Ah. The 5 Plus uses a Rockchip SOC where the Opi 3 / Zero 2W use Allwinner. I’ve read Rockchip is better supported, so maybe I’ll look into one of those. I just wanted the Pi Zero form factor for this project so went with that one. I should also have clarified that there’s no stable GPU support in Armbian for the OPi 3/Zero 2W but there are for other models.

Even without GPU, I’m surprised it runs Jellyfin at all let alone quite well (lack of transcoding aside). That’s in addition to running everything else I threw on it at the same time, so I’m still genuinely impressed.

I’m very pleased with the OrangePi. I use it for my Jellyfin server. It sometimes struggles with real-time 4k transcoding

What model OPi do you use and what system image (Armbian, Diet Pi, OrangeOS)?

I’ve got the Orange Pi Zero 2W (effectively the OPi 3 in a different form factor) and also run Jellyfin on it, but there’s no stable GPU support in Armbian. It also doesn’t even transcode 720p at a usable rate, so I just pre-encode everything to something it can direct stream.

It’s not my primary JF server, but it is nice to have during power outages and such since I can run it all day from a power bank.

How are the Orange Pis?

I got the 4 GB Orange Pi version of the Zero W2. The performance is there but I found it to be a bit quirky. That said, you might have better luck using the manufacturer’s images. Only reason I didn’t was that they were several years old and on an unsupported kernel. Took some doing, but I finally got Armbian working stable.

Tips:

• Don’t enable zram for more than 50%. It’ll happily compress more than that, but allocating more than 50% causes all kinds of random weirdness and crashes.
• The GPU either doesn’t work or isn’t stable. I gave up on it and just pre-encoded the media to a format that Jellyfin wouldn’t need to transcode.
• Make sure the antenna is mounted away and perpendicular from the main board. Had a lot of weird EMF-induced crashes when the antenna was parallel to the board inside a case.
• You will need a heatsink. Unless you underclock it below 1 GHz, a heatsink isn’t optional like it is on a Pi.
• Unless you just need the USB A ports or the IR receiver, skip the expansion board. The ribbon cable that connects it exacerbates the EMF issues. The 3 buttons on the front do not work with the Armbian builds (and the overlay that enables them doesn’t seem to work on newer kernels and no one seems to be working on it). The analog audio, likewise, does not work on Armbian with newer kernels and, last I checked, there are no overlays.

I also have a 4 GB Banana Pi in the same “Pi Zero” form factor. I haven’t messed with it much, but the three things I’ve noticed so far is the wifi chip is much better than the Orange Pi (I think it’s a Realtek chip here), the Bluetooth doesn’t work in Armbian (though it’s close), and it has eMMC which makes the system much faster.

Yep. They just knocked on Banner’s door at a very inopportune time.

I caught that the hive used RF spectrum but didn’t make the connection to that being why they likely shut down cell towers. I need to re-watch the last episode when I have more time to see what the frequency was that he found. Would be interested to see if it’s within the cellular bands (mostly out of curiosity).

Also in the first episode we see Carol doesn’t use a cellphone

I must’ve missed that completely.

The finale was definitely a roller coaster, and I loved the callbacks.

• I was terrified the attempt to join the Peruvian girl was going to fail, but glad it didn’t go that direction
• Apparently the goat was just a goat. Man, I’ve seen Jurassic Park too many times.
• In episode 8, when Carol and Zosia were talking outside, there were two airborne planes visible in the background. Could have just been IRL air traffic during filming, but now it seems those planes were the hive and likely ferrying the custom viruses for the other immune.
• Loved the ongoing live translation gag with the phone
• Carol’s reaction to and view of Manounous seems to be very similar to the other immune’s attitude toward Carol (at least until the end)
• Carol refusing all of Manounous’s op-sec was both hilarious and wise. Like, of course she wouldn’t get in a van with a complete stranger wielding a machete.
• Now we know what Manounous was looking for when he was scanning and logging the radio frequencies
• Laxmi calling again just to bitch at Carol and Carol anticipating it.
• Goddamn Manounous is tenacious. The sheer force of will to get things done and learn what he needs to learn to accomplish his goals. I’m just kind of jealous.
• After Carol leaves with Zosia and the rest of the hive, I thought for sure it was going to be a dream sequence
• It was expected but still heartbreaking when Carol and Zosia split up because, despite their relationship, Zosia is still compelled by the hive’s imperative. And Carol rightly feels violated and betrayed.
• The build up of hearing the helicopter at the end had all kinds of theories brewing:
• Carol coming back after splitting with Zosia (confirmed but not as expected)
• When it came into view hauling cargo, I thought Manounous had the hive bring him equipment to build a radio tower so he could broadcast his anti-hive signal
• When we see Zosia piloting it and Carol along side her, I have no idea what the cargo would be
• “Would you give me a nuclear bomb?” Apparently very much yes.

Lingering Questions

• Why only landlines? They explicitly stated cell phones would no longer work, but why? They seem to be keeping all the rest of the infrastructure up and running (water, sewer, power, landlines, etc).
• How does the hive knows who’s calling? Yes, caller ID exists. But Carol calls from random phones and they always know it’s her. I guess the drones saw her setting Manounous up in the neighbor’s house and noted that phone number for him?
• Are the joined still operating refineries for all the jet-setting they do, or is there just a lot of aviation fuel stockpiled?

Can’t wait to see where season 2 goes, and I hope this series isn’t going to suffer from the 2 year gap between seasons that’s becoming sadly common with streaming shows.

Crime the US fell upward in 2025. Will the trend continue?

Glad you liked it!

Power-watched the whole season 2 of Strange New Worlds and the first couple of episodes of S3.

Probably Nico Borie

Edit: Oh, goddamnit. My dyslexic ass read that as Michael Langdon. I’m gonna leave this up for a laugh at my expense but disregard.

Oh, nice. I didn’t catch what account posted it when I clicked on it.

Shame me 4 times? Shame on you for picking on a vulnerable man.

😂

It was the other day, too. It’ll probably be gone by tomorrow though. But keep uploading it for sure.

If you stop hearing from me, that’s exactly what happened; look for that van.

Them’s the fanciest lookin’ Funyuns I ever did saw, I tell ya whut

I guess what happens is people can redact it such that they can no longer see it in their particular pdf software but then a different software can bypass it

That’s pretty charitable. I’ve worked civil service many years ago and the computer skills of some of them were beyond laughable. I never dealt with redacted documents during that stint of my life but I can say with 100% certainty that I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised if someone “redacted” a document by making the text and background highlight color black and posting the Word docx file online.

the segment has been shared widely on social media

Not widely enough.

https://files.catbox.moe/4kv1gt.mp4

See Also:

• https://www.threads.com/@erikveland/post/DSl4-P8iWfp
• https://www.thereset.news/p/breaking-heres-the-60-minutes-segment

Even if they do eventually air it, it would be enlightening to play “spot the difference” between what they didn’t want to air and what they finally do. My guess would be CBS doing something like sed s/Trump/Biden/g to the script.

I can see that. Kinda like only enjoying the first 1/3 of each season of American Idol.

“Sadly” lol

(I dunno, I’ve never seen it but it just does not sound like compelling television to me)