No. Keep all the software running on SSDs while using HDDs for storing the video files themselves. You’ll never max their transfer speed out especially considering you’re not sharing with friends and family.

7200RPM drives are fast enough for most applications, though you may run into issues streaming 4K (or higher) resolution video.

This is highly unlikely as even the highest bitrate 4k content is going to cap out at around 12MB/s while spinning drives can transfer at 120MB/s per drive. I’d say that 99% of people hosting their own media servers are still solely relying on spinning disks for storage as SSDs are still extremely expensive per TB comparatively and don’t really offer any advantages for storing bulk media at this point.

You could always ask for advice there but it’s best to avoid breaking any rules as moderators can be quite ruthless in these types of places.

I haven’t uploaded a new file to TL before but on other private trackers it was fairly straight forward. I just created the torrent in QBit, filled out their upload form making sure to follow the rules as far as naming conventions, listing metadata for the file(s), including screenshots, and copying and pasting a plot summary from somewhere like IMDB, before finally completing it all and uploading my torrent to the site for mod approval. I’m away from my PC right now so I can’t check but I’m sure they have their upload requirements listed in the FAQ or Rules page.

Another great way to build ratio there is to filter by torrents listed in the last couple of hours and grab them (especially freeleech) even if you have zero interest in watching the content and seeding it for as long as possible. The mods there recommended this to me back when I first signed up and got banned because I hadn’t uploaded or downloaded anything within the first week or two of signing up.

Didn’t know this was a feature so I just tried it and… my watch thinks my phone is “gym equipment” and asks for permission to send my heartrate to it. How do you setup charging?

You could just start over if you dont have much invested into your current setup.

I’d also like to know.

I built a new machine seceral months back with PVE and got the hang of it but it’s been “set it and forget it” since then due to everything running smoothly. Now I don’t remember half the things I learned and don’t want to get in over my head running into issues during a major upgrade. I definitely do want the ability to expand my ZFS pool so I will need to bite the bullet eventually.

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In a state that recently tried removing a bunch of child labor laws.

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AI is not currently at the stage that CEO’s think it’s at. A few years down the road there’s going to be a hard crash, when the problems overthrow the benefits and they realize they are just throwing money away.

I think they’re aware which is why they’re posturing with BS statements such as his. They wouldn’t need to force it on people if it were actually as good as they want people to think it is. They want to cash in now because they know the house of cards will crumble sooner than later.

I’m on Plex but ran into the same issue years ago. My method was to split Movies and TV libraries into “Movies,” “Animated Movies,” “TV,” and “Animated TV” (also 4K TV and 4K Movies but this is all duplicate content that I don’t allow to be remotely streamed).

From there, I made sure to put everything i could into collections. More recently, I’ve made a bunch of new movie collections based on genre, decade, director (maybe the top 15 with the most content in my library), and actor (again only the top few) and then adjusted the sort title of these collections to keep them at the top of the library in an organized fashion. ThePosterDB was great for this as I found matched poster sets for each of the above categories and so it made everything look great too.

Basically my strategy is to condense everything possible while creating new categories to easily filter things down when searching for something to watch (e.g. Action movies or 1990s movies). Some other tips are setting library filters to “unwatched” an/or creating “watch lists” of things I want to see at some point but don’t feel like watching at the moment. This last one is a Plex feature but you could use something else like IMDB or Trakt to do the same.

It can definitely be a chore to find something to watch when you have several thousand choices between TV and Movies so anything you can do to knock those numbers down will help. Something else you might look into is setting up PseudoTV, ErsatzTV or something similar. These allow you to create your own “TV channels” using your content meaning you’ll have channels “playing” predetermined content constantly giving you something to flip through when you can’t decide on something specific. It even gives you the option to insert old commercials or change content based on the time of day so you can really mimic old network TV.

I’d spend more time considering whether you want a mini-PC or not because it’s going to make storage expensive or difficult as youll either need to fork over a ton of money for a NAS and a bunch of matched drives or use one of those janky external DAS/storage boxes that could lead to you losing your entire storage pool.

What would work best (IMO) is a smaller tower PC with multiple drive bays. You can put whatever hardware you want in it, have SATA ports, PCI-E slots, plenty of ports, etc and upgrade/expand things as needed. You can also use mismatched drives in a setup like this with something like SnapRAID meaning you can use the stuff you already have without spending a ton of money. The hardware doesn’t need to be too powerful for your requirements. A modern Intel CPU will handle transcoding with Jellyfin extremely well and you can also use this with Frigate for your security camera footage. A decent amount of RAM isn’t bad either.

Don’t worry, step-brother is on the case and currently extracting the servers from the washing machine.

The hyperbole is ridiculous here and it makes you sound like a psychopath.

Autopilot is ACC which is what the case was about here.

Not to defend Tesla here, but how does the technology become “good and well ready” for road testing if you’re not allowed to test it on the road? There are a million different driving environments in the US, so it’d be impossible to test all these scenarios without a real-world environment.

Where are all those liberals at who just recently defended Dems for voting with Republicans to pass this law?? Where are all their bullshit justifications now?

Strangely it’s usually only the cheap phones that include these premium features.

Where they gimp the screen, CPU, RAM, etc and then point to their low sales to claim people dont want things like a removable battery, SD card, headphone jack, etc or else they’d be buying them more. I hate it so much.

I myself actually enjoy vhs quality but I know many want the highest possible for their media.

Do you watch them as intended on a CRT TV or are you using a modern LCD/OLED to watch them? I’ve noticed that old games look like shit on a modern TV because CRT offered some smoothing of the image and made the quality appear better. With games you can fix this with all kinds of shaders, but I’m curious how a VHS would appear on a 65" OLED. It’s not quite 1:1 with games since it’s all analog but how good is it? I don’t think I’ve used a CRT or VHS in 20+ years.