These would be fucking awesome for media storage. A dedicated, no-delete “favorites” disk is exactly the sort of shit that tickles my brain.

Roku app has a watchlist, but mostly I don’t bother to get around it or put it in a collection which is clunky as shit

Don’t have to make an account, for starters. Gives you more detailed control of transcoding options, audio playback and whatnot.

The UI is worse, that much is true, but that’s not the end all be all of user experience.

I don’t think transcoding is that difficult if you’ve already set up your own server. Like, that’s only a thing the admin would have to figure out and it’s a quick lookup.

I do agree with the client UI issue tho, and would like to add that the lack of a per-user watchlist is a pretty baffling decision given that it’s been widely requested for years and years and it would make it enormously more comfortable.

Huge disagree on the last part. Jellyfin has a bunch of Android, Roku, Google tv and PC clients. I struggle to think of a device me or my friends use that has a Plex client but not a Jellyfin one.

It depends on whether you want to use torrents or have a usenet subscription. You’d do well to look at TRaSH guides, save yourself a lot of headaches if you structure the container’s directory structures in the way the guides suggest and then you can just use Prowlarr to manage the actual download requests and send them to your torrent or usenet client.

I use Jellyfin and I suggest you do the same, but honestly you could use whatever you feel like, the *arr stack is going to put everything in the proper folder structure and naming convention so by and large your media server app should be pretty plug and play, just point it at the proper folder and get to scanning.

Yes, but line goes up, and by the time it goes down I’m not gonna be holding the bag anyway

They can’t fathom that the US empire might legitimately collapse and take the exorbitant privilege of the dollar with it

Samsung has something like this already with DeX (the dock isn’t even that expensive either). Not nearly robust enough for actual workstation needs but it works for office stuff.

OpenAI can’t crash and burn fast enough

And if it breaks at 10 months and they take another 2 to send your replacement back, well, they no longer need to send one that actually works this time either

Thankfully I have a pretty low wattage setup and an unmetered full duplex fiber optic connection. Won’t disagree on the hardware (all my homies hate Seagate) and maintenance. I don’t do a lot, but it sure can derail half my day.

Idk, I’d have a pretty good return if I my mom didn’t want to use Netflix still. Even after paying for indexers, Usenet providers, storage and electricity. I’m using a discarded laptop with a HDD dock tho, which is plenty for my needs (mostly 1080p movies with 4k for my absolute favorites or new releases which I can then downgrade or delete though I haven’t had the need to do so yet)

Unlike sodium, which can be extracted pretty much anywhere in the world without the worry of depleting your source if you have a coast

This is assuming an economy of scale doesn’t make sodium batteries cheaper once again because of the ease of working with industrial quantities of sodium as opposed to lithium

they’ll find a way for telemetry to use half of it and the start menu another quarter

Can’t wait for the bargain bin data center hdds

Everyone knows it’s cheaper to wait for humans to reproduce and grow (and die in shitty preventable conditions) than it is to invest your manpower in constant reindustrialization.

I think that was the lesson of the US Civil War.

Its defeatist to just accept evil. Call it out. Its not normal. Its not ok.

Why do y’all libs write like you’re auditioning for speechwriter in The West Wing lmao. Dork behaviour.

I think KDE Neon would be nice for a new user. I like Pop OS and it’s really cute and sleek but the shortcuts are needlessly different from windows a bunch of times, if she’s somehow used to alt+tab to change windows and not just window groups she’s gonna have a hard time learning another way to do it.