Depends on what you’re looking for, for some fields there are fantastic options already.

The others… Well considering the trajectory I’m seeing now (as a multiple decade Linux user), I think a lot more will start building for it. Maybe one flavor to start, but I do think it will be much more common.

I’m seeing it with some of my clients already.

Each instance becomes a pod, users on pod A can find content thats on pod B. This includes both actors (users) and library objects (audio content), ordered collections (playlists), etc.

… Have you reached out to the devs/maintainers of the projects to find out what their plans are going forward?

Because you may be completely dismissing projects that are in the process (whether its early planning or otherwise) of moving to codeberg or something.

Or even expressed any of your concerns to the devs?

I dont consider Black Friday to be of much value, its usually garbage thats been repackaged,or priced up just before to go down for black Friday/cyber Monday.

That said, I dont spend anywhere near that much on drives per tb, and I dont do used. I’m also not looking for quiet though, the HP 2920 in the rack is much louder than any drive is going to be, so if its the right price for your needs, I’d just go for it. I’d base on $/TB though, and I wouldn’t be waiting for November, just the right price.

Proxmox all day, every day.

Generally speaking I start with Debian and install proxmox on top rather than use their installer, this way I can config things as I want them before getting proxmox going, which I guess counts as a more advanced user use case, though not really complicated.

Edit: and if it wasn’t obvious, everything is Debian, even those not on proxmox (which is just debian anyway, and isn’t much tbh).

Nothing special in the slightest.

The rack has good airflow, I keep the case clean and dust free so the fans dont have to work hard, and the room its in is at the same 72F the rest of my home is. Haven’t had any issues so far with any m2’s, and I’ve lost one dell micro (mobo failure) in… 8ish years?

Ive got a bunch of tiny/mini/micros running everything and the kitchen sink - mostly lenovo right now, but with a couple hp elitedesks and dell micros. I only store VMs locally though, so its all m.2 and general storage on the NAS’s.

JF you’ve got plenty of processing with the iGPU for any compatible codec.

Couldn’t tell you on the frigate side, but otherwise youre perfectly fine with that hardware.

Site manager with cloud and on prem hosted in a single view. The benefit is for MSPs.

I have plenty of thoughts about their majority shareholders.

Its just none of those thoughts are positive.

Grab what you can, add to radarr and you’ll likely get the absolute bulk of them. There may be some odd ones out, and those are the ones I’d rip.

For the rips themselves, what I ended up doing for family tapes is a generic s-video capture device, ffmpeg to rip.

I capture for the full length of the tape, play it, take a peek that everything came in well, and find the end to trim (also ffmpeg).

Then that version I’ll make an archive, and I’ll transcode a copy for media server use.

TD Bank, yes.

Nope.

Fuck TD. They enabled this horseshit automatically on my account. Surprise, surprise, it didnt work on my voice, even once.

Supposedly they disabled it three times. Guess what else happened? Someone accessed my damn account, because it was their voice linked to my account.

I’ll never have a TD account again. Absolute jackasses in terms of account security, that isn’t even the only issue I had with them.

Personally, I keep storage and compute separate, makes it easier to maintain IMO. Where I have done it on a single box, ive just gone with a regular old Debian box and dropped in the drives.

I am considering playing with rockstor on a spare beige box I have, but basically the same separation of storage and compute will apply.

Do you think you can’t have an AMD GPU with an Intel board and iGPU?

Because you absolutely can. This is a non-issue.

That doesnt really change what I’m saying here…

I mean, thats what my quadros are. There is an Intel igpu plus the quadro, I find it more efficient because I can dedicate them to tasks more easily.

I agree sr-iov being better adopted would be great, but I also realize I’m not really a candidate either, I find the split approach best for my needs.

Depends on the model.

I can say for jellyfin transcoding, the igpu is plenty. The quadros only get used for transcoding and some misc cad use and other such things.

Given the recommended GPU w/ HDR specs for Sunshine - Intel HD Graphics 730 or higher - thats easily accomplished, even used. I couldn’t say how well it runs though as I don’t use it myself.

I’ve got three with quadros in them.

There are definitely options. No youre not shoving a full size GPU in there, but there are options.

Almost my entire (excessive) setup is a bunch of used, off lease tiny/mini/micros.

Most ive bought for about $100, then tossed some minor upgrades to like an m2 ssd, maxing out ram, etc, so under $200 altogether historically. Clustered with proxmox, so I even have high availability.

Yes, minis are great. Just do storage elsewhere, which can be a NAS or a generic box you load up with drives.

https://github.com/arduinocelentano/cdimage ?