasn’t working. So I did some digging into the logs and found that DNS requests were all coming from the router. After some reading it seems that the DHCP server that the router used was adding a DNS suffix to all requests (search.charter), so I turned off the DHCP server on the router and used pi-hole’s built-in DHCP to see if this would resolve the issue. I didn’t have enough time to test the fix, but here’s my understanding of what was happening before I changed the configuration: I set the primary DNS server to the IP address of the pi-hole in the router settings so they would have network wide adblocking. All of the clients get a DHCP assigned DNS server address which was set to the router’s address. I would input example.com [http://example.com] into a client’s browser, the DNS request would be sent to the router, then the router would act as a client in the pi-hole logs. Pi-hole tells the router that example.com [http://example.com] is found at 183.18.4.223 and the ads being hosted on the website are at 0.0.0.0. The router sees that the DNS server didn’t return a result for one of the queries, so it goes to an upstream DNS server hosted by the ISP where they provide the IP for the ad. Both addresses are sent along to the client device and the pi-hole shows the ad domain as being blocked. Is that true? Did changing the DHCP server to the Pi-hole fix the problem? Is there anything more that I need to do? Did I totally whiff on troubleshooting? Let me know if you need more information. Any help would be appreciated since I’m trying to learn a little bit more about networking and take a little more control of my home network. Thanks!

Need advice on remote management of a Jellyfin server and Qbittorrent. - midwest.social

Some background. I set up a Jellyfin server for my family to host TV shows and movies for them for free. I finally had enough of Xfinity and switched to T-Mobile 5G home internet, but in doing so, I lost the ability to control my network’s port forwarding. I’m spending literally half the previous amount on internet and getting the same speeds, so I don’t plan on going back. What I do plan on doing is setting up a new server at my parent’s house and running it on their network. Problem is that I’m 2 hours away. My plan is to use Qbit, jackett, and the arrs to automatically download torrents. Is there any way to automatically rename torrents to match Jellyfin’s naming convention for organization and metadata downloads?