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They should be careful, they’re just selling small form factor computers with removable drive bays. Standing up and unraid or a true Naz isn’t all that difficult. And then there’s plenty of competition out there ready and willing to eat their lunch.
Yeah it’s coming back with 4 over 1s and 5 over 1s, assuming we do go into world war 3.
There’s also a variant where They take a plot of land, like 500-1500 acres. Put up Luxury condos, a gaggle of townhomes and a decent number of large single family homes then shove in a stripmall, gas station and grocery store in with it. The residents can walk to the grocery and a couple of food places, maybe a gym, shipping store, electronics repair store.
I helped move some coworkers into an apartment directly over a bar in a decent sized bar district.
It was a cool pad, ancient, crazy 1800’s storage warehouse vibe, a dozen great food options and breakfast places.
WOMP WOMP WOMP WOMP till 2am most nights. A vagrant that liked to crash on their doorstep and peed on the door most days. If they want out between X and Y hour, they’d have to shoo him off the little porch to get in.
I see the same with adblock. I don’t watch TV, see no ads in youtube. How could they up their game and reach me?
I never get bent about other people using them when they don’t need to. It’s real fucking old sitting at a busy light where I could have gone five times if someone would have had a moment to flick a switch.
I suspect most CEOs are, The vast majority just have enough common sense not to ruin their relations with the 99 percenters.
Each new import batch from Reddit these days is lower quality :)
When enough people realize that it’s that easy and it gets sufficiently widespread it’ll eventually become a target.
Either they’ll shut it down or laws will become restrictive enough to make using it illegal. It’ll be the '90s and early 00’s again they’ll be dragging students and housewives into court.
There will always be enough people out there who refuse to put their payment identity online that torrents aren’t going anywhere.
Hell, even torrents couldn’t kill news groups.
Ansible’s not all that bad. The alternatives are far more complicated.
Jeff geerling has a bunch of videos on ansible 101.
Ansible if you want to do it the right way.
Or keep all of your configs in one tree and use syncthing on it If you want to phone it in. Turn on versioning call it a night.
I ran tdarr for a while, eventually I found for most things that it was faster (and better quality) to re-download in better formats than to re-encode.
You get some coverage for free but if you’re really getting slammed I wish to stay up they’re not going to do everything for free. I believe They click here to prove you’re not a butt is gratis.
https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Encode/H.265
Most of the “commercial apps” are just wrappers for ffmpeg.
I’d start with FFmpeg. Once you see what your output is like you can then decide to move over to something more fancy.
The DMZ is the right idea. But it’s the old way. You definitely want whatever is serving your website to be separated out from your house. You’re hosting should be on an isolated VLAN. The internet should only be able to talk to the server it needs to talk to, no other ports. That box should only be allowed to talk to what it absolutely must talk to and only on the ports that are required. You should run an independent firewall on each one of the boxes that are involved in the hosting with only the proper ports open.
Giving up your private IP Will definitely give away your general location to everyone and your precise location to the authorities.
I would highly recommend using cloudflare or one of the other funnel options. A lot of people don’t like cloud flare because they can capitalize on your traffic, The cloudflare also just won’t shut you down and sell you out like your ISP will at the first request, They don’t do shit about anything until there’s a warrant or a court filing. On the upside you don’t give out your private IP to anyone. You have DDOS protection, and a reasonable layer of anominity.
You need to check daily to make sure all of your software is updated. We’re talking OS, middleware, plugins, application. Preferably via automation. All of the software and plugins you use for this type of hosting end up getting vulnerabilities.
Security is especially difficult on forums. There’s lots of opportunities there for skilled people who are pissed off at what you or someone else is saying to get butthurt. People know exactly what you’re running, then they do some magic behind the scenes next thing you know there’s a bunch of admins you didn’t create.
You don’t need to be hosting your own email but you are going to need an SMTP provider, most free services won’t let you masquerade the from address.
It’s your media you do what you want with it.
Pick a busy movie with a bunch of stuff going on, and then pick a really dark movie.
Try different encodings with each one of those. You’re playing a game of time versus quality. And you keep in mind, the electricity for those encodes isn’t free either.
Try them with a fixed bit rate, try them with the two pass. If the fixed rate doesn’t look good try bumping the rate up. You’ll get a feel for it eventually.
Back when I was hard up for disc, I made everything 1080p HEVC single pass constant rate. I don’t even remember exactly what the bit rate was but I would just encode everything and then watch a sample out of it. If one of them turned out bad I would reincode it with better settings.
Dual pass will get you a little smaller and better output, But it takes forever, and you’re sitting there burning watts all night long.
In the end you just need to fiddle with it, and weigh the output versus your resources.
Different people have different needs.
If someone has a lot of time and not a lot of money re encoding video is a decent answer.
I’ve been there and done that before.
Replacing (or adding a 10TB USB to your ) single 2 tb drive isn’t a horrible idea. It’ll take you quite a while to go through that 10 tb. In the meantime you look toward getting an old case and some kind of modest motherboard and setting up an Unraid. It’s a journey, and unless you are made of cash you’re not going to get to your endpoint all in one jump.
Unraid is budget friendly because you can add whatever size disc you want to do it, It supports a parity drive so you have some support against failure. The only truly difficult part is that the parity drive must be as big as the largest drive in the box.
In the end only you can decide what works for you. If you want to re-encode your stuff, 2 pass is best. You are going to lose quality, that’s unavoidable, But if you’re watching it on a TV 12 ft away, You’re going to forget about any quality as soon as you get in grossed in anything you’re watching.
100% of my office relies on at least WSL.
All our servers are Linux.
Tons of huge multi-national companies are already using Google Docs which run great in Linux.
It’s coming.
Unfortunately for a crossfading they need to wait for jellyfin to provide it on their side.
I wouldn’t be surprised to find a normalization plugin though.
Remote access is definitely a pain, and just surfacing the ports is a bad idea.
Finamp is close. No visualization, No normalization, and there’s gapless playback but no crossfading.
I use tailscale to watch videos and play music remotely.
Hard disagree, I’d bifurcate my internal DNS in a hot second before I tried to fix this with static routes. Those* internal services and that DNS server aren’t going anywhere. The only time they can affect it is when it’s needed
Asking a noob to handle static routes is a double ungood situation.
A home gamer with a router that can handle reflection would be rare.
It’s one service that he’s hosting and in control of, and he’s also in control of that internal IP so it doesn’t have to change.
If anything I’d be worried that those VMs (and applications in the VM) are getting regular updates. He’s more likely to get intrusion through a zero day on one of those hacks than he is to see any serious issues through throwing a couple DNS records around.