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I tried to update my lemmy instance and it all went so horribly wrong. DB never came up, errors everywhere, searching implied I updated to a dev branch sometime in the past (not a dev, don’t think I did) and it’ll be console and DB queries for a fix.

Ran out of time and overwhelmed, I restored backups and buried my head in the sand. Nope, not now. Future, yes, but oh not now.

Welp, I know what I’m doing Sunday.

Never crossed my mind and sounds amazing. Sorry poor, overworked NAS, you’re hosting another something.

People don’t use VPN to bypass CGNAT, they use it to protect their IP address. The 'ol saying “Don’t shit where you eat” applies. Probably worth looking into depending on location.

Same here. I don’t like some of the recent decisions, but I remember the time I looked at the value and thought “yeah, this is working, valuable, and I can get behind it”, and bought the lifetime pass.

And I used the hell out of it! I don’t regret supporting the developers at all.

But features like plugins disappear, rolled to in-house teams. They work better, but cost more to maintain.

It’s ambitious, and gives developers plenty of work, but I feel the new redesign bit more than they can chew and overran budgets. They may be trying to balance budgets.

Jellyfin certainly took off. Great for them. It just wasn’t polished or an option when I set things up way back then.

Same boat here. I chose Plex because the apps were everywhere. Smart TV’s, phones, web…

I can switch, no problem. I don’t want to have to teach my parents a new app. OMFG!

I can understand new features being behind a fee, but this is putting old, old capabilities behind a paywall. Hmmm…

This with a recent decision to remove watch together sort of eliminates the whole reason I would have tried Plex so many years ago.

I’m a fan of Plex (it’s worked for me) and understand the Jellyfin crowd too. I’m worried about who is calling the shots at the moment. They aren’t aligning with their users.

Bingo. It absolutely is.

We have a vet open up recently that uses calming pheromones throughout and plenty of distractions for pets to make them feel comfortable. A lot of effort was put into pet psychology in the design of the offices.

Heck yeah! Old desktops or laptops are how most of us got started.

Things to consider:

• Power- this will be on 24/7 probably. That adds up
• Speed- not just CPU, but RAM, disk access and network interface can limit how much data you want to move.
• Noise- fans can suck (pun intended). Laptops tend to run quieter

I’m sort of looking to upgrade and N100 or N150’s are looking good. Jellyfin can do transcoding so that takes a little grunt. This box would work well for me. It’s not a storage solution, but can run docker and a handful of services.

Ain’t nobody got time for Delta Quadrant Pizza delivery. That’s coming out of your tip, Kathryn.

I’ve also been daydreaming along these lines. I have an old Porsche that doesn’t run I’ve sort of wanted to electrify. There are a few kits out there, but pricy. If I get a cheap-as-shit Tesla, could I break it down and retrofit? Weight and suspension would be a problem. Plus I’ve heard they are a complete arse about proprietary computer stuff.

That or a Mazda 13b could be fun, but I’d have to gear it down somehow.

Alcohol is a great solvent and widely used in flavor extracts such as orange and almond concentrating and preserving the essence of flavors.

It’s use can add natural flavors to a great variety of recipes.

Me too! I was remembering the Intel incident when they discovered processors didn’t calculate math correctly and turned a batch into keychains. I still have mine somewhere …

Since you can’t use GPU for rendering or recording, a faster CPU couldn’t hurt and is probably your best bet, but it isn’t really thaaaat old. (There being no other hardware bottlenecks of course)

There are, cough cough I think, ways to decrypt and record HDCP protected streams but I’d imagine you’d have to have a render unit and recording unit in your setup. Sort of complicated.

Ah bummer. That’s most of my software tricks. I’d break out my hardware equipment next step, but that’s pricy.

That PC should be able to play a stream just fine. I’d check if there background apps hogging resources and make sure hardware acceleration is active. Scale the resolution down (no point of upscaling 1080p content) and record to a lower resource intensive format, perhaps h.264 vs h 265/HEVC.

Those emails have warned me something was pooched in advance many times. I do find them useful.

Sad to see them go, but nice they mention an alternative.

(Sorry)

But it also occurred to me that no matter what lifestyle you live, what background, character, personality, financial or disability you may or may not have, everyone gets stopped by red lights.

Police, funerals, ambulances, firetrucks, sports teams, Presidents, and elitist bicyclists may have missed the memo.